Tim Wookie
@devilhat.bsky.social
Similarly named elsewhere. Anti-apartheid and anti-genocide. (Just so you know.)
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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Mia Wallace & Gromit
As requested by Paul Savage
As requested by Paul Savage
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Mia Wallace & Gromit
As requested by Paul Savage
As requested by Paul Savage
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Can someone explain to this Brit what the purpose of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution is?
Thanks.
Thanks.
October 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Can someone explain to this Brit what the purpose of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution is?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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#NationalPoetryDay ✒️
Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.
#Wales
Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.
#Wales
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#NationalPoetryDay ✒️
Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.
#Wales
Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.
#Wales
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The idea of single apps is just a mutation of web portals.
“Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
“Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
September 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The idea of single apps is just a mutation of web portals.
“Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
“Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Now give us just as much attention as Charlie Kirk was given!!!👇👇👇
September 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now give us just as much attention as Charlie Kirk was given!!!👇👇👇
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Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
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Not a word has come from this government, for a month, about
Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation
The sewer of racism online
These racist attacks on government ministers
The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK
Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation
The sewer of racism online
These racist attacks on government ministers
The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK
September 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Not a word has come from this government, for a month, about
Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation
The sewer of racism online
These racist attacks on government ministers
The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK
Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation
The sewer of racism online
These racist attacks on government ministers
The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK
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Angry bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
September 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Angry bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.' Cartoon, 1936, by Clarence D. Batchelor, which won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...
September 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.' Cartoon, 1936, by Clarence D. Batchelor, which won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
September 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
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“Once the algorithm detects that a person is pregnant, or might be, it begins testing content – the same as it does with any other information about a user. If a user lingers on an alarming video on pregnancy, even if just for a second, that is interpreted as interest.”
‘I felt doomed’: social media guessed I was pregnant – and my feed soon grew horrifying
The algorithm knew I was expecting before I had had a chance to tell my family, friends or GP. At first, I was served up joyful videos. Then the tone became much darker ...
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Once the algorithm detects that a person is pregnant, or might be, it begins testing content – the same as it does with any other information about a user. If a user lingers on an alarming video on pregnancy, even if just for a second, that is interpreted as interest.”
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You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.
September 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.
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Farage owns four homes:
Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce)
Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd)
One investment property in Surrey (rented out)
Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home
#NigelFarage
Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce)
Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd)
One investment property in Surrey (rented out)
Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home
#NigelFarage
August 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Farage owns four homes:
Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce)
Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd)
One investment property in Surrey (rented out)
Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home
#NigelFarage
Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce)
Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd)
One investment property in Surrey (rented out)
Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home
#NigelFarage
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the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
July 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering
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My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.
June 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth.
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
Never Forget What They've Done
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already.
I want my fucking tech industry back.
Maybe you think I sound insane, bu...
www.wheresyoured.at
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth.
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...
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I see Honest Bob Jenrick has a new little video attacking barristers for representing unpopular clients.
Once again for those at the back:
Lawyers are not their clients.
Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.
Once again for those at the back:
Lawyers are not their clients.
Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.
June 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I see Honest Bob Jenrick has a new little video attacking barristers for representing unpopular clients.
Once again for those at the back:
Lawyers are not their clients.
Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.
Once again for those at the back:
Lawyers are not their clients.
Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.
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Shaun Lawson on Sangita Myska, James O’Brien and LBC threadreaderapp.com/thread/19281...
Thread by @shaunjlawson on Thread Reader App
@shaunjlawson: THREAD: Sangita Myska, James O'Brien and LBC. When I was a kid, such was the sheer quality of the news coverage on British television, I thought journalists told the truth. And were mot...
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May 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Shaun Lawson on Sangita Myska, James O’Brien and LBC threadreaderapp.com/thread/19281...