James Hart
@jameshart.bsky.social
Professional stunt programmer
Average UK by-election candidate
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Average UK by-election candidate
Missed opportunity to refer to ‘space’ as ‘the space battle-space’
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Missed opportunity to refer to ‘space’ as ‘the space battle-space’
To be fair, people have been given plenty of evidence that makes it reasonable to doubt that their fellow citizens are capable of forming reasonable judgements based on data.
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
To be fair, people have been given plenty of evidence that makes it reasonable to doubt that their fellow citizens are capable of forming reasonable judgements based on data.
Similar issue is at root of a lot of complaints about NYT and other serious journalism: "They gave me enough information to make me feel outraged, but since they didn't explicitly *tell* me to feel outraged, I worry other people might not become outraged. This amounts to complicity!"
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Similar issue is at root of a lot of complaints about NYT and other serious journalism: "They gave me enough information to make me feel outraged, but since they didn't explicitly *tell* me to feel outraged, I worry other people might not become outraged. This amounts to complicity!"
What on earth is an 'insurmountable National Security Event'? The capital letters seem threatening.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What on earth is an 'insurmountable National Security Event'? The capital letters seem threatening.
The rock paper scissors party. The democratic socialists think it’s a mainstream liberal party (derogatory). The moderates think it’s a socialist party (derogatory), and the liberals think it’s a moderate party (derogatory)
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The rock paper scissors party. The democratic socialists think it’s a mainstream liberal party (derogatory). The moderates think it’s a socialist party (derogatory), and the liberals think it’s a moderate party (derogatory)
Funny – I seem to remember the Solicitor General standing in the supreme court last week and saying that if the tariffs were working they wouldn’t produce any revenue at all.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Funny – I seem to remember the Solicitor General standing in the supreme court last week and saying that if the tariffs were working they wouldn’t produce any revenue at all.
I've found myself, in the light of LLMs, reevaluating how much weight I put on any fact produced by a human from memory without looking it up. 'ChatGTP says' is not much worse than 'I seem to recall'. An enormous amount of discourse - especially online - is already below the information noise floor.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I've found myself, in the light of LLMs, reevaluating how much weight I put on any fact produced by a human from memory without looking it up. 'ChatGTP says' is not much worse than 'I seem to recall'. An enormous amount of discourse - especially online - is already below the information noise floor.
These are the kinds of questions that should be used in Senate judiciary confirmation hearings to really get at how a justice is going to rule.
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
These are the kinds of questions that should be used in Senate judiciary confirmation hearings to really get at how a justice is going to rule.
There’s case law in Massachusetts that defined that a taco or burrito is not a sandwich. Indiana precedent is the opposite. Not sure where federal law stands on the issue.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
There’s case law in Massachusetts that defined that a taco or burrito is not a sandwich. Indiana precedent is the opposite. Not sure where federal law stands on the issue.
And if you don’t pay your politicians, someone else will.
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
And if you don’t pay your politicians, someone else will.
The rare “tiny if so”, the opposite of the “huge if true”
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The rare “tiny if so”, the opposite of the “huge if true”
But the CIA obviously couldn’t reveal to the British that they’d captured a Soviet boomer (they suspect MI6 is compromised but George Smiley hasn’t uncovered the mole yet) so instead of letting him go they lock Bond up until they need his help to smuggle a chemical weapons expert into Alcatraz.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
But the CIA obviously couldn’t reveal to the British that they’d captured a Soviet boomer (they suspect MI6 is compromised but George Smiley hasn’t uncovered the mole yet) so instead of letting him go they lock Bond up until they need his help to smuggle a chemical weapons expert into Alcatraz.
Purely from a jobs perspective this proposal is clearly a winner. There are currently only 12000 people in the US whose occupation is 'legislator'. Expanding the house like this would mean 23000 people would be employed nationwide in legislative jobs - more than there are radiologists or plasterers.
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Purely from a jobs perspective this proposal is clearly a winner. There are currently only 12000 people in the US whose occupation is 'legislator'. Expanding the house like this would mean 23000 people would be employed nationwide in legislative jobs - more than there are radiologists or plasterers.
Also: making eye contact.
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Also: making eye contact.
Taking that output and putting it online is a choice for which a person can be held accountable.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Taking that output and putting it online is a choice for which a person can be held accountable.
The problem here is more thousands of people who have mistakenly trusted a blocklist that they likely expected to just filter low effort AI memecoin shills, ending up blocking a legitimate ML academic without knowing that’s happening.
Curate your blocklist subscriptions.
Curate your blocklist subscriptions.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The problem here is more thousands of people who have mistakenly trusted a blocklist that they likely expected to just filter low effort AI memecoin shills, ending up blocking a legitimate ML academic without knowing that’s happening.
Curate your blocklist subscriptions.
Curate your blocklist subscriptions.
An AI authored site like Grokipedia exists because of human actions made as a result of human decisions. If humans decided to post a bunch of AI-generated articles on there those humans are liable. Any other theory of accountability is nonsensical.
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
An AI authored site like Grokipedia exists because of human actions made as a result of human decisions. If humans decided to post a bunch of AI-generated articles on there those humans are liable. Any other theory of accountability is nonsensical.
One would not be suing the AI. It’s the person operating it who is responsible for what they do with it.
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
One would not be suing the AI. It’s the person operating it who is responsible for what they do with it.
And everything is rainsoaked and lit with a sickly RGB LED glow. Although it’s more Christmas-themed than Ridley Scott envisioned perhaps.
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And everything is rainsoaked and lit with a sickly RGB LED glow. Although it’s more Christmas-themed than Ridley Scott envisioned perhaps.
As Michael Caine said about his involvement with Jaws 4:
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house it built, and it is terrific.”
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house it built, and it is terrific.”
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As Michael Caine said about his involvement with Jaws 4:
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house it built, and it is terrific.”
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house it built, and it is terrific.”