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Simon Lucy

@lusaimon.com

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A left-angled trapezoid on the graph of political philosophies, apply me no labels. Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io See also [email protected]

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · Mar 17

Whenever I think of Trump talking about negotiating with Putin.

From Wikipedia:
The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper is an 1805 editorial cartoon by the English artist James Gillray. The popular print depicts caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the newly-crowned Emperor of France Napoleon, both wearing military uniforms, carving up a terrestrial globe into spheres of influence.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 2h

I guess the referees couldn't quite steal the game from the Broncos.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 13h

I have to admit that I don't understand ugly luggage, even if it costs the equivalent of a small house.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 14h

It was also the hottest August since 1976.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 14h

The book tour has evidently been exhausting. Whatever neurological event he's going through with the physical difficulty of speaking and his occasional aphasia, his brain is still there and his sense of humour.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 14h

Last night we went to Timbl's interview at the #CheltLitFest on his memoir, This is for Everyone. It was both sad and evidence of courage with his devotion to openness in our little land of Web.

thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

Order This Is For Everyone by Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee reveals the inside story of his revolutionary invention & urgent guidance for humanity’s digital future.

thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 15h

if you've been enjoying my posts about block game development you may want to hit up the site to look at the FAQ and maybe get a clearer picture of what the game will actually play like enikofox.com/blockgame/

Block Game | Ultima/TES meets Minecraft

Ultima/Elder Scrolls meets Minecraft voxel sandbox game with building and crafting.

enikofox.com

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 16h

It's trivial to have workflow that modifies the front end and shows it immediately in a browser.

Shoving crap into the process isn't better workflow it's the abnegation of responsibility.

Far better to hire someone that already knows how to do it if you feel inadequate to the task.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 16h

In the way of the magpie.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

Inbreeding.
There should be an equivalent of the Kennel Club for politicians to improve the strains of successful lines and prune the breeds of the useless.

This is prejudice only about certain kinds of politician, no other prejudice need be implied.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the old cities remained and were yet to be cordoned off. My favourite was Southampton, where you could walk for hours, alone, save for salt badgers & maritime ghosts. I like how in this photo of it you can discern the remains of Borders Bookstore, the NCP car park and the original Colosseum.

This is actually a photo I took in 2018 while walking on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

awk, sed and regex answers 8 out of 10 data mangling questions, the other two are the wrong questions.

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

Tripling down on the fantasy doesn't reinforce the original fantasy.

Write it down and sell it, as it's fiction.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

If people think Press/Media/Platform Barons are evil today, look up Horatio William Bottomley.

He was finally done for fraud but was a general swindler and using his publication John Bull both to promote his populism and as a machine for his blackmail of those in High Society.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

He's managed 2 posts in 11 months, it's not exactly fertile ground for him.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

I wonder if she's ever considered why the 'Spice Islands' was as interesting as gold to the competing European Empires.

Or the Indian sub continent, Afghanistan and China.

The cultural absorption began in the 16th century, Britain, the Netherlands and Italy even earlier.

Kedgeree, Rijsttaffel?

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

That's an interesting fantasy timeline.
It won't be an English application. Even if our Union devolves completely all of the remaining British Isles has to move in lock step.

The halfway in of Northern Ireland demonstrates that.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

Ah, Molesting Station.
I was ¾'s convinced that the Village Message Board was only slightly disguised and that you probably had to move to escape the death threats.

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

It's a commutation rather than a pardon. The difference might seem slight but it isn't.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

Like Srebenica won't be forgotten?

It's fundamental in the Treaty of Rome and the rest of the growth of the EU that it is trade in place of strife.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 2d

"[A]cting responsibly ... is not a task that can or should be automated. This is precisely why we need to think carefully about how we do our work and what means we want – and do not want – to use for that."

Why AI transparency is not enough

Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

This is a capsule of illustrated manuscripts and their palettes of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

There has been trade in pigments for thousands of years, locality is important but not the only source.

colour-illuminated.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore/illu...

The Illuminators’ Palette

Illuminators employed a wide range of colourants, both man-made and naturally available. Organic pigments were derived from various sources, including plants, insects and molluscs. Inorganic ones were...

colour-illuminated.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

Fucking autocorrect.

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

It is baffling that modern politicians are so prone to knee jerking. I suppose it's the 24 hours news cycle and the urging of SPADs (remember them) to get ahead of the news, along with a baked in patronising tone.

Did anyone inquire as to the details of the Rush Assessment before blarting out?

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Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 1d

More fucking nonsense on the Today Programme about 'AI', this time that Agentic AI being capable of creative endeavour.

Dangerous fucking nonsense.

#BBCTodayProgramme

Simon Lucy @lusaimon.com · 2d

You're not stupid.

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