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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

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Nonofyur Darnbusiness @ladyasrai.bsky.social · 23h

Still had this saved in ctrl v from the last one of my saltine sisters who pulled this shit.

Yes all white people until white supremacy is no more.

Racism & white supremacy will not go away every time we gotta pat an insecure white woman who needs a cookie on the head and go "not YOU Karen"

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 1d

If you would just STOP buying avocado and pastry you could afford... avocado and pastries... for a bit, til the prices go up again. 😄

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 1d

Do you have a demo example?

I know I could create my own but assuming you can show a *good* one. 😄

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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 2d

I just love this single purpose domains/sites. This one is golden.

stopcitingai.com

Stop Citing AI

A response to ‘But ChatGPT said…’

stopcitingai.com

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 2d

TAFKAP-rince Andrew going from:

Awful, corrupt man given unimaginable power, wealth and titles for 'reasons'

being busted down to:

Awful, corrupt, criminal given slightly less unimaginable wealth for 'reasons'

*does* feel like a 'win' but it's a frikkin' weird one.

Prince Andrew Andrew GIF

Alt: Prince Andrew Andrew GIF

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 2d

Yup.

I'm old enough to remember a time when politicians would 'do the right thing' and resign over the merest whiff of a scandal.

Now? Brazening it out seems to be the popular route through.

'Something else will come up and distract everyone' is a fairly reliable plan it seems.

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Majestic @majestic.com · 2d

Andrew Cock-Starkey (@optimisey.com) explains that using a .com gives you credibility and global flexibility, while a country-specific domain like .co.uk may limit reach if you expand internationally.

maj.to/3Y0bS98

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 2d

Absolutely *horrifying*.

Well played. 😄

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Matt McGee @seosavvyagent.com · 3d

"Fixing hallucinations would kill the product" is a helluva quote.

Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations.

It could also break #AI’s business model. https://scim.ag/49cPY9d

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know

Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model

scim.ag

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 2d

I'm not sure the British Royal family are a good example of ethics or accountability. 😄

More like (very) slowly catching up with public opinion.

But yes, it does make a nice change for those in power to get knocked down a peg or three. Even if not before time.

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 2d

Lucky it ends soon. You'll be singing Swing Low in a minute... 😄

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

a fat man with a mustache is sitting on an airplane .

Alt: a fat man with a mustache is sitting on an airplane. He nods as the words "Oh sure, sure." appear

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

I heard they can be distracted by the scent of Yorkshire Tea.

Hikers in the area are warned to carry some with them at all times and, if they sight a feral JP to toss said teabags into nearby bushes whilst they make their escape.

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

Ah, the obsession with "balance" drives me nuts too.

Here's a scientist talking about the planet and climate change and - just for 'balance' - here's a flat-earther talking about the lizard people.

It's nonsense (in lots of ways!).

I'm sad that the Beeb is being politicised in this way. ☹️

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

Of course it is. 🤣

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

I know everyone slates the BBC and that, to an extent, means they're doing an OK job (if the left and right, politically, are both cross it's usually a good thing!).

But the constant push of, effectively, Reform's agenda is baffling. Is it just click-chasing? Or something deeper?

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

This is true.

But it's depressing. Whatever happened to 'responsible journalism'?

And what's BBC News' excuse?

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

There were 262 knife/sharp implement related homicides in 2024.

That's 5 per week.

Again, far (far!) too many.

So why is it that 1 or 2 specific cases get all the attention recently?

The answer is obvious when you think about it.

Migrant + Crime = too juicy to resist for the 'news agenda'.

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

Last year there were 49,600 offences involving a knife or sharp implement.

That's 135 *per day*.

Obviously 1 is too many but the media focus on examples perpetrated by certain groups (migrants and non-white people) is fuelling the racist fire.

Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Knife crime statistics England and Wales

Knife crime is a crime involving an object with a blade or sharp instrument. This briefing presents and analyses statistics on knife crime in England and Wales.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

(I also need an explainer of this photo. WHY do you have a photo of JP coming out of a hatch?) 😄

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 3d

I think it's because Tahoe has the Sherman Legislation (implemented in 2013) whereby every home must have a JP Hatch to show the ingress and egress of wild JPs.

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 5d

Me too, though I'm another that adds my own 'hilarious' (to me) UTM tags when I'm in a silly mood (which is often). 😄

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 5d

1. Show of hands, who's using AI to write their content?

2. Come on, be honest.

3. ...

4. Don't say I didn't tell you so!

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Andrew Optimisey @optimisey.com · 5d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Point of order: Laughing Cow and Philadelphia are not cheese.

King's Lynn chocolate and cheese thieves caught by police

The couple are accused of taking the

www.bbc.co.uk

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