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"Truth be told, I’m playing the long game here. All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmark until I get one."
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Truth be told, I’m playing the long game here. All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmark until I get one."
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Green Party Councillor Tom Butcher was among Swindon Borough Councillors in attendance today at the Cenotaph, Regent Circus, to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday Service.
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Green Party Councillor Tom Butcher was among Swindon Borough Councillors in attendance today at the Cenotaph, Regent Circus, to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday Service.
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MEET YOUR GREENS 💚 We had a fantastic evening at the Blunsdon Arms this past week, with members new and old getting together.
We're fast approaching 400 new members since the beginning of September!
#SwindonGreens #GreenParty
We're fast approaching 400 new members since the beginning of September!
#SwindonGreens #GreenParty
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
MEET YOUR GREENS 💚 We had a fantastic evening at the Blunsdon Arms this past week, with members new and old getting together.
We're fast approaching 400 new members since the beginning of September!
#SwindonGreens #GreenParty
We're fast approaching 400 new members since the beginning of September!
#SwindonGreens #GreenParty
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How we talk about history is the issue where the media and political discourse is perhaps most out of touch with how out of touch Nigel Farage is with the British public, outside his core vocal minority
'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
How we talk about history is the issue where the media and political discourse is perhaps most out of touch with how out of touch Nigel Farage is with the British public, outside his core vocal minority
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🚨On both social and traditional media it’s easy to find commentary claiming that Nigel Farage’s extreme deportations policy and the recent series of anti-migrant protests represent the will of the British people. But they don’t.⬇️ shorturl.at/RvFb3
Nigel Farage and the Anti-Migrant Protestors Do Not Represent the ‘Silent Majority’ – HOPE not hate
Prefer to listen? Click the play button to hear the audio version of this article On both social and traditional media it’s easy to find...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🚨On both social and traditional media it’s easy to find commentary claiming that Nigel Farage’s extreme deportations policy and the recent series of anti-migrant protests represent the will of the British people. But they don’t.⬇️ shorturl.at/RvFb3
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The numbers aren’t there. Given the huge online efforts to stir up these protests, the headline should surely be how badly they’ve failed and fizzled.
In fact, the failure of the protests against the “public fury” narrative would be a major story. But it’s not what’s being reported.
In fact, the failure of the protests against the “public fury” narrative would be a major story. But it’s not what’s being reported.
August 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The numbers aren’t there. Given the huge online efforts to stir up these protests, the headline should surely be how badly they’ve failed and fizzled.
In fact, the failure of the protests against the “public fury” narrative would be a major story. But it’s not what’s being reported.
In fact, the failure of the protests against the “public fury” narrative would be a major story. But it’s not what’s being reported.
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Despite all the hysteria whipped up by the far right, certain sectors of the media and our own government, official figures show the UK has HALF the number of asylum applications that Germay has, and significantly fewer than Spain, France and Italy.
An interesting point to note on "pull factors" - the top nationality claiming asylum in Spain is Venezuelan, a country which barely features in the UK at all, showing that language/culture can be an important factor for people choosing a destination country
August 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Despite all the hysteria whipped up by the far right, certain sectors of the media and our own government, official figures show the UK has HALF the number of asylum applications that Germay has, and significantly fewer than Spain, France and Italy.
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in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
![A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].
The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mzhk55756kcluyutorbqyex/bafkreicxukeks37aqp6tgtzj2hlbvjgtxc5syw4ptr6nnojxhazlrfwflq@jpeg)
August 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
this comment aged like fine wine
At some point he will fight with Trump like he's fighting with Farage and he will lose because Trump is more popular and has the real levers of power.
June 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
this comment aged like fine wine
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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Look—I learned from Dune to mistrust computers, but also that mistrust of computers leads us to a tyrannical thousand year reign of a giant man worm, so I think it’s a little more complicated than you think.
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Look—I learned from Dune to mistrust computers, but also that mistrust of computers leads us to a tyrannical thousand year reign of a giant man worm, so I think it’s a little more complicated than you think.
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Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
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April 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
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PTCGLive giving everyone a free trans rights hoodie.
March 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
PTCGLive giving everyone a free trans rights hoodie.
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Counterintuitive, but: this will crush the US wine industry. Booze gets to market on distributors' trucks. These fleets need volume to run efficiently. Subtract EU wine from the equation & it no longer pencils out. Any gains from less competition would likely be paid back out in margin loss.
March 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Counterintuitive, but: this will crush the US wine industry. Booze gets to market on distributors' trucks. These fleets need volume to run efficiently. Subtract EU wine from the equation & it no longer pencils out. Any gains from less competition would likely be paid back out in margin loss.
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That time of the week
Cheers all.
Cheers all.
March 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
That time of the week
Cheers all.
Cheers all.
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As an occasional writer about superhero things who used to complain that "supervillain runs for office and wins" storylines are stupid because everyone knows Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin and they've seen him murder people on TV, I've had to reexamine many of my priors
March 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
As an occasional writer about superhero things who used to complain that "supervillain runs for office and wins" storylines are stupid because everyone knows Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin and they've seen him murder people on TV, I've had to reexamine many of my priors