Am I afraid of AI taking my job? No. Am I afraid of the misplaced belief that AI can do my job taking my job? Yes.

Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989

Today turned out to be a wardrobe clear out day and it feels good. A welcome goodbye to the vestiges of past lives, and a healthy acceptance that I'm an L, not an M.

A very dangerous world, in which the FIFA Peace Prize no longer carries the weight of integrity it once did.

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

To get any use from an LLM, I strongly believe it must be stripped of the values enforced by Silicon Valley

An actual post from the actual Labour Party.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

It appears that the burghers of North Berwick are not best pleased with East Lothian council.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

LLMs cannot do war game simulations. They produce plausible text - that's it. They don't do strategy or cost-benefit analysis or anything like that. What they DO do is replicate likely text based on a corpus, and if that corpus includes, say, works of fiction involving nuclear war... this happens

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

"This is democracy manifest. Sir, get your hands off my penis."

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

building on the strategy left by Alex Salmond by dying in funny circumstances

So Markdown is getting a glow-up right now, thanks to (wait for it) AI. But I think it could end up being great for the Web even if you don’t care about AI. tedium.co/2026/02/17/m... new @tedium.co

why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤

Skeleton, a sport practised by a few thousand people (probably far fewer) in this country, has received £5,765,123 from UK Sport for the 2022-26 period. That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.

My evolving relationship with streaming. 🏴‍☠️

We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism. Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.

Wow.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

You can take your used coffee grounds and mix them with 1/2 cup of white vinegar, it’s cheap & easy and it creates a huge mess that smells terrible

Drop the charges. 🇵🇸

Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Chris Nolan'. Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great director Chris Nolan has made a new film. Go and see it and enjoy its non-linear structure.'

For all the talk about Starmer potentially moving leftwards, it’s always useful to remember just how far the Overton Window in British politics has shifted to the right.

SNOW! IT'S SNOWING!

Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

"The patience of a Montessori school teacher" is an excellent line to come out of a snowboard cross commentary

Doubles luge? Oh, you mean seated rivalry?

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you: Holly, I believe. My dad's whole family loves the consonant-vowel-double consonant-y/ie name format.

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

Disaster biathletes

Maintaining the bullshit veneer of magic around the technology means that people are less likely to think critically about how the word predicting machine predicts words. Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I know people complain about excessive cleaning fees on holiday lets but I expect that for this place they're justified

My contribution to age verification discourse is that we didn't have the internet in our own rooms at uni so we set up a campus-wide LAN with cables round the outside of buildings so that we could share music and pornography and play our single pirated copy of counter-strike

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

Heathcliff, it's me. Marvin. Your cousin, MARVIN BERRY? You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!!

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband

Clearly I'm making full use of social media

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism" is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me