Jon
@jonpoole.bsky.social
Social Research person. Currently #localgov data, also here for ttrpgs and Warhammer stuff.
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The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.
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Gondor’s leader was of course driven insane by overuse of social media.
October 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Gondor’s leader was of course driven insane by overuse of social media.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
1. Aubergine
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.
“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”
1 Sweetcorn
2 Irreversible
3 The Number of the Beast
1 Sweetcorn
2 Irreversible
3 The Number of the Beast
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand
October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
1. Aubergine
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.
2. Nocturnal Animals
3. Sound of Music, hard to choose, probably Goatherd.
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Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on
The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on
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YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE
Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "
October 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK ANYMORE
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Hope you get the job, Steve!
October 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hope you get the job, Steve!
Back when Twitter was good.
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Back when Twitter was good.
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I have never understood this argument: LLMs are here to stay. So we need to learn how to use them.
The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.
The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.
September 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I have never understood this argument: LLMs are here to stay. So we need to learn how to use them.
The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.
The whole reason they have proliferated in the last two years is because you basically have to learn nothing to use them. Open a web browser and start asking plunking things into the prompt field.
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I’m not saying we’re cooked as a culture, but the left are wrongly convinced that Keir Starmer is going to sell all our digital ID data to Palantir and the right are convinced it’s a ploy to enrich Euan Blair.
September 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m not saying we’re cooked as a culture, but the left are wrongly convinced that Keir Starmer is going to sell all our digital ID data to Palantir and the right are convinced it’s a ploy to enrich Euan Blair.
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I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a computer, begging you all to learn just the slightest amount of nuance before you apply the marketing term AI to all forms of machine generation and analysis without understanding their fundamental differences
September 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a computer, begging you all to learn just the slightest amount of nuance before you apply the marketing term AI to all forms of machine generation and analysis without understanding their fundamental differences
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I ran out of characters on the last post.
And now the world has lost another character.
Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned.
Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything.
RIP old mate.
And now the world has lost another character.
Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned.
Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything.
RIP old mate.
The last time I met Dickie Bird 😔:
How are you Lad?
Very good Dickie
Are you still working?
A bit. I’ve written your obit for The Guardian.
Will I like it?
You’ll be dead won’t you? So you'll never know.
(To passing strangers, loudly )
I’ll have to trust him won’t I? I’ll have to trust him won’t I?”
How are you Lad?
Very good Dickie
Are you still working?
A bit. I’ve written your obit for The Guardian.
Will I like it?
You’ll be dead won’t you? So you'll never know.
(To passing strangers, loudly )
I’ll have to trust him won’t I? I’ll have to trust him won’t I?”
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I ran out of characters on the last post.
And now the world has lost another character.
Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned.
Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything.
RIP old mate.
And now the world has lost another character.
Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned.
Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything.
RIP old mate.
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It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
Little disingenuous of Cov CC here. Regardless of the company itself, "robust due diligence in line with our procurement process" is not on any level an ethics review. #localgov #ai
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Little disingenuous of Cov CC here. Regardless of the company itself, "robust due diligence in line with our procurement process" is not on any level an ethics review. #localgov #ai
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES***
This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law.
Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law.
Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
a woman says it 's a fact while standing in front of an american flag
ALT: a woman says it 's a fact while standing in front of an american flag
media.tenor.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES***
This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law.
Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law.
Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
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Local planning law should be boring.
August 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Local planning law should be boring.
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Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
August 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.
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Great, we've automated podcasters.
AI in a nutshell: "AI seems to know everything—until it's a topic where you have firsthand knowledge"
garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-over...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-over...
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble
garymarcus.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Great, we've automated podcasters.
"PhD level" can mean a lot of things in a lot of contexts. Most of them less impressive than they sound.
August 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"PhD level" can mean a lot of things in a lot of contexts. Most of them less impressive than they sound.
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Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.
Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.