Neil Charles
@neilcharles.bsky.social
Owner of sequence-analytics.com and occasional paraglider pilot.
Tempted to spend the rest of the day trying to jailbreak the AI chatbot in Worcester Bosch's call centre. Chirrupy little bastard pretending badly to be a real person.
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Tempted to spend the rest of the day trying to jailbreak the AI chatbot in Worcester Bosch's call centre. Chirrupy little bastard pretending badly to be a real person.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
If Andrew gets convicted for sharing trade secrets but not for abusing underaged girls it will be an absolute outrage.
February 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
If Andrew gets convicted for sharing trade secrets but not for abusing underaged girls it will be an absolute outrage.
Footnote: "So you can toil for a living in Anthropic's AI training mines."
Coda: advice from the co founder of Anthropic is ‘study the humanities’
fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...
fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Footnote: "So you can toil for a living in Anthropic's AI training mines."
The kids are alright www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The kids are alright www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Anas Sarwar should have realised that nothing unites the English like an attempted intervention from Scotland. Nobody really likes Starmer but today he's Man U drawn against Celtic.
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Anas Sarwar should have realised that nothing unites the English like an attempted intervention from Scotland. Nobody really likes Starmer but today he's Man U drawn against Celtic.
This definitely won't happen at the world cup, football fans are famously more polite.
JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.
February 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
This definitely won't happen at the world cup, football fans are famously more polite.
They keep reporting Mandelson says he wasn't motivated by financial gain. All of the other motivations I can think of are worse.
February 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
They keep reporting Mandelson says he wasn't motivated by financial gain. All of the other motivations I can think of are worse.
Checked Google Analytics and my #paragliding Wind at Altitude weather app was used by 2500 UK pilots last year so I've been giving it a fresh lick of paint #rstats #shiny
February 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Checked Google Analytics and my #paragliding Wind at Altitude weather app was used by 2500 UK pilots last year so I've been giving it a fresh lick of paint #rstats #shiny
If distancing ourselves from general US madness allows us to also treat their tech giants as publishers, that would be a Very Good Thing.
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
If distancing ourselves from general US madness allows us to also treat their tech giants as publishers, that would be a Very Good Thing.
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Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
February 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
Starmer's done, he's odds on to go in 2026 but I'd be tempted by a tenner that he won't make it to the end of February. Listening to this debate there's a chance he won't make the end of the week.
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Starmer's done, he's odds on to go in 2026 but I'd be tempted by a tenner that he won't make it to the end of February. Listening to this debate there's a chance he won't make the end of the week.
As if Mandy's very close Epstein-centric relationship with Trump wasn't *EXACTLY WHY HE WAS GIVEN THE EFFING US AMBASSADOR ROLE IN THE FIRST PLACE*
February 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
As if Mandy's very close Epstein-centric relationship with Trump wasn't *EXACTLY WHY HE WAS GIVEN THE EFFING US AMBASSADOR ROLE IN THE FIRST PLACE*
Adding Gorilla Tag to the long list of stuff that my kids like but shouldn't.
February 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Adding Gorilla Tag to the long list of stuff that my kids like but shouldn't.
"We're making a law to kick Mandelson specifically out of the Lords."
"How about making it a general rule so that we can kick out any other treasonous law-breaking lords?"
"Good God no. Can't do that. We'd lose loads of them."
"How about making it a general rule so that we can kick out any other treasonous law-breaking lords?"
"Good God no. Can't do that. We'd lose loads of them."
February 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
"We're making a law to kick Mandelson specifically out of the Lords."
"How about making it a general rule so that we can kick out any other treasonous law-breaking lords?"
"Good God no. Can't do that. We'd lose loads of them."
"How about making it a general rule so that we can kick out any other treasonous law-breaking lords?"
"Good God no. Can't do that. We'd lose loads of them."
Where are the lamppost flag hangers? If this was a photo of a foreign born taxi driver there's be rioting.
Screw testify. He's a British citizen, where's the Met Police investigation?
February 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Where are the lamppost flag hangers? If this was a photo of a foreign born taxi driver there's be rioting.
Screw testify. He's a British citizen, where's the Met Police investigation?
February 1, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Screw testify. He's a British citizen, where's the Met Police investigation?
Took my eldest lad to see a Two Towers rerun on the big screen. The charge of the Rohirrim remains one of the great moments in cinema.
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Took my eldest lad to see a Two Towers rerun on the big screen. The charge of the Rohirrim remains one of the great moments in cinema.
Hi de hi campers!
January 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Hi de hi campers!
Oh FFS, I forgot there was a carrier group headed for Iran. It never stops, he just bounces from one piece of idiocy to the next.
January 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Oh FFS, I forgot there was a carrier group headed for Iran. It never stops, he just bounces from one piece of idiocy to the next.
Farage is accumulating an awful lot of troublemakers. They'll be freelancing off-script within a few months and then we'll see those deniable stories start to appear in the Mail and Telegraph sowing seeds of doubt over his leadership.
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Farage is accumulating an awful lot of troublemakers. They'll be freelancing off-script within a few months and then we'll see those deniable stories start to appear in the Mail and Telegraph sowing seeds of doubt over his leadership.
Re-form the Tory party.
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Re-form the Tory party.
Lights go out.
The Undertaker's bell tolls.
The reanimated corpse of Charlton Heston strides to the ring carrying a rifle.
The Undertaker's bell tolls.
The reanimated corpse of Charlton Heston strides to the ring carrying a rifle.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Lights go out.
The Undertaker's bell tolls.
The reanimated corpse of Charlton Heston strides to the ring carrying a rifle.
The Undertaker's bell tolls.
The reanimated corpse of Charlton Heston strides to the ring carrying a rifle.