Ed Allison

Whatever works! I just never got comfortable with it. Enough network pull and I’d have bitten the bullet, I think, but that was never there for me.

Bluesky does for me what Mastadon, Threads and the others never did, and substitutes for The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter to the extent that, whilst I might miss elements of the network, I don’t miss it enough to go back.

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

It really is a bit of a shame that AI is taking such a large chunk of the pie with regard to IT training, because I’m doing quite a bit of it at work at the moment and it is incredibly rewarding.

Just to put this out there, if you want me to vote for your political party:

1) Trans rights are non-negotiable.
2) Your party’s behaviour in government will be at best a significant factor in assessment, if not fully determining.

The mixture-of-recursions framework looks interesting (www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2507.10524). I wonder if it will be the “transformers killer” that some are claiming or just an improvement.

On the scale of what some of you are dealing with, this rates zero on the problem Richter scale, but I could really, solidly do with about double the waking hours I have. Which is why I am posting on social media, obviously.

I understand that the terrorist attack that killed 1000 people in Israel warranted action.

I cannot understand how that action can be starving babies and bombing hospitals in hopes you might catch a terrorist.

Trauma is not an excuse to magnify the horrors by exponentials.

It's genocide.

I have said plenty about people dying in Ukraine and not enough about people dying in Gaza. The situation is complex. That does not justify bombing and starving civilians, because nothing does, ever.

*beep* repetition of training

In discussion with friends, something that should have been obvious has crystallised. The training of modern media has been successful in training me to despise all advertising. It could be an advert for a free luxury holiday open only to people with my name and I’d hit ‘skip’ as soon as I could.

To those of us educated during Section 28, they did not dare say a word about being gay.

I’ve seen it now. Incredibly moving. The footage from Bucha will stay with me forever.

I’ll looking at that option - thank you.

Oz, I’d love to watch this on Prime. Any news on when it will be available in the UK region please?

Pavlov had me bang to rights

Whenever I see a question asking about the capabilities of AI, I find myself adding the word “yet” just before the question mark.

You know that thing where you hope like hell that the degree to which you have no idea what you are doing is significantly less apparent to others than to yourself?

It was excellent :)

OTD in 2022 we bombed the crowded Amstor shopping mall in #Kremenchuk, killing 20 civilians.

Hospitals
Theatres
Schools
Kindergartens
Holocaust memorials
Apartment blocks
Grain terminals
Shopping centres

But Russia wants peace

Sympathy

Also, I think I’m going to treat Ophelia like shite.

I’m no political expert. It seems to me, though, that when Trump falls, and barring sudden death he will, an awful lot of those who stand firmly with him now will fall on him and his people like hungry wolves. I say this mainly if not entirely for myself.

Walking meditation is more difficult than sitting for me, but so far it seems more helpful as well.

I’m not going to pretend that I like spinning up EC2s. I know that there’s no such thing as serverless, but I appreciate the illusion hugely.

I hope they destroy each other, but when elephants fight, ants die first.

Pyspark really is incredibly useful. For getting the data pipelines I want, it comes through again and again.

RFK Jr's "Make America Healthy Again" Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist, in Clear Sign of AI Generated Slop RFJ Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report was relying on some extremely questionable sources to back up its claims.

futurism.com/rfk-jr-make-... #AI #artificialintelligence

I have posted a lot less about Ukraine recently, mainly because of life stuff. My support for their struggle against tyranny (Russian or otherwise) and their right to decide their own fate without being a geopolitical football is undiminished. Slava Ukraini.