h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

happy 10-year anniversary of the Unicode Mouse Incident, for those who celebrate!

the mouse fell out of a light fixture, was listed as an official meeting attendee, and given 0.002 votes

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@deborahh/117581383282906828

Also, it has an RSS feed.

I have better things to do weekend, but I've written an open letter to the members of the London Assembly after their plenary session of 5th November which included a vote to ask Mayor to instruct TfL to pause the installation of all new floating bus stops.

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2026/11/floating-bus-stops-open-letter-to.html

AI Lessons from Uncle Screwtape

A few months ago, Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, mused on stage about the impact of generative AI on society.

“I don’t know how we’ll respond,” he told Kenny Malone of NPR’s Planet Money. “A hundred years ago, CS Lewis wrote a book called The Screwtape Letters, about a demon in Hell whose job is writing letters to their boss, a senior demon, a manager demo

https://timharford.com/2026/11/ai-lessons-from-uncle-screwtape/

#UndercoverEconomist

Spaghetti and pencils https://improbable.com/2026/11/03/spaghetti-and-pencils/

If you didn’t buy this for all the nerds in your life last year, you can remedy that this Christmas https://vole.wtf/doctype/

In the last 48hrs the UK Office of National Statistics removed 878 repositories from their public github account. Feels bad.

https://github.com/uk-gov-mirror/deleted-repo-report