Mark
@quigonsmith.bsky.social
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Mark
@quigonsmith.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Moving my thread over from The Other Place ... coming to the end of the Capaldi era in my Pilgrimage.
Monk trilogy was better than I remembered. Really like all three episodes.
Monk trilogy was better than I remembered. Really like all three episodes.
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There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
Watching the latest Superman film.
January 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Watching the latest Superman film.
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Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?
January 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?
Maybe I’m a hypocrite because I grew up with, and still love, the Star Wars prequels, but dear god, The Hobbit … what happened?
I’ll take Jar Jar over Alfred Lickspittle ten times out of ten.
I’ll take Jar Jar over Alfred Lickspittle ten times out of ten.
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Maybe I’m a hypocrite because I grew up with, and still love, the Star Wars prequels, but dear god, The Hobbit … what happened?
I’ll take Jar Jar over Alfred Lickspittle ten times out of ten.
I’ll take Jar Jar over Alfred Lickspittle ten times out of ten.
Just going to assume from now on that if you still have an X account you’re a nonce.
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Just going to assume from now on that if you still have an X account you’re a nonce.
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BBC News - Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Elon Musk's AI used to digitally remove her clothes - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet everyone from the BBC to the government still uses the paedo Nazi's website to convey their information.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet everyone from the BBC to the government still uses the paedo Nazi's website to convey their information.
Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
BBC News - Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Elon Musk's AI used to digitally remove her clothes - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet everyone from the BBC to the government still uses the paedo Nazi's website to convey their information.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet everyone from the BBC to the government still uses the paedo Nazi's website to convey their information.
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Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Trying to imagine telling even 2022 me that the government would one day happily continue using a social media platform that generates child pornography on request.
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Trying to imagine telling even 2022 me that the government would one day happily continue using a social media platform that generates child pornography on request.
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People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.
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Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
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Well it sounds terrible when you put it like that!
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Well it sounds terrible when you put it like that!
What I don’t get is, even putting aside the Nazism and the robot paedophile, the algorithm means it isn’t even possible to have a conversation on there any more. It’s shite.
I don't know how anyone can still have an account in X. It's literally the worst social media website on the internet.
January 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
What I don’t get is, even putting aside the Nazism and the robot paedophile, the algorithm means it isn’t even possible to have a conversation on there any more. It’s shite.
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BBC are starting to detail their process for verifying images in their reports now. I fear we have truly entered the age of 'AI until proven innocent'.
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
BBC are starting to detail their process for verifying images in their reports now. I fear we have truly entered the age of 'AI until proven innocent'.
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On this day in 1971, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning and Richard Franklin made their Doctor Who debuts in episode one of Terror of the Autons by Robert Holmes.
January 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
On this day in 1971, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning and Richard Franklin made their Doctor Who debuts in episode one of Terror of the Autons by Robert Holmes.
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Adric will return in Avengers: Doomsday
January 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Adric will return in Avengers: Doomsday
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
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Tottenham fans’ patience with Thomas Frank snaps after being put through another unwatchable 90 minutes.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
Spurs fans reached their limit at Brentford. Thomas Frank needs to offer more than this
Thomas Frank was booed by the Tottenham fans at the end of their 0-0 draw with Brentford on Thursday
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Tottenham fans’ patience with Thomas Frank snaps after being put through another unwatchable 90 minutes.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
Think it’s clear now that Ange was kind of the ideal coach for a club like Spurs. We’re miles away from having the ambition, structure, recruitment or squad depth to be regular league challengers. But chaotic, entertaining football and lifting the odd cup …
January 2, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Think it’s clear now that Ange was kind of the ideal coach for a club like Spurs. We’re miles away from having the ambition, structure, recruitment or squad depth to be regular league challengers. But chaotic, entertaining football and lifting the odd cup …
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"I stayed on Twitter through Nazi-ism and the owner causing 600,000 Africans to die so if you think a bit of child pornography is going to get me to leave you are barking up the wrong tree my friend"
Some people apparently
Some people apparently
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
"I stayed on Twitter through Nazi-ism and the owner causing 600,000 Africans to die so if you think a bit of child pornography is going to get me to leave you are barking up the wrong tree my friend"
Some people apparently
Some people apparently
Interesting seeing people actually protesting an oppressive dictatorship, and “progressives” crying about it and blaming the CIA.
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Interesting seeing people actually protesting an oppressive dictatorship, and “progressives” crying about it and blaming the CIA.
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Meanwhile, at the other place:
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Meanwhile, at the other place:
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Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.
Oof. Don’t think he’s making it to the end of the season.
Spurs away fans booing Thomas Frank post match
When Levy was at the club and they did this to Nuno he was gone in the morning
When Levy was at the club and they did this to Nuno he was gone in the morning
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Oof. Don’t think he’s making it to the end of the season.