misterpurple
@misterpurple.bsky.social
cyber mischief warrior. black humour, grey beard, white hat.
Exactly. Like all the people online selling training courses to get rich out of trading on the markets.
If it was any good, they would be keeping it for themselves.
If it was any good, they would be keeping it for themselves.
Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Exactly. Like all the people online selling training courses to get rich out of trading on the markets.
If it was any good, they would be keeping it for themselves.
If it was any good, they would be keeping it for themselves.
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It’s honestly embarrassing how many developers who should absolutely know better will beam about how an LLM will get you 80% there in a weekend. Yeah man, don’t we all have hundreds of projects that we got 80% there in a weekend? Have you not noticed that 80% there is like 2% of the work?
February 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
It’s honestly embarrassing how many developers who should absolutely know better will beam about how an LLM will get you 80% there in a weekend. Yeah man, don’t we all have hundreds of projects that we got 80% there in a weekend? Have you not noticed that 80% there is like 2% of the work?
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I can’t believe we’re doing this again. It’s just a bot that generates the text you ask it for. If you put it in charge of critical decisions, it will kill people. Not because it’s secretly evil, but because it’s a word generator. It’s like putting your toaster in charge of air traffic control.
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I can’t believe we’re doing this again. It’s just a bot that generates the text you ask it for. If you put it in charge of critical decisions, it will kill people. Not because it’s secretly evil, but because it’s a word generator. It’s like putting your toaster in charge of air traffic control.
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It’s time for gardeners to ask some prickly questions about invasive species ft.trib.al/wm6HvXZ | opinion
It’s time for gardeners to ask some prickly questions about invasive species
We inherit gardens but not their histories. We love them but don’t always know how plants got there, what damage they might be doing, and what to do with that knowledge
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February 3, 2026 at 5:47 AM
It’s time for gardeners to ask some prickly questions about invasive species ft.trib.al/wm6HvXZ | opinion
Zoe Williams nails it in this piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Epstein files expose just how cheap corruption is in the UK
The bargain-bucket price tag on certain consciences is depressing. And the excuses of ignorance and amnesia are looking a little thin
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Zoe Williams nails it in this piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Delete jira tickets is a movement I can definitely get behind.
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Delete jira tickets is a movement I can definitely get behind.
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at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them
when most people talk about “AI,” they sound exactly like the photoshop/design clients i had in the 90s
who thought my work just involved pressing the right button and then the computer did all the work
who thought my work just involved pressing the right button and then the computer did all the work
November 5, 2024 at 5:20 AM
at least 70% of the AI hype that’s bottom-up — eg, excited users — is people who never learned how to actually use their computer suddenly realizing the computer can do things for them
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All this news is really completely confirming all my unfair knee-jerk judgments about a certain cadre of rich/famous douchebags, I gotta say
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
All this news is really completely confirming all my unfair knee-jerk judgments about a certain cadre of rich/famous douchebags, I gotta say
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AI/LLM coding assistants are becoming indispensable in cyber risk and in data protection, including standardisation work. In my experience, they can significantly accelerate reviews, audits, assessments, and also streamline many tasks handled by humans.
January 27, 2026 at 11:27 AM
AI/LLM coding assistants are becoming indispensable in cyber risk and in data protection, including standardisation work. In my experience, they can significantly accelerate reviews, audits, assessments, and also streamline many tasks handled by humans.
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the thing is that AI is very good at confident bullshit, which becomes more a part of your job toward the top of the ladder
The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.
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www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
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www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.
www.wsj.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
the thing is that AI is very good at confident bullshit, which becomes more a part of your job toward the top of the ladder
It’s always the pen, for me.
I remain convinced most of my problems can be fixed by the right notebook
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s always the pen, for me.
SATURDAY WAIT.
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
December 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
SATURDAY WAIT.
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Frogger should be up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and all the great pioneering classics of the video games age. But it rarely is.
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Frogger should be up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and all the great pioneering classics of the video games age. But it rarely is.
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
I'm a lone voice about this at work, so it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Currently, everything indicates that during our lifetime, quantum computers will never break the encryption systems in use.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm a lone voice about this at work, so it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this.
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Modest proposal to improve the running of His Majesty's Treasury: every time someone says they know a way to raise a few hundred million without anyone noticing, we throw them out of a window.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Modest proposal to improve the running of His Majesty's Treasury: every time someone says they know a way to raise a few hundred million without anyone noticing, we throw them out of a window.
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But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
This can't come soon enough.
Removal of cookie banners is to result in BILLIONS OF EUROS savings.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This can't come soon enough.
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The best ideas are usually stolen and then perfected.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
It does seem bizarre that once upon a time you got free wine glasses when buying petrol in the UK.
Nov 1985: Lead Crystal Decanter ad from Shell
(+Wine Glasses)
«"The free Shell wine glasses and decanter M'lud."»
(+Wine Glasses)
«"The free Shell wine glasses and decanter M'lud."»
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It does seem bizarre that once upon a time you got free wine glasses when buying petrol in the UK.
Pluribus is excellent and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
I AM CAROL.
I AM CAROL.
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pluribus is excellent and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
I AM CAROL.
I AM CAROL.
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