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Si Williams
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 8d
Tobi Carvery. Hunter Wellington. Avanti West-Coast. Bella Magazine.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19d
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
www.independent.co.uk
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 22d
Oh is that why in later series his hands are the wrong way round? I never knew that!
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 22d
You're very welcome.
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
The captions continue: "Sometimes growing old is scary. Sometimes being different hurts. But sometimes you have to ask yourself... do you believe in magic? This holiday season, you will. If you only believe, it can happen. Stephen King's It. Coming soon."
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
Captions include: "From one of the most beloved books of all time. Out of the shadows of gloom, a hero will rise. Sometimes growing up is hard."
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
The video description reads: Music created from James Newton Howard's soundtrack for M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" and from the soundtrack of "DragonHeart." Dragon Heart!
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
Of home burglaries, that's about the size of it. (I am by no means expert, just reading a few articles and sources this morning!)
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
The charge rates for home burglary hover around 5% www.gov.uk/government/s... (I think the conviction rate is very high - upwards of 85%.)
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 23d
CSEW data "is not subject to changes in reporting and recording." policinginsight.com/feature/anal...
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 27d
Hilary Mantel. Just funny and interesting that horrible word muscular, even.
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 28d
Times births column today
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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 29d
now ive been in the workforce for a while, so I'm not surprised that some of you might not be aware of this "hack": when your boss says, hey, are you easily replaceable by a computer, you say no. you don't say yes. that is what we call "a whoopsie"
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 29d
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 29d
Brotherhood of Man, Save Your Kisses?
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 29d
..as midnight in Magaluf.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · Sep 16
ah! maybe that is a big part of it. writing is a technology we invented to store something we evolved to create: spoken language.

obvious LLM writing *has no speaker*. 'steady progress, gentle pacing' are words without a speaker. they are just words in themselves.
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 15
Can't claim to have read it, but there's Scouse Pop by Paul Skillen. Academic pricing... www.equinoxpub.com/home/scouse-...
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 15
Julian Cope's autobiography/s ? www.goodreads.com/book/show/80...
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 14
And second-richest, as of last week. I bet that matters to him.
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 13
Something with Roman numerals? All I've got is Charlus I.
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 8
Not strictly lit - unless you count the Wimpy's tie-ins, of course - but Leyline High feels like it fits right in, doesn't it? @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social
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Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social · Sep 4
Youtubes Auto dubbing is surely one of the worst features anywhere ever.
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 3
youtu.be/An066MTNX6w...
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 3
That's fine, but you need to find some way of rendering emphasis and stress. KUU-dooss UU as in who and oo as in book and hard s.. SEE-monz like the beginning of sea monster, with a soft z to finish..
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Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 30
I lived in the area at the time - it's been conflated with the Paulsgrove unrest. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazin... and www.theguardian.com/society/2000...
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