Flic
@flisty.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Mostly a lurker.
I read books to pay the bills.
She/her/they
UK
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I read books to pay the bills.
She/her/they
UK
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.social/@Flisty, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Not listened to the News Agents for a while - got a bit sick of the low-stakes "chess game" punditry. But they've just been to #Minnesota covering #ice. Worth a listen to hear about some of the work people are doing to push back.
https://pca.st/episode/4d7ccd12-34d0-444e-a071-673a12f6fe38
#USpol
https://pca.st/episode/4d7ccd12-34d0-444e-a071-673a12f6fe38
#USpol
Special Episode: Trump, ICE and cruelty on the streets of Minneapolis
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January 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Not listened to the News Agents for a while - got a bit sick of the low-stakes "chess game" punditry. But they've just been to #Minnesota covering #ice. Worth a listen to hear about some of the work people are doing to push back.
https://pca.st/episode/4d7ccd12-34d0-444e-a071-673a12f6fe38
#USpol
https://pca.st/episode/4d7ccd12-34d0-444e-a071-673a12f6fe38
#USpol
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me looking at the news about the ChatGPT ad rollout like: aren't you supposed to, you know, have a product before you start enshittifying it?
January 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
me looking at the news about the ChatGPT ad rollout like: aren't you supposed to, you know, have a product before you start enshittifying it?
RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/115906607103094237
OTOH I've gone back to live TV as I realise I need the serendipity; the choice on platforms is overwhelming and I end up not watching anything. The schedules are slim pickings, but I stumbled across that Rob & Rylan Grand Tour […]
OTOH I've gone back to live TV as I realise I need the serendipity; the choice on platforms is overwhelming and I end up not watching anything. The schedules are slim pickings, but I stumbled across that Rob & Rylan Grand Tour […]
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mstdn.social
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/115906607103094237
OTOH I've gone back to live TV as I realise I need the serendipity; the choice on platforms is overwhelming and I end up not watching anything. The schedules are slim pickings, but I stumbled across that Rob & Rylan Grand Tour […]
OTOH I've gone back to live TV as I realise I need the serendipity; the choice on platforms is overwhelming and I end up not watching anything. The schedules are slim pickings, but I stumbled across that Rob & Rylan Grand Tour […]
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"We have to deny this, for form’s sake, for domestic audiences and to reduce the chance of reprisals," the logic goes. "But we nonetheless want you to understand we did it, and that we would do it again." The purpose of a deterrent is to deter.
Why they can't even bother to come up with good lies.
Why they can't even bother to come up with good lies.
The Lies They Told
Sometimes, the implausibility is the point. Also this week: the even truer-size map; and some extremely late but mercifully-brief film reviews.
jonn.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"We have to deny this, for form’s sake, for domestic audiences and to reduce the chance of reprisals," the logic goes. "But we nonetheless want you to understand we did it, and that we would do it again." The purpose of a deterrent is to deter.
Why they can't even bother to come up with good lies.
Why they can't even bother to come up with good lies.
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Police used co-pilot to write an intelligence report to MPs, and it just made stuff up. Because of course it did, this is how AI works, it's a "yes, and" machine. It shouldn't be anywhere near the criminal justice system unless you want it reckoning-that-guys-name-sounds-criminal all over the […]
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theforkiverse.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Police used co-pilot to write an intelligence report to MPs, and it just made stuff up. Because of course it did, this is how AI works, it's a "yes, and" machine. It shouldn't be anywhere near the criminal justice system unless you want it reckoning-that-guys-name-sounds-criminal all over the […]
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Was yours when he said that generating kiddie porn is free speech? OK, mine was when he called the man who rescued children in a cave a paedo.
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Was yours when he said that generating kiddie porn is free speech? OK, mine was when he called the man who rescued children in a cave a paedo.
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I fundamentally cannot compute the push for a government level ban of X when the vast majority of government figures and the entire infrastructure of the progressive left that would push for a ban also spend their days doing volunteer work for Musk by providing free content to X to keep it alive
If Brazil can do it so can the UK - assuming they have the guts to ban paedophilia
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
The platform agrees to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, pays fines and takes down user accounts that the court had ordered removed
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I fundamentally cannot compute the push for a government level ban of X when the vast majority of government figures and the entire infrastructure of the progressive left that would push for a ban also spend their days doing volunteer work for Musk by providing free content to X to keep it alive
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Gizmodo has 2.5 MILLION followed on X, and this has been up for 14 hours.
All of you still using it for The Engagement: what am I missing here???
All of you still using it for The Engagement: what am I missing here???
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Gizmodo has 2.5 MILLION followed on X, and this has been up for 14 hours.
All of you still using it for The Engagement: what am I missing here???
All of you still using it for The Engagement: what am I missing here???
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"The #bbc’s director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Musk’s #socialmedia platform, #x, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global misinformation."
Right. Because the reach is just great, the algorithm totally works in your favor […]
Right. Because the reach is just great, the algorithm totally works in your favor […]
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mastodon.social
January 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
"The #bbc’s director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Musk’s #socialmedia platform, #x, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global misinformation."
Right. Because the reach is just great, the algorithm totally works in your favor […]
Right. Because the reach is just great, the algorithm totally works in your favor […]
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"Money from Venezuelan oil sales can only be spent on goods from the USA."
Um ... we've been here before ... wasn't there something called the "Boston Tea Party" which was provoked by exactly this sort of colonial trade restriction?
Um ... we've been here before ... wasn't there something called the "Boston Tea Party" which was provoked by exactly this sort of colonial trade restriction?
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
"Money from Venezuelan oil sales can only be spent on goods from the USA."
Um ... we've been here before ... wasn't there something called the "Boston Tea Party" which was provoked by exactly this sort of colonial trade restriction?
Um ... we've been here before ... wasn't there something called the "Boston Tea Party" which was provoked by exactly this sort of colonial trade restriction?
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Adding an LLM to a product like a browser is a strange decision. The thought process that leads to "Our product could be improved if we added the ability to be confidently wrong about a wide variety of topics" is hard to understand.
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Adding an LLM to a product like a browser is a strange decision. The thought process that leads to "Our product could be improved if we added the ability to be confidently wrong about a wide variety of topics" is hard to understand.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA
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Watching the unreal looking snow storm rolling in last night over Manchester from the pennies and over the Ethiad football stadium
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Watching the unreal looking snow storm rolling in last night over Manchester from the pennies and over the Ethiad football stadium
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The UK is woefully slow on the #digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The UK is woefully slow on the #digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115838147626103231
Really comprehensive. I hadn't even realised some of these were non-US.
First task for me is probably to get off Gmail, and work out whether moving off MS Word is feasible given what I use it for
Really comprehensive. I hadn't even realised some of these were non-US.
First task for me is probably to get off Gmail, and work out whether moving off MS Word is feasible given what I use it for
mastodon.online
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115838147626103231
Really comprehensive. I hadn't even realised some of these were non-US.
First task for me is probably to get off Gmail, and work out whether moving off MS Word is feasible given what I use it for
Really comprehensive. I hadn't even realised some of these were non-US.
First task for me is probably to get off Gmail, and work out whether moving off MS Word is feasible given what I use it for
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British gaulism when
At some point the 'realignment' in British politics is going to come under severe pressure on the issue of national security and global conflict. It is not possible to be patriotic/nationalist and also pro-Trump/pro-Putin.
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
British gaulism when
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A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1542232/a-decade-of-bbc-question-time-data-reveals-imbalance-in-journalist-guests
A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate […]
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1542232/a-decade-of-bbc-question-time-data-reveals-imbalance-in-journalist-guests
A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
January 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1542232/a-decade-of-bbc-question-time-data-reveals-imbalance-in-journalist-guests
A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate […]
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1542232/a-decade-of-bbc-question-time-data-reveals-imbalance-in-journalist-guests
A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate […]
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Tesla is no longer the world's biggest electric vehicle maker, with fourth-quarter sales falling short of even the reduced target analysts set. Chinese rival BYD is now No. 1, selling 2.26M vehicles last year vs. Tesla's 1.64M. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
https://flip.it/SYwXO1
#cars […]
https://flip.it/SYwXO1
#cars […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social
January 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Tesla is no longer the world's biggest electric vehicle maker, with fourth-quarter sales falling short of even the reduced target analysts set. Chinese rival BYD is now No. 1, selling 2.26M vehicles last year vs. Tesla's 1.64M. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
https://flip.it/SYwXO1
#cars […]
https://flip.it/SYwXO1
#cars […]
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But that of course requires knowing the name in at least one language to be able to find a picture to show the old man in the tool shop.
And so, knowing I wanted a specific type of fixings, I spent time trying to work out the English term. And finally I did.
I goto the tool shop, I present the […]
And so, knowing I wanted a specific type of fixings, I spent time trying to work out the English term. And finally I did.
I goto the tool shop, I present the […]
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social.v.st
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
But that of course requires knowing the name in at least one language to be able to find a picture to show the old man in the tool shop.
And so, knowing I wanted a specific type of fixings, I spent time trying to work out the English term. And finally I did.
I goto the tool shop, I present the […]
And so, knowing I wanted a specific type of fixings, I spent time trying to work out the English term. And finally I did.
I goto the tool shop, I present the […]
Imagine being a member of the group opposing this. What are you scared of?!
BBC News - New archbishop urged to scrap £100m fund over slavery links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e7w03067o
BBC News - New archbishop urged to scrap £100m fund over slavery links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e7w03067o
December 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Imagine being a member of the group opposing this. What are you scared of?!
BBC News - New archbishop urged to scrap £100m fund over slavery links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e7w03067o
BBC News - New archbishop urged to scrap £100m fund over slavery links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e7w03067o
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This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture […]
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I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
December 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:
I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]
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... i mean... 🐶 🐶 🐶
📷 :https://thunderdungeon.com/2024/10/31/greek-mythology-memes/
#greekmythology #Humor #meme #dog #cerberus #mythology #myths #greekmyths #Dogs #silly
📷 :https://thunderdungeon.com/2024/10/31/greek-mythology-memes/
#greekmythology #Humor #meme #dog #cerberus #mythology #myths #greekmyths #Dogs #silly
December 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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How would you make the case for not calling an LLM "he" or "him" like it is a particular person without sounding like the Bene Gesserit?
For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about?
Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the […]
For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about?
Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
How would you make the case for not calling an LLM "he" or "him" like it is a particular person without sounding like the Bene Gesserit?
For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about?
Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the […]
For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about?
Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the […]