@theotherman.bsky.social
Sometime learning technologist, often time traveller
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
I can’t be bothered with parkrun this weekend.
The Commodore 64 was far superior to the Speccy.
Can’t wait to start reading the new Richard Osman!
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I can’t be bothered with parkrun this weekend.
This. This. For goodness sake, this. Presenting search results in banal text is not ‘amazing technology’, it’s you losing the capacity to read, understand, process and act, based on technology that still, three years in, has no real reason to exist.
I mean, "AI" doesn't know anything today a web search didn't know yesterday. The AI will customize & direct the search for you, is all—at the cost of significant error (not to mention missing things that its algorithms incorrectly determine are irrelevant).
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This. This. For goodness sake, this. Presenting search results in banal text is not ‘amazing technology’, it’s you losing the capacity to read, understand, process and act, based on technology that still, three years in, has no real reason to exist.
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Misinterpreted signs are our jam! 😂🤣
October 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Misinterpreted signs are our jam! 😂🤣
Like this a lot. The sheer childishness needs pointing out.
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Like this a lot. The sheer childishness needs pointing out.
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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If anyone else (in the UK) would like one of these bumper packages for just £9.99 plus p&p please drop me an email at [email protected] (NB: cat not included).
Thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social for this package and kickstarting my plans to read at least SOME things that aren’t serious, work-related non-fiction. Bonus Peej for #ProofOfCat purposes.
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If anyone else (in the UK) would like one of these bumper packages for just £9.99 plus p&p please drop me an email at [email protected] (NB: cat not included).
Mondo Duplantis. All time sporting great, and pure box office.
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Mondo Duplantis. All time sporting great, and pure box office.
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Lots of good and quite radical ideas for UK tax reform here from Dan Neidle. The inability of government after government to implement anything like this - and instead favouring silly stunts - has me despairing. on.ft.com/4nu8NrZ
Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead
[FREE TO READ] Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism
on.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Lots of good and quite radical ideas for UK tax reform here from Dan Neidle. The inability of government after government to implement anything like this - and instead favouring silly stunts - has me despairing. on.ft.com/4nu8NrZ
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As I understands it, the cultural divide between America and China, re: AI, basically boils down to "I'm gonna make a computer that's God (and you can fuck it if you want)" vs "I'm gonna make a computer that's really good at stuff (and can learn to be better)"
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
As I understands it, the cultural divide between America and China, re: AI, basically boils down to "I'm gonna make a computer that's God (and you can fuck it if you want)" vs "I'm gonna make a computer that's really good at stuff (and can learn to be better)"
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
September 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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it's gotta be crazy for salmon to find out about bears like that
September 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
it's gotta be crazy for salmon to find out about bears like that
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Budget Gladwell here follows any argument that appears valid - bananas are yellow. School buses are yellow. School buses are bananas! And is getting more harmful as he tries to create his own thinking.
Matthew Syed's latest drivel is an absolute masterclass in conflating a particular group of older, white, relatively financial secure, working class voters with the entirity of the low income population.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Commonsense voters see the abject folly of the West’s purity spiral
Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
www.thetimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Budget Gladwell here follows any argument that appears valid - bananas are yellow. School buses are yellow. School buses are bananas! And is getting more harmful as he tries to create his own thinking.
So many times - this (except, lucky me, for the mum bit)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'commonsense' (is that even one word?) just means 'what I think is right and if you disagree with me you're wrong.'
My mum does it all the time.
My mum does it all the time.
August 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So many times - this (except, lucky me, for the mum bit)
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I just want to advise everyone to make sure they aren’t leaving any open flames unattended on social media right now…
A whole lot of very dry strawmen being left all over the fucking place.
A whole lot of very dry strawmen being left all over the fucking place.
August 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I just want to advise everyone to make sure they aren’t leaving any open flames unattended on social media right now…
A whole lot of very dry strawmen being left all over the fucking place.
A whole lot of very dry strawmen being left all over the fucking place.
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My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
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"you're writing the wrong prompts"
"you're using the wrong model"
"you asked it to do math, it's not great at that it is a language model"
"yes the response was wrong but it was mostly right"
"but did you see how fast it generated the wrong answer?"
"it will be better eventually"
"you're using the wrong model"
"you asked it to do math, it's not great at that it is a language model"
"yes the response was wrong but it was mostly right"
"but did you see how fast it generated the wrong answer?"
"it will be better eventually"
August 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"you're writing the wrong prompts"
"you're using the wrong model"
"you asked it to do math, it's not great at that it is a language model"
"yes the response was wrong but it was mostly right"
"but did you see how fast it generated the wrong answer?"
"it will be better eventually"
"you're using the wrong model"
"you asked it to do math, it's not great at that it is a language model"
"yes the response was wrong but it was mostly right"
"but did you see how fast it generated the wrong answer?"
"it will be better eventually"
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I've lived in London for 30 years.
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
July 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I've lived in London for 30 years.
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
Telling that she wasn’t one of the first 20 names when I think of the most stupid people in public life. That party is one crowded field.
Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns tells Times Radio that she doesn’t believe climate change exists, and that it’s just a “racket” for some people to make money. If Reform win the next election, the UK could become a very different place quite quickly.
July 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Telling that she wasn’t one of the first 20 names when I think of the most stupid people in public life. That party is one crowded field.
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My advice, if you're curious and want to try ChatGPT, is to spend the first several days ONLY asking it questions you already know the answer to.
You will quickly be cured of your desire to use ChatGPT!
It's absolutely horrifying watching it fabricate answers with absolute confidence!
You will quickly be cured of your desire to use ChatGPT!
It's absolutely horrifying watching it fabricate answers with absolute confidence!
July 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My advice, if you're curious and want to try ChatGPT, is to spend the first several days ONLY asking it questions you already know the answer to.
You will quickly be cured of your desire to use ChatGPT!
It's absolutely horrifying watching it fabricate answers with absolute confidence!
You will quickly be cured of your desire to use ChatGPT!
It's absolutely horrifying watching it fabricate answers with absolute confidence!
70,000,000 UK peeps “on” the NHS, so this seems like checkmate to us and future prosperity.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
70,000,000 UK peeps “on” the NHS, so this seems like checkmate to us and future prosperity.
“I know being out of my depth personally. This person I don’t know particularly well looks a bit like I did when I failed”
The first officer of The Titanic sitting in judgement of other’s seafaring skills
July 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“I know being out of my depth personally. This person I don’t know particularly well looks a bit like I did when I failed”
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My day in London as seen through the eyes of Matthew Goodwin. This post is free
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Professor Goodwin goes to London
Or: The Heart of Darkness 2
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My day in London as seen through the eyes of Matthew Goodwin. This post is free
open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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