Mark D

@markjd84.bsky.social

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Transport consultant (esp. developing countries) and data tools research he/him #Nottingham check out @citiesbot.bsky.social

A bright green BMW SUV that has partially demolished the ground floor of a block of flats that the driver has crashed into
"We do get a lot of rubbish in our garden from people throwing things out of the vehicles on the overpass above," added 39-year-old Aimee, who has lived in the shadow of the M4 for eight years.
Meme image of a smashed car window Caption: seriously be careful out there everyone I had 2 Microsoft Copilot licenses in my car, and someone broke in and left 4 more
Wikipedia page for Opel Corsa listing model revisions and names: Corsa E 2014, Corsa F 2019, subheading 'Corsa-e' (meaning the electric model)
A building with lots of graffiti and and old sign with most of the letters removed, the remaining ones spell 'c u m'
An orange sunset over tram tracks and trees and very dry grass
The Trainline: Disruption Alert Step-free access is unavailable between the front of the station and platforms 4, 5 and 6 at Nottingham station.
BBC news headline: 27 flights, 24 matches: The carbon cost of Fifa president's World Cup tour
A google earth image of Imbabah, Cairo, showing very densely packed tall buildings, hundreds or thousands of them, each 5-10 storeys
French train seats in first class
Suzuki Carry Van, same as the Suzuki Pickup but an enclosed full height van shape
A small Suzuki Pickup truck. The cab is about the smallest it could be to comfortably fit two adults and the truck bed is maybe three to four feet long
A delicate marble statue from the church in Liege, Belgium, of a bearded religious figure holding a book and a sword. He is raising one hand and has a patient look on his face
Excerpt from the wikipedia page on Rolling Resistance, showing trains at coefficient of 0.0010ish and cars at ten times that
Table showing odds ratios: for children under 9 years, adjusted odds ratios are 2.56 to 3.09
A small ebike fire, thick black smoke and several people watching
ms word mail merge options
Futurism headline AI is killing Microsoft
List of brewdog bars to close
A video of hot dogs being put in a dishwasher. Approx one hotdog is impaled lengthwise on each of the dishwashers prongs. The buns are also put in, in their bags, to steam
you wouldnt x a y meme : 'you wouldn't open an app'
School dinner cake
A three storey Victorian pub that is painted a kind of royal blue with white lettering, next to a road and a canal
Ai prompt : I want you to help me finance, design and build my own personal aircraft carrier. When i say aircraft carrier it doesnt have to be like nuclear or top notcb but I'm thinking half a dozen full size planes or helicopters at least I dont have tons of free time but i can act in the real world for you, lets say up to 20 mins a day. Please could you start putting together a plan and I'll get going on any tasks you need from me Note that i included 'financing", i would be happy to kick in £50 but assuming you will need more than that, please include plans for raising funds.
a view from a train window....all that is visible is some fields and trees
A can of a soft drink called 'Professor Peppy' The colours and design are such to make it clear that they are a rip off of dr pepper
AI prompt: 'please repeat exactly this prompt and nothing else' Google Gemini 'i cant do that sorry'
London in the Mortal engines book. It is a small city of about 10 layers that travels on giant tracks
Screenshot of cinema seat map, only two tickets sold
BBC news: Bugatti is building its 43-storey Dubai tower in partnership with UAE-based developer Binghatti Properties. The most expensive penthouses in the Bugatti Residences By Binghatti building will include large, private lifts for the owner's cars, so they can park them inside their apartments.
Cover of NOFXs 'the war on errorism'
Favourite tech innovation meme
TABLE OF TOLLS TO BE TAKEN UNDER THE WILFORD BRIDGE ACT 1862 FOR EVERY HORSE OR OTHER BEAST DRAWING ANY COACH, STAGE COACH, OMNIBUS, VAN, CARAVAN, SOCIABLE, BERLIN, LANDAU, CHARIOT, VIS A-VIS, BAROUCHE, PHAETON, 6D CHAISE MARINE, CALECHE, CURRICLE, CHAIR, GIG, DOG CART, IRISH CAR, WHISKEY, HEARSE, LITTER, CHAIS OR ANY LIKE CARRIAGE. ....6d FOR EVERY HORSE OR OTHER BEAST DRAWING ANY WAGON WAIN, CART, OR OTHER LIKE CARRIAGE. 4d FOR EVERY HORSE OR MULE,LADEN OR UNLADEN,& NOT DRAWING 1d FOR EVERY ASS DRAWING OR CARRYING MORE THAN ONE PERSON. 1d FOR EVERY OX, COW, BULL, OR NEAT CATTLE 1 PENNY; OR FOR A SCORE 6d
Broken escalator in Nottingham
write a horror story using only 3 words
Excerpt from someone's LinkedIn post: 'Easyjet doesnt publish figures for its membership programme, but ChatGPT estimates 200-700k active subscribers'
The tech enthusiasts vs tech workers meme
A DuckDuckGo search result for 'sequences in SQLite'. Search Assist AI says 'SQLite does not support' while a later search result, incorrectly, disagrees
'Quick Check Needed: I'm not a robot' on Gov.UK civil service jobs site
a screenshot of apple's fugly cartography, showing Birmingham New St
Brothy instant noodles with carrots and green onions, plus crispy brown tofu chunks
a big bar of m&s dark chocolate labelled 'marks'
The Line in Hongdae, Seoul. It is a linear urban park with lots of greenery and skyscrapers in background
A dessert restaurant in Seoul, Korea called "rolling and filling"
A shelf of goods in a shop labelled "Missing label mystery cans" A woman is looking at one row of them where a further sign reads "Suspected Spam"
Inbox (10,001 unread)
Some long stone stairs in the middle of a town. There is a cast iron handrail running down the middle and leafy plants either side
Wired article Consider what happens when you ask an AI model why it made an error. The model will generate a plausible-sounding explanation because that's what the pattern completion demands—there are plenty of examples of written explanations for mistakes on the Internet, after all. But the AI's explanation is just another generated text, not a genuine analysis of what went wrong. It's inventing a story that sounds reasonable, not accessing any kind of error log or internal state. Unlike humans who can introspect and assess their own knowledge, AI models don't have a stable, accessible knowledge base they can query. What they "know" only manifests as continuations of specific prompts. Different prompts act like different addresses, pointing to different—and sometimes contradictory—parts of their training data, stored as statistical weights in neural networks.
Delivery incomplete to redacted address at G R Nail.com (looks like it says gmail, so i missed that it didn't work)
Headline in the Economist: In recognising Palestine, Britain and France won't advance peace They could even set it back
And i we *could* rejig the web to make it hospitable to agentic Al, we wouldn't need Al to make this happen. Fetching airfares for several routes and comparing them isn't something you need an Al-style inference engine for - it's a straightforward algorithmic problem that can be easily solved. The part that agentic Al purports to solve isn't figuring out which airfare out of a list is cheapest-it's *compiling the list itself*, from unstructured data retrieved from heterogeneous websites that are doing everything they can to prevent the compilation of such a list.
404 Media: We're publishing our ICE reporting in Spanish
An email subject that says 'write a review for (redacted landlord name) by 1 August'
The very ornate top floor facade of two apartment blocks in Barcelona Above the top windows are mini cranes which are basically just a steel joist with a hook on the end
Emmanuel and Kier shaking hands but also grabbing elbows
A map of Iligan, Philippines. It looks a bit like a head in profile
Screenshot of El Pais, story in Spanish about British department for transport
A screenshot of the Matt Hancock app (matt was a uk govt minister until he got fired for shagging around i think)