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Eternally damned techno-priest heretic, curly brace balancer, and pesky citation requester.

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

19.02.2026 08:26 πŸ‘ 11937 πŸ” 3082 πŸ’¬ 205 πŸ“Œ 243

Everyone who ever cornered a developer at a party to tell them about a great app idea is now able to vibe code it and discover for themselves why the developers they talked to all said the idea wouldn't work.

16.02.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please can we institute compulsory basic legal education for politicians.

13.02.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 12046 πŸ” 4178 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 190
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It's important to talk to a mental health professional or reach out to a trusted person in your life for support.
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An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier todayπŸ‘‡
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

06.02.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 647 πŸ” 212 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 21
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking
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Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen
Prue Leith

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

06.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 7045 πŸ” 1556 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 111
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OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful.
Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed.
When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O.
Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

Benjamin De Kraker O @BenjaminDEKR Follow OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")
1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus
4.5
2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders
3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK"
4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes)
The damage:
- Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats
- 25 Γ— $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone
- Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total
The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking
"is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 Γ— $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about β€œAI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

01.02.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 2700 πŸ” 519 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 149
Turn it off and run - upskilling for the AI age The government have made a website where you can learn how you were prompting it wrong.

I tried the government's new 'AI Skills Hub'. Let's just say I was underwhelmed.

tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...

28.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as β€˜bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as β€œbai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

22.01.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 808 πŸ” 466 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 142
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Old adversaries
Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge’s robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: β€œWe meet at last, Mr Bond.”
Sir John Royce
Clifton, Bristol

Text: Old adversaries Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge’s robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: β€œWe meet at last, Mr Bond.” Sir John Royce Clifton, Bristol

Letter in Times today

20.01.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 722 πŸ” 249 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11

Man with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago discovers supply and demand.

20.01.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You sacrifice your liberties after you’ve been convicted of a crime.

Properly adjudicating who is and is not guilty requires a criminal justice system which unfortunately needs paying for and is not nearly as sexy as an AI panopticon.

20.01.2026 10:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Latest from a website that continues to be used by the British government.

17.01.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

16.01.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 23942 πŸ” 4887 πŸ’¬ 324 πŸ“Œ 513
Grokipedia vo.2

Family Origins and Childhood
Julia Carrie Wong was born to a Chinese immigrant father and a white Jewish mother, resulting in her biracial Chinese-Jewish heritage and brown skin tone. 181

Grokipedia vo.2 Family Origins and Childhood Julia Carrie Wong was born to a Chinese immigrant father and a white Jewish mother, resulting in her biracial Chinese-Jewish heritage and brown skin tone. 181

is it normal for encyclopedias to include β€œskin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

16.01.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 4747 πŸ” 786 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 52

RIP for a true poster. Absolutely no hesitation in the face of qualified experts.

13.01.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

13.01.2026 07:49 πŸ‘ 5769 πŸ” 1437 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 76

Some people say politicians lack principles but β€œI was fine when it was just Nazis but I must draw the line at paedo-Nazis” shows true moral courage and leadership.

13.01.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some people in the media, political and commentariat crowd really struggle with this rather simple concept…

Other websites exist.

13.01.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As people are asking me what is bad about it, here are a few points in just the initial pars - I don't have the time or inclination to edit the entire thing!

08.01.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Inside the sub-zero lair of the world's most powerful quantum computer Faisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google's quantum computer.

This is a shockingly bad piece, doing very little to actually inform readers about the current state of quantum computers. Don't let your economics editor write about cutting-edge science and technology! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

08.01.2026 09:40 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

β€œI still believe Stormfront is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech.”

07.01.2026 09:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t possibly ask him a legal question. Not like he’s a solicitor.

04.01.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Controlling the judiciary and amassing wealth through corruption, you say?

04.01.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 1528 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 3

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

04.01.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 7092 πŸ” 2272 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 54
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There was a leak but not to the media

03.01.2026 07:35 πŸ‘ 1362 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 38

"Stakeholders" here is code for "people with any knowledge of policy". Policies, of course, being the main things that governments are meant to have, and that one would expect at least some voters might reasonably be interested in.

02.01.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll believe the UK has rule by lawyers when Post Office executives and PPE fraudsters are in the Old Bailey.

Also, is rule by lawyers so bad? It's an improvement on rule by generalist Bullingdon Club tossers. Plus, unlike Parliamentarians, someone ensures lawyers actually know how the law works.

02.01.2026 09:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
That’s why HAVN designed the EMF-blocking beanie.
Powered by our proprietary WaveStopperβ„’ Technology, it forms a barrier that blocks over 99% of WiFi, 5G, and Bluetooth radiation right where it matters most: your brain.

That’s why HAVN designed the EMF-blocking beanie. Powered by our proprietary WaveStopperβ„’ Technology, it forms a barrier that blocks over 99% of WiFi, 5G, and Bluetooth radiation right where it matters most: your brain.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

01.01.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 11408 πŸ” 3298 πŸ’¬ 249 πŸ“Œ 315