okenia
@okenia.bsky.social
Geology geek and activist investor.
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" - Alasdair Gray
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" - Alasdair Gray
November 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Town and Country Planning through the medium of interpretative dance
Aka the awesome Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan finally hits the nice and sleazy fleshpots of Glasga’!
@warringtonruncorn.com
Plus @kinbraemusic.bsky.social and Ida Gordon for even more delights
Aka the awesome Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan finally hits the nice and sleazy fleshpots of Glasga’!
@warringtonruncorn.com
Plus @kinbraemusic.bsky.social and Ida Gordon for even more delights
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Town and Country Planning through the medium of interpretative dance
Aka the awesome Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan finally hits the nice and sleazy fleshpots of Glasga’!
@warringtonruncorn.com
Plus @kinbraemusic.bsky.social and Ida Gordon for even more delights
Aka the awesome Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan finally hits the nice and sleazy fleshpots of Glasga’!
@warringtonruncorn.com
Plus @kinbraemusic.bsky.social and Ida Gordon for even more delights
Putting this up, because I try to be very conscious of the BS of AI. When I’m researching something I know something about, I can spot it, but it’s made me realise quite how much I can’t trust anything else I read, see or hear online anymore unless I already know about it. What a damn mess.
June 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Putting this up, because I try to be very conscious of the BS of AI. When I’m researching something I know something about, I can spot it, but it’s made me realise quite how much I can’t trust anything else I read, see or hear online anymore unless I already know about it. What a damn mess.
June 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Putting this up, because I try to be very conscious of the BS of AI. When I’m researching something I know something about, I can spot it, but it’s made me realise quite how much I can’t trust anything else I read, see or hear online anymore unless I already know about it. What a damn mess.
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This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...
Although sad to see in bits, the saved stones of the Sir John Maxwell school gives an insight into "assembly by numbers"
@murphyniallgla.bsky.social
@murphyniallgla.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Although sad to see in bits, the saved stones of the Sir John Maxwell school gives an insight into "assembly by numbers"
@murphyniallgla.bsky.social
@murphyniallgla.bsky.social
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a 'your possessions and money don't actually matter' approach is sure to work with Americans, a public notoriously amenable to sacrificing for the greater good, as Jimmy Carter's second term attests.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
a 'your possessions and money don't actually matter' approach is sure to work with Americans, a public notoriously amenable to sacrificing for the greater good, as Jimmy Carter's second term attests.
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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe
Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.
www.theverge.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
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The amazing @sulkrooms.bsky.social has created an amazing mix for Foxy Digitalis using granular sampling, including one from an unreleased track of mine. Check it out here: foxydigitalis.zone/2025/01/29/f...
Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 5, #1: Two Way Mirrors
Thomas Ragsdale continues to create sonic environments that I don’t want to leave. His latest is Two Way Mirrors’ Endure, out now on his Frosti label. As soon as I heard it (and wrote a…
foxydigitalis.zone
January 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The amazing @sulkrooms.bsky.social has created an amazing mix for Foxy Digitalis using granular sampling, including one from an unreleased track of mine. Check it out here: foxydigitalis.zone/2025/01/29/f...
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I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
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Incredible thread.
Trust me.
Trust me.
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
December 3, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Incredible thread.
Trust me.
Trust me.
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The MD list of the top 20 best albums of 2024. In Order.
Number 20
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
Number 20
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
November 28, 2024 at 9:28 AM
The MD list of the top 20 best albums of 2024. In Order.
Number 20
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
Number 20
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
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Yes, right from the introducion chapter.
November 26, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Yes, right from the introducion chapter.
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Feels like we're pretty close to getting the band back together. Pity we didn't get the car chases as well but suppose you can't have everything.
November 17, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Feels like we're pretty close to getting the band back together. Pity we didn't get the car chases as well but suppose you can't have everything.
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Thank god we killed bin Laden. At this point, it feels like Trump might appoint him to lead the national counterterrorism center if not.
November 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Thank god we killed bin Laden. At this point, it feels like Trump might appoint him to lead the national counterterrorism center if not.
Required listening when stuck in traffic on the M6.
I can't rate this series of albums high enough, plus he's a thoroughly decent bloke with shirts colour-matched to the albums. Attention to detail or what ...
I can't rate this series of albums high enough, plus he's a thoroughly decent bloke with shirts colour-matched to the albums. Attention to detail or what ...
If you don’t mind my shilling my wares for a moment to my new followers and people on here.
I make ambient, instrumental electronica inspired by the socialist ideals of the New Towns movement. I have a new album out in all the usual places, plus available from Bandcamp.
youtu.be/QKWVERWbpzY?...
I make ambient, instrumental electronica inspired by the socialist ideals of the New Towns movement. I have a new album out in all the usual places, plus available from Bandcamp.
youtu.be/QKWVERWbpzY?...
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August 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Required listening when stuck in traffic on the M6.
I can't rate this series of albums high enough, plus he's a thoroughly decent bloke with shirts colour-matched to the albums. Attention to detail or what ...
I can't rate this series of albums high enough, plus he's a thoroughly decent bloke with shirts colour-matched to the albums. Attention to detail or what ...
@ncdominie.bsky.social fancy meeting you here! Thanks for the code.
September 25, 2023 at 10:44 AM
@ncdominie.bsky.social fancy meeting you here! Thanks for the code.