Stew Elliott
@stewcelliott.bsky.social
British / Irish. Software engineer, amateur photographer, urbanism dilettante. 🔶 (he/him)
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Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto
Idk why everyone is worrying about how they're going to bring back Bond given he died in the last film. I've always assumed that Bond exists on a floating timeline and each one has a vaguely different continuity than the last. The guy doesn't age between 1960 and 1995!
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Idk why everyone is worrying about how they're going to bring back Bond given he died in the last film. I've always assumed that Bond exists on a floating timeline and each one has a vaguely different continuity than the last. The guy doesn't age between 1960 and 1995!
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Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
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me when the AI bubble bursts
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
me when the AI bubble bursts
oh my GOD they're actually doing this
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
oh my GOD they're actually doing this
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we fight for freedom
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we fight for freedom
Saw Back to the Future in the cinema last night for the 40th and it really is just a perfect film. Some small parts of it have aged a bit poorly but otherwise such a good time.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Saw Back to the Future in the cinema last night for the 40th and it really is just a perfect film. Some small parts of it have aged a bit poorly but otherwise such a good time.
Every single one of the photos used to illustrate this point is a candid shot of a stranger. They're not rubbing it in anyone's nose?
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every single one of the photos used to illustrate this point is a candid shot of a stranger. They're not rubbing it in anyone's nose?
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
I can imagine this councillor thinks he's championing Didcot but I don't move there until next week and I'm already aware that residents complaining how bad congestion is in the town, and his solution is to invite more of it?
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I can imagine this councillor thinks he's championing Didcot but I don't move there until next week and I'm already aware that residents complaining how bad congestion is in the town, and his solution is to invite more of it?
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"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" is probably my favourite Discovery episode. It also happens to feature one of my favourite Star Trek props!
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" is probably my favourite Discovery episode. It also happens to feature one of my favourite Star Trek props!
The trailer was a real jumpscare, clearly so unready to be shown to the world.
Flashback to the Star Trek Discovery teaser trailer, featuring a pre-production CGI model of the Discovery and a homage to Ralph McQuarrie's Planet of the Titans concept art.
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The trailer was a real jumpscare, clearly so unready to be shown to the world.
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Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
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I think Sunder’s spot on here. Someone who just enjoys visiting NT properties and likes a cup of tea and a nice scone is quite likely to receive this as a bit hysterical and/ or a reason to back away slowly.
This latest defeat may exemplify a broader ecosystem/bubble problem for the right: so used now to preaching to the converted in media outlets and online that it struggles to understand how this language (the NT as run by or capitulating to "woke terrorists") might be received by the median member
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think Sunder’s spot on here. Someone who just enjoys visiting NT properties and likes a cup of tea and a nice scone is quite likely to receive this as a bit hysterical and/ or a reason to back away slowly.
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The highlights. ML can only be used where "its OK to be wrong", which usually means "its OK to be a little more wrong to be a LOT cheaper", which is the edge.
Oh, and LLMs are very niche as they can't be used with "untrusted input + do bad thing". There is no market for the GW datacenters.
Oh, and LLMs are very niche as they can't be used with "untrusted input + do bad thing". There is no market for the GW datacenters.
Nicholas Weaver: The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter
The edge is where it’s at
Blog post by @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com:
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
Interview with Nick:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251107-nic... - podcast
time: 26 min 53 sec
The edge is where it’s at
Blog post by @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com:
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...
Interview with Nick:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251107-nic... - podcast
time: 26 min 53 sec
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The highlights. ML can only be used where "its OK to be wrong", which usually means "its OK to be a little more wrong to be a LOT cheaper", which is the edge.
Oh, and LLMs are very niche as they can't be used with "untrusted input + do bad thing". There is no market for the GW datacenters.
Oh, and LLMs are very niche as they can't be used with "untrusted input + do bad thing". There is no market for the GW datacenters.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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Can’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Can’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!
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loving all the things people come up with
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
loving all the things people come up with
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run