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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶 Western suburbs of Paris

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · Dec 31

I like New Year Resolutions, so here goes:

1. get my French to C1 level
2. Go to the theatre more often
3. Drink lots of good wine
4. Go to champagne and buy lots of champagne
5. Get a six pack (almost impossible)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 20m

Indeed

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 36m

He did a really good piece on the French elections 4 yrs ago. He can do good stuff but he’s a troll

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 41m

Mutuelle would cover the rest?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

That’s a thing though (I seem to remember my BA pilot BIL telling me this)

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Turns out HM Govt’s website people write even worse headlines than your average tabloid. It is B1/B2 as it’s the level required at A level to pass a foreign language

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

This is crazy. A language requirement should exist for sure for residency but it should be B1 or perhaps B2 not this nonsense.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

I will bet my bike that close to zero of the British racists that this law is pandering to could pass A-level English.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

And it’s the headline by the government website

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Jfc well yet another lesson in reading past the headline

Thanks

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

@columnist.bsky.social just got it? How much was it?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

This is crazy. A language requirement should exist for sure for residency but it should be B1 or perhaps B2 not this nonsense.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

I will bet my bike that close to zero of the British racists that this law is pandering to could pass A-level English.

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3h

If I was a Starmer supporter I'd think twice about bashing the kind of culturally conservative pro-European boomer who shows a willingness to change his mind about politics and policy when presented with evidence of what works in the real world

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 6h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 8h

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No, the Data Hasn't Shown that 'Transgenderism Is Effectively Over,' as Matt Walsh Trumpeted

An academic just went mega-viral on X thanks to his false presumption that a recent rapid rise and fall in reported nonbinary identification demonstrated a comparable trend for trans identities.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

You are right, absolutely insane and once the powder dries we’re going to be left with a lot of pain

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

And apparently this is good too but 🤷🏻‍♂️

lovable.dev

Lovable

Build software products, using only a chat interface

lovable.dev

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

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Cursor: The best way to code with AI

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Let me get back to you, once I can remember

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. The basic problem AI faces is not technological but economic in that to justify the vast amounts of money spent it needs mass adoption like social media - which we all now know the dangers of, as opposed to the narrower use cases where it has real potential to do good.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

There’s one you can use to develop your own website. It’s spectacularly good and is 20 Euros a month. There’s no way in hell the economics work at anything under 200