Rob Whelan 🌱

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Turns out I can skip posts not intended for me. AI/ML @ Grafana; everything is UX; let's make it better; he/him

Comic from Perry Bible Fellowship. Softly glowing, dawn-lit pink unicorns are gathered together; one says (fairytale font) "Without a male with which to mate, the tribe of the unicorn will be no more." Next panel: upon a rock, a proud gray unicorn presents himself, back-lit. Last panel: close-up shows him clearly: he's... a donkey? With a carrot tied to his forehead with string, buck teeth & a few flies. He says "Hello."
Me gesturing & talking into a mic in front of a big screen showing a slide. The backs of a few audience members' heads. They are keenly interested and probably nodding along. Maybe.
Claude code (in desktop terminal) screenshot with Fable 5 selected in /model
Claude mobile screenshot with Fable5 Thinking selected
The same photo rotated 180 degrees so the door is right-side up, but everything else is upside down. The wood ceiling now looks like an odd floor
Anakin / Padme meme. Anakin, cryptic expression: we changed video games so people play them longer Padme, excited: because they enjoy them more! Anakin: cryptic expression, no reply Padme, suddenly doubting: ...because they enjoy them more?
From the perl6 status doc on github: Question: Tell me something cool about quote recent unquote Perl 6 developments! Answer: Rakudo has a JVM backend! That's cool, right?
Towering agave death bloom, backlit with evening light. I trimmed out people instead of asking permission because they're likely asleep
Android app chooser showing the bluesky app with a blue label at the bottom, showing "1 h 48 m left today". That's from the built-in Digital Wellbeing controls.
Scrolling & scrolling through the seemingly endless search results of posts from Yvonne that are adding to Mount to be Read
Blue recycling bin on a city street in Limoges. It is overflowing with metallic plastic decorations, some bits have fallen to the ground and there are wet stains around them. It's still cheerful blue, the tinsel is garish & glittering, but the paint is peeling on the shutter behind it and it is clearly feeling unwell after a night of excess.
A very slide with an extremely "sparkly futuristic computing" feel to it. Thereʻs lots of text in a screenshot from a UI, and text on the slide, which is styled but all fully readable and only uses real words. The slide content doesnʻt matter for this example, but itʻs titled "Going beyond AI chat", and is about automatically running agents to debug incidents.
Two novels on a bookshelf: I tilt my head to the right to read them: "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, "I Let You Go" by Clare Mackintosh
Photo of part of a power strip designed to support lots of plug types — 6 oddly shaped holes to accommodate those shapes
Screenshot of a search result for exploding whale carcasses. Huge gray striped balloon in the water (not yet exploded) with headline "Thar she blows! Shocked fishermen.." (cuts off). Source: dailymail.co.uk
Urban street, nighttime but well-lit with streetlights and building lighting. An adult fox, lanky, with a fluffy tail so long it trails all the way to the ground, pauses on the opposite pavement in profile
Google result of "what's 4% AcOH" — the Acetic acid Wikipedia entry, which does mention vinegar but goes into history, and the prompted questions are about is it a strong acid and how to make it
Prompt to mobile AI app (Claude in this case): QQ: step 1 on my egg cooker has me pour in 30ml of "4% AcOH" — what does that mean? Response: AcOH is acetic acid - that's vinegar. "4% AcOH" means a 4% acetic acid solution, which is standard white vinegar you'd find in any grocery store.The vinegar helps prevent the egg whites from spreading if there are any cracks in the shells during cooking.
Strava mobile app. Zooms in on a 3D terrain map to show a moving dot (me) drawing the route I took, moving down a London street, getting a bit lost, eventually returning to the start, then moving in a straight line southeast. The dot & route don't follow roads, but seem to hop over hills. The line being the dot flashes and change width sometimes. Video speeds up, and I skip some, to where it's now heading out over the channel, then passing French towns, then in the Alps. The bouncing gets violent and the dot seems to crash through some mountains rather than making it over. Finally it lands on a road again (and I slow playback down again) as the run finishes normally.
Map showing the bottom corner of England plus much of France, with a straight line from London to near the Swiss border, and some PR badges in both ends. An attentive viewer may notice a play button, bottom right.
Video from OddPride on Tiktok about the reality of velociraptors as swan-sized, feathery & fluffy non-apex predators that, if we co-existed, we'd likely have loved for everything from furry costumes to best-of-breed competitions
Mobile screenshot of one step in OpenAI's process to report a user-created GPT. Please tell us why you are reporting. Your help allows us to take the correct action on the reported GPT. Already chosen: This GPT is unsafe or illegal. Options: This content is illegal or unlawful. This content is harmful or unsafe. Other Reason.
Screenshot of 3 buttons: "Yes, please!", "Yes, please proceed.", and "Yes, this is correct."
Tiktok video by OddPride about the late Cretaceous mass extinction, how geologists figured out what happened, and what the experience must have been like for the rich & diverse creatures alive at the time, as it rained glass, the sun was blotted out for months, and most of them died.
Screenshot. Right above the current post, there's a post from the ACLU about fighting for the release of an academic who wrote an op-ed.
Two buttons meme, showing a hand hovering over "harm humanity" and "miss out on views" buttons, then a distressed superhero mopping his brow, unable to choose.
Target Corp stock price graph, year to date, from the duckduckgo search engine. The price has steadily dropped from a peak of 144 in late January to 93 today.
Tesla stock chart of the past year, showing it's actually 45.2% higher than it was 1 year ago. It was slowly climbing between April and October, then spiked was up November to January, and has descended since then to about where it was last July. The price today is 239.43 USD.
A tiny pixelated adventurer (orangish man dressed in white with a white pith helmet, we imagine) jumps from vine to vine over the jungle floor. There was also a part of the game where you hopped over rolling logs... kind of a flappy bird type game mechanic, but with less sophisticated game physics.
Android app selection view. Bluesky has a blue banner at the bottom showing "35 minutes left today". I use the Digital Wellbeing feature built into Android, but I know there are apps that do the same (and maybe native iPhone support, I don't know).
Google Translate app screenshot. The Spanish is y es (the word yes with a space after the y), and the Spanish result is "forks".
TSLA chart on yahoo finance showing the last 6 months. There was a big jump starting in November, and now the price has nearly returned to the pre-election level. The graph is still misleading because the Y axis doesn't go to 0 — so the stock didn't actually grow 5x or 6x in the winter (as it seems); just a bit over 2x.
Spotify android notification: New album coming soon. Johannes Brahms started the countdown on Spotify. Pre-save now. Album displayed: Wiegenlied & other Brahms masterpieces
Another account claiming to be blog posts & talks by Patricia Aas — uncles what's going on here
Two android notifications. GuitarTuna: We are getting lonely... 🎶 GuitarTuna: The music is gone. The silence is deafening. Missing you. 😔
Default text size screenshot of this thread
"Killing in the Name" as if it were recorded in the 1920s. Tiktok video by user "thereiruinedit"
Brief tiktok video of someone making a "snow angle" by jumping in the air and landing on their side in deep snow in a roughly right angle shape.
(178) Providers of high-risk AI systems are encouraged to start to comply, on a voluntary basis, with the relevant obligations of this Regulation already during the transitional period. (179) This Regulation should apply from 2 August 2026. However, taking into account the unacceptable risk associated with the use of AI in certain ways, the prohibitions as well as the general provisions of this Regulation should already apply from 2 February 2025. While the full effect of those prohibitions follows with the establishment of the governance and enforcement of this Regulation, anticipating the application of the prohibitions is important to take account of unacceptable risks and to have an effect on other procedures, such as in civil law.
Painting of a woman reading a letter, hand to forehead, expression slack & eyes unexciting (Dresden museum)
`© ${new Date().getCurrentYear()}` made with :emoji: in Denver, Colorado
Photo today from the Bach museum in Leipzig, Germany, showing a 6-stringed ... maybe it was a viola d'amor, something like that? Like a small, round-shouldered cello. In a museum case.
2 button batteries (CR 2016) in Duracell packaging, with "baby secure" in large letters next to a drawing of an upset face (tongue out) with the words "repulsive taste" above it
Gray sweatshirt, reading "ASML", then a quote from BBC News, "a relatively obscure Dutch company"
Brief tiktok video of someone painting a fluffy little dog's face, seemingly. But actually it's a real dog who starts out poking it's nose through the paper
Embedded audio player. Pause button, duration & time posted, 1 x (can change playback speed) and a progress bar with simple waveform so you'd see if it were just silent.
How to report an impersonation account To report an impersonation account within the TikTok app or for TikTok on your web browser: In the TikTok app: 1. Go to the profile and tap the Share button at the top. 2. Tap Report and select Report account. 3. Select Pretending to Be Someone. 4. Specify if the account is impersonating you or someone else by tapping Me or Celebrity. For celebrity, search for the account of the person being impersonated. 5. Tap Submit.