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Developer at Oxford Brookes who speaks (types) many languages. Amateur DIYer, gamer, cook, and pro-procastinator. I integrate things with Kotlin, JavaScript and "containers". Looking for opportunities.

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Why do you want to garner support for people who think like this when you're already in charge for years to come.

Unless you do think like this and think that your supporters think like this and what think they want to hear this... then were all screwed.

15.10.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you announce things like this, which make it to radio news where I heard it, you'd think it's the same rhetoric spouted by the Reforms/Tories. "There all the same on these issues" is the opinion by wavering supporters now becuase of this sort of thing. Just tell the truth of what a thing is.

15.10.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is basically B1 (and in some cases B2). What they mean is, the equivalent of an A-Level pass in a foreign language. The explaining is just dreadfully misleading (possibly deliberately for headlines...) bsky.app/profile/otto...

15.10.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Um. Thereโ€™s a woman presenting this too.

13.10.2025 00:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3271    ๐Ÿ” 617    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 201    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

An appropriate song choice too considering it's precisely eight lines long with zero subtlety yet people STILL seem to miss the meaning of

Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

Those who died
Are justified
For wearing the badge
They're your chosen white

11.10.2025 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

11.10.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3969    ๐Ÿ” 1080    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

This argument goes: it's unfair that someone can build a valuable business in the UK, leave the UK, and then never pay tax on gains they generated whenin the UK.

It's also weird for our CGT tax system to actively encourage wealthy people to leave.

11.10.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Primary schools are doing this. Makes me feel sick. To remove individualised insight into a pupilโ€™s progress and skills at such a formative age is lunacy.

11.10.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 221    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

From the linked blog, โ€œgenerative AI cannot tell a user how it arrived at a decision when it grades or evaluates workโ€ - this is key and if parents are unaware of whatโ€™s happening (which they are) they should use this to push back. Demand the explanations for evaluations.

11.10.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 298    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

your software engineering career depends on not developing a fascination with opening a farm, carpentry, or living in a camper until you have at least 8 years of experience. if you get the bug early it's joever for you

09.10.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 288    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Also I'd have 10 ideas that I know, for certain, have previously been written. Nothing created.

08.10.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

08.10.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3777    ๐Ÿ” 1031    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

08.10.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 162    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

08.10.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8933    ๐Ÿ” 2843    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 200    ๐Ÿ“Œ 208
zeldawilliams 
20m
From Create Mode 
โ€ขโ€ข
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode โ€ขโ€ข Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams ๐Ÿ’”

06.10.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15975    ๐Ÿ” 7039    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 491
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Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

06.10.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1195    ๐Ÿ” 238    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 157    ๐Ÿ“Œ 61
My husband has cheated on me at least three times, but he earns so much I wonโ€™t ever leave him
Daily Mail 6 Oct 2025

My husband has cheated on me at least three times, but he earns so much I wonโ€™t ever leave him Daily Mail 6 Oct 2025

"INSPIRE"

06.10.2025 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 612    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
aaron
@hillenjoyer.bsky.social
ai inspired me to start making art because instead of comparing myself to fucking leonardo davinci or whatever i just have to make something more worthwhile than the worst thing ever, a bar i can easily clear
September 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM

aaron @hillenjoyer.bsky.social ai inspired me to start making art because instead of comparing myself to fucking leonardo davinci or whatever i just have to make something more worthwhile than the worst thing ever, a bar i can easily clear September 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM

29.05.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1194    ๐Ÿ” 324    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Nothing from Starmer or Mahmood about this today

bsky.app/profile/drbe...

05.10.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œPeter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.โ€œ

05.10.2025 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 277    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel โ€“ including bill...

Larry Ellison has given nearly half a billion dollars to Tony Blair's institute. Now, why do you think he'd do that..?

Terrific piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at @thenerve.news

04.10.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 266    ๐Ÿ” 156    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

05.10.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1316    ๐Ÿ” 400    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous. 

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.

Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses. "C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks. "oh this, Fred?" We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain." The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked." Fred looks incredulous. The bird pecks Barney. Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.

rise of the machines

10.05.2024 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4816    ๐Ÿ” 1550    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

There is no thinking going on here. The reason an LLM can answer a factual question is because someone has posted text on that specific question. The reason they are such good coding buddies is because people have posted immense numbers of code snippets (and that code is so strictly grammatical.)

04.10.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 211    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Welp

03.10.2025 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2565    ๐Ÿ” 499    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

03.10.2025 05:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2006    ๐Ÿ” 1060    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

01.10.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8244    ๐Ÿ” 1691    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 134    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

29.09.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5887    ๐Ÿ” 1699    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 82    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

29.09.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1078    ๐Ÿ” 492    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

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