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Ben Hazell
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Dad. Lead content designer on GOV.UK One Login at GDS
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Oh, oh
And Age of Empires 2. Which I never played back then but have played a lot in the last few years.
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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The government needs to shift to subsidising cooling heat pumps instead of only ones that heat. With warmer and more uncomfortable summers it’s a real benefit. Middle class much more likely to contribute more if their homes are cooled in the summer as well as heated in the winter.
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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To illustrate how disingenuous this campaign is

“85% have made payments to get better cars” does *not* mean “85% have bought Beamers”. Most people don’t lease Beamers with the scheme. The extra payments are adaptations to allow disabled people to use the cars, wheelchair hoists for eg
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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this article from @colin-fraser.net really shaped how i think about chatbots. the underlying model is always essentially spawning characters whose dialogue is likely fit with the dialogue they're getting as input, and this is an "evil computer" character medium.com/@colin.frase...
Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots?
“” is published by Colin Fraser.
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM