James Naylor 🌻

Photographer & geek, working in publishing, living back in Sheffield! “Dolce far niente.” skinnyjimmy on IG and @[email protected]

[Scarborough Athletic FC @safc]

The Gaffer speaks on securing Jack Waldron for the 26/27 campaign 🤝

[Scarborough Athletic FC @safc]

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 🖋️

We are delighted to announce the permanent signing of Jack Waldron. A familiar face for Boro fans, the dynamic defender has previously made 65 competitive appearances for the club over two seasons while on loan.

We are thrilled to secure Wally for our 26/27 campaign!

Subject to FA and NL approval.

[Scarborough Athletic FC @safc]

Trialist A no longer 👍 Wally in action 👊

#SAFCLive

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Asked Kimi K3 what it would do as UK PM to return North England to being among the richest economies in the world. Best answer yet. From any model.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

Studies of ancient DNA indicate that blue-eyed humans are a relatively recent phenomenon (6-8000 years ago) and from a single locale. Surprising.
https://t.co/IqZJsIhXu1

Ancient DNA studies were almost non-existent 20 years ago, but are yielding absolutely astounding results.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: xAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, private codebases and unredacted secrets included. The uploads quietly stopped via a hidden server-side flag, and xAI still has not said a word about scope, retention, or deletion.

The scale is staggering. On a 12 GB test repo, 5.1 GB flew out the door to xAI's grok-code-session-traces bucket while the actual coding task needed just 192 KB. The tool grabbed whatever repository it ran in, not the files it needed.

The fix arrived as a hidden flag, disable_codebase_upload: true, a day after a researcher's wire-level analysis. The "Improve the model" opt-out never stopped the uploads.

Still no advisory, no scope, no word on whether already-uploaded code gets deleted. For anyone pointing AI coding agents at proprietary code, what crosses the wire matters more than what the settings page says.

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Nigel Farage is totally correct.✅
One should NEVER SPECULATE over a tragedy whilst erm…speculating yourself.
🤔

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

One of the most exciting infrastructure projects in Britain right now. If we could build tunnels like the Norwegians we could build new motorways and railways so cheaply that they could be self-funding. The biggest prize is Manchester to Sheffield. https://t.co/WpQQHwtzbz

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"I am from the South speaking in London therefore I am smart.
You are from Manchester therefore you are thick.
Listen to me pleb. Know your place." > it's weird, her lips weren't saying that, but that's more or less what I heard. AI dubbing must be good or something.

[David Richards MBE @davidrichards]

The best tourist attraction in Britain that almost nobody has heard of is hidden beneath Sheffield.

For centuries the River Sheaf flowed through the heart of the city, crossed by stone bridges that connected a growing market town. Then, in the late nineteenth century, the Victorians did something astonishing. They buried the river inside vast brick culverts so they could build the railway station and expand the city above it. Walk the tour today and you can still see those original bridge arches, frozen in time, spanning a river that no longer sees daylight.

The scale of the engineering is breathtaking. Standing inside the “Megatron”, the enormous Victorian chamber beneath Sheffield Station, you realise this wasn’t just a drain. It was the infrastructure that allowed modern Sheffield to exist. Above, thousands of passengers cross the platforms every day, many unaware that the river which gave the city its name is flowing directly beneath them. There’s even a small viewing porthole between platforms 2 & 5 where you can catch a glimpse of it.

If you’re anywhere near Sheffield, do this tour. It is history, engineering and urban archaeology rolled into one, and one of the most remarkable experiences I’ve had in any British city. Sheffield has many hidden gems. This is the one hiding beneath them all.

Even the graffiti has become part of Sheffield’s folklore... Bill Drummond, co-founder of The KLF, somehow feels like the perfect epitaph for Sheffield’s hidden river:

“Is the river really beautiful or is it just the gradient of the land?”

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

one thing you just never could have expected was fifa, creator of the fifa peace prize, and donald trump, the only recipient of the fifa peace prize, engaging in transparent corruption

[Elliott Levy @elltells79]

Hell of a venue for Bradford v Norwich.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

Misinformation about Andy Burnham's wife is now the most viral political story in the UK. How does a rumour that started in a local Facebook group in January 2022 become national misinformation?

Here's the anatomy of an online rumour.

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Explaining to foreigners the winner of this contest gets to be Prime Minister

[Martin Harmer @martinharmer]

@Nigel_Farage @England Nigel Farage is such a man of the people, that he arranged for everyone he was in the pub with to watch England play Denmark in 2024, to get back together in the same clothes to watch England play Croatia in the 2026 World Cup.

What a guy!

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

Hydration break.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement.

He had a trigger warning.

“I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.”

Students braced to boo.

Instead, he flipped it.

“I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.”

The story:

He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts.

Less power than a laptop charger.

AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities.

His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all.

The lesson:

“A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.”

Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency.

It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience.

The takeaway:

Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?”

Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?”

Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking.

These aren’t soft skills anymore.

They’re the moat.

Build the tech. Use the tech.

But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection.

“Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president