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dwhannon96.bsky.social
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neo-luddite

did some research on fair selection, algorithmic mechanism design and multi agent systems

mainly will talk about clapton community fc with occational forays into designing rules and systems and public policy
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Also, tired of freezer jenga? Freeze anything liquidish flat on a baking sheet, then you can file it. Pasta sauce, soups, chili, etc. This is ~10L of pasta sauce.
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Clapton Community Library of football and politics books is now open 🎉

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/11/11/t...
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales.

Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
The AI Circular Economy
Big tech companies and wealthy investors are driving an AI bubble - but they won't be the ones feeling the pain when it bursts.
graceblakeley.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.

One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“Free broadband for everyone”: tired, discredited, politics of the past.

“Free ChatGPT for everyone”: welcome to the politics of tomorrow!
August 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Everyone knows that tons of humans who use technology are also idiots. We have known this since we first started making tools.

“Dumb people used the tool I built to do terrible and stupid things, so it’s not my fault” has never been an adequate excuse.
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Imagine dying because you asked your spellchecker to teach you mountaineering
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest….

except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
Why Are the Italian Alps So Deadly This Summer?
On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.
www.outsideonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The absence of any coherent response can only mean that, in some way that is incomprehensible, the government has decided that it benefits most from saying nothing.
I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
thought of the day is the newest cultural battlefield
The BBC has now apologised for the Jenrick criticism in Thought for the Day, and edited it out. Remember, free speech means the right can say something people consider xenophobic, but nobody is allowed to label it as such
August 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Being rattled by Thought for the Day is soooooo embarrassing
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Single frames from "The Simpsons" are as quietly stunning as any made by our greatest American artists of alienation and loneliness.
The Aesthetic Splendor of “The Simpsons”
Stand-alone images from the show are as quietly stunning as any made by our greatest American artists of alienation and loneliness.
www.newyorker.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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we all had that one friend who would bring like 3 bowls of soup to the club. Trying to hold them all at once while on the dance floor, "watch out, im holding soup!" he would yell
July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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You can’t dress up as a gorilla these days because of woke.
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
www.ft.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Just out: 'Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?' berlinergazette.de/resisting-th... in which I diagnose DOGE as institutional cyberattack and argue that the way to stop it spreading is to revive an alternative technopolitics.
Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?
Because they are based on centralization and abstraction, our current sociopolitical structures are susceptible to being replaced by AI. This is not only exemplified by the Department of Government Ef...
berlinergazette.de
June 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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We are living in the permaculture. New social networks build the feature set of Twitter 2016. Every movie is a sequel or a remake. So’s TV. The festival lineups don’t change.

The retromancers won.
14 years after I saw Pulp do a surprise turn at Glasto my daughter is doing the same what do you mean the culture is in stasis
June 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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it's the 10 year anniversary of a very important study
June 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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This is a cool AI “hallucinations” incident database that tracks court cases detailing jurisdiction, type of tool used, nature of “hallucination”, outcome, etc
www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
www.damiencharlotin.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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people seemingly have lost the incredibly important and sexy skill of acknowledging that two things can be bad at once
A cheeseburger uses a lot more water than a ChatGPT request 🍔

Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥
June 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I'm writing a play about a Sunderland fan meeting a Tottenham fan that's been sleeping in the trafalgar square fountain since their trophy parade.

The twist at the end is that they are brothers and then they kill each other.

A dark comedy tragedy satire that says a lot about modern society and VAR
May 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Aside from just being very sexy maps it's always fun to realise how small London was. Hornsey, Stratford, Barnes, West Ham, Canning Town — *all not in London until 50 years ago*. (Do spot the ancient weird exclave of North Woolwich that *was* London because of a greedy Norman oxen ferry operator.)
'The County of London Plan' by E. J. Carter & Erno Goldfinger (PAM 16030) published 1945. A proposal on how to develop London following the Second World War.

One of many items that will be on display at our Architecture drop-in event on Friday 6th June, 12-3pm. #festivalofarchitecture
May 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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'The County of London Plan' by E. J. Carter & Erno Goldfinger (PAM 16030) published 1945. A proposal on how to develop London following the Second World War.

One of many items that will be on display at our Architecture drop-in event on Friday 6th June, 12-3pm. #festivalofarchitecture
May 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM