James Stuart
gradthar.bsky.social
James Stuart
@gradthar.bsky.social
I'm a dreadful nerd.
This is so cool
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I just misread a post about Alien and Aliens as Allen and Allens and now I'm imagining Tim Allen and Lily Allen terrorising the crew of the Nostromo.
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Introvert problems:

Wanting to be invited, but not wanting to go anywhere. Being lonely at home, but not wanting anyone in your space unless you really like them. And even if you really like them, you want them to go home soon.
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's very depressing that if you don't 'do' social media you might as well not exist. Out of sight out of mind seems to be a very real thing and while I'm sure many people don't care about that, it's kinda sad to get no messages on your birthday. Or maybe I'm just an asshole.
October 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.
🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond
The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women
www.standard.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What if there are no European folklore monsters any more because émigrés to America took them all with them when they went and they all got eaten by the Wendigo?
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Hilarious update. The students that did participate in the assignment all got incorrect answers. ChatGPT incorrectly analyzed the data set in every. single. instance.

bc people were asking last time, no that wasn’t the point of this assignment. The prof genuinely wanted us to use it as a tool for
The day has finally come where one of my professors is requiring us to use ChatGPT for an assignment. I don’t think we’re actually turning anything in so I won’t be participating in it, but still extremely disappointed it’s happening.
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Teslacles was the Ben Franklin of the Ancient Greeks.
“Grab him by the TESLACLES” is pretty good.

My photo from #handsoff rally DC.
April 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Had to pop into town, so quick stop for lunch at one of my favourite sneaky restaurant picks: Sofra Turkish on South Molton Street.

I absolutely encourage you to read the "about us" page on their website.

It actually escalates from here.

www.sofra.co.uk/huseyin-ozer/
March 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Make Ælfrǣd Great Again!
I wonder what Liz Truss imagines "the ancient laws of the British constitution" to be.

cc: @davidallengreen.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Read some news this evening that has me gobsmacked and outraged if it's even remotely true. And I can't do anything more than be vague about it. GAH!
December 9, 2024 at 11:04 PM
I'm new. I'm told that #proofofcat is the best form of ID. Here is Indy, beloved boy cat and brother to Raven.

I may not post much, but I am very much a real live human being. Like all you other real live human beings. With hearts, and brains, and other fleshy accoutrements.
October 6, 2023 at 7:40 AM