Iain Collins

My 🔥 #HotTake on the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn

I’ve said most of these things scattered across Twitter several times. I thought I’d gather them all here in one place…

Open addresses: will the address wars ever end?

This is the (rough) text of a talk I gave at the British Computer Society (BCS) Location Information Specialist Group’s 3rd annual addressing update seminar in August 2016. There were more jokes in person. And some Pikachu. The slides for my talk…

Imagine, if your response, didn’t have unnecessary commas.

Imagine if you had the sense to comprehend the poignancy of the matter at hand rather than getting your knickers in a twist over ‘sweardy words’.

If you can read that article and think the problem is the “cuss words,” then you’re illustrating exactly what the fuck is wrong with this country right now.

Imagine if people like you cared about the actual issue.

Fuck you.

Computer Assisted Video Translation

glitch.digital have released a prototype computer assisted video translation tool which can transcribe, translate and re-dub videos with new audio using synthesized voices.

Ketchup sandwiches and other things stupid poor people eat

Sorry, Nick

I remember clearly, in Gawker’s early days, when my old friend Nick Denton insisted that what his new blog was producing was not journalism. He didn’t want to come speak at a journalism school. He refused to hire journalists, as they’d already been ruined for Gawker’s work.