Terrimothy
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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We absolutely do not need to know the origin story of Poirot’s mustache complete with flashback. Get back to over the top period detectiving.
WORD I am really, really tired of "we tease the tragic backstory of the detective" can't a detective just detect, the murder is surely sufficient drama.
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We absolutely do not need to know the origin story of Poirot’s mustache complete with flashback. Get back to over the top period detectiving.
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Well well well, the consequences of our own actions. We meet again.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Well well well, the consequences of our own actions. We meet again.
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This is fascism
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is fascism
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I'm beginning to suspect that Jeff Bezos might not know that the French Revolution was an actual thing.
December 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that Jeff Bezos might not know that the French Revolution was an actual thing.
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This book lies. There's no instructions in here at all!
January 14, 2024 at 3:14 AM
This book lies. There's no instructions in here at all!
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ppl have been saying for years 'the only solution to this is to disband the met and build something new' but our political class are too lazy to build new things so instead we just get this constant stream of corruption over and over and over.
Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade
Undercover officers secretly monitored a community organisation that sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police, the spycops public inquiry has heard.
Previously secret reports show that the Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA) in east London and its key organiser were monitored by police spies for a decade. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
ppl have been saying for years 'the only solution to this is to disband the met and build something new' but our political class are too lazy to build new things so instead we just get this constant stream of corruption over and over and over.
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This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research:
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research:
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
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The danger with crypto/NFTs was not that they'd do any of what was promised but that the rich would force the technology into everything and force people to use it to interact with existing services. That failed and genAI is being pushed by the same trash but with the experience of the NFT bubble
increasingly starting to think that the endgame is to kill consumer computing so end users are driven to use centrally-operated cloud computing farms that these companies have total control over, so AI becomes inescapable
right now AI is irritating but possible to avoid, and we can't have that
right now AI is irritating but possible to avoid, and we can't have that
Samsung halting SATA SSD production says leaker, warns of 18 months of SSD price pressure
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The danger with crypto/NFTs was not that they'd do any of what was promised but that the rich would force the technology into everything and force people to use it to interact with existing services. That failed and genAI is being pushed by the same trash but with the experience of the NFT bubble
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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Why would we want to OWN any copies of scrolls, honey, the Library of Alexandria has plenty!
Why do (us) old people want to burden Gen Z with our nostalgia for an antique piece of hardware in the first place?
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Why would we want to OWN any copies of scrolls, honey, the Library of Alexandria has plenty!
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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When we say "research shows that you shouldn't do it" these people revolt, because "do the thing" was their sole success criterion. They were doing it not to improve retention or increase productivity or any of those things, so alternative ideas that work won't be accepted. It HAS to be That Thing.
May 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When we say "research shows that you shouldn't do it" these people revolt, because "do the thing" was their sole success criterion. They were doing it not to improve retention or increase productivity or any of those things, so alternative ideas that work won't be accepted. It HAS to be That Thing.
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Phil gets more of the "how do I make this inherently unsafe thing safe" type questions, but in UX they are more of the flavor "we decided to make the product worse, tell us how to justify it." What @miniver.bsky.social calls decision driven evidence making.
May 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Phil gets more of the "how do I make this inherently unsafe thing safe" type questions, but in UX they are more of the flavor "we decided to make the product worse, tell us how to justify it." What @miniver.bsky.social calls decision driven evidence making.
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Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
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The US is utterly broken. The world will never rate you again.
December 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The US is utterly broken. The world will never rate you again.
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The answer to this is, obviously, start eating children.
So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The answer to this is, obviously, start eating children.
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real police state stuff
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
real police state stuff
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Liam Neeson isn’t trending because he’s dead, but his sense of shame is.
(Narrated an anti-vax pro-RFK documentary)
(Narrated an anti-vax pro-RFK documentary)
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Liam Neeson isn’t trending because he’s dead, but his sense of shame is.
(Narrated an anti-vax pro-RFK documentary)
(Narrated an anti-vax pro-RFK documentary)
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There is no such thing as “underage women”. Those are CHILDREN.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There is no such thing as “underage women”. Those are CHILDREN.
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MY STATEMENT THAT “AI” IS ALWAYS BASED ON GHOST LABOR REMAINS UNDEFEATED
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
MY STATEMENT THAT “AI” IS ALWAYS BASED ON GHOST LABOR REMAINS UNDEFEATED
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Materials that Donald and Melania Trump were eager to keep secret: "One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face... Another showed Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by the committee." www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald Tr...
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Materials that Donald and Melania Trump were eager to keep secret: "One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face... Another showed Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by the committee." www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...