John C. Kirk

IT contractor, cyclist, LARPer. (He/him pronouns.) I speak for myself, not for anyone else.

@[email protected] on Mastodon.

[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). 🤯

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

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor I definitely agree with this point. Back in 2018, I sold my flat but there was a delay in buying my new house, so I was living out of a suitcase for 6 weeks. That was a self-inflicted problem, but that type of scenario is never going to go away.

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor That's definitely a good thing, but the definition of "homelessness" generally includes "living in temporary accommodation" (e.g. staying in a B&B or sleeping on a friend's sofa). So, I think Prince William has a wider goal (the Sky article mentions "all forms of homelessness").

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor Do you share information between parties (so that people can be crossed off everyone’s lists) or could there be a line of tellers all asking for the same info?

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@GinandPolitics Just to clarify, that isn't a video from Sunak to Farage. It's a compilation of bits and pieces from other videos, after the Conservatives offered a Cameo-style service. (The same way that I could pay celebrity X to say "Happy birthday John!")
https://t.co/h56phjRk51

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor Aha, mystery solved! (I must admit that I hadn’t actually read the Sky article when I replied.)

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor Looking at the press release, they say that this is "the first time ever" that wine can be sold in pints:
https://t.co/dkNfbROxbU
Maybe there's some careful phrasing, e.g. if it was only available via mail order before. However, it sounds like this isn't even nostalgia.

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@jroberts332 The Guardian article only mentions GTA, but the BBC mention some other issues:
https://t.co/4vJQiLO3Xm

"As well as hacking offences the boy was sentenced for what the judge described as "unpleasant and frightening pattern of stalking and harassment" of two young women."

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

I've been meaning to read this for a while, and this is a good time to pick it up!

If you prefer not to go to Amazon, the ebook is also 99p on other sites (e.g. Kobo).
https://t.co/BvSEfTud6O

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor Presumably one other aspect (related to swing) will be turnover. E.g. there are young people who could vote in this by-election but not in previous GEs. There will also be elderly voters from previous GEs who are no longer around.

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

This is a well-written article, and this sentence sums it up well:
"Single people’s invisibility is part of a larger, longer shift in politics towards proving that government is only there for people who deserve support."

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

This week’s column is on the obnoxious fixation on the ‘hard working family’ https://t.co/iBdt4mM7gi

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@fionaljones @drphiliplee1 I was thinking the same thing - I never used to like pizza until I went there!

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@Paul_Reviews @DanielBairdDev I can see the logic: the CIA triad includes Availability, and if your doorbell is battery powered then there's a risk the battery will go flat. Having PoE should reduce that risk.

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@sulkyblue “Psst, Myth, are you asleep?”
“I *was*…”

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@sulkyblue I like the sideways glances from Fable to Myth in the first video. “What do you reckon?”

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

I watched Barbie tonight, and really enjoyed it. Fun, with some serious points. The writers have done a deep dive on a wiki, but you don't need any prior knowledge.

(I intend to watch Oppenheimer, but I agree with the quoted article that it will be better on a different day.)

[The Guardian @guardian]

I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it https://t.co/OBmJrTmcSh

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@Alteralias Still here, but mostly lurking rather than posting

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@dtmooreeditor I'm guessing that you're also sceptical about this story?
https://t.co/HgqkBJKrEH
(Not worth clicking the link - there's very little detail beyond the headline, e.g. they don't name the school in question.)

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

@SOUVIEBTS Definitely getting “Kermit looks at the camera to say sheesh” vibes there!

[John C. Kirk @johnckirk]

I’ve been reading some “Machine Man” comics from 1979 on Marvel Unlimited.

It’s unfortunate that they got the definition wrong (a binary digit is a bit, not a byte) but it’s quaint that they cite a source for this arcane knowledge!