Chris Painter
@rineen.bsky.social
Wide awake for the common good, I make mind-levers. Brit, sails West Cork badly, fishes worse, classicist.
Roll your own Wikipedia concept maps at
https://www.headstarter.pro/services/sherlockWiki.html
Roll your own Wikipedia concept maps at
https://www.headstarter.pro/services/sherlockWiki.html
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Chris Painter
@rineen.bsky.social
· Aug 14
www.headstarter.pro
Meaning as a hypergraph, why? www.headstarter.pro/assets/pdf/H...
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Exactly. Musk and the DJT cabal are all heartless and cretinous murdering wannabees already, if not actually.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Exactly. Musk and the DJT cabal are all heartless and cretinous murdering wannabees already, if not actually.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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12/10 ~ Exactamundo
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November 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
12/10 ~ Exactamundo
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“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
Wealth Gap Risk Register 2025
An online resource that collates evidence about the impacts of wealth inequality, the solutions and public attitudes to all of the above
fairnessfoundation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality”
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
@fairness.bsky.social
fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
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Contrary to the PR hype the UK banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty.
It is scandal-ridden. Can you name a pristine bank?
Govts shower subsidies and favours upon the industry in the hope that it will deliver economic renaissance. It never has.
It is scandal-ridden. Can you name a pristine bank?
Govts shower subsidies and favours upon the industry in the hope that it will deliver economic renaissance. It never has.
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Contrary to the PR hype the UK banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty.
It is scandal-ridden. Can you name a pristine bank?
Govts shower subsidies and favours upon the industry in the hope that it will deliver economic renaissance. It never has.
It is scandal-ridden. Can you name a pristine bank?
Govts shower subsidies and favours upon the industry in the hope that it will deliver economic renaissance. It never has.
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The state is not needed for censorship. Private companies are shaping public discourse with censorship (lex X), withdrawing sponsorship (lex BA) and disciplining employees for political statements. Theroux will be fine, but ordinary people are being silenced.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The state is not needed for censorship. Private companies are shaping public discourse with censorship (lex X), withdrawing sponsorship (lex BA) and disciplining employees for political statements. Theroux will be fine, but ordinary people are being silenced.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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The US right-wing Christian fundamentalists have been seeking traction in the UK for decades.
The risks are now even greater
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
The risks are now even greater
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams
ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The US right-wing Christian fundamentalists have been seeking traction in the UK for decades.
The risks are now even greater
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
The risks are now even greater
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
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Warning signs from an obscure part of the financial markets have got policymakers rattled, and one of their oldest and most profound fears may be about to get very real.
Warning signs of financial instability rattle policymakers ahead of IMF jamboree
Two big U.S. bankruptcies have revived memories of the last time the financial sector went bad.
www.politico.eu
October 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Warning signs from an obscure part of the financial markets have got policymakers rattled, and one of their oldest and most profound fears may be about to get very real.
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Alternatively
"Swamp the drain"
"Swamp the drain"
August 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Alternatively
"Swamp the drain"
"Swamp the drain"
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
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Totems of Weaponized Inadequacy
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Totems of Weaponized Inadequacy
12/10 ~ Perfectamundo!
October 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
12/10 ~ Perfectamundo!
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Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer.
FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
August 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer.
FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
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I'll tap the sign again.
August 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'll tap the sign again.
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Same klan, different klux
August 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Same klan, different klux
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Stephen Miller describing the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization" is a prelude to the abolition of elections and a complete fascist takeover of the USA. Nobody should be in any doubt whatever that that is what these people have in mind. That's where this is going.
August 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Stephen Miller describing the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization" is a prelude to the abolition of elections and a complete fascist takeover of the USA. Nobody should be in any doubt whatever that that is what these people have in mind. That's where this is going.
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After thought consideration (and swearing into the void), I declare I am my own Large Language Model (LLM)
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The National Weather Service is hiring. Here is part of the application.
August 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
After thought consideration (and swearing into the void), I declare I am my own Large Language Model (LLM)
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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GPT-5 has been pretty underwhelming so far. No shocking - the GPT-4 series also had similar issues at first. However we start to see LLM hitting their limit. Getting to the next steps won't happen without a fundamental shift from LLM into new architectures.
Is AI hitting a wall?
OpenAI’s underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing — and competition is changing
www.ft.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
GPT-5 has been pretty underwhelming so far. No shocking - the GPT-4 series also had similar issues at first. However we start to see LLM hitting their limit. Getting to the next steps won't happen without a fundamental shift from LLM into new architectures.
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I think one my absolute favorite things about the JavaScript ecosystem, that nobody ever talks about, is support for source maps, and just how complex and innovative that is.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think one my absolute favorite things about the JavaScript ecosystem, that nobody ever talks about, is support for source maps, and just how complex and innovative that is.
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