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Tried to explain to my kid what travelling abroad was like in the pandemic and it started “well there was this guy called Grant Shapps,.. every Thursday before your holiday he would post on… this thing called Twitter… his personal account… then you’d cancel your flight”. And you just sound MENTAL.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Jim Callaghan appointed a 'Minister for Drought', and it rained within 36 hours (and led to widespread floods, but a win's a win).

I can’t quote @helenbarrett.bsky.social’s original post, but have borrowed the image from it. Now, I’ve never written a book, nor had to do attributions and citations for one. I’m sure it’s tortuous, but this is something *everyone did* until like last year.

Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs

Terrible news.

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.