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The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape. paulclarke.com (📷 Siobhan Hennessy). Bizarrely fascinated by online identity and trust.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · Jul 21

Sometimes a photo can be said to be... painterly. With the right timing, and some help from the Royal Air Force, I think this one might be.

Five aircraft from the Royal Air Force display team, The Red Arrows, in formation towards the centre of the frame. The whole sky around them is a mess of red white and blue vapour trails from the earlier parts of their routine.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1m

What to know what 'peak season' means for an event photographer? With an outstanding team this week, it's the end of Wednesday and so far 1,540 crafted, edited photos are all delivered. (9 videos are in production, there are 4 more shoots to go this week, and, yeah. It is not easy, but god it's fun)

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 24m

my god your child is hideous

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6h

I'll see you there. I was with your mother last night!

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6h

She's amazing. Are you there tomorrow?

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 20h

I could argue with nutters who think ChatGPT is a great place to get legal advice. Or I could just block them. I'll just block them.

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

They are the same queue

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

Just to say, societal embrace of AI is essentially societal embrace of dishonesty and deception.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

People freaking out over the Chat-fishing dating-app article seem to miss that this is the *whole point* of ChatGPT and similar generative AI: writing as though you’re something other than you are. The whole idea is deception. Writing like a pro, like a lawyer etc, when you’re too lazy to be one.

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 4d

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

The “But It Might Work For Us” meme, changed to be as follows:

Panel 1: A man says, “There are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now.”
Panel 2: A woman says, “Well did it work for those people?”
Panel 3: The man replies, “No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...”
Panel 4: He continues, “...but there’s something real happening here.”

The words in the first and last panel are taken from the BBC News article.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 5d

Nicely done, Greenwich

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 5d

You know you're at a Hollywood bash when Clooney walks right through the middle en route to something else and Absolutely Nobody Bats an Eyelid

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6d

looks pretty good to me

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Documentally @documental.ly · 7d

Morning!

A dog nose is visible and shot sniffing a fly agaric mushroom

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 7d

I'm talking about bicycle thefts, the point under discussion. The bike is there, or it isn't. When this happened to my motorbike earlier in the year it took under one minute for me and my neighbour with a camera to find the point of disappearance in an 8 hour window.

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 8d

Also see my other reply. There *is* some weird requirement here, I think, it just wasn't explored by the interviewer

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 8d

But that's not what he said

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 8d

IIRC there's some weird legislative requirement being adhered to here, but the interviewer really missed some obvious probing to draw it out

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 8d

This is a @jamesrball.com point, but this lunatic on the radio is saying it takes ten hours of CCTV watching to find the point at which a crime happened. Could someone show him (the copper, not James) it's possible to move to different points, and what "binary search" means? #r4today

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 9d

this one did me in: 15 years ago in the The Strand

Two young men, one wearing a sleeping bag, playing chess on the pavement: Strand, London. A third man is watching intently.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 9d

Text description: Brick Lane, east London. In the foreground a chess master has a three-board set-up. He is sitting in a worn, bright red, upholstered office chair, and is wearing a dark beret and smoking a fat cigar. A diverse group of onlookers are watching a challenger in smart coat and cap.