We have special news! 3 white-tailed eagles have fledged from wild nests in Dorset & Sussex this summer. With 5 pairs now established across England we hope to see further breeding in the coming years as this lost species is restored. bit.ly/4h83z3D @RoyDennisWF

I need your help: I want to get more people into the WikiCritic beta-test. The launch will be huge, and you'll have bragging rights! How? It's easy. I've screenshotted some Wikipedia article introductions below. Post a review of JUST THIS (the "lede") below! 🧵👇

Phenomenal PISA scores show forty years of education reforms in England under successive governments worked. Standards up. In Scotland and Wales they shunned reforms and the price is paid in squandered human capital and potential. open.substack.com/pub/reacti…

This is the only acceptable use of AI

Happy to see that Jottit has come back to life: jottit.org I think it might be a good place to store and link my AI md files.

Reviews are deleted after 7 days. Accounts after 90 days idle. We will never sell your data. If this is still alive in five years I want it to be something people still trust, not something that quietly harvested them. thelatecommute.com/privacy Plain English, not lawyers.

Suffering for over 15 years with a rare brain tumour, I went to countless doctors who told me nothing was wrong with me. They would say I was stressed, or needed to sleep more, exercise more, misdiagnosed with PCOS 3 times. These were NHS and private doctors. Specialists.

Less than 100 miles away, about 50 tons of steel and copper are spinning at exactly 3,600 RPM. A giant rotor slews magnetic fields through copper windings and, per Faraday and Maxwell, induces a synchronized 60 Hz sine wave across an entire grid. That electromagnetic wave propagates through grain oriented silicon steel, laminated transformer cores, kilometers of aluminum conductor steel reinforced cable, SF₆ insulated switchgear, substations switching hundreds of kilovolts, distribution transformers, oxygen free copper wiring, silicon MOSFETs, ferrites, multilayer ceramic capacitors, and the USB C cable plugged into my phone. There, power feeds a capacitive touchscreen. A transparent matrix of indium tin oxide is deposited on glass. The controller continuously scans the grid. My finger changes the mutual capacitance by a fraction of a picofarad, perturbing the local electric field just enough for dedicated analog front ends to detect before software reconstructs the touch. Iron ore. Bauxite. Silica sand. Copper ore. Lithium brines. Rare earths. Refined. Alloyed. Crystallized. Doped. Implanted. Deposited. Etched. Polished. We purified sand into nearly perfect single crystal silicon, grew boules, sliced wafers, placed dopant atoms with nanometer precision, fabricated chips containing tens of billions of transistors, synchronized them with clocks billions of times per second, and engineered them to execute matrix multiplications at a scale no human could comprehend. Somewhere along the way, matmuls started to look like us. That is an astonishing thought. The towers of abstraction are staggering. No one person built this. No one person fully understands it. Yet every morning millions of people wake up tired, answer emails, argue over specifications, chase margins, fix defects, make payroll, and try to cover their mortgages. Somehow the whole machine keeps humming. A planetary Swiss watch assembled from physics, markets, bureaucracy, ambition, error, and human necessity. And after all of that, I touch a piece of conductive glass and step into the Roman forum of modern thought, where millions of minds test ideas against one another in real time. Clockwork humanity. It staggers the mind.

I have a new /skill called 'court-clerk' that emerged while developing my game Doggo108. Your favourite AI agent acts as a court clerk in an appeals/adjudication process that runs though the CLI. It keeps track of all appeals and previous rulings to form a kind of library of 'common law' that can be referenced in future appeals. All names are anonymised in an effort to keep rulings fair. try it using: npx skills@latest add Payo/skills/court-clerk Let me know how to improve it - or fork it and DIY.

I always thought I had a pretty good eye. Studied fine arts. Good at spotting patterns. Pretty observant. Then I found this account. Whoever runs it sees things I didn’t even know could be seen.

/writing-great-skills is quickly becoming my most often-invoked skill It's just really good at writing skills, guys. npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill writing-great-skills

after a few weeks of daily use of @mattpocockuk 's brilliant grill-me skill, Claude Code has started to suggest that we do grill-me sessions without me telling it. 🤖

Useless machines, first conceived around 1952 by Marvin Minsky while at Bell Labs, are fully functional machines designed to perform exactly nothing useful. 📽: fritend1

Take a look at your favourite skill. Go on, take a look. Check for lines like: - "Make the commit message very detailed" - "Be thorough" - "Make the implementation easy to read" What do these lines have in common? They're no-ops. They do nothing to change the agent's behavior. Agents always write good commit messages. They always try to be thorough. They always try to create easy-to-read implementations. Try removing them. Does the output change? No? Then the line was a no-op. Agent-authored skills are LITTERED with no-ops. Entire paragraphs and sections of text that does nothing to change the agents' behavior. No-ops make skills harder to evaluate, harder to maintain, and burn tokens uselessly. Learn to spot them, test them, and remove them. Your skills will thank you.

If you need a project outline you should start with my /rumination skill npx skills@latest add Payo/skills/rumination Based on the P.I.P.R communications framework your AI will guide you through a series of gentle, probing questions about your idea. The areas covered are: People - customers, audience Inspiration - big idea, mission Process - how to make it happen, data flows, vision Results - what you want to achieve Take your time, don't rush. All will be well.

Here is my /viral-content skill: npx skills@latest add Payo/skills/viral-content Based on cognitive psychology and informed by the psychology of virality. Including: curiosity gaps, emotional arousal, Berger's STEPPS, Cialdini's influence principles and pattern interrupts. Your favourite AI takes this skill and guides you through a conversational loop: angle >> hook >> script >> CTA, one decision at a time, with a recommendation each turn. Let me know what you think.