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@tomdoorley Perhaps but an improvement on rum, sodomy and the lash 😀

It's an unusual match. The French usually serve Sauternes with foie gras. And the glasses are an odd shape...

@buccocapital @WillManidis PDFs are the digital cockroaches of AI Armageddon 😀

@WillManidis I like how implied in this future the PDF still survives. It is unkillable

spiritually, it feels inevitable that AGI is born in California as a uneconomic carnival gizmo, and then dragged to New York, caged and put to work by men in grey tall towers that poke and prod it until it spills trillions out filtering through PDFs

@BBCNews Gov unsure whether to make gesture of closing the gate or locking the gate after horse has bolted from entirely different stable.

Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists bbc.in/4rXtO0p

@trwsenti The worst part is many lose their souls and even become passionate about a crap job because of cognitive dissonance. They wanted to have a good life but took a job in insurance when it came around. They talk about amortisation like they used to talk about music.

nobody told me this when I started working a 9-5: - it's not even a 9-5. every job I've had has been 8 to 6. - you get home, cook dinner, and don't feel like doing anything else for the rest of the day. then it's right back to work before you know it. - you used to play guitar. you used to read books. you used to work out. they just slowly get phased out of you and you don't even notice it happening. - you eat lunch at your desk because the job is understaffed and you have too much to do. that "1 hour break" they sold you doesn't exist. - you leave the house at 7. you get home at 6. you are physically and mentally exhausted. this is a "good" day. - you sit at your desk and can't get past 5 minutes without being the most bored you've ever been in your life - you feel ready to have a mid-life crisis in 3 years let alone before you turn 40 - one day you realise you're giving up 5 days of your life every single week just to have a few hours at night and 2 days on the weekend. and you just accept it.

@MartinSLewis You should spilt the results by sex as testosterone influences speed that people can tap.

Light relief: My daughter challenged me to how fast I could press start on stop on a stop watch. I can't consistently get quicker than 0.09s, though on my phone the touch screen mean I can do 0.06s. What's your quickest?

@keithwrjones A very nice multifuncional example without mode switching is pressing a button where a long press has an additional feature. Short press = windscreen wipe, Long press = wipe plus water

@ixdStudio It’s not remotely my field of expertise, but given many products we all use have multifunction controls, I would suggest it’s well within the wit of the vast majority of people to quickly learn what those functions are. Preferable to having separate controls for _each_ function.

That ‘one day…’ became today.

@1ssve You directly ask your ‘boss’, “Is there anything you need me to do now?” If he does, you stay. It’s always no.

How do you professionally say, “I’m not staying past 5pm, no matter what” in corporate?

@pronounced_kyle Disturbing. So count me in!

Who has read this book? I just finished it and want to start a spoiler-heavy groupchat. I have Theories

Watched Hijack on Apple TV and they’re still using the 1960s Mission Impossible trope of a bomb with a flashing LED that beeps every second. Same with car trackers in films, blinking away just as in Goldfinger 1964. Lazy filmmaking.

@keithwrjones Yes the separate controls for each function, such as the old TV remotes, are right at the beginning of the evolution of control design and usability. Mode switching and locking controls came next but went beyond the wit of many, before contextual design and not forgetting voice.

@jayrayner1 The better correction would be the patisserie stand demands MANY more visits!

Oops. Meant Burlington Arcade.

@keithwrjones I don't know what it does in this car but one way it could be a problem if in Media mode it skips a track, but in Driver Assistance mode the same press adjusts cruise-control distance.

@keithwrjones Mode specifically in both physical and digital, lots of writings on this from Norman and Raskin among others. The issue is when the same action produces different outcomes depending on a hidden state.

@keithwrjones One of the most common, simple examples (perhaps both physical and digital) is the errors forced by the Caps Lock on a keyboard.

@SketchesbyBoze I read it aged about 12 as it was bundled with the Commodore 64 Hobbit adventure game. Loved it and then read LotR. Theres probably a deeper point there how tech used to stimulate rather than hinder reading.

Someone once told me that The Hobbit is too difficult a book for a child of twelve to read. The Hobbit, famously a children’s book. Fewer and fewer people are able to read in part because we continue to lower expectations. Kids in the 1940s were reading Defoe & Dickens.

Conversations about Morrissey, Musk, Rowling etc. are as toxic and uncivil as anything here. The targets are different, not the vitriol. Still very little engagement by comparison and no Community Notes equivalent.

@adudetrading Yes, all involuntarily. Nobody hiring a FTE at that age and IR35 killed consulting.

has anyone else noticed that everyone you meet between ages 55-65 are retiring right now?

@MerrynSW Most of a financial advisor’s role is to alleviate a client’s justified fear of committing their savings to complex products they don’t fully understand, easing the discomfort of inaction or making the wrong choice. In the future will people trust human or machine more?

Not convinced. To the communication of advice, maybe yes. To the creation of advice, almost definitely no...

NEWS: Less than 33% of the 1 million Plug-in Hybrid Electric vehicles in Germany plugged in either occasionally or not at all. Just 0.8% of Porsche drivers used electricity for the energy used for driving, for an average of 7kWh over two years. In other words, the average Porsche PHEV driver charged their battery less than 50% of its capacity — once. Toyota PHEV drivers were the highest at ~43%. • Porsche: 0.8% • VW: 24.7% • Volvo: 26.5% • Audi: 26.5% • BMW: 27.0% • Hyundai: 27.5% • Mercedes: 27.7% • Jeep: 27.7% • Kia: 34.8% • Ford: 36.7% • Toyota: 42.8% Studies have previously shown that PHEVs produce about 3.5 times more emissions than their official ratings would suggest. This new study explains why since it directly assesses how much electricity the vehicles gained from charging. (PHEVs, like all hybrids, can operate in a mixed mode, using both gas and electricity. The study used data straight off the vehicles to disentangle the two.) According to real-world data drawn by the Fraunhofer Institute from the vehicles’ onboard computers. techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/its…