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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000, generating AI slop of the best quality

13 August 2026

Since the volume of slop-in-general is of epidemic proportions on the platform, it makes perfect sense an AI agent write actual AI slop for consumption there.

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Catastrophic disasters hit Earth every twenty-seven-million years

11 August 2026

We’re talking about things like mass extinctions and major geological events.

Scientists are not exactly sure why momentous upheavals seem to occur at approximately the same intervals, but they have theories. These range from Earth’s position in space over time, relative to our galaxy’s mid-plane, to the (extremely slow) process of heat transfer within the planet’s mantle.

The question though, where are we in the current twenty-seven-million year cycle, at present?

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Music, Fashion, Film, the new Charli XCX album

7 August 2026

British musician Charli XCX released her eighth studio album, Music, Fashion, Film, in July 2026. Not so much of the glitchcore this time around, though there’s one or two (digital) scratches in the mix.

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LinkedIn users can report AI slop, but what about the rest of it?

1 August 2026

Members of the professional network will be able to flag posts they think are AI generated. I haven’t been a LinkedIn participant in years — I have a personal website, why would I? — but it seems to me slop has been a problem on the platform since before AI was what it is.

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Roger Montgomery: how SpaceX achieved that two trillion dollar valuation

16 July 2026

SpaceX’s two-trillion dollar (US) share-market valuation astonished market analysts, investors, and probably a great many other people, alike. Roger Montgomery, an Australian financial adviser, sets out in simple terms how the remarkable figure was calculated. My head is still spinning.

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Move over Wordle, here is a new word game: 18 Words

13 July 2026

If you’ve had enough of Wordle, here’s something new to try.

You’re given a jumbled-up selection of letters, and have thirty-seconds to figure out the word. The game starts out with a couple of four-letter words, but the they get longer as you progress.

There’s no need to tell anyone how you fared….

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Vale David Hockney, British artist, photographer

15 June 2026

Hockney died aged 88 last week. The work of the British artist and painter, purveyor of bold colours, was required learning in my final year high school art history course.

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Backrooms: McDonald’s versus Kane Parsons

15 June 2026

You don’t see too many mentions of global hamburger behemoth McDonald’s here, but their take on Kane Parsons’ 2026 horror/thriller film Backrooms, is simply finger licking good.

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Download your TypePad blog and post the content to a new website

24 September 2025

Phil Gifford, who gave us ooh.directory, has published a method for downloading a TypePad blog, and uploading the files to a another server, should you so wish, so your TypePad blog can live on under a new guise. Don’t forget, TypePad closes at the end of September, so you need to act quickly if you want to retrieve your blog.

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If you knew David Siegel, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Jakob Nielsen, you were an early web designer

31 May 2025

Richard MacManus, writes about three of the best known web designers of the late 1990’s. All three were influential (yet were not influencers), though by way of their individual approaches to web design, were sometimes at odds with each other:

With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for ‘hacks’, Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability.

It was the thing during those Web 1.0 days to completely ignore Nielsen. It was only later we came to realise he was onto something.

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