Fighting not only for our jobs but the future of education and thus the country. Your fight is our fight, and our fight yours. Together we will win this and save our universities. #solidarity

There is absolutely no way you thought we were going to sit by and watch the UEB cut 600 jobs at our university, did you? Join us, Unison AND Unite on May 6th for a rally to save our university. 10:30 AM, South Side of the Trent Building. We're ready to fight. Are you?

Heard some people like wheels？😁 Humanoid robots are the ideal form of general-purpose robots (perfect for general AI and human-derived data). They can work without wheels — but they can also have wheels if they want. Whatever works.

I'd take it over #windows11 any day

In six hours, my 68-y.o. father will, once again, appear at a #HongKong court for trial. The reason? My advocacy and organizational work for Hong Kong's democracy. This is the first time the Hong Kong regime has weaponized blood ties for its transnational repression campaign. 🧵

Staff redundancies, course closures and pay restraint yet bonuses at the top keep growing.

My least favourite thing to see in an email,

It's time for Microsoft to have another XPSP2 moment. No more AI, no more features. Just fixes. When I was working on Windows XP, Blaster hit. It was a big enough deal that we set aside all feature work. For the next several months, all we did was improve security. We didn't add "security features"; we fixed bugs. Lots of bugs. Until there weren't security bugs to fix anymore. Then we fixed the ones we didn't know about yet. Put more simply, we stopped trying to "add value" to the product through features that PMs thought users would like, and instead we focused on the things that had been important for a long time, but overlooked. Like performance and configurability today. Rather than trying to improve and add value to the system through new AI features -now-, I argue it's time for Microsoft to stabilize, improve, and make the system more performant. And more usable for power users. Just for one release. Just till it doesn't suck.

Evangelion Adult Swim Promo (2005)

Imagine you could instantly search your entire local PC both by filename and contents and get immediate, local-only results. Now imagine it's 1989, because that was Lotus Magellan.

Dear @Microsoft 5 minute ago, I asked #Windows11 to delete a small text file from my desktop. It's still showing no indication this was even requested, let alone carried out. How is this an Operating System?

I wish employers would just come out and say it if they wanted 996 schedules. Like you can buy a 72 hour work week from me, but you’ve gotta say it to my face. Don’t just talk about commitment and enthusiasm. Tell me you want to buy my time, my every waking thought, my hobbies, my friendships, Christmas with my family. Tell me you want to buy these years of my life in their entirety and maybe I’ll sell them to you. But don’t you dare call that enthusiasm

Labour says there’s no money left for workers. But somehow there’s always money for war. Trade unions are coming together, with one simple demand: wages not weapons.

Tried some full on "vibe coding" last night. Interesting breakdown of time spent: - 30% installing a *recent* version of nodeJS on a Pi - 50% dealing with chatGPT gaslighting me - 10% fixing legacy calls - 10% actual programming

R... S... 232 Serial for you! XD

Just won 800 #octopusEnergy points TWICE IN A ROW 8O having only ever won 8's before... time to buy a lottery ticket maybe...

Finally got round to making a mode 0 converter the other week and now kinda addicted to converting manga to the #acornElectron high res mode. Just need @0xC0DE6502 to implement scan lines now ;)

Been learning about the #acornElectron filing system recently. As part of that, I re-coded the OS image loading routine I was using, in BASIC. Wow, that's impressively more slower! I knew BASIC was slow but didn't realise it was THAT slow!

I think @0xC0DE6502 might enjoy this (and somehow I can see you re-coding the whole thing to take up less space ;) ) youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_…

Maybe not the best #AcornElectron ROM ever...