Chris Williams
@chrisnjwilliams.bsky.social
LARP, literature, lightsabers, laughs and the law. Personal account. All views are my own. He/him/his.
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HOT FUZZ was released 19 years ago today. The second entry in Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy and one of the most beloved British comedies this century, the tale of how it was made is like firing two guns whilst jumping through the air…
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February 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
HOT FUZZ was released 19 years ago today. The second entry in Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy and one of the most beloved British comedies this century, the tale of how it was made is like firing two guns whilst jumping through the air…
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Reform's candidate Matthew Goodwin challenged for calling it "insane" to prosecute a man for "start the slaughter. Violence & murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head to MPs’ houses & Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Reform's candidate Matthew Goodwin challenged for calling it "insane" to prosecute a man for "start the slaughter. Violence & murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head to MPs’ houses & Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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New Swingometer! Dropping my latest Gorton & Denton update now as I have teaching all morning tomorrow. I take a look at the leaflet wars underway in the seat, and how I've ended up caught in the electoral crossfire: open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
Gorton & Denton update 2: Leaflet wars
I'm sorry but I just don't know, I know you said I told you so
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
New Swingometer! Dropping my latest Gorton & Denton update now as I have teaching all morning tomorrow. I take a look at the leaflet wars underway in the seat, and how I've ended up caught in the electoral crossfire: open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
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According to this article, SVT overhead the argument and decided to film it, but it wasn't discussed with the team at all. The Canadians are accusing the Swedes of "colluding" to cayltch specifically the Canadians (because "everyone does it")but both the team and SVT say it wasn't a collusion at all
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 AM
According to this article, SVT overhead the argument and decided to film it, but it wasn't discussed with the team at all. The Canadians are accusing the Swedes of "colluding" to cayltch specifically the Canadians (because "everyone does it")but both the team and SVT say it wasn't a collusion at all
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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Ok. The world’s terrifying and I have very little control. I’m off to make my silly little bits of art and try to at least make MY BIT better and share that as far as I can…
February 16, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Ok. The world’s terrifying and I have very little control. I’m off to make my silly little bits of art and try to at least make MY BIT better and share that as far as I can…
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This.
Brewdog is your classic failed "first-mover."
They entered the market, at scale, when that market (something slightly better/edgier in mainstream shops and bars) was wide open.
Their offering was above-average and sometimes great (e.g. their non-alcs). But they made the classic mistake /1
Brewdog is your classic failed "first-mover."
They entered the market, at scale, when that market (something slightly better/edgier in mainstream shops and bars) was wide open.
Their offering was above-average and sometimes great (e.g. their non-alcs). But they made the classic mistake /1
I think Keith’s spot on here. People want Brewdog’s beers to be bad for moral reasons, but while they’re not as exciting as they were, they’re still fine (though taste is subjective and clearly if you despise the brewers that will affect your enjoyment). As I said yesterday, I hope a buyer is found.
February 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
This.
Brewdog is your classic failed "first-mover."
They entered the market, at scale, when that market (something slightly better/edgier in mainstream shops and bars) was wide open.
Their offering was above-average and sometimes great (e.g. their non-alcs). But they made the classic mistake /1
Brewdog is your classic failed "first-mover."
They entered the market, at scale, when that market (something slightly better/edgier in mainstream shops and bars) was wide open.
Their offering was above-average and sometimes great (e.g. their non-alcs). But they made the classic mistake /1
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Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.
The entire UK diplomatic budget is about £1.4 billion a year. That’s pretty much precisely 0.1% of government spending.
BBC World Service is about £0.25 billion (it should be higher), or 0.02%.
These are rounding errors on rounding errors. Double each and public expenditure wouldn’t twitch.
Mad.
BBC World Service is about £0.25 billion (it should be higher), or 0.02%.
These are rounding errors on rounding errors. Double each and public expenditure wouldn’t twitch.
Mad.
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.
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🚨 Tickets for the final Broadcasting House recording of the series! Apply now and hopefully I will see you in March…
🎤 www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
🎤 www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
February 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🚨 Tickets for the final Broadcasting House recording of the series! Apply now and hopefully I will see you in March…
🎤 www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
🎤 www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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Early evening repost time!
If you would like to spend some of your Sunday reading an issue of Nutty accompanied by some inane commentary, I have you covered. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/02/frui...
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Early evening repost time!
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Okay she's not finished yet, but...
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Okay she's not finished yet, but...
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Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets
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i'm trying not to be too mean but it's really striking how every single one of these people's AIs talk exactly the same and somehow none of them notice or consider what that indicates
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
i'm trying not to be too mean but it's really striking how every single one of these people's AIs talk exactly the same and somehow none of them notice or consider what that indicates
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It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
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The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
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I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.
It is fact now. Sorry.
It is fact now. Sorry.
Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in bypass dig. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ichthyosaur snout and Roman farm found in Melton bypass digs
Archaeological digs unearth a rich seam of discoveries dating back to prehistory.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.
It is fact now. Sorry.
It is fact now. Sorry.
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LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.
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February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.
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So the OP is just a really obvious example of how LLMs fundamentally do not understand things, thus miss even the most obvious context. Yet people are happy to pretend that when doing complex tasks, they just magically perfectly understand every bit of implied context encountered along the way. 11/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
So the OP is just a really obvious example of how LLMs fundamentally do not understand things, thus miss even the most obvious context. Yet people are happy to pretend that when doing complex tasks, they just magically perfectly understand every bit of implied context encountered along the way. 11/?
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So, when you use LLMs as thinking machines, you will run into variants of a core problem: It isn't reasoning. It's just a fancy bot that copy & pastes then rewords data written by humans. Which means:
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
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1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
So, when you use LLMs as thinking machines, you will run into variants of a core problem: It isn't reasoning. It's just a fancy bot that copy & pastes then rewords data written by humans. Which means:
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
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It clearly can't infer from a simple one sentence question that I might need my car to wash my car, because it isn't intelligent, doesn't possess logic, and can't reason. When you ask it anything complex, it's coming across 10s, 100s, or 1000s of points where it has to infer context. 5/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It clearly can't infer from a simple one sentence question that I might need my car to wash my car, because it isn't intelligent, doesn't possess logic, and can't reason. When you ask it anything complex, it's coming across 10s, 100s, or 1000s of points where it has to infer context. 5/?
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But the question of whether you should walk or drive a given distance is common, so it basically just ignores the car wash part and answers the question of walking or driving in a more generic sense. The problem isn't that someone is going to ask the LLM this exact question, it's the handling. 4/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
But the question of whether you should walk or drive a given distance is common, so it basically just ignores the car wash part and answers the question of walking or driving in a more generic sense. The problem isn't that someone is going to ask the LLM this exact question, it's the handling. 4/?
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The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?