Nicholas Camm

This is SUCH a great production, you HAVE to watch it!!

The Altman quote helpfully shows that the aim here, the entire business plan, is building dependency, not boosting potential

Watched First Cow and it was extraordinarily lovely. It sits under the *slow cinema* banner, but banners begone, it's just bloody brilliant cinema.

Email screenshot: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces. The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard."

Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,

Thank you for reaching out.

After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Possible cover for a Zine of my Spaceship illustrations. Showing a teal, twin hulled spaceship, with orange text overlaid.

Working on a thing…

#Spaceships

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

2026 is very quickly becoming my Year of Heavy Pencils and I like to tell myself that is a good thing but my frayed nerves are steadfastly refusing to agree.

Puddle, Manchester, 2021, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.

I got annoyed so I found a link! Scroll to ep244, story starts around 32mins in. And as I was writing this Pete got back with an "Of course you can", but, hey, links are easier.

(And apologies, John, for using your post as a random hither/ thither thread. I'll shut up now.)

Ignore that last bit, that's just me being a klutz.

so that add

so fingers crossed he's still using that address. Malak is under his Creative Commons licence, but, nevertheless, I'd like to be sure he's happy for me to share. Let me know if the link works for you, and I'll let you know if the grandmaster of existential doom gets back to me. Cheers!

I actually checked the link recently, what with the Anthropic/ChatGPT gov. contract fuckery it felt relevant, but it seems to be broken. It might work for you. If not I'd happily send you the original recording if Pete's okay with it. I've emailed him to check, but it's been 15 years since we talked

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

A walnut.

Colour me biased as I'm in this game, but by jingo it looks bloody gorgeous! (and apparently the voice acting ain't half bad, either 🤭).

Congrats, Alex!

Just did a Zoom recall. I logged in early, as requested, expecting to sit twiddling my thumbs for at least 10 mins. They joined soon after and the audition was finished before it was meant to start.

That, my friends, is tip-top service!

Before. The house looked like that when he lived in it. An odd sort. Taciturn. Member of Camra, fussy bugger who insisted on flat beer (he drank where I worked and organised the bus-spotters club upstairs), dressed like a farmer but wasn't a farmer. Ambrose was his name.

I knew the chap who used to live in that house. Ironically, he was an avid bus-spotter.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

AETHUS, my solo-indie debut, launches straight to 1.0 (no Early Access!) TOMORROW, March 6th!

Story is so often an afterthought in survival-crafting games...

Not so in AETHUS - fully voice-acted, there's always a narrative reason to head underground or build up your mining base!

#IndieDev

Years ago I narrated Pete's story, Malak. He emailed me to say "You just fucking nailed it", and to this day I have not stopped dancing.

You don't want to know

Oh god, Inkpad, a simple plain text notes app I've been using for years, mainly for shopping lists & jotting notes for podcasts, but I also used it drafting my parents' eulogies... now has an AI that thinks all those rather different things are What My Life Is, and will vomit out advice accordingly

Non-Method Man

They all do this. And it feels like a reflection on the humans behind them, whose inflated careers are built on never admitting they don’t know the answer. The ‘smartest people in the room’ if ‘smart’ just means glib and facile, turning out lies with complete conviction.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

It's incredible how thin-skinned people who post gen-ai images are when it comes to criticism. Just heartbroken when people don't praise something they didn't even make! The world's worst Harry Potter fan-artist has more integrity.

NEW BRINE NEWS!

STUDIO WHALEFALL IS PARTNERING WITH @noquartersoft.bsky.social

BECAUSE:

- BRINE is now able to be shown off in both North and South America.
- QA/PR Support on platforms we do not touch (twitter)
- Building that ever growing network of "retro-local" devs...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Star Trek is a very serious sci-fi show about exploring space and the human condition. Also Star Trek: “remember that time Troi was a cake??”