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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · 6d ago

Replying to @rmblaber1956@mastodon.social

@rmblaber1956@mastodon.social @GeraldKutney@noc.social But they will still drive cars, use toasters and watch television...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @jzb@hachyderm.io

@jzb@hachyderm.io Sydney at night!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Jul 17, 2026

Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai

@Nonilex@masto.ai Millions? Tens of millions? Or over 100 million?

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Jul 15, 2026

Replying to @kevinrns@mstdn.social

@kevinrns@mstdn.social I'm a big fan of Canada, but it's a dirty dealer on the energy front in many senses of those words... It will, surely, be very hard for Canada to get closer to the EU without much stronger action on climate change...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · May 04, 2026

"Monthly users hovered in the low hundreds of thousands"

That's the Metsverse, on which some silicon Valley folk have lavished the best part of US$100 billion (or about 1 AI seed round, in new money).

How much money did others spend building things in the Metaverse, or buying virtual property there?

And is there a more meta company name than Meta, given this grizzly history?
https://techstartups.com/2026/03/18/meta-shuts-down-metaverse-after-80-billion-loss-ends-horizon-worlds-era/

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · May 02, 2026

Replying to @Jeroen89@mastodon-belgium.be

@Jeroen89@mastodon-belgium.be This phenomenon merits a more emotive name! As for the graphic - in all too many rural places, there's barely an insect to be seen. Happily, I came across a veritable insect hotspot this week - a small farm in Sussex that has been chemical free for a decade or more... Insects everywhere - more than I can remember seeing for a long time!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · May 01, 2026

Replying to @Taco_lad@aus.social

@Taco_lad @paco @michael_w_busch @diazona Excellent analysis. If those notes burning end to end took ten seconds each, a little over 634 years.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org It is interesting that France has already ordered all government departments to draw up plans to migrate from non-European software vendors...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @ZLabe@fediscience.org

@ZLabe Am I right in thinking that the last time CO2 levels were this high was about 50 million years ago?

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 30, 2026

RE: @Fife4Europe@mastodon.scot

This article made me wonder: how many times have US troops in Europe taken action to defend NATO allies, and how many times have the bases been used as staging posts for American military action in other countries?

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 29, 2026

Oh boy: we're going to need a bigger, better word. Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" is one thing, but the systematic dismantling of thinking ("cognitive surrender") enabled by these LLM derivatives is mind-bending.

The attached is from a LinkedIn post by someone from that Big M software company...

Anyone who knows data analysis (remember "big data"?) will surely have had the same visceral reaction as me - ad hoc analysis of data in spreadsheets is a hopeless way to extract reliable insight.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @jonhendry@iosdev.space

@jonhendry@iosdev.space @mattblaze@federate.social @kern@iosdev.space The Guardian reported it beautifully. Gritty detail, followed by "didn't see the actual shooting". Seems like CNN gets 10/10 for theatre, 0/10 for journalism.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 26, 2026

This description from Wolf Blitzer sums up the last DC drama rather well.

First, a detailed description claiming to have been just a few feet away.

Then "I didn't actually see the shooting".

Is it me, or is this like a bad school play??!?

#uspolitics

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk

@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Great idea - but let's not forget the company... Treat breaches collectively and have multiplying fines. First offence £125k Second offense £250k Third £500k Fourth $1m $2m, $4m, $8m etc... These amounts are trivial compared to the money spent making these robots...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @tchambers@indieweb.social

@tchambers I use Mastodon because I get to see the posts from the accounts I follow in the order I post them. It's like clean, fresh water from a mountain stream, rather than the effluent from a sewer...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @juangames@mastodon.social

@juangames @protonprivacy Along with several hundred thousand data points they already hold on you...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 11, 2026

Replying to @woollypigs@sudomakecake.com

@woollypigs How cool! A bit like the cupboard to Narnia, but for airports. Nervous parents will now be having nightmares!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 11, 2026

Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

@ChrisMayLA6 These two features are fantastic - but there's another that is an order of magnitude more important - and enormously more satisfying! And that is that the messages in my feed arrive raw and unfiltered from the people I follow in the order that they write them. No algorithm. No manipulation of what I see. No idiot box in my pocket. Nirvana!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @adamshostack@infosec.exchange

@adamshostack The thinness of the atmosphere is amazing to see...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @connynasch@mastodon.social

@connynasch@mastodon.social I never cease to be unsurprised by how far ahead the Chinese think...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @Paladin@mastodon.nu

@Paladin@mastodon.nu @randahl@mastodon.social It's really tough. Then again, if you run a business where data security matters - especially outside the USA - thrn this is a problem with which you must eventually grapple. It's easy to put in the 'too hard' basket - but at some point Microsoft could easily be required to disable software in a particular country... [Added] Meanwhile, I see China began a fairly systematic effort to shift to different operating systems around five years ago...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @randahl@mastodon.social

@randahl@mastodon.social How long until "American technologies " includes Microsoft?

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @jamesfineart@mastodon.ie

@jamesfineart@mastodon.ie Truly a great drink - and thanks to your post, I now know that cachaça is also called pinga!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @emilymbender@dair-community.social

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Does the bad one suggest it's good, and vice versa?

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @gabrielesvelto@mas.to

@gabrielesvelto 100%

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Feb 23, 2026

Replying to @commissionerHR__dup_59476@mastodon.social

@commissionerHR@mastodon.social These platforms already know the colour of your eyes, your gender, the names of your closest friends, and much, much more. So there is so much they could do - easily - to provide a safer environment. But that costs money and loses revenue, so for the most part they just go for the profit. Governments have big levers to use, but most are afraid to use them...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Feb 21, 2026

Replying to on retro.pizza

@SKleefeld@retro.pizza The most fun is where the package arrives at your city, and then mysteriously transits another hub 409 miles away :-0

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Feb 08, 2026

Replying to @Dennis@beige.party

@Dennis@beige.party Sadly, no! But now you know why you don't see those things in many professional kitchens 😱

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Dec 08, 2025

Replying to @csstrowbridge@mastodon.social

@csstrowbridge@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Thanks to LLMs, 21st century ignorance is more blissful than ever!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Dec 07, 2025

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social @MatthewChat@mstdn.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange In some ways this is quite amazing - ie that we had such high resolution long ago, and that it's taken so long for digital media to match or surpass this. Corollary: convenience trumps quality time after time.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Nov 18, 2025

Replying to @Gargron__dup_1@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social Bravissimo Eugene! Every founder's dream should be to build an organisation that can be run by others: this is, surely, the best mark of maturity. Mastodon is a truly wonderful - and exceptionally important - creation. Traditional investors and business folk might lament lack of (even) faster growth, and urge the raising of much more capital to 'leverage' what you and the team have built so far. But, as you obviously know, that type of investment sows the seeds of enshittification.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Nov 16, 2025

Replying to @FluentInFinance__dup_1991@mastodon.social

@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social Do you happen to have a link to the Harvard study. The conclusion isn't surprising, as "death" is an externality to anyone who just counts the dollars 😞.

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Nov 01, 2025

Replying to @statsguy@mas.to

@statsguy@mas.to My Halloween is complete!

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Apr 11, 2023

Replying to @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social How long before companies - especially major national brands and multinationals - recognise that some states in America are no longer safe working environments for female/BiPoC/LGBTQIA employees? Some countries legislate that companies mist provide a safe working environment, making this harder to ignore as an issue...

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Britstralian @Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world · Feb 11, 2023

Replying to @Sheril@mastodon.social

@Sheril I have long wondered about this! How does it fit in with Joseph Fourier's paper from the early 1830s??

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