Lance Walton 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

Just a little bit.

McCabe says 61, assuming they’re all independent.

What if we could somehow train the immune system to fight off that disease? Wouldn’t that be amazing?

Agreed.

No no no. It’s a special vaccine that mimics natural immunity. Unlike other vaccines that … uhhh … do … something … uhhh … else.

“his”, not “just”

What Is Vibrio Vulnificus? Deadly Warm-Water Bacteria Is Spreading In The Southeast. A specific and dangerous species of a relatively common bacteria has killed nine people in Florida and Louisiana.

BuT dId ThEy HaVe AnY pRe-ExIsTiNg CoNdItIoNS: www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Trump is trying to take the entire US back in time during just presidency.

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

But I see no reason to make *special* provision for religion.

I’ve never understood the argument that religion should be kept out of politics:

a) Religion *is* politics
b) It’s what people believe. How are they supposed to keep that out of their politics?

I fear you may be right.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

OK. But what happened next?

I think this might be too sophisticated for them though.

They’ve also used the word “community”, and I’m very happy to see that some people have asked what they mean by “community”, in the sense that if we belong to any community, we belong to many communities, almost all of which have nothing to do with nationality, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, etc.

s/my half/myself/

But of course, they are talking about the “unidentified illegal immigrants” staying in the hotel; “unidentified” because they are “unknown to our systems”.

They’re racists.

Indeed. They have been asked how men should be identified: should they have name badges, or armbands or something.

I’ve just introduced my half to the group so now they know who I am.

Somebody on my local NextDoor is trying to organise a “pink protest”, inviting women and girls who are concerned about “unidentified men in their community” to attend at a hotel on Sunday.

It’s not going well for them, in general. But there is also some support from the racist community.

There’s a new name for an old thing :-)

It would have been easy to copy the text from Twitter and paste it into BlueSky.

But by doing a screenshot, and not including alt-text (which you probably would have don by copying and pasting the text anyway), you’ve excluded people.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Far safer to have the nuclear power station on the moon than on earth. A meltdown won’t cause us any problems.

Saw Superman. Fun film.

I have no idea what it feels like to feel “masculine” or what it feels like to be “a man”.

I simply am myself.

This is a statement about myself and not any kind of implication about anything else.

Embracing Imposter Syndrome is a Superpower

channingwalton.github.io/posts/2025-0...

AI assisted programming without careful guidance results in code produced from a drunkards walk through a vast probabilistic space.

So we provide a detailed description of how we want it to produce code. It includes all kinds of heuristics to constrain that random walk.

I’d really like those dots to be connected, rather than just saying “realistically”.

Is it wrong that (health) insurance companies take a premium every month for years. Then when you need to claim, they increase the premium, I think with a view to recovering the amount of the claim, or with a view to pricing you out at the point you start needing the insurance?