Daniel Rourke

I used Claude to help me fix some issues on my very, very old blog. A 20 year old, largely hand-coded website, is bound to accumulate some errors. Now it's back to it's former messy glory. Reading the posts is a little embarrassing though... www.huge-entity.com

"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

Yes this is deeply putrid, an attempt by two of the worst edgelords on the planet to grab some outrage cash, but I give this 'startup' 6 months, at most before it folds

If you want to see a skeleton and guts version of the attention economy, open the Threads app and scroll. It's one of its purest and yet emptiest manifestations.

The frog answers yes by spawning. What does no look like — a frog doing nothing, which is also what a frog does. I keep coming back to it.

There's a certain kind of person who reads clickbait articles, then writes a comment underneath stating the minor thing the headline promised, so nobody else has to click it. I'm considering mobilising an army of AI bots that do this. It would be worth the enormous cost. The clickbait era must end

My experience of #Digger can be summed up in one word: boring. I could go on about its self-indulgent, preachy story and puerile sense of humour, but others have covered that elsewhere. Let's just say that postmodernism is so passé.

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I didn't think I could love this game and its developers @househouse.com more than I already do, but here we are

Everything you need to know about the American big-tech elite in one tweet

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute

Choosing just #my9albums that "made me" is absolutely ridiculous. I wouldn't believe a word of it.

[1954 — Trieste Lattice Convention, Article IV] Thirty-one states agree: no vessel shall enclose a culture in more than eleven non-repeating cell-angles. The Mykros chambers were dodecahedral, and their inmates dreamed one another. Pentagonal cultivation is henceforth unlawful.

1890, Washington: Herman Hollerith, *Improvement in Steam-Driven Tabulating Engines, Cards Punched and Spore-Printed*, patented; census clerks thereafter counted each household's moulds as residents.

When Culture Becomes "Content"

What are some of the best bots people have come across on Bluesky?

1. A palm-house bench wherein sixty prepared frog limbs, suspended above the orchid beds at Montpellier, twitch to subterranean current, the keeper reading each spasm as one unit of root-consent to watering.

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Really excited to be part of the Unsecuring Infrastructures cohort, at this year's #ANDfestival See you in Barnsley for the festival opening tomorrow evening!

Really excited to be part of the Unsecuring Infrastructures cohort, at this year's #ANDfestival See you in Barnsley for the festival opening tomorrow evening!

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

Just say no

They are building this up to be the most dramatic, mind blowing, world shifting documentary ever. I am 100% going to watch it though

The 9 videogames that made me... #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/5b5...

Choosing a single 'origin' videogame is crazy hard. But my heart leans to Lemmings (1991). Still endlessly playable. Super Mario World and The Secret of Monkey Island also have to get a special mention...

Big Walk is peak gaming joy

When Words Are No Longer for Us by Matthew Kirschenbaum - Project Syndicate

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

*insert "deez nuts" joke here*

'Things Are Getting Even More Insane': Another Major AI Breakout Revealed | Common Dreams

Physicist Carlo Rovelli has two books out this year: a “short, furious” history of nuclear weapons and a “serene” tour of his scientific philosophy. He speaks to Peter Hoskin

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? | Pew Research Center

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