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Adam Spiers
@adamspiers.org
CTO & Co-founder of toucan.earth (climate❤web3) || author of
rolod0x.io || multi-genre cellist || proud European 🇪🇺 🇬🇧🇮🇪 $eth 🦇🔊
Gemini 2.5 Pro is trying to repeatedly gaslight me into thinking that a Youtube video about Claude Sonnet 4.5 is actually a video about Super Mario Bros. Seems to be a bug with their "Temporary chat" feature where it randomly picks a different video each time you paste in the same link. #LLMs #AI
October 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?
September 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"You're absolutely right to be disappointed."

-- using Claude Code as a therapist for managing frustration / self-congratulatory ego stroking when all the LLMs fail and waste hours of your time and you realise you should have not bothered using them in the first place
September 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Really happy to have just connected with the folks doing amazing work on www.openlabelsinitiative.org
An integration with OLI would vastly improve UX across all dApps - watch this space!
Open Labels Initiative
A standardized framework and data model for EVM address labeling
www.openlabelsinitiative.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end.

I raised this in Parliament last week 👇
September 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Last week we wrapped up our hypercerts retreat in Berlin, full of inspiring ideas and progress 🙌

Huge thanks to @sharfyae.bsky.social @adamspiers.org @bitbeckers.bsky.social @daviddao.org @jamesfarrell.me @carlbarrdahl.bsky.social @juanbenet.bsky.social @holke.xyz

Here are some highlights 👇
September 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Open call for all AI agent developers: please stop relying so heavily on insecure bash tools and flawed wildcarding. We're in the era of prompt injection (thanks @simonwillison.net for covering this), and while this isn't quite the same as Simon's lethal trifecta, it's still dangerous.
August 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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After a small misunderstanding regarding model choice, Claude Code now summarises all of its work for me in haiku.

"Code flows like lightning, Cache now whispers secrets fast, Performance sings joy"
August 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Want to stop Reform? There are council by-elections every week, and it only takes a handful of people to swing them by getting the word out.

stopReformUK.vote/elections

It’s easier than you think, we are the majority.

(Keeping Reform out of councils reduces their #GE2029 campaigning capacity too)
Stop the Tories and Reform
Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.
stopReformUK.vote
July 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Climate change poses a threat to us all - and the evidence clearly shows the need for action.

Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...

With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
May 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks.

Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them.

Read the f*ing room.

More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.
May 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Today’s the day to Stop Reform getting into your council.

Vote tactically.

Put your postcode in here StopReformUK.vote

Take a friend and double your vote.

Pass this message on.
Stop the Tories and Reform
Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.
StopReformUK.vote
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Turnout could be very low at tomorrow’s local elections,

but that means just a few more votes can be a real game changer!

Don't let Reform win by default.

Doubling your tactical vote is easy, just take a friend to vote together.

Click to WhatsApp message a friend
api.whatsapp.com/send?text=He...
April 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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STOP Reform UK website stopreformuk.net, pls share with your networks. Info on why we need to stop Reform UK, explaining their electoral success, debunking their lies and slogans, and how to take action to stop Reform UK

And see our article in the Canary www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
STOP REFORM UK
Visit the post for more.
stopreformuk.net
April 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If you're in web3 and want to help make the UX less awful, please consider supporting my side project ❤️
Honored to be selected as eligible for funding through Gitcoin's GG23 matching round for Open Source dApps and Apps! Even tiny donations make a huge difference to the funding we receive so please consider supporting if you can! explorer.gitcoin.co#/round/42161...
Gitcoin Grants Stack
Grants power growth in Web3. Make your voice heard and support open-source software and public goods across the EVM ecosystem
explorer.gitcoin.co
April 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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🚨🚨

“There are many questions still to be answered about how former Tory minister Greg Hands came to be recorded by Matt Hancock’s Department of Health and Social Care as a winner of the Luxe Lifestyle PPE contract and the nature and extent of his involvement,” @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social ⤵️
💣 NEW 💣

Today, we can reveal that the director of Luxe Lifestyle – a firm that bagged a £25.7m PPE contract during Covid, when it had zero employees and a huge debt – has been arrested. We’ve been pushing for this for five years.
goodlawproject.org/vip-lane-arr...
VIP lane: Arrest in fraud investigation | Good Law Project
Good Law Project can reveal that two people involved with VIP lane firm Luxe Lifestyle are under investigation for tax evasion relating to a £25.7m contract for useless PPE.
goodlawproject.org
April 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Only 17 hours left to donate in the ENS x Octant Public Goods Round on Giveth ! If you donate $1 to our project, it will be matched with another $10 - super grateful for even tiny contributions: giveth.io/project/rolo...
@octantapp.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...
UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted
In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…
www.techdirt.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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In 2019, if you were earning £100k/yr, what do you think your personal annual financial contribution to the EU was via your taxes?
January 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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It started with conspiracy and propaganda then evolved into dehumanisation - spreading distrust, fear and disgust about the target. The powerless were given a group to blame, the illusion of power. The techniques used now are the same. It’ll only happen again if people let it.

Sadly, they are…
January 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Based on the science in this thread, the US now has either a female or non-binary president - not sure which is correct but either is hilarious
Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.

All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation.
January 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM