Ed Martin
@edmartin.bsky.social
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Jan 20, 2018
undercover boss: im gonna learn what it means to work the day to day jobs and stay undercover for the next few weeks
[first hour]
worker: hey man someone shit all over the bathroom u got it
undercover boss: wow u figured it out its me, The Undercover Boss](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4v4a4j2y42ewm3wv6y3bifmq/bafkreif6v4uggyc2uoxa7zs6dza4lwrnjlelisvjsez3urgftur3myyuwi@jpeg)
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I think a lot of "learn to code" people thought high salaries for programmers were a permanent feature of the world rather than the result of unusual circumstances around supply and demand in the labor market. Over last 20 years, CS went from a niche college major to the most popular major in the US
New CS grads are making less than I made as an accounting graduate straight out of college a decade ago, and I don’t mean inflation adjusted, I mean nominally.
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I think a lot of "learn to code" people thought high salaries for programmers were a permanent feature of the world rather than the result of unusual circumstances around supply and demand in the labor market. Over last 20 years, CS went from a niche college major to the most popular major in the US
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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This is also what leads people to suicide. If you hate yourself enough a chatbot is going to emulate those notions, making you feel like an outside entity is confirming them EVEN IF YOU KNOW OTHERWISE. Even if you know it’s an extension of your own expression, it hurts to hear it reiterated.
People using Chat GPT for therapy are just getting their own thoughts parroted back at them and that's why it's so attractive, yet so dangerous. Even as a coach I send people who need therapy to therapy and question preconceived notions.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is also what leads people to suicide. If you hate yourself enough a chatbot is going to emulate those notions, making you feel like an outside entity is confirming them EVEN IF YOU KNOW OTHERWISE. Even if you know it’s an extension of your own expression, it hurts to hear it reiterated.
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IQ is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests, which is something informed by how familiar you are with taking academic tests (& thus the quality of your school, which is in part determined by your parents' wealth, etc). there's nothing in particular that makes them a good test of intelligence
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
IQ is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests, which is something informed by how familiar you are with taking academic tests (& thus the quality of your school, which is in part determined by your parents' wealth, etc). there's nothing in particular that makes them a good test of intelligence
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The lesson of a Christmas carol is if you have a giant Christmas goose to sell you hold onto that sucker until the last minute.
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The lesson of a Christmas carol is if you have a giant Christmas goose to sell you hold onto that sucker until the last minute.
Season 13 is one of Classic Doctor Who's very best - well written, colourful, fast paced and energetic.
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FILL THE BLU RAY WITH AI SLOP?
youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?...
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FILL THE BLU RAY WITH AI SLOP?
youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?...
Is A.I. worth it?
YouTube video by Pip Madeley
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Season 13 is one of Classic Doctor Who's very best - well written, colourful, fast paced and energetic.
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FILL THE BLU RAY WITH AI SLOP?
youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?...
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FILL THE BLU RAY WITH AI SLOP?
youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?...
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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In the corporate world they say; "What does success look like?"
Generative AI betrays that to its users success looks like a credible approximation of what they expect, told to them by a voice that is confident and subservient.
In the humanities we ask: Who is the audience for this?
Generative AI betrays that to its users success looks like a credible approximation of what they expect, told to them by a voice that is confident and subservient.
In the humanities we ask: Who is the audience for this?
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In the corporate world they say; "What does success look like?"
Generative AI betrays that to its users success looks like a credible approximation of what they expect, told to them by a voice that is confident and subservient.
In the humanities we ask: Who is the audience for this?
Generative AI betrays that to its users success looks like a credible approximation of what they expect, told to them by a voice that is confident and subservient.
In the humanities we ask: Who is the audience for this?
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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One doom I didn’t anticipate is AI slop making it impossible to even learn from context clues. Imagine you’re a kid trying to learn to read and school failed you and this is presented as a legitimate poster, what are you meant to make of that? Literally nonsensifying the world.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One doom I didn’t anticipate is AI slop making it impossible to even learn from context clues. Imagine you’re a kid trying to learn to read and school failed you and this is presented as a legitimate poster, what are you meant to make of that? Literally nonsensifying the world.
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
Proudly using the same phone since 2018. It's Huawei too, you can't even get them any more.
"device hoarding" also known as: When someone hasn't replaced the one phone that they have in a few years because they had no reason to. Words used to mean things.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Proudly using the same phone since 2018. It's Huawei too, you can't even get them any more.
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The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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But the wet bandits are also gods. They take fatal injury after fatal injury and they just dust themselves off and continue their relentless pursuit of Kevin. It should be horrifying, but
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
But the wet bandits are also gods. They take fatal injury after fatal injury and they just dust themselves off and continue their relentless pursuit of Kevin. It should be horrifying, but
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
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It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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The Cozy Coupe by Little Tikes has a claim to being the world's bestselling make and model of car.
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Cozy Coupe by Little Tikes has a claim to being the world's bestselling make and model of car.
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
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It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
I don't know how to explain to Shabana Mahmood that the people she's empowering do not observe this distinction. She's oiling up the slippery slope not realising that at the bottom of it is a secret police squad waiting for her.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I don't know how to explain to Shabana Mahmood that the people she's empowering do not observe this distinction. She's oiling up the slippery slope not realising that at the bottom of it is a secret police squad waiting for her.
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Note, the far right guys aren’t going ‘we can vote Labour now they’re speaking our language’, they’re going ‘look, these idiots are smoothing the way for the extremist parties we have very openly said we’ve going to vote for for several years now.’
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Note, the far right guys aren’t going ‘we can vote Labour now they’re speaking our language’, they’re going ‘look, these idiots are smoothing the way for the extremist parties we have very openly said we’ve going to vote for for several years now.’