Paul Harman
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The headline is utterly bizarre.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
For Americans: Reuters utterly fucked this up, this election was a landslide for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. Labour collapsed, Reform was barely in the frame, but Reform is popular with English gammon-faced flag-shaggers (not Welsh folks), so that's what the lede has to be.
Amazing
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The headline is utterly bizarre.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
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The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.
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"vibe coding" really is the worst development in software of all time. "woah what if you could just tell the computer what to do and then it did that" that's called writing code. code is the language that tells the computer what to do.
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"vibe coding" really is the worst development in software of all time. "woah what if you could just tell the computer what to do and then it did that" that's called writing code. code is the language that tells the computer what to do.
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I feel like every company/team, no matter how big, has some sort of load-bearing whimsy to their work and nobody quite knows what it is but the second you remove it, things turn to shit.
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I feel like every company/team, no matter how big, has some sort of load-bearing whimsy to their work and nobody quite knows what it is but the second you remove it, things turn to shit.
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It blows my mind that people use ChatGPT for "research." It literally makes no sense to me to consult a plagiarism machine that has been shown, over and over again, to be unworthy of trust and horrifically unreliable. Who looks at that and says, "That's for me!!1!"?
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It blows my mind that people use ChatGPT for "research." It literally makes no sense to me to consult a plagiarism machine that has been shown, over and over again, to be unworthy of trust and horrifically unreliable. Who looks at that and says, "That's for me!!1!"?
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The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
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October 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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“The Times today reveals that eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.”
Imagine Reform running the country.
Imagine Reform running the country.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“The Times today reveals that eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.”
Imagine Reform running the country.
Imagine Reform running the country.
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LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
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We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.
“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.
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I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.
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D*Fuzed is a retro-inspired, GameBoy game, where you are playing as a charming robot who is looking to save their friends! I reviewed the game by @asobitech.com for @indiegamesplus.bsky.social:
indiegamesplus.com/d-fuzed-revi...
indiegamesplus.com/d-fuzed-revi...
'D*Fuzed' Stops Bombs From Blasting Robot Buddies
D*Fuzed needs you to carefully defuse bombs before the time limit runs out or else you and your robot buddies might get blown up.
indiegamesplus.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
D*Fuzed is a retro-inspired, GameBoy game, where you are playing as a charming robot who is looking to save their friends! I reviewed the game by @asobitech.com for @indiegamesplus.bsky.social:
indiegamesplus.com/d-fuzed-revi...
indiegamesplus.com/d-fuzed-revi...
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just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
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If we convinced people A.I. stands for Artifical Immigrant, do you think they would realize what is really going to steal their jobs?
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If we convinced people A.I. stands for Artifical Immigrant, do you think they would realize what is really going to steal their jobs?
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I saw every political party leader in the UK on the news talking about the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester except the one political party leader who is Jewish and from Manchester.
Maybe I missed something?
Maybe I missed something?
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I saw every political party leader in the UK on the news talking about the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester except the one political party leader who is Jewish and from Manchester.
Maybe I missed something?
Maybe I missed something?
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I can’t believe software engineers of all people are using LLMs to generate code. You’re letting software do this? Have you SEEN software before?
October 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I can’t believe software engineers of all people are using LLMs to generate code. You’re letting software do this? Have you SEEN software before?
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This is so breathtakingly, startlingly obvious - let alone the right thing to do - you have to wonder why Labour aren’t doing it. It’s a no-brainier.
The closer than the Tories get to Reform, the more it makes sense for Labour to leave them to it and head back towards the centre. Stop bashing immigrants 24/7 and concentrate on the important stuff.
October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is so breathtakingly, startlingly obvious - let alone the right thing to do - you have to wonder why Labour aren’t doing it. It’s a no-brainier.
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Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”
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Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing.
The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.
Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.
The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.
Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing.
The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.
Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.
The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.
Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.
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I love how Starmer says the BritCard is going to be free.
If an online service is "free" - you, and your data, are the product.
If an online service is "free" - you, and your data, are the product.
September 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I love how Starmer says the BritCard is going to be free.
If an online service is "free" - you, and your data, are the product.
If an online service is "free" - you, and your data, are the product.
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One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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do people not realise that everyone already legally has to prove right to work in this country, using a combination of ID forms, and any job that currently skirts the law in this is just… gonna keep doing that
September 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
do people not realise that everyone already legally has to prove right to work in this country, using a combination of ID forms, and any job that currently skirts the law in this is just… gonna keep doing that
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I have never been more sure that Labour will lose the next election than I am today.
The digital ID card push has sealed their fate and welded it shut.
It's just a matter of time now.
So very, very sad. Thoroughly depressing. And 100.00% self-inflicted.
The digital ID card push has sealed their fate and welded it shut.
It's just a matter of time now.
So very, very sad. Thoroughly depressing. And 100.00% self-inflicted.
September 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have never been more sure that Labour will lose the next election than I am today.
The digital ID card push has sealed their fate and welded it shut.
It's just a matter of time now.
So very, very sad. Thoroughly depressing. And 100.00% self-inflicted.
The digital ID card push has sealed their fate and welded it shut.
It's just a matter of time now.
So very, very sad. Thoroughly depressing. And 100.00% self-inflicted.
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I was broadly in favour of national ID until recently.
But I realise now that, rather than buying in battle tested technology from countries that have successfully adopted them (like Estonia), it seems much more likely we will bafflingly hand-roll a jolly British version.
At which point... 🤦 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️
But I realise now that, rather than buying in battle tested technology from countries that have successfully adopted them (like Estonia), it seems much more likely we will bafflingly hand-roll a jolly British version.
At which point... 🤦 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️
September 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I was broadly in favour of national ID until recently.
But I realise now that, rather than buying in battle tested technology from countries that have successfully adopted them (like Estonia), it seems much more likely we will bafflingly hand-roll a jolly British version.
At which point... 🤦 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️
But I realise now that, rather than buying in battle tested technology from countries that have successfully adopted them (like Estonia), it seems much more likely we will bafflingly hand-roll a jolly British version.
At which point... 🤦 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️