Peter Scott Reid

among people you already know, have you been surprised by who has one attitude or the other?

I have been a bit taken aback by some folk

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'Although the word ‘lawyer’ in the United States has bled over into the British English vocabulary, it isn’t really an occupation; more of a general umbrella term.'

🤌 passive aggression 🤌

M*crosoft: pioneers in procurement capture since 1975

celebrating 50 years of contract lock-ins

this is the Shameless Era of product features

build shite that helps no users, with no ability to turn it off, and no expectation of iterating to improve it

what do you call an *insights* feature that is always wrong?

asking for a friend forced to use m*crosoft

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

'Immigration advocates and lawyers are increasingly advising migrants with young children to bring them to the courthouse, knowing that the majority of people arrested are single adults, mostly men'

ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.

a masked agent of the state, roid-swelled in a 'defend liberty' skull t-shirt, grabbing a man after his court hearing

A common mode of reasoning on social media/by newspaper columnists: My opponent believes P; I believe IF P THEN Q; therefore my opponent believes Q.

A post that says 'you wouldnt vacation in Berlin in 1935. Don't vacation in florida in 2025'

Tons of people were holidaying in Berlin and wider Germany in 1935 and later. The Summer Olympics were in Berlin the following year lol. There was a specific drive from Germany after the FWW to get people to travel there to help boost their economy. Hate duff history comparison engagement bait.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

porpoise looking at the camera with slightly upturned mouth

me sending recruitment emails

research porpoises

“Never miss a new book by Marcus Tullius Cicero”

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

recently i have been doing some research for a company on using LLMs to replace humans in survey interviews (the results are not good, and it's generally a betrayal of many principles of public opinion polling, so i do not advise this).

but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..

'unlock'

'This compensatory puffing may explain the shift in the pattern of lung cancer prevalence, from squamous cell carcinoma in the larger airways to adenocarcinomas deeper in the lung.'

'...Some material accumulates in the filter, but smokers tend to adjust the way they inhale so they receive the same effective dose of nicotine...'

'Tobacco industry documents make clear that they knew filters didn’t work in the 1950s, when they introduced them along with ‘low tar’ brands to give false reassurance to smokers who were anxious in the face of growing evidence that smoking causes lung cancer...'

'cigarette filters are a fraudulent product, providing no protection to people who smoke, while giving the false impression that they are doing something to reduce the risk. International survey data suggests that around three-quarters of smokers believe erroneously that filters make smoking safer.'

Nicholas Hopkinson | Compensatory Puffing The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into the...

holy shit

Made it into the new Private Eye @privateeyenews.bsky.social Now I can retire.

'harnessing'
'leveraging'
'driving'

can you be more generic?

the number of times I have typed gove.uk

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

disinterested =/= uninterested