Go home Merriam, you’re drunk.

Perfect summary, 10/10 no notes.

If it looks like a snake But it lives in a lake That's a moray

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane” is a neatly economical summary and not enough people are using it.

I guess humans have always been this credulous and it’s always led to bad things (see: centuries of religious wars). I just wrongly thought we’d got a bit better.

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I have been shouting at the radio about this every half hour so far today.

Well I never. (I did.)

BBC news: Reform is proposing an inhumane and economically disastrous policy but we’re just going to state the policy and move on. Donald Trump is spreading lies that endanger pregnant women and we’re going to repeat those lies verbatim and ‘both sides’ by quoting the NHS, rather than ignoring him.

Gosh there’s a world of difference between ‘wouldn’t work’ and ‘shouldn’t be attempted even if it would work’.

As predictable as it is reprehensible.

If the BBC just report this plan verbatim and don’t challenge Reform on the practicalities or consequences then I want to know why not. In this headline-only micronews environment ‘X says Y’ is a menace that they haven’t adjusted to.

What’s great about content design done by humans is that you can get high accuracy _and_ accessible jargon-free simplicity.

So uh, Charlie Kirk was Judas?

Multiple impeachable offences on a daily basis.

Looking at my timeline it looks like this is a bad day to not be as hot as Robert Redford if you’re looking for any attention at all.

“I’m not racist I just believe a lot of unambiguously racist things”

“Hanging out with your buddies IS the goal” Amen weirdos. Get some friends.

I used to think we were cool. Turns out we’re arseholes.

In his most sharply patriotic book, Orwell could tell the difference between continental-style - or American-style - flag-wagging and unshowy Englishness. And he knew a preening fascist and a disinformer when he saw one.

Britain: Patriotically obsessed with World War II and the defeat of Nazism. Also Britain: Letting far-right Nazi sympathisers claim patriotism.

This is off-the-charts crazy crackers. Rejecting a solar farm because coal mining is dangerous.

I suspect Trump and Zack would not be opposed on the matter of hypnotits.

Dems: This is getting dangerously close to authoritarianism and we politely ask the president to act with moderation. Pull your fingers out, get organised, and fight dirty or you’ll have lost this war before it starts.

One thing that's difficult to assess re: Reform is whether the fact they're deeply deeply weird will matter more in the context of an election campaign.

Classic. Left-wing and poor? Politics of envy. Left-wing and well off? Champagne Socialism.

Aged like fine milk in the sun.

We are giving future history exam question writers a lot to work with right now.

Great thread about why LLMs are a weird and dangerous in the hands of flawed humans.

Some of this from Labour please

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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

LegITiMatE cOnCernS

We need a total and complete shutdown of the Labour Party until our representatives can figure out what’s going on.

Oh Bill no

I guess you can’t understand shared human experience if you don’t understand humans.

This is weapons-grade insane. As if people only consume things not make and contribute things.

I’d be lying if I said I imagined people might use LLMs for really dangerous and delusional things. But I also suspect I would’ve found out, because with a budget of a gasquillion dollars and an insanely powerful product, I would’ve done some goddamn user research.

Move fast and break things, but where things = the world and people

Do we still still talk about being ratioed here on BlueSky?

Turns out sunrise over a foggy lake looks quite pretty.

Comfortably the best use of an LLM yet.

I’ve bought Apple for nearly 30 years. This is wretched and I’m done.

A possible insight into why people are so credulous about LLMs. They work the same way. Shit in, shit out.

Norway holiday reading @theresthistory.bsky.social

If only we could find a way to feed the misplaced overconfidence of men into the national grid.

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Tide limit being considered by Canute