Ben Jones
@bendylan.bsky.social
Professional nerd for a bijou research institute on the Franco-Swiss border
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Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.
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right wingers when u quit twitter
December 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM
right wingers when u quit twitter
Europe is weak, which is why they should surrender to this despot that I'm visibly in thrall to. Look at my cheap gold trinkets and baubles that people bribe me with. Don't look at my tiny decaying hands.
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Europe is weak, which is why they should surrender to this despot that I'm visibly in thrall to. Look at my cheap gold trinkets and baubles that people bribe me with. Don't look at my tiny decaying hands.
Is the irritating obsequious tone of most chatbots a reflection of how people talk to the billionaires that own them? I don't need to be told that my dumb question is an "insightful observation!".
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Is the irritating obsequious tone of most chatbots a reflection of how people talk to the billionaires that own them? I don't need to be told that my dumb question is an "insightful observation!".
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
OCH AYE THE FOOTBALL
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
OCH AYE THE FOOTBALL
Getting closer the more emails are released.
The US Navy destroyer USS Stockdale is now 50 km off the coast of Venezuela.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Getting closer the more emails are released.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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✅ Trump burst in on teenagers getting dressed on purpose
✅ Ivanka made Trump promise not to date her teenage friends
✅ Epstein violently died in Trump DoJ custody
✅ Tape of that night was edited
✅ Trump has dozens of accusers
✅ one alleged she was raped by Trump at 14 at Epstein’s house (withdrawn)
✅ Ivanka made Trump promise not to date her teenage friends
✅ Epstein violently died in Trump DoJ custody
✅ Tape of that night was edited
✅ Trump has dozens of accusers
✅ one alleged she was raped by Trump at 14 at Epstein’s house (withdrawn)
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
✅ Trump burst in on teenagers getting dressed on purpose
✅ Ivanka made Trump promise not to date her teenage friends
✅ Epstein violently died in Trump DoJ custody
✅ Tape of that night was edited
✅ Trump has dozens of accusers
✅ one alleged she was raped by Trump at 14 at Epstein’s house (withdrawn)
✅ Ivanka made Trump promise not to date her teenage friends
✅ Epstein violently died in Trump DoJ custody
✅ Tape of that night was edited
✅ Trump has dozens of accusers
✅ one alleged she was raped by Trump at 14 at Epstein’s house (withdrawn)
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✅ he was extremely close friends with Epstein
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
✅ he was extremely close friends with Epstein
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
✅ Epstein had like 11 ways to contact Trump
✅ Epstein sourced teens from maralago
✅ Epstein introduced Melania to Trump
✅ the DoJ combed evidence looking only for Trump and did a u-turn on releasing files
✅ Trump has been found guilty of sex crimes
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✅ He sent a birthday card to Epstein implying they share wonderful secrets
✅ He gave special accommodation to Ghislaine in exchange for her silence
WHY IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE?
✅ He gave special accommodation to Ghislaine in exchange for her silence
WHY IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE?
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
✅ He sent a birthday card to Epstein implying they share wonderful secrets
✅ He gave special accommodation to Ghislaine in exchange for her silence
WHY IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE?
✅ He gave special accommodation to Ghislaine in exchange for her silence
WHY IS THIS NOT EVERYWHERE?
This manages to be both as sad as Corbyn's fake peace prize, whilst also the corrupt debasement of football by FIFA. Just sadness all the way down.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This manages to be both as sad as Corbyn's fake peace prize, whilst also the corrupt debasement of football by FIFA. Just sadness all the way down.
Nice waking up to good news for once. Well done NYC
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Nice waking up to good news for once. Well done NYC
This guy makes it look effortless, but this is how to politics. Also heard him on the Guardian football podcast (ikr) and he was both incredibly natural whilst being totally on message (which was: the World Cup is unaffordable for most New Yorkers despite hosting it).
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This guy makes it look effortless, but this is how to politics. Also heard him on the Guardian football podcast (ikr) and he was both incredibly natural whilst being totally on message (which was: the World Cup is unaffordable for most New Yorkers despite hosting it).
I see that instead of the Romans, Musk is now completely missing the point about Tolkien in service of his dumb racism.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I see that instead of the Romans, Musk is now completely missing the point about Tolkien in service of his dumb racism.
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One crucial thing to understand about the current bubble is that none of the people dumping money into it or hyping it up will be hurt at all when it blows up. The US has made rich, powerful people effectively immune from consequences. It's the plebes who will suffer.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One crucial thing to understand about the current bubble is that none of the people dumping money into it or hyping it up will be hurt at all when it blows up. The US has made rich, powerful people effectively immune from consequences. It's the plebes who will suffer.
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Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.
America is cooked.
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
America is cooked.
Have two ID cards (from two separate countries). They are a good idea, no secret police so far.
September 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Have two ID cards (from two separate countries). They are a good idea, no secret police so far.
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I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have
September 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have