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Did interview. Was meant to be 30 mins, turned out to be 80. Apparently one of the interviewers lives around the corner from me and would catch the same bus in. Up against a few tough competitors though.
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Did interview. Was meant to be 30 mins, turned out to be 80. Apparently one of the interviewers lives around the corner from me and would catch the same bus in. Up against a few tough competitors though.
Have you ever heard a relative say:
"I came across an article today that said [Insert nonsense here]"?
But when you go to read it, you find that it's either an extremely preliminary study done on cells in a dish, an untested hypothesis that is being explorer or something directly from a corporation?
"I came across an article today that said [Insert nonsense here]"?
But when you go to read it, you find that it's either an extremely preliminary study done on cells in a dish, an untested hypothesis that is being explorer or something directly from a corporation?
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Have you ever heard a relative say:
"I came across an article today that said [Insert nonsense here]"?
But when you go to read it, you find that it's either an extremely preliminary study done on cells in a dish, an untested hypothesis that is being explorer or something directly from a corporation?
"I came across an article today that said [Insert nonsense here]"?
But when you go to read it, you find that it's either an extremely preliminary study done on cells in a dish, an untested hypothesis that is being explorer or something directly from a corporation?
For security reasons, you will be required to change your mother's maiden name every 3 months.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
For security reasons, you will be required to change your mother's maiden name every 3 months.
This Consequences LARP Convention, my recurring theme for games this weekend seemed to be:
* Being driven to attempted murder by intoxication or rage.
* But being otherwise honest and trustworthy.
* Being driven to attempted murder by intoxication or rage.
* But being otherwise honest and trustworthy.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This Consequences LARP Convention, my recurring theme for games this weekend seemed to be:
* Being driven to attempted murder by intoxication or rage.
* But being otherwise honest and trustworthy.
* Being driven to attempted murder by intoxication or rage.
* But being otherwise honest and trustworthy.
Imagine that politics was a game of civilisation.
What would your political party's end-game goal be?
Maximize the happiness of its population?
Scientific development?
Keeping the human race alive as long as they can buy avoiding environmental disasters?
Cultural dominance?
Something else?
What would your political party's end-game goal be?
Maximize the happiness of its population?
Scientific development?
Keeping the human race alive as long as they can buy avoiding environmental disasters?
Cultural dominance?
Something else?
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Imagine that politics was a game of civilisation.
What would your political party's end-game goal be?
Maximize the happiness of its population?
Scientific development?
Keeping the human race alive as long as they can buy avoiding environmental disasters?
Cultural dominance?
Something else?
What would your political party's end-game goal be?
Maximize the happiness of its population?
Scientific development?
Keeping the human race alive as long as they can buy avoiding environmental disasters?
Cultural dominance?
Something else?
1) Data centres are vast producers of heat and need lots of water for cooling and electricity.
2)Solar EV can make lots of electricity but only at certain times.
3) Evaporating sea water can create both salt and drinkable water.
I feel these things could somehow be connected, but I don't know how
2)Solar EV can make lots of electricity but only at certain times.
3) Evaporating sea water can create both salt and drinkable water.
I feel these things could somehow be connected, but I don't know how
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
1) Data centres are vast producers of heat and need lots of water for cooling and electricity.
2)Solar EV can make lots of electricity but only at certain times.
3) Evaporating sea water can create both salt and drinkable water.
I feel these things could somehow be connected, but I don't know how
2)Solar EV can make lots of electricity but only at certain times.
3) Evaporating sea water can create both salt and drinkable water.
I feel these things could somehow be connected, but I don't know how
Genres are a squirreley thing, just boxes we put art into, but I think genres are at their most useful when they define the emotion they invoke. Horror, Suspense, Drama, comedy etc...
Could there be a periodic table of emotions from which new genres could be theorised to exist and then created?
Could there be a periodic table of emotions from which new genres could be theorised to exist and then created?
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Genres are a squirreley thing, just boxes we put art into, but I think genres are at their most useful when they define the emotion they invoke. Horror, Suspense, Drama, comedy etc...
Could there be a periodic table of emotions from which new genres could be theorised to exist and then created?
Could there be a periodic table of emotions from which new genres could be theorised to exist and then created?
Annual reminder:
If you build a death ray, you are not a mad scientist you are a mad engineer.
The mad scientist is the one testing the effects of different engineers death rays on standardised targets to see which is "best".
If you build a death ray, you are not a mad scientist you are a mad engineer.
The mad scientist is the one testing the effects of different engineers death rays on standardised targets to see which is "best".
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Annual reminder:
If you build a death ray, you are not a mad scientist you are a mad engineer.
The mad scientist is the one testing the effects of different engineers death rays on standardised targets to see which is "best".
If you build a death ray, you are not a mad scientist you are a mad engineer.
The mad scientist is the one testing the effects of different engineers death rays on standardised targets to see which is "best".
So this is as good a void as any to scream into...
How can things be improved.
I spoke to my labour MP a while ago and asked them "but how do we stop the Tories or Reform just breaking things as soon as you leave office?
They didn't know. But I am getting an idea.
How can things be improved.
I spoke to my labour MP a while ago and asked them "but how do we stop the Tories or Reform just breaking things as soon as you leave office?
They didn't know. But I am getting an idea.
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So this is as good a void as any to scream into...
How can things be improved.
I spoke to my labour MP a while ago and asked them "but how do we stop the Tories or Reform just breaking things as soon as you leave office?
They didn't know. But I am getting an idea.
How can things be improved.
I spoke to my labour MP a while ago and asked them "but how do we stop the Tories or Reform just breaking things as soon as you leave office?
They didn't know. But I am getting an idea.
Next election I want:
* A reform of the voting mechanics to ensure representation is proportional to the votes cast.
* A written constitution
* A full rewrite of the tax laws to ensure wealthy people pay. (because every government says they will address tax avoidance, it never happens)
* A reform of the voting mechanics to ensure representation is proportional to the votes cast.
* A written constitution
* A full rewrite of the tax laws to ensure wealthy people pay. (because every government says they will address tax avoidance, it never happens)
September 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Next election I want:
* A reform of the voting mechanics to ensure representation is proportional to the votes cast.
* A written constitution
* A full rewrite of the tax laws to ensure wealthy people pay. (because every government says they will address tax avoidance, it never happens)
* A reform of the voting mechanics to ensure representation is proportional to the votes cast.
* A written constitution
* A full rewrite of the tax laws to ensure wealthy people pay. (because every government says they will address tax avoidance, it never happens)
Hot take:
US Conservatives are against immigrants because they don't want people who grew up swearing allegiance to the US flag to be exposed to people who didn't and think it's weird and creepy to do so.
US Conservatives are against immigrants because they don't want people who grew up swearing allegiance to the US flag to be exposed to people who didn't and think it's weird and creepy to do so.
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Hot take:
US Conservatives are against immigrants because they don't want people who grew up swearing allegiance to the US flag to be exposed to people who didn't and think it's weird and creepy to do so.
US Conservatives are against immigrants because they don't want people who grew up swearing allegiance to the US flag to be exposed to people who didn't and think it's weird and creepy to do so.
Had an idea for a Buffy/supernatural type show called Stalkers.
Main characters are mortals on the side of angels, tasked with protecting important moments, in which a person does their most noble or heroic act.
Main characters are mortals on the side of angels, tasked with protecting important moments, in which a person does their most noble or heroic act.
August 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Had an idea for a Buffy/supernatural type show called Stalkers.
Main characters are mortals on the side of angels, tasked with protecting important moments, in which a person does their most noble or heroic act.
Main characters are mortals on the side of angels, tasked with protecting important moments, in which a person does their most noble or heroic act.
Weird thing I struggle with in RPGs is making characters who are too complete.
In order to have a character arc, most characters in narrative stories tend to have a lie or flaw that exists at the start and is addressed during the story. But with RPGs there's an urge to avoid such flaws.
In order to have a character arc, most characters in narrative stories tend to have a lie or flaw that exists at the start and is addressed during the story. But with RPGs there's an urge to avoid such flaws.
August 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Weird thing I struggle with in RPGs is making characters who are too complete.
In order to have a character arc, most characters in narrative stories tend to have a lie or flaw that exists at the start and is addressed during the story. But with RPGs there's an urge to avoid such flaws.
In order to have a character arc, most characters in narrative stories tend to have a lie or flaw that exists at the start and is addressed during the story. But with RPGs there's an urge to avoid such flaws.
AI Data centres require vast amounts of water for cooling. This heats the water that goes through.
Could we not use this, draw in sea-water for cooling and using pools, desalinate drinking water by evaporating the outgoing coolant?
Could we not use this, draw in sea-water for cooling and using pools, desalinate drinking water by evaporating the outgoing coolant?
August 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
AI Data centres require vast amounts of water for cooling. This heats the water that goes through.
Could we not use this, draw in sea-water for cooling and using pools, desalinate drinking water by evaporating the outgoing coolant?
Could we not use this, draw in sea-water for cooling and using pools, desalinate drinking water by evaporating the outgoing coolant?
Or what if... the wealthiest person in the world each year dies, Death Note style?
It's determined supernaturally, so giving wealth to people obliged to pay you back or investing it into assets won't remove the value.
After the first few years, how many billionaires would be left?
It's determined supernaturally, so giving wealth to people obliged to pay you back or investing it into assets won't remove the value.
After the first few years, how many billionaires would be left?
July 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Or what if... the wealthiest person in the world each year dies, Death Note style?
It's determined supernaturally, so giving wealth to people obliged to pay you back or investing it into assets won't remove the value.
After the first few years, how many billionaires would be left?
It's determined supernaturally, so giving wealth to people obliged to pay you back or investing it into assets won't remove the value.
After the first few years, how many billionaires would be left?
Maybe the best way to highlight hypocrisy is to advocate for them.
If right wing people insist that we live in a meritocracy, push for 100% inheritance tax, a complete ban on trust funds and similar vehicles by which intergenerational wealth is transferred.
If right wing people insist that we live in a meritocracy, push for 100% inheritance tax, a complete ban on trust funds and similar vehicles by which intergenerational wealth is transferred.
July 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Maybe the best way to highlight hypocrisy is to advocate for them.
If right wing people insist that we live in a meritocracy, push for 100% inheritance tax, a complete ban on trust funds and similar vehicles by which intergenerational wealth is transferred.
If right wing people insist that we live in a meritocracy, push for 100% inheritance tax, a complete ban on trust funds and similar vehicles by which intergenerational wealth is transferred.
Some people want Superman to be God (omnipotent, inhuman and perfect, the Snyder version) others want him to be Jesus (a good person with struggles and self-sacrifice, the Reeve version) but the new one is more Moses (a human instigator of change. Who could easily have taken a much darker path.)
July 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some people want Superman to be God (omnipotent, inhuman and perfect, the Snyder version) others want him to be Jesus (a good person with struggles and self-sacrifice, the Reeve version) but the new one is more Moses (a human instigator of change. Who could easily have taken a much darker path.)
Maybe we should change copyright:
As soon as something is not legally for sale for more than 28 days at equal or less than its most common sale price, it should go into the public domain. This should apply to books, films and computer games.
As soon as something is not legally for sale for more than 28 days at equal or less than its most common sale price, it should go into the public domain. This should apply to books, films and computer games.
July 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Maybe we should change copyright:
As soon as something is not legally for sale for more than 28 days at equal or less than its most common sale price, it should go into the public domain. This should apply to books, films and computer games.
As soon as something is not legally for sale for more than 28 days at equal or less than its most common sale price, it should go into the public domain. This should apply to books, films and computer games.
Studio Ghibli films teach some important lessons:
* Spirited Away: hard work can pay off.
* Naussica: Valley of the wind: understanding the environment is important.
* Howls Moving castle: age isn't something to fear.
* Laputa: a 12 year old can be trusted with a grenade launcher.
* Spirited Away: hard work can pay off.
* Naussica: Valley of the wind: understanding the environment is important.
* Howls Moving castle: age isn't something to fear.
* Laputa: a 12 year old can be trusted with a grenade launcher.
June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Studio Ghibli films teach some important lessons:
* Spirited Away: hard work can pay off.
* Naussica: Valley of the wind: understanding the environment is important.
* Howls Moving castle: age isn't something to fear.
* Laputa: a 12 year old can be trusted with a grenade launcher.
* Spirited Away: hard work can pay off.
* Naussica: Valley of the wind: understanding the environment is important.
* Howls Moving castle: age isn't something to fear.
* Laputa: a 12 year old can be trusted with a grenade launcher.
Reposted
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
I can't wait for the inevitable movies about the Russia-Ukraine war in which all of the accomplishments of the Ukrainian military are rewritten as being done in secret by American special operatives. Probably staring Timothée Chalamet once he hits middle age and wants a new oscar.
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I can't wait for the inevitable movies about the Russia-Ukraine war in which all of the accomplishments of the Ukrainian military are rewritten as being done in secret by American special operatives. Probably staring Timothée Chalamet once he hits middle age and wants a new oscar.
Maybe the reason that the right are pushing AI so far is that photographic and video evidence is generally the best sort of evidence we have.
If they can get reliably photorealistic images without errors, then truth is whatever they say it is. We will be in a post-facts world.
If they can get reliably photorealistic images without errors, then truth is whatever they say it is. We will be in a post-facts world.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Maybe the reason that the right are pushing AI so far is that photographic and video evidence is generally the best sort of evidence we have.
If they can get reliably photorealistic images without errors, then truth is whatever they say it is. We will be in a post-facts world.
If they can get reliably photorealistic images without errors, then truth is whatever they say it is. We will be in a post-facts world.
Imagine being on the receiving end of something like the Voyager plaque.
"The crew were able to retrieve the unidentified object and it appears to be of artificial origin. Trajectory plotting suggests it came from a distant star some 181 light years away." 1/4...
"The crew were able to retrieve the unidentified object and it appears to be of artificial origin. Trajectory plotting suggests it came from a distant star some 181 light years away." 1/4...
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Imagine being on the receiving end of something like the Voyager plaque.
"The crew were able to retrieve the unidentified object and it appears to be of artificial origin. Trajectory plotting suggests it came from a distant star some 181 light years away." 1/4...
"The crew were able to retrieve the unidentified object and it appears to be of artificial origin. Trajectory plotting suggests it came from a distant star some 181 light years away." 1/4...
Would AI be better if we limited copyright to 20 years from publication and then only allowed AI to scrape stuff that's over 20 years old? To put generative models and people on the same level of rights to works?
May 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Would AI be better if we limited copyright to 20 years from publication and then only allowed AI to scrape stuff that's over 20 years old? To put generative models and people on the same level of rights to works?
In the cinema...
Trailers so far are all sequels or reboots of some sort with very similar tags:
Karate Kid: Legends
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Mission Impossible:The Final reckoning
The only one that didn't was the Superman film which was a reboot.
Trailers so far are all sequels or reboots of some sort with very similar tags:
Karate Kid: Legends
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Mission Impossible:The Final reckoning
The only one that didn't was the Superman film which was a reboot.
May 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the cinema...
Trailers so far are all sequels or reboots of some sort with very similar tags:
Karate Kid: Legends
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Mission Impossible:The Final reckoning
The only one that didn't was the Superman film which was a reboot.
Trailers so far are all sequels or reboots of some sort with very similar tags:
Karate Kid: Legends
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Mission Impossible:The Final reckoning
The only one that didn't was the Superman film which was a reboot.