Belfast-based writer, walker, atheist, cinema lover, hobby musician, science junkie, perpetual maths student, cricket fan, chess patzer. I post about new music a LOT! #Music #NewMusic
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Last Notes npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson From Ed Zitron… npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Who else is going to be a member of the #NotGoingOut club tonight? npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson There’s a 21-minute cut of the 1980s Yes Minister Christmas Special on YouTube. Officially. BBC Comedy posted it today. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The Test Highlights are late on iPlayer. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Good. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I had to check this. It’s correct: npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Zack Polanski’s interview on Trevor Phillips’ Sunday show on Sky News. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson A must-listen to episode of the @nprofile…f5ux AI Sidequest podcast. Mignon chats with Josh Bernoff about a survey he and collaborators conducted via responses from almost 1,500 writers and editors about their views on AI and what they're actually using it for. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I walked 143 kilometres during October. It should be close to 200. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to JOEL MOKYR npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Another tech billionaire leaps through the Overton Window 😳 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Updating my iPhone 12 Pro Max to iOS 26. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson How Did The World Get So Ugly? npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Apple event financial impact for me: £0 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson @nprofile…de2h I think I could do everything I'd want to use one for via emulators on a Mac. Or iPad, if Spectrum emulators exist on iOS. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I didn't back the ZX Spectrum Next 3 project. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson You should definitely invest £3.49 of your British Pounds to rent CODA if you haven’t seen it. It’s a masterpiece. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Some TV+ films are now available to buy and rent on the Apple Store and Amazon Store. Probably also on other VOD stores. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Another day, another film trailer that gives me hope for the recovery of the small films genre. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson And another upcoming film that gives me hope that the indie and medium budget film market has recovered after the pandemic and strikes. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The autumn and winter film release slate is looking good. Of course, many of the films that get late 2025 release dates in the USA will not open until 2026 in UK and Ireland. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Looking forward to seeing this. Rose Byrne is magnificent. Two other Rose Byrne films you should see in a comment to this post in a few minutes. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Keck 1 has its laser on! npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson It looks like there is maintenance going on to the Keck Telescope domes at present. Hoists with people and others walking on the top of the domes. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The Choral | Official Trailer- In cinemas November 7. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Oh. Sacramento film looks good. It got a limited North American cinema release in April and is now available to buy or rent on the VOD stores. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Yep. Looking forward to seeing this. In cinemas mid December. Is the mid-budget film slate recovering after the strikes and the pandemic? Let’s hope so. There should be a new film like this in cinemas every week. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Highest 2 Lowest | Official Trailer npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Renewed my Disney+ subscription for another month to watch the recent seasons of The Simpsons, and then Samara Weaving being fabulous in Eenie Meanie film later in August. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Eenie Meanie film trailer. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Listening to Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast (152: Protests, Placards, Palestine and Private Eye): https://audioboom.com/posts/8755843 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Includes a link to download the screenplay. #Film #ScreenWriting npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Oh. Get the popcorn. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Scott Mantz has a new film podcast called Consider This. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Video edition on YouTube. Episode 1 linked below. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I loved Mank. It’s a pity it’s only available on Netflix and not available to buy on the VOD sites. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Obligatory post to say The Hunger Games is my favourite Sci-Fi film franchise. And Mockingjay Part 1 is my favourite from the bunch. It’s a fantastic treatment of war propaganda from the inside. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Trailer npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Also. I should go to TIFF some year. As a holiday, given I don’t go to tech conferences anymore. Or the USA more generally. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Fairwell then Ozzy 🤘🏻 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The original is so good. #Film #TDWP https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/devil-wears-prada-2-first-look-anne-hathaway-1236324644/ npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Peak Everything is being shopped internationally outside North America by a Paris based film sales company. It’s also being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. #Film https://variety.com/2025/film/global/indie-sales-peak-everything-anne-emond-directors-fortnight-1236369659/ npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson This looks good. I hope it gets a wide cinema release. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush in 4K – Official 100th Anniversary Trailer npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Good 👍🏻 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson “LLMs change your search query behind the scenes. The prompt you test in Google—where you might rank #1—doesn’t get passed through to the LLM engines unchanged.” npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The Map That Leads To You looks good. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Yay. A new independent film is showing in my local Omniplex from Friday. That means #OneFilmPerWeek gets a day out. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson There should be an iCloud Storage tier between 200GB and 2TB. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson There are different sizes of Infinity. I remember this blowing my mind. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The first Atlantic tropical storm of the season! npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Dr Kirsten Banks video about the first images from the Vera C. Rubin telescope. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson GeologyHub explains why the data picked up on seismometers from the Iranian earthquake shows it was not a nuclear test. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson @nprofile…de2h That’s okay. It’s still something that was in books from that period. Including Dune. And the Asimov robot books have robot civil wars. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Dr Hari Seldon: “There’s an apple orchard in the Imperial gardens that’s older than the Robot Wars. They used to hang AI sympathisers there.” npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I wonder why they decided to make the Murderbot episodes so short. It’s not as if they need to plan for ad breaks. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The amendment forcing AI companies to list the copyright content they trained their models on wasn’t intended in the Bill that passed. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Good grief. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Brian Tyler Cohen’s speech at, and commentary on, the Los Angeles No Kings protest. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson This is not the light fluffy thing you’d expect. 😳 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Apple researchers have published a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, and is a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Brain fugue. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Autocomplete on my iPhone has been awful recently. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson An Ed Zitron novella length critique of what Satya Nadella got away with saying in a recent interview article. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Nope. It lifted him up. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson She Sang a Demo. It Won an Oscar. The Band Never Recovered - Behind The Track npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson That UK audience vote is dodgy. Something weird was going on. The UK public vote didn’t give any points to Austria. Yet every time I tried to vote for Austria I got call failed. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Mate, my vote wasn’t counted DURING the voting period. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson “Why did your father leave your mother?” npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Emma Newman is angry. Justifiably so. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson An excellent 16.5-minute video by GeologyHub speculating on which three volcanoes could be responsible for the volcanic winter recorded in historical accounts and ice cores from the decade spanning 530 to 540 CE. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson An excellent video by Dr. Becky Smethurst on the claims that a hypothetical bio signature molecule DMS has been detected in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson 2025 Hey Siri Songs - Day 116 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Carole Cadwalladr on the end of The Observer. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The Labour Party is doing everything needed to peel off enough voters on the left to allow right-wing parties to win in many seats under the FPTP voting system, especially with no GTTO surge in the next election. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, on the Future of Biology npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Surprising no one who has been paying attention. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson The British 3-pin plug. And the women who championed it after the Second World War. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Another Day with BTC. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Here is the YouTube video of her talk. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Carole Cadwalladr returned to TED. Didn’t hold back. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I don’t think those Blue Origin flights should even be called space flights. Mann is right. They’re glorified fairground rides. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/olivia-munn-blue-origin-space-flight-gluttonous-1236181914/ npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Neurotypical man wows world by speaking continuously about special interest for 25 hours - The Daily Tism npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson “According to Gartner’s 2025 State of the Customer Survey, consumers already expect this clarity, with 77% wanting to know when they’re dealing with AI systems.” npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson A 5-minute summary video on the 11-year observational legacy of the Gaia telescope, as it ends its observational life and goes into passive mode. There are still two large data releases to come. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Let’s not forget that there is a benefit of Apple’s premature announcement and pushing of Apple Intelligence. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I’ve been chatting with ChatGPT about potassium levels in various foods that I like. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Empires fall. The history books attest. Strange to see it happen first hand. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson This is interesting. About the technology they developed to get around the lighting problems that often occur with blue screen filming. #Film #Technology https://variety.com/2025/film/features/in-the-lost-lands-paul-ws-anderson-interview-1236331002/ npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Every time I tell Siri to shut up, I bet it gets logged in a file somewhere for when the day of reckoning comes after the rise of the machines! npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson “You've already lost Canada.” npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Has anyone noticed a slowdown in the initial buffering of YouTube videos in the last week? There has been a noticeable increase in the time it takes for videos to start on my Apple TV in the YouTube app. It’s still only a few seconds, but before it was basically instant. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson This is a strange book. Both in structure and content. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Page 1 of Set My Heart to Five attached. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson Following up Annie Bot novel with another book about an AI mulling on what it means to be human. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson I know it's a slippery slope and all, but Denmark should tell Trump that a land purchase for Greenland would cost some astronomical dollar amount. npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson @nprofile…l326 Friday at 2pm slot if my favourite. I’ve been in multiple films at that time with nobody else 😊 npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson @nprofile…l326 Have a good day! npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson @nprofile…l326 Is gone, or this is good? npub1seef4p9pyfyuuepm6rr036ynx4jdmpqtalk33ewel37d5fham76st0sqtl Ian Robinson This is good. Blue’s rock isn’t gone.
