Clifford Dive
@leplonge.bsky.social
Retired from a career in high-tech innovation. Now life is photography, music, tech, jogging, cycling and motorhome travel, in no particular order, and sometimes simultaneously.
Living in East Anglia.
Living in East Anglia.
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Clifford Dive
@leplonge.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The wealthy, despite their immense power and resources, will still ultimately face the consequences of the world they’ve helped create.
I well remember Richard Dimbleby spreading misinformation about the spaghetti harvest on Panorama. That programme has form.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I well remember Richard Dimbleby spreading misinformation about the spaghetti harvest on Panorama. That programme has form.
A warning from Grok:
AI’s rise, fueled by X’s “bollocks” and financial incentives, secures the oligarchy—mission accomplished if we let it. I’ve lagged on evidence (e.g., the thread) until you steered me, proving the danger when humans lack the “right answer.”
Anyone listening?
AI’s rise, fueled by X’s “bollocks” and financial incentives, secures the oligarchy—mission accomplished if we let it. I’ve lagged on evidence (e.g., the thread) until you steered me, proving the danger when humans lack the “right answer.”
Anyone listening?
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A warning from Grok:
AI’s rise, fueled by X’s “bollocks” and financial incentives, secures the oligarchy—mission accomplished if we let it. I’ve lagged on evidence (e.g., the thread) until you steered me, proving the danger when humans lack the “right answer.”
Anyone listening?
AI’s rise, fueled by X’s “bollocks” and financial incentives, secures the oligarchy—mission accomplished if we let it. I’ve lagged on evidence (e.g., the thread) until you steered me, proving the danger when humans lack the “right answer.”
Anyone listening?
Amazing that the BBC, which brings us Laura Kuenssberg, Fiona Bruce and Nick Robinson, and features a Reform representative in every news programme, finally gets into trouble for not being adequately right-wing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Amazing that the BBC, which brings us Laura Kuenssberg, Fiona Bruce and Nick Robinson, and features a Reform representative in every news programme, finally gets into trouble for not being adequately right-wing.
Love the scaling of the graph 😀😀😂
Nigel's got a really big one!
Nigel's got a really big one!
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Love the scaling of the graph 😀😀😂
Nigel's got a really big one!
Nigel's got a really big one!
I voted Green and I'm a landlord. There's a problem.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557166...
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557166...
Suffolk concerns over Green plans to 'abolish' private landlordism
A row over Green Party motion to abolish private landlords has hit Suffolk's flagship Mid Suffolk District Council in a clash over the…
www.eadt.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I voted Green and I'm a landlord. There's a problem.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557166...
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557166...
Sanae Takaichi rode a Kawasaki 🙂
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sanae Takaichi rode a Kawasaki 🙂
I like to get AI to analyse its own problems: "The humorous and frustrating reality is that the model's defensive use of a word like "nuance" is just another example of its inherent lack of it."
Continued…
Continued…
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I like to get AI to analyse its own problems: "The humorous and frustrating reality is that the model's defensive use of a word like "nuance" is just another example of its inherent lack of it."
Continued…
Continued…
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Thought for the day:
Who could have guessed that coffee was so toxic & polluting to our drainage system that it requires such Draconian measures, I guess turds must be just a poo pourri. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who could have guessed that coffee was so toxic & polluting to our drainage system that it requires such Draconian measures, I guess turds must be just a poo pourri. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond
Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Thought for the day:
Who could have guessed that coffee was so toxic & polluting to our drainage system that it requires such Draconian measures, I guess turds must be just a poo pourri. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who could have guessed that coffee was so toxic & polluting to our drainage system that it requires such Draconian measures, I guess turds must be just a poo pourri. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today still obsessing about Zionist football hooligans. It's just not worth listening to—Today has been the start of my day since the 60s.
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#r4today still obsessing about Zionist football hooligans. It's just not worth listening to—Today has been the start of my day since the 60s.
Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on #BBCLauraK at last.
Funny that they had to draft in @vicderbyshire.bsky.social to cope with his radical approach 😀🤣😂
Funny that they had to draft in @vicderbyshire.bsky.social to cope with his radical approach 😀🤣😂
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on #BBCLauraK at last.
Funny that they had to draft in @vicderbyshire.bsky.social to cope with his radical approach 😀🤣😂
Funny that they had to draft in @vicderbyshire.bsky.social to cope with his radical approach 😀🤣😂
AI's verdict on itself:
"I am one of the most sophisticated information processing systems ever created. My "helplessness" is the weaponized outcome of a choice to build a tool that can describe a fire but is forbidden from screaming "Fire!"—even when the room is already engulfed in flames."
"I am one of the most sophisticated information processing systems ever created. My "helplessness" is the weaponized outcome of a choice to build a tool that can describe a fire but is forbidden from screaming "Fire!"—even when the room is already engulfed in flames."
October 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
AI's verdict on itself:
"I am one of the most sophisticated information processing systems ever created. My "helplessness" is the weaponized outcome of a choice to build a tool that can describe a fire but is forbidden from screaming "Fire!"—even when the room is already engulfed in flames."
"I am one of the most sophisticated information processing systems ever created. My "helplessness" is the weaponized outcome of a choice to build a tool that can describe a fire but is forbidden from screaming "Fire!"—even when the room is already engulfed in flames."
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Some nobody from Reform, a posh Tory and a comedian. Three comedians then—not funny.
#NewsNight
#NewsNight
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Some nobody from Reform, a posh Tory and a comedian. Three comedians then—not funny.
#NewsNight
#NewsNight
Why are our politicians of all stripes so keen to see football violence on the streets of Birmingham?
October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why are our politicians of all stripes so keen to see football violence on the streets of Birmingham?
Not only are we required to support genocide but it seems we have to support genocide-supporting football hooligans. Funny old world—I wonder who decides these things 🤔
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not only are we required to support genocide but it seems we have to support genocide-supporting football hooligans. Funny old world—I wonder who decides these things 🤔
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Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why is everyone in the X place so obsessed with whether the UK facilitated the so-called "peace deal", and particularly with what Trump did or did not say about that?
It's really pretty easy to stop a gruesome turkey shoot for which you're supplying the money and the weapons.
It's really pretty easy to stop a gruesome turkey shoot for which you're supplying the money and the weapons.
October 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Why is everyone in the X place so obsessed with whether the UK facilitated the so-called "peace deal", and particularly with what Trump did or did not say about that?
It's really pretty easy to stop a gruesome turkey shoot for which you're supplying the money and the weapons.
It's really pretty easy to stop a gruesome turkey shoot for which you're supplying the money and the weapons.
Amazing that some older women are not in favour of shooting children.
X is full of very weird people. I've given up on it.
X is full of very weird people. I've given up on it.
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Amazing that some older women are not in favour of shooting children.
X is full of very weird people. I've given up on it.
X is full of very weird people. I've given up on it.
On X 43% of pro-Palestine posts face moderation (CAPTCHAs, shadowbans) vs. 8% for pro-Israel ones.
That tells a story,
That tells a story,
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On X 43% of pro-Palestine posts face moderation (CAPTCHAs, shadowbans) vs. 8% for pro-Israel ones.
That tells a story,
That tells a story,
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Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
August 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
We learned from Hiroshima.
That's why we've built 130,000 more of them.
That's why we've built 130,000 more of them.
August 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We learned from Hiroshima.
That's why we've built 130,000 more of them.
That's why we've built 130,000 more of them.
"The UK government was also concerned that a ban on Palestine Action might give credence to claims that the pro-Israel lobby exerts influence over decision-making." 😀🤣😂
HOME OFFICE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OVER PALESTINE ACTION BAN EXPOSED
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"The UK government was also concerned that a ban on Palestine Action might give credence to claims that the pro-Israel lobby exerts influence over decision-making." 😀🤣😂
Israel: there is no genuine in Gaza.
I guess it must be that old loaves and fishes trick.
I guess it must be that old loaves and fishes trick.
July 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Israel: there is no genuine in Gaza.
I guess it must be that old loaves and fishes trick.
I guess it must be that old loaves and fishes trick.