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Programmer (mostly games, currently Unity) and former microbiologist. Brit in Germany. Likes cats, tabletop RPGs, and F1.
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TIL about two AI-generated stories that disparage my science and academic integrity. I cannot prove that they were paid for by #ColossalBio or its co-founder Ben Lamm, but you can read them and make your own decision: www.apnnews.com/who-is-vince... www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/06/vinc...

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

I am increasingly convinced that the number one best way to improve the internet - and technology in general - would be to flat out ban the use of targetted advertising or, at the very least, the use of any data collected outside the site for targetting.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Whenever I read anything by Sam Altman I wonder whether he genuinely hasn't got a clue what the technology his company builds actually is, or whether he's intentionally lying.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

£1.25bn to give away £300/yr to pensioners who mostly don't need it. UK politics is borked.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering Felice Bonetto, born #OnThisDay in 1903, who chain-smoked a pipe, even sometimes at the wheel of a race car. Pic: in a Maserati A6GCM, aged 49, puffing away on his trusty briar, at the old Nürburgring, in ’52. He started 15 championship GPs, bagging 2 podium finishes.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: speaking as an artist, whether you love my games or hate them, the most important thing is that you buy them for money

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Men are too emotional to use social media

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

I repost, and post, a lot of stuff about my general anti-AI sentiments. Here's an interesting look from the other side.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I teach a game writing class. Students have scripts, worldbuilding docs, treatments, etc due every week About half the class used ChatGPT last semester even though I made it clear using an LLM = an F. When I asked why a studio would ever hire them if their work was just ChatGPT, they seemed stunned

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

This is just extraordinary. But it's also baffling to me. Who wants this? Who uses this and thinks "hey, this is great, give me more of that"?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Are you worried about pesticides in your tampons? You don't need to be. The recent headlines were based on some very bad science. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

This is the best description of AI I've seen to date.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The point of this was to raise awareness of the ‘unknown’ dangers of these things. When they’re Placed on a surface (no legs), heat transfer can occur (they can reach 400c +). Sand retains heat. The dbbq had been removed & tidied away from this spot several hours prior to Wills foot’s arrival 1/4

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free! 🤍 trueref.art/trueref-gest...

submitted 15 days ago • 79 comments