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cleminan @cleminan.uk · Jan 11

Two things:

1. AI is NOT a search engine.

2. BlueSky is public by design, everything is accessible, it has been this way since it was launched.

With a bit of searching you can find the hosepipe broadcasting everything for fediverse peers to connect with.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 7h

news & current affairs is only a part of the org and one that's quick to attract criticism.

while i can see issues with that part, some phrasing on Today around Mamdani was less than neutral, i don't think shooting the patient because there are signs of gangrene in a foot is proportionate.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 8h

we do have 3D printed rockets & engines, as well as buildings & a bunch of other stuff.

although there are limitations. i've heard, 3rd hand, of someone printing a dashboard for their car, the whole panel.

they discovered that it had melted while parked in direct sun on a particularly hot day.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

disney & the beeb, the 'safe' internet :)

cartoon network didn't quite cut it because of the pay to play games. can't recall what nickelodeon looked like at the time.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

losing the bbc would bring us closer to the us model of barely polished shite across all broadcast media. all radio either bauer or global, all tv foreign owned - i doubt the next vaguely right leaning govt would take long to sell channel 4 off.

i'd argue it needs direction, not destruction.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

it's fashionable to hate the bbc but it is the single biggest cultural organisation this country has had (outside of possibly the itv regions in the north & midlands between the 60s & 90s).

we've already had the state pull out of most of the cultural aspects of the country over the last 40 years

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

so, because of clear issues in the news department, you'd be happy for the whole thing to go?

feels like an over reaction to me to say that every other aspect of the corporation; radio, arts, sports, children's, local, science & nature and the rest because of both real & conflated issues in news.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

relying on a database whos sources, biases & tuning you can't know, just because its operators say' trust us', is naive at best.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

outside of that, the fact that the same spivs hawking nfts were now pushing llms made me wary, the energy & water usage of the tech quickly put my curiosities to bed.

the behaviour around acquisition of training data buried them further, plus the leaders of the sector are all just bad people.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

a couple of times. i quickly found that i don't know enough python to debug cGPT's output & the image prompt to MJ was too generic to create anything beyond some abstract parallel lines.

recently an 'ai' tool helped convert postgresql create command to mysql, that did save time & i could check it.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 13h

this.

successful tools with a clear purpose & utility create their own pull, a market. that this technology is being pushed at everything is the loudest indicator of how little it is needed in day to day life.

it needs us far more than we need it.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 14h

there hasn't been a time in my life that the right weren't trying to get rid of the beeb. the right seem to deal much less well with any criticism it may get - not an emotion exclusive to bbc coverage.

it also meant the rest of the media needed to work harder, owners don't like spending that much.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 15h

it's possible for both to be true - look at how much the website was pruned back from the mid 2000s, or how much damage has been in inflicted on the local services - cowed, diminished, weakened until it can be removed to the howling applause of the people it serves & who, ultimately, own it.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 16h

is - seemingly enforced - routine sleep deprivation not a standard element the UK process?

an amphetamine-fuelled 36 hour writing binge to pull episode 4 of motherland out of the ether.

complementary fredos & cocaine to draft the first 5 on mrs browns boys series opener.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 17h

please, lettuce forget.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

we can only pray it hasn't got The Gush, it's too far from hollywood to maximise the opportunity.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 1d

it may have taken slightly more than 20 years to track down one of @maryannehobbs.bsky.social Breezeblock tracks, but i've finally got my hands on the awesome Real Time by Eddy Woo.

Discogs will bankrupt me.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 4d

you're welcome ;)

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 6d

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hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam
linux user: omg you got it working?

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 6d

A painting of a bird beside the text "maybe next week we can all try to act like human fuckin beings"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

anyone who has the means to buy a house out of pocket and moves out of a country solely on the grounds of tax can, in my view, be rightly called a parasite.

they'll suck a society dry but balk at putting anything back in.

the argument often comes over as a thought experiment played as fact.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

look for the putrid hand of the heritage foundation. they've almost got the us sewn up & have made inroads into europe over the last few years.

for their harmful, hateful undermining of democracy i've begun to consider them as on the verge of being a terrorist organisation.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

an alternative would be to take an area like east anglia from the wash to the mouth of the thames, or devon & cornwall and say 'from this line to the furthest coast we've covered in tarmac'.

i've no idea how far off i am with the area, reddit probably knows.

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cleminan @cleminan.uk · 6d

possibly a pipeline then. as one long, unbroken stretch you could conceivably take every favourable junction to build the longest unbroken path.

though the same can be applied to roads, until you hit something like a cattle grid or articulated bridge they are continuous paths of asphalt.

cleminan @cleminan.uk · 7d

power lines are spliced, pipes joined, depends you're defining continuous.

the outer most line on a motorway may be a candidate, especially on something like the M6. is natural degradation, cracking, flaking a disqualification? if splicing/joining are disqualifiers the overlap may also do for this.

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