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@antihippy.bsky.social
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Photographer, Writer, Fencing coach & all round good sort. Not a fan of the fash.
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antihippy.bsky.social
As if on queue, this from @ianbetteridge.com confirms my suspicions

The ladder is being pulled up.
And yes, it is absolutely cool to be a luddite.

www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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mredthompson.bsky.social
Hey cool photo kids!

Let me tell you a story about 'Print Drops'...

open.substack.com/pub/synchrom...
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
My dad died, I was clinically depressed for nearly a decade. I fucked up my degree & somehow fell into information technology. Mostly through diligently working my way up. I'm bright & tech isn't difficult, don't let anyone tell you tech is difficult.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 11d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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rincewind.run
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
This is an actual demonstration of how Google has thrown away trust
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12h
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
Watching the Arnie version of the Running Man. It's pretty interesting watching this now. The Hunger Games films clearly take a lot of cues from this. Also, how closely the US is like this now.
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
Some heroes make Ramen

www.scmp.com/news/people-...
Japan cook fends off bear while preparing food, keeps working while covered in blood
Shop manager remarks that it was fortunate the attack occurred on a Sunday when nearby kindergarten was closed.
www.scmp.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
Why are there posts from accounts I don't follow, that haven't been reposted, in my Following feed?

@bsky.app ?
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
I wish I hadn't read this. Made me feel completely sad. Profiting off the insecurity of parenthood.

I'm very sad now

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
For reasons various I have just gone down the internet black hole looking at a Jingstax back for RB cameras. Pretty cool idea. It's an adapted SQ40

It's maybe too niche but I can't find any examples images taken with it.

jingmountaincameras.com/products/jin...
JingStax RZ Black - Motorized Instax Square Back for Mamiya RZ67
Introducing the JingStax Black, an instax SQ-40 adapted for the Mamiya RZ67 Instax SQ-40 would be great if it just had a better lens right? And, wouldn't it be nice if you could have an instant film b...
jingmountaincameras.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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grenzfurthner.bsky.social
Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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thr.com
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
Exactly where I am. The one limit is the lack of *good* photo editing support. But f---k it, it's time.

www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
That's a no from me
www.theverge.com/news/826540/...
Notepad is getting tables.
The feature is rolling out for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, according to Microsoft. I like using tables in Apple Notes, so I think they’ll be pretty useful in Notepad, too. [Image:...
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
I know exactly what these parents are like. If you're a parent you will also know. You meet them every day & in those 'private' WhatsApp groups you're forced into they're always the worst parents.

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
‘Who’s screenshotting our messages?’: how a WhatsApp saga spiralled into two parents’ wrongful arrest
When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their door
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
Can confirm
kathryntewson.bsky.social Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 1d
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
Wow, now that's a thing
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
This is so sad, all those people dead. And for what?

The US hasn't been an exactly constant ally to the Ukrainians but this an awful thing to do. We cannot trust the US now

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war
US president demands that Kyiv accepts plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
I have a first edition

BUT IT'S NOT SIGNED
photobookjunkies.bsky.social Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · Oct 10
From ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern

Signed copies in stock here: www.photobookjunkies.com/product/greg...
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
Hello [New] Outlook my old friend
You fucked someone's mailbox again
Because sync wasn't completing
Now her laptop forever seeking
The vision of an email that sends to someone else
No it's not
Within ... a working day.

#FML
a man with a beard is wearing a black shirt with the letter t on it
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a black shirt with the letter t on it
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November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mredthompson.bsky.social
I'm releasing some fine art prints to keep the ol' Arthurian Quest rolling!

The print release will be on Tuesday 25th November, some time in the evening, on my website here:

edwardthompson.co.uk/Print-Sales

A range of prices and editions, really, something for everyone.
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
My mum, who is from Stranraer has some choice words about this.
ballotbox.scot Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 1d
Stranraer and the Rhins (Dumfries and Galloway) by-election, first prefs:

RUK: 1386 (35.2%, new)
Con: 1302 (33.1%, -7.1)
SNP: 541 (13.7%, -9.5)
Lab: 239 (6.1%, -3.9)
Ind 207 (5.3%, new)
Grn: 141 (3.6%, 1)
LD: 96 (2.4%, new)
Heritage: 27 (0.7%, new)
(Other Inds 24% in 2022)

Con elected stage 7
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
antihippy.bsky.social
This is also my direct experience. Including the way people are using LLMs to write FOI & SARs. The LLM doesn't understand & crucially neither does the human. This is sandbagging us & others who work in data.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
Nosh
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
antihippy.bsky.social
This is a very good essay.
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 2d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM