Scott Thompson | Out of Office

Professional nerd. Media researcher. Retired twitterer. Excel mathemagician. Terrible guitarist. @Fintasm's husband. On Threads & @[email protected]

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@DaveGorman I think he'd know better than anyone - given that Shaun Ryder had to go and buy the Happy Mondays albums again when they reformed so he could re-learn the lyrics…

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@DaveGorman OK - sixteen years on and I've finally found a definitive answer; its "tea time", according to Kermit's Facebook post (from 2016.)
https://t.co/e7f7ZWgacX

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@DaveGorman Just listened to the Black Grape album for the first time in years. Fun fact - this tweet is now the top Google result for a search for "Chi chine".
(Still nothing out there that sheds any light on what might have been going through Mr. Ryder's mind at the time though...)

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

The worst thing is how often they turn out to be right. (Which I guess is a bit like the Theuth & Thamus myth - complaining that literacy will make people stupid because they won't need to know anything if they can just read it in a book...)

[Stevie Martin @5tevieM]

trying to leave twitter

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@benedictevans Podcasts are inherently a broadcast medium - everyone hears the same podcast/adverts. But ‘the industry’ desperately wants it to a a precision targeted, addressable medium (because “digital”), missing exactly what it is that makes the advertising/sponsorship work so well.

[emily bell @emilybell]

Everybody welcoming the decline of journalism has something to hide - invariably, throughout history, this is the case

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

Remembering the good old days…
#MyTwitterAnniversary

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@deathofbuckley This was the first thing that I thought of

https://t.co/gd8WUaQIRP

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

If @elllmilll doesn’t love this then I don’t know anything about anything anymore. (So good I just bought the magazine so I can read it properly…)

[Jay Owens @hautepop]

After 250 years confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the West are becoming more aware that we might, perhaps, have company.

I spoke to @jamesbridle and @raynayler about their new books on other minds, from AIs to octopuses alike: https://t.co/ZiO8ufv6WO

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@kosso Inverted.

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@davetrott "Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly." - Marshall McLuhan, from "Take Today : The Executive as Dropout" (1972)

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@mediaczar No data ever gets as much scrutiny as the data that didn’t align with your expectations, or the expectations you already set with the client.

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, https://t.co/iSBh8sqXw0, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 13/

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@edsaperia The gap between AI music and something knocked together by humans is a lot bigger than for pictures and words, it seems.

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@benedictevans How many rifles/shotguns is “enough” for a private stash for someone to keep at their offfice in a hospital? How many handguns is “a lot of handguns”? From a British perspective maybe 5? 6?
“11 handguns of various calibers, 27 rifles/shotguns, and […] an illegal assault rifle.”

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@jonmundy @benedictevans True- but if it’s driving (profitable) clicks, it will be good enough to justify spending more money.

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

@benedictevans Advertising and clicks. (Boring, but true- algorithmically-generated creative has been around for a while, but based on manually defined input terms/structures)

[Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd]

After a long time of trying to come up with a simple answer to the simple question of “what is television?”, I decided to go the long way around. https://t.co/JgScZzB7Ku