J-P
@jptreen.bsky.social
Poorly integrated personality. Erratic sense of self. Muesli.
In a Nicholas II sort of way, or a 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' sort of way?
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In a Nicholas II sort of way, or a 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' sort of way?
It's Anyone But You, because recency bias makes this 2023 film that much better than any of yours regardless of any other relative merits of the films.
It's also really good though.
It's also really good though.
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's Anyone But You, because recency bias makes this 2023 film that much better than any of yours regardless of any other relative merits of the films.
It's also really good though.
It's also really good though.
Dudley Moore? What about Patrick Moore!?
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dudley Moore? What about Patrick Moore!?
Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko).
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko).
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
The mirror of the 2020s is kind only to Ozempic users.
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The mirror of the 2020s is kind only to Ozempic users.
I'm still packing this museum piece until August '28. Still had to run out of the EU after 89 days last week though. 😢
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm still packing this museum piece until August '28. Still had to run out of the EU after 89 days last week though. 😢
You've made me think about it now, and I'd not even mind each chapter read by a different actor. I could close my eyes and pretend I was a child who had half of Equity for parents.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy in a 'Love Actually' kind of way.
And that's still not as good as one good voice.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy in a 'Love Actually' kind of way.
And that's still not as good as one good voice.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You've made me think about it now, and I'd not even mind each chapter read by a different actor. I could close my eyes and pretend I was a child who had half of Equity for parents.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy in a 'Love Actually' kind of way.
And that's still not as good as one good voice.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy in a 'Love Actually' kind of way.
And that's still not as good as one good voice.
I love a medieval analogy as much as the next guy, but the difference is between OpenAI and China. Anthropic deliver tight productivity tools, and Google are Venice, with their continued stranglehold on the Adriatic, they can afford *all the churches*. Damn, I did it too.
December 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I love a medieval analogy as much as the next guy, but the difference is between OpenAI and China. Anthropic deliver tight productivity tools, and Google are Venice, with their continued stranglehold on the Adriatic, they can afford *all the churches*. Damn, I did it too.
For those who Amazon, the V13 ebook is on offer on the Kindle store for 99p!
December 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
For those who Amazon, the V13 ebook is on offer on the Kindle store for 99p!
Oh Jerry, you weren’t invited?
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Oh Jerry, you weren’t invited?
Ahem! I want to pretend I live on a spaceship!! Fortunately for me, spaceships have tiny windows, they smell, and the food is bad. All I have to do is wait to be put in a home, ask for the most Victorian one available, and I’m sorted.
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ahem! I want to pretend I live on a spaceship!! Fortunately for me, spaceships have tiny windows, they smell, and the food is bad. All I have to do is wait to be put in a home, ask for the most Victorian one available, and I’m sorted.
The one time I have ever been interviewed for the TV, it was edited to make it look like my pre-verbal child was rejecting my politics, which was actually cute.
On the whole she was probably correct, too.
On the whole she was probably correct, too.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The one time I have ever been interviewed for the TV, it was edited to make it look like my pre-verbal child was rejecting my politics, which was actually cute.
On the whole she was probably correct, too.
On the whole she was probably correct, too.
If my parents had contacted me daily when I was at university I would have blocked them.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If my parents had contacted me daily when I was at university I would have blocked them.
One of the most famous phrases in software: 'There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.'
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
One of the most famous phrases in software: 'There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.'
Starmer's not setting out a cohesive set of ideals from which policy flows. Him following advice is just advisors filling that void at the top. Who knows what budget Reeves would have produced for a PM such as Blair, or how McSweeney would have advised? I suspect they'd both look far more adept.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Starmer's not setting out a cohesive set of ideals from which policy flows. Him following advice is just advisors filling that void at the top. Who knows what budget Reeves would have produced for a PM such as Blair, or how McSweeney would have advised? I suspect they'd both look far more adept.
Sarcasm has been done for by rising sea levels, I see.
Also:
Also:
Alfred Hitchcock- "Puns are the highest form of literature"
YouTube video by mountnpilot
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Sarcasm has been done for by rising sea levels, I see.
Also:
Also:
No-one’s as smart as Kemi Badenoch thinks she is.
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
No-one’s as smart as Kemi Badenoch thinks she is.
Fair. Starmer did have a clear political project, it's just that it ended on the 4th of July 2024.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Fair. Starmer did have a clear political project, it's just that it ended on the 4th of July 2024.
All recent PMs have seemed constantly overwhelmed by events. I know we like beating them up for it, but when smart people consistently fail, then maybe it's the system and not the person.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
All recent PMs have seemed constantly overwhelmed by events. I know we like beating them up for it, but when smart people consistently fail, then maybe it's the system and not the person.
Come on, it's as easy as:
cx, cy, cz = upck(ccon(vpp(ca), cpq(cb)), config['c'])
(I *hate* cracked 100x devs)
cx, cy, cz = upck(ccon(vpp(ca), cpq(cb)), config['c'])
(I *hate* cracked 100x devs)
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Come on, it's as easy as:
cx, cy, cz = upck(ccon(vpp(ca), cpq(cb)), config['c'])
(I *hate* cracked 100x devs)
cx, cy, cz = upck(ccon(vpp(ca), cpq(cb)), config['c'])
(I *hate* cracked 100x devs)
Personal pride and pride in a person connected with you have separate definitions, with different implications. We should really have different words for them, it causes such trouble.
We should do the same with shame. It would be far easier to reason about them.
We should do the same with shame. It would be far easier to reason about them.
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Personal pride and pride in a person connected with you have separate definitions, with different implications. We should really have different words for them, it causes such trouble.
We should do the same with shame. It would be far easier to reason about them.
We should do the same with shame. It would be far easier to reason about them.
100 years ago: Call him 'evil', and move on.
We struggle with the ability to accept that some things don't need to be understood, they just need to be named.
I'd take what we do now over more religious alternatives, but it's also weak sauce, polemically.
We struggle with the ability to accept that some things don't need to be understood, they just need to be named.
I'd take what we do now over more religious alternatives, but it's also weak sauce, polemically.
November 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
100 years ago: Call him 'evil', and move on.
We struggle with the ability to accept that some things don't need to be understood, they just need to be named.
I'd take what we do now over more religious alternatives, but it's also weak sauce, polemically.
We struggle with the ability to accept that some things don't need to be understood, they just need to be named.
I'd take what we do now over more religious alternatives, but it's also weak sauce, polemically.
Yep. I was thinking about *my* confused thinking, in that you could make a black box that seemed more convincing that way, but it would lose the capacity to say anything interesting.
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Yep. I was thinking about *my* confused thinking, in that you could make a black box that seemed more convincing that way, but it would lose the capacity to say anything interesting.
I like the little box. Flattened valence made it simpler to play with initially.
"Position dependent valence" - yes, I'm wrong there. Confused thinking. I wanted to be able to move parties around the compass and have their valences change automatically, which is not what you're doing.
"Position dependent valence" - yes, I'm wrong there. Confused thinking. I wanted to be able to move parties around the compass and have their valences change automatically, which is not what you're doing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I like the little box. Flattened valence made it simpler to play with initially.
"Position dependent valence" - yes, I'm wrong there. Confused thinking. I wanted to be able to move parties around the compass and have their valences change automatically, which is not what you're doing.
"Position dependent valence" - yes, I'm wrong there. Confused thinking. I wanted to be able to move parties around the compass and have their valences change automatically, which is not what you're doing.