Nik

Nik

@nikgibbs.bsky.social

Shadow Minister for Common Sense. Conservative by nature, liberal in outlook. Statues are stone, flags are cloth. Bodily autonomy is absolute. (he/him) #FuckTrump #FuckPutin #RejoinEU

850 Followers 789 Following 457 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 days ago

Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.

It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.

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1 week ago

I wonder what Trumpo's thinking about while that's happening

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1 week ago

Not a lawyer either but to my understanding, he's declaring the state of Texas's "interpretation" of the law, which affects enforcement of it (e.g. medical licensing, prosecutions). The letter of the law has not changed, the courts will decide it, with horrendous state persecution in the meantime.

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1 week ago
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fujoing out

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2 weeks ago
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These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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2 weeks ago

First a Nobel prize, now this... Is there anything that orange wonderkid can't do?

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3 weeks ago

Laws are there to protect social norms, not people.

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1 month ago

Sometimes I worry that my signal corps just think flags are fun for waving any which way

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1 month ago

Jane Fonda stole my back pain

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1 month ago
Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

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1 month ago
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www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.

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1 month ago

“Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, told the Times last year that his party would adopt a 'Trump 2.0' approach to immigration, saying: "We are going to move at great speed. It'll be much more like Trump mark two than Trump mark one"
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”

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1 month ago
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Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.

NEW: Google’s “Auto Browse” AI tool includes a warning that attributes responsibility to users for the bot’s actions.

“Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads a disclaimer on the demo version. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions during tasks.”

www.wired.com/story/google...

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1 month ago

Trump does get random weird one-off obsessions like Greenland, but a disturbing amount of what he does makes sense if you ask: “Is this intelligble as part of a plan to guarantee the success of a second coup?”

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1 month ago

She is amongst us! @claireberlinski.bsky.social

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1 month ago

Being proactive needn't be at the expense of wrong and counterproductive messaging.

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1 month ago

Stella post Stella post Stella post then BAM!!

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1 month ago

Drive by but: It's important to get the "semantics" right because you risk depressing the vote for people who are actually on your side.

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1 month ago
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McCain Counters Obama 'Arab' Question YouTube video by Associated Press

This to me is one of the most telling moments in recent US political history. At the time, the story was "look at John McCain, standing up for small l liberal values that make us great!" But the real story was, holy shit, the GOP rank and file doesn't buy that shit anymore. youtu.be/jrnRU3ocIH4?...

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1 month ago

I've had success when pair programming with an AI though I've had to stay absolutely on top of things, generating in very small portions and refining and refactoring as 'we' go, and it's only been better than hand-writing in a small number of cases. Just let 'em fly and they're death-traps.

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1 month ago
Tippi Hedren on a couch, a crow lighting her cigarette
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1 month ago
Tony the tiger giving the thumbs up sign
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2 months ago

Come on UK. It's not as though we want an army over there, just a few people to confirm our commitment to NATO. Please?

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2 months ago

AI is only useful for anything you can confirm independently. If it's the same effort to confirm it as it is to find it out in the first place, there's no point in using AI.

For writing software, it's great. Does it work? Let me run it and see. For most other things, I can't imagine a time saving.

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2 months ago

Ham
Tomato
Mozzarella
Linguine

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2 months ago

I think given the ridiculously leading context, respondents well understood the subtext of the question, but it's all such a hopeless crock of shit that it does indeed say more of the public than the matter in question. Which is why we need to leave this to the experts and the children involved.

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2 months ago

Cars should never be driven by anyone. Supporters say academics need to better understand, opponents say it's unethical to drive machines that can kill people, particularly when the driver may be drunk or have mental health issues and may not know how to drive.

Gimme a break.

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2 months ago
Full context from the poll: "NHS England is proposing a clinical trial of puberty blockers for around 225 children with gender dysphoria, with the youngest being aged around 10 years old. Supporters say clinical research is needed to fill an evidence gap in how we understand the impact of puberty blockers on children. Opponents argue that it's unethical to test a treatment on children that is already considered unsafe or ineffective, particularly when those children have an elevated incidence of other conditions such as autism and self-harm and may be incapable of meaningful consent."

Link to full survey: www.whitestoneinsight.com/s/Transgende...

The emphasis on "never" was added by Hinder. The poll was commissioned by a very terfy organisation. The question headline is ambiguous (though I still concur with the OP's conclusion), the 'context' for the question incredibly leading.

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7 months ago

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

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2 months ago

Not for Farage according to this

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