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simonwood

@simonwood@mastodon.social

Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator.

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simonwood, to random
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One of the last original Avengers - thanks for some of the most wonderful TV scores ever written. Now playing The Shake, and Symphony Synethesis is cued up next https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68054498

simonwood, to random
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“Ring cameras are cheap and ubiquitous, but contributing to a just society is also a factor in keeping your family safe.” https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-do-not-recommend-ring/

simonwood, to random
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“you quickly see just how broken the copyright system is on both sides of the equation unless you’re a giant company” https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/19/copyright-remains-a-complete-mess-a-tale-in-two-stories/

simonwood, to random
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This was unexpected…

simonwood, (edited )
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But this was even more surprising! The Man From V.U.L.C.A.N.

simonwood,
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Hey, they’re good together. Get them their own show.

simonwood, to fediverse
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Couple of days ago I was wondering where the del.icio.us of the was and I couldn’t find it. Then today: https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/

simonwood, to random
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“…nobody gives a monkey’s about guillemots [but] There’s gossip, arguments and infidelity – sitting in a hide on Skomer and watching a guillemot ledge is like watching an episode of EastEnders.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/16/we-have-underrated-what-these-birds-can-do-the-secret-life-of-skomers-guillemots-tim-birkhead

simonwood, to random
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It’s 9:76. Past my bedtime.

Welcome to Metric-time.com https://metric-time.com/

simonwood, to random
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They’re not working on a new Bond film and they are making 007 reality TV ☹️ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/21/work-to-reinvent-james-bond-for-post-craig-era-hasnt-begun-yet-says-producer

simonwood, to random
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“Mrs Edwards said she used to bang her trowel on the bomb to remove earth after gardening.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67602627

simonwood, to DoctorWho
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Peter Capaldi on the job of being The Doctor: “You embody for a time this folk hero, this icon. I was able to comfort people in a way that would be beyond the powers of Peter. You could walk into a room and people gasped with delight. It doesn’t happen any more.” https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/14/i-like-more-trouble-peter-capaldi-interview-criminal-record

simonwood, to random
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The New New Avengers? Feeling trepidatious about this… hard to imagine them hitting the mark. But at a minimum, I would want a contemporary setting and a guest appearance by Lumley as Purdey… https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-avengers-reboot-studiocanal-industry-writers-mickey-down-konrad-kay-1235795963/

simonwood, to random
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The reason I had to confirm my age to receive a package this afternoon turned out not to be for the large quantity of toxic photopolymer resin, but for the lethal potential of this… lemon zester.

simonwood, to random
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I think Rory Stewart found reason to dislike Liz Truss well before she crashed the economy and earned the ire of the rest of the country.

simonwood, to random
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David McCallum: a life in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2023/sep/26/david-mccallum-a-life-in-pictures

chris, to random

PSA to the Fediverse Threads — if you want your hashtags to remain intact when your posts are federated, make sure to always include the # prefix.

On the left is Threads, on the right is my post federated and viewed in elk.zone.

Topic tags (without a prefix) are treated as plain text.

simonwood,
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@BeAware @chris @chrismessina Yes, so far any kind of tag from Threads, #’d or otherwise, has yet to appear clickable to me, a Mastodon user through the Mona app.

Floppy, to DuckDuckGo
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going down again ( to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.

simonwood,
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@Floppy Me: [searching for something on DDG] Oh, DuckDuckGo is down.

Me: [30 seconds later, doing another search on DDG] Doh.

simonwood,
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@Floppy Yes. I wouldn’t feel so daft if I’d done it only once - I’ve been doing it all morning!

Apparently it’s all Bing powered search https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/

david_oxtaby, to ilaughed
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This is going to be my last post on Mastodon now. I don't have time for it anymore and there's never much interraction anyway so rather just call it a day. Thanks all for your support over the time I've been on here and wish you all the very best for the future. I will still be on X of course if you want to catch up.
Goodnight all and very best wishes

simonwood,
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@david_oxtaby I’ve enjoyed seeing your pictures.

LoneLocust, to random
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My experiences with Waymo so far have been most satisfactory.

Far less scary than riding in a car with an unknown, untrusted human.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112484401923377732

simonwood,
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@LoneLocust I don’t think I’m splitting a hair. There’s a world of difference between “Tesla’s FSD works on all road types” and “Tesla’s FSD is intended to work on all road types”.

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@LoneLocust So I’m not sure how accurate this article is - e.g. it says that “Tesla’s FSD works on all road types” and also that Tesla’s FSD doesn’t work.

But is it the case that with Waymo you have (probably, at some point) been riding in a car with an unknown, untrusted human controlling it remotely?

Would you ride in a Tesla Robotaxi? Not driven by an unknown, untrusted human. But built* by a known, untrusted human.

  • obviously not personally, but as CEO.
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@LoneLocust Yes - I’d seen that before I made the comment. What impressed me about that guy was his Tesla FSD tried to drive him into a train already… and then he gave it another go! 🤣

simonwood, (edited ) to random
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Important that the PM takes a day off. He needs to recharge his batteries if he is to sustain this level of disasterousness. Look what he’s achieved in 3 days:

“He began by announcing the election in the pouring rain to the booming sounds of the 1997 Labour anthem Things Can Only Get Better, played by a nearby protester. (1/2)

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“He then attended a public question-and-answer session at a factory at which it was revealed that two of the questioners were Tory councillors, before asking workers in Wales whether they were looking forward to the Euro 2024 football tournament, for which Wales has not qualified.

“On Friday the prime minister travelled to Belfast where he visited the Titanic Quarter and was asked by a journalist whether he was captaining a sinking ship.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/sunak-to-take-a-day-at-home-after-hapless-election-campaign-start (2/2)

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