TACJ
@tacj.bsky.social
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theophite.bsky.social
i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.
thewanderingjew.bsky.social
yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.
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leftoutside.bsky.social
Not only is translation not real but neither is reading old books now. Your father is meant to read Charles Dickens books to you and your family aloud, in monthly serial. You're meant to discuss it with friends afterwards. You can't really read War and Peace, and you can't read Bleak House either.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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tobyn.bsky.social
Had understood that it was common language, and people to tweet at when America is asleep.

So less that UK is woke, and more just that it's awake.
tacj.bsky.social
Yes. There’s something deeply cursed about spending your day working with an instrument of logic that is so seemingly inexplicably irrational.
innes.bsky.social
The problem with computer jobs is that it's all in your head. You can't touch or eat the code you write, it's too abstract. You need to find something to make with your hands if you want to stay okay
tacj.bsky.social
“We haven’t been self-sufficient in food since 1850, and our greatest national achievement was because we *didn’t* have a large agricultural workforce.”
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leftoutside.bsky.social
Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.
tacj.bsky.social
>Be me
>See some old book is getting buzz on Tw*tter
>Immediately buy the only reasonably priced second hand copy at the book place
>Put it on my shelves
>Never read it
tacj.bsky.social
Unironic question: why is he so obsessed with us?
Elon Musk tweeting: Am starting to wonder how anyone made it through childhood in Britain without severe trauma
tacj.bsky.social
*I* didn't leave Twitter.
tacj.bsky.social
It's weird how Singapore manages to combine an actually positive vision of far-right and far-left authoritarianism.
tacj.bsky.social
Singapore, where they made it prohibitively expensive for normal people to own cars, nationalised all the land, and everyone gets a council house.
benansell.bsky.social
What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?
tacj.bsky.social
I took a hefty pay cut to change careers a few years ago. I suspect the horrifying truth is that I just… don’t care that much about money?
tacj.bsky.social
Lads. I think I may be turning down a job offer for more money than I’m on now… just because I kind of like the project I’m working on now?
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duncanrobinson.bsky.social
In Manchester and appreciated how something so simple - making all buses yellow - can really improve public space. Feels neater
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dystopian-fashion.bsky.social
1955 Chrysler Falcon concept car
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Why is the chicken Big Mac not available all year around?
tacj.bsky.social
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
So what I don't understand is that, if the standard definition of a species is a group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring, and if Neanderthals were a different species to Homo Sapiens, then why is it we have Neanderthal DNA
tacj.bsky.social
Cummings Thought is ultimately constrained by the fact that his political idols of Bismarck and LKY could not operate in modern Britain, for reasons that go far beyond “the law” and “parliamentary sovereignty”.
tacj.bsky.social
Yeah I kind of got the vibe that “unconstrained executive action” was going to end up being unpopular at some point.
samfr.bsky.social
There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
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preachypreach.bsky.social
One of those books likely to bring out your inner Robert Moses, this, but it’s a grimly fascinating example of how the 60s/70s American wave of New Left community organisation actually ended up in practice.
CONSTRICTINS COMMUNITY
Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development,
and Inequality in Boston LEVINE, JEREMY
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