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Lance Walton 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
@lancewalton.bsky.social
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Programmer (mostly Scala), Pianist, Composer of Baroque Musick
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Sigh:
A screenshot of my PodPoint Solo car charger app, which is currently indicating that charging is paused and there is -53 minutes of charging left. It has a “Stop charging now” button. Pressing it does nothing. Trying to get it to start a charge doesn’t work.
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Really, Nissan?
A screenshot of the Nissan iPhone App saying that they’re “having a tune-up and will be finished at 11:15.”
October 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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“But we are absolutely not going to try to unwind it, because that would upset the right wingers”.
A picture of Rachel Reeves with the caption “Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy”
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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They should just give him a participation medal or something.
An article: Nobel peace prize Norway braces for Trump's reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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A screenshot of the post I am replying to together with the next post down in my timeline, which is by @effinbirds with a picture of a bird (not a duck, admittedly) saying “What the shit?”
August 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Yes. I definitely chose and continue to choose the thing that *I* really like doing in order to be attractive to women.

Who comes up with this utter crap?
A bar chart apparently showing the “Top 15 most attractive hobbies to women”
August 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The word “liberal” has been murdered.
Screenshot of a post with the text: German cops arresting someone for displaying a pink triangle because it can be "mistaken" for a red triangle in support of Palestine is such an encapsulation of the liberal order everyone is desperate to maintain.
July 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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It’s like looking at a vampire and a zombie.
A photo of Darren Grimes (who looks very pale and is smiling in a way that suggests he might have fangs) and Nigel Farage (who looks quite tanned and is smiling in a way that suggests rigor mortis might be setting in and that teeth will soon start falling out).
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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We’ve got to give Nigel Farage the chance to get in the sea at Clacton.

But unfortunately, he doesn’t even know where Clacton is.
A picture of Rod Stewart with the headline: “Rod Stewart: We've got to give Nigel Farage a chance” And it has a summary of an article: “The singer talks politics, potholes and having a policewoman wife as he prepares to play a 'noisy, sexy and energetic Glastonbury set on Sunday’”
June 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We do not have to give Nigel Farage a chance.

We should not give Nigel Farage a chance.
An article with a picture of Rod Stewart and the headline: “Rod Stewart: We've got to give Nigel Farage a chance” There is a summary of the article too: “The singer talks politics, potholes and having a policewoman wife as he prepares to play a 'noisy, sexy and energetic Glastonbury set on Sunday”
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Seems like a fundamentally circular plan.
A tweet by Elon Musk. It says: We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.
June 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Does anybody recognise this kind of timer (the one on the left)?
A picture of a timer.
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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No. I’m at @wigmore-hall.org.uk again to hear the mighty András Schiff playing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

#piano
The beautiful Steinway and Sons piano at the Wigmore Hall.
June 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I think he saying that they’re jousting rather than lip-syncing.
A screenshot of a Twitter post by Jack Posobiec that says: “Some of y'all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows This is direct communication (phallocentric) vs indirect communication (gynocentric) I understand you aren't used to it”
June 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Did anybody *not* know this?
A post by Elon Musk on Twitter today. It says: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
June 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This incorrect text/buggy calculation has been present in Apple’s Health app for years. So simple to fix.
A chart of my heart rate over the three minutes after my last walk. The heart beat drops from 126 beats per minute to 95 beats per minute in 3 minutes, which is a drop of 31 beats in 3 minutes, or about 10 beats per minute. The caption says “In the 3 minutes after your last walk, your heart rate went down by 31 beats per minute”, which is obviously incorrect. They either need to divide the 31 beats by 3 to get the rate per minute, or change the caption to “your heart rate dropped by 31 beats *over* 3 minutes”.
June 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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They do. Settings/Mobile Service.
An image of the screen in Settings on my iPhone that shows data usage per app.
May 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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How does this fine get paid?
An image of two vans with the Thames Water logo on their sides, parked by the side of the road in behind traffic cones. The caption says “Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty”
May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It seems that some authors need to rapidly write some books. Guaranteed to do well.
This is a “Summer Reading List for 2025” produced by a newspaper using an LLM. The authors are real, but the books don’t exist.
May 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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How much, as a percentage of the total, does each consumer of Meta’s LLM contribute to income generated by it.

I’m guessing it’s a tiny, tiny percentage.

Therefore Meta should not be taking payment for use of Meta’s LLM from any one person.
This is a screenshot of some stuff about why Meta does not think they should pay authors for using their books as training data. The entire text says: ‘But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless-one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining "adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a neaningless change no different from noise." Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company "has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development," they see no market in paying authors to license their books because "for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data." (An argument essential to fair use, but that aiso sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in "The Rite of Spring.")’
April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“Lettuce Leave”?

“Cabbage Patch”?
A photo of Liz truss with the caption “Liz truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer’
April 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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No, *I’m* @wigmore-hall.org.uk watching Yunchan Lim.
The stage of Wigmore Hall with a Steinway grand, waiting for the young master to arrive.
April 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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My dog, Scallywag
My dog, Scallywag, lying in a bed leaves that fell In Autumn and are still on the ground. In front of Scallywag is a daffodils that have just flowered. Scallywag is looking directly at the camera.
March 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I have a shooting BlueSky app issue on my iPhone. The DM icon shows I have 1 unread message. But I don’t.
A screenshot of the nav bar of the iPhone BlueSky app showing the DM button with a little blue “1”, indicating I have 1 unread DM.
March 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I very much doubt US social security has a *single* database.
A screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet saying “Visual representation of the social security database”. Under this comment is an image of a street in the background with two telegraph poles in the foreground. The telegraph poles are about a meter apart. One of them is broken close to the base and is being held together with a lot of duct tape. Elon Musk is an idiot.
March 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM