keith hawley

in the gutter, looking at the stars...

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Randomly heard a bit of The Archers - and Feargal Sharkey was on…!

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

This is a fascinating story.

[Jeremy Keeshin @jkeesh]

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.

They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.

Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.

The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Every time I hear the newsreader say "future of British Steel", a song comes into my head...

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

It's Xand but yes, the point is a good one.

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

Dr Chris van Tulleken:
“We’ve not all got greedier & lazier over the last 30 years. Instead there has been a total failure to regulate the food companies who shape our food environment.”

#BBCLauraK: “Is it really for gov…to tell what companies can put in [food]?”

Dr C: “Argh!”

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

@arusbridger @nytimes What's wrong with corer, though? Perfectly fine word.

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

This is an amazing story... made even more hilarious by the fact the conference is about AI

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

—

FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

[John Ellis @john_ellis]

Just incredible 👀

View of sky from our back garden, Newton Mearns (#Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)

#Auroraborealis #Aurora #NorthernLights

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Another gone too soon.
Steve Albini is all over my record collection...
Joanna Newsom, Slint, Melt Banana, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Breeders, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Mogwai, Dirty Three, Auteurs, Wedding Present, Pugs, Man or Astroman, probably others...

[MELT-BANANA @melt_banana]

R.I.P. Steve Albini 🎸
Thanks, and we love you, and we miss you.
MELT-BANANA

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Can you imagine bringing together the disparate vocal talents of Shane MacGowan, Kylie Minogue, Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld? This really happened:
https://t.co/CNgGG0aguN

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

@ramintamccrea @JoffCallaghan And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

😢

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Jimmy Somerville is trending. Forget the ugly tattoo, watch this instead.
https://t.co/uc6ttpdoQ1

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Might need to revisit some Tom Baker...

[Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwho]

All of time and space, over 14 regenerations and hundreds of stories - where would you start with #DoctorWho?

[@victoriamary @Victoriamary]

Thank you so much ⁦@moyaclannad⁩ for coming to visit ⁦@ShaneMacGowan⁩ ! We are getting some really nice visitors and it’s a great boost for the morale! ⁦@poguesofficial⁩

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Maybe now she's gone people will understand what was special about Sinead O'Connor's music. That mixture of a fragile, broken person with defiance... Remember the Dylan tribute, audience booing, only Kris Kristofferson giving love, then a Bob Marley song:
https://t.co/gv4XA6iHSI

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Forget the awful Prince cover. Sinead's own songs were often superb.
"Troy" is wonderful with a full orchestra of course. But she could enrapture a huge festival audience doing it with just acoustic guitar, going from angelic to fragile to angry punk fire

https://t.co/rUI1f7dGzv

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Ah shite, Sinead O’Connor has died. That’s just very sad news. Poor thing. I hope she realised how much love there was for her.

[Zara Gladman @zanyzaz]

West end mums 🎵

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

@JamesWo30436321 @delgados_the @TheBarrowlands Thanks for sharing setlist.
We also had "Parcel Of Rogues" before Under Canvas, surely?

[keith hawley @dysfunction]

Can't believe how excited I am...!

[The Delgados @delgados_the]

We’re back home in Glasgow for the final show of this five-date tour: a special sold-out Burns Night at @TheBarrowlands.

7pm: Doors
7.45pm: Andrew Wasylyk
9pm: The Delgados
11pm: Curfew