Danny Fraser

he/him

Data guy, over 40 therefore into birds 🦆 Found around Edinburgh & East Lothian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 LLMs bad, trans rights good, vote Green 🇵🇸

Jed Brown

@jedbrown.org

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

11h

I was asked about my favourite things for a handmade birthday card from kid 1. I sang 🎶 thousands of guillemots tied up with string 🎶 and got exactly that on the card

A child's drawing of a group of guillemots encircled by a rope

Jack Grimes

@jackapedia.design

17h

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Colonel Q

@lowqualityregen.bsky.social

17h

Okay, so this is crazy. 🤯 In Event Horizon, a film from 1997, Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform be replaced with a photo of Lionel Messi bathing the baby Lamine Yamal, the way he thought it should look in 2047! 👏👏👏

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

Tuchel after the match pulls off his rubber mask. It reveals Ashton Kutcher, telling the nation they've been punk'd

Tuchel out

Enjoying this so far. This world cup needed a game with a bit of edge to it

GT 🫪

@granitetide.bsky.social

"Who's more racist, England or Argentina?" the longest thread in the history of Bluesky, abandoned after everyone involved blocked each other

Andy Bell

@bell.bz

You probably don't hate tech companies as much as you absolutely should do

Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs

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Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

I hope after this crime I'm still allowed to go to Italy next month

An affogato being made with Mr Whippy ice cream and a bean-to-cup espresso

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

Starmer taking the idea of the nanny state very literally I see. "Meep meep children, time for bed"

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

My train has been delayed at a signal for so long that the conductor has told us over the tannoy about the compensation scheme

GreenSwizzleWooster

@gswooster.bsky.social

Timothée Mallette

TW @twesq.bsky.social

The most French looking man I’ve ever seen. Just missing the cigarette and a quote about existential ennui

Jack

@jackinpogform.bsky.social

While JK Rowling and Amnesty are being mentioned in the same breath it's worth remembering why she lost her job there.

Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social

It's weird to me that discussions of JK Rowling always being a dick never being up the fact she spent her time at Amnesty International drafting books when she was supposed to be documenting war crimes in Africa.

Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph)

@bitterkarella.bsky.social

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

s. e. smith @sesmith.lol

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

thepinknews.com

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Lee Hurley

@hleehurley.com

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery.

Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade.

TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

And then I came home to the most wonderful present - an Acer! I enjoyed having one years ago in another life, so it's lovely to bring one into this life.

A small Acer in a nice blue pot, sitting on a gravel bed outside a ground floor window. A cat is sitting on a paving slab alongside.

Danny Fraser @danny.scot

42 today, so I took myself out for a little lunchtime treat.

A fancy fish finger sandwich and a little half pint of lager

A selfie of a 42-year old man standing by a canal. He has a slightly windblown mop of ginger hair, a little greyer than it used to be, and dark blue glasses. His face is happy and friendly, and perhaps a little rounder in cheek and jowl than he'd like it to be. He's wearing a red and white stripy tee and a tweed blazer with a small gold croissant lapel pin.

You might think, as his wife initially did, that he looks like a Kaiser Chiefs indie lad but that's not the case. He's more into prog rock and metal - really anything where some aspect of the music (volume, bombast, musicianship, beats in the bar) is turned up to 11.

He looks satisfied with life, in the manner of a middle-aged man who's taken a long lunch break to have a fancy fish finger sandwich and a half pint.

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

42 today, so I took myself out for a little lunchtime treat.

Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

I really only have Netflix now because my kids enjoy it. The only other thing anyone's watched on it in the last 3 months is the Kylie documentary (which I am told was excellent)

🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social

Netflix is struggling with keeping viewers "hooked" because it keeps canceling shows after 1 season so no one trusts a Netflix show to last.

Its that simple, regardless of whatever their bullshit internal analytics are informing them.