Liberal Jimocrat
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Reminder, It is ok to be a chewy spicy and solid baby.
Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated
Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reminder, It is ok to be a chewy spicy and solid baby.
Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated
Especially at this time of year when only holey infants that are tender and mild get celebrated
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On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net.
This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols.
In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals
www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...
This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols.
In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals
www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...
![The story of the chimney see
Santa baby, and blood and joyous so world and joy and good will to see
Santa baby bore sweet Jesus Christ
Fa la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la.
King of toys and hippopotamuses [sic] full of the light of that stood at the dear Son of Santa Claus
He was born in a wonderful christmas tree
Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolf the new born King.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kq6mqqfqf6zg7fvyeu2h7g2o/bafkreid3da62yp5ng32esoqi4czq2l743s7fpocsakw7vwas4va7u57pji@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net.
This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols.
In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals
www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...
This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols.
In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals
www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...
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The BBC censored my line about Trump's corruption, turned off the comment section, and sat on the video versions for three weeks.
Still, I’m genuinely glad to see so many people watching (and commenting on) my Reith Lectures. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
Still, I’m genuinely glad to see so many people watching (and commenting on) my Reith Lectures. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
Are we living through the fall of civilisation? | The Reith Lectures 2025
YouTube video by BBC Sounds
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The BBC censored my line about Trump's corruption, turned off the comment section, and sat on the video versions for three weeks.
Still, I’m genuinely glad to see so many people watching (and commenting on) my Reith Lectures. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
Still, I’m genuinely glad to see so many people watching (and commenting on) my Reith Lectures. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
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This is huge if even part of this potential is realised.
"The fund will unlock up to 19 GW of offshore wind in the immediate term, providing the country with the homegrown energy to deliver clean power by 2030 and protect households from volatile fossil fuel markets."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
"The fund will unlock up to 19 GW of offshore wind in the immediate term, providing the country with the homegrown energy to deliver clean power by 2030 and protect households from volatile fossil fuel markets."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New push to unlock enough electricity to power two cities the size of London and boost nature recovery
Marine Recovery Fund to get nature thriving and accelerate offshore wind development
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is huge if even part of this potential is realised.
"The fund will unlock up to 19 GW of offshore wind in the immediate term, providing the country with the homegrown energy to deliver clean power by 2030 and protect households from volatile fossil fuel markets."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
"The fund will unlock up to 19 GW of offshore wind in the immediate term, providing the country with the homegrown energy to deliver clean power by 2030 and protect households from volatile fossil fuel markets."
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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this woman is your FRIEND
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
this woman is your FRIEND
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
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Minister rejects pleas from disabled peers for national wheelchair and equipment strategy
@salbrinton.bsky.social
#WheelchairServices #CommunityEquipment
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-rej...
@salbrinton.bsky.social
#WheelchairServices #CommunityEquipment
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-rej...
Minister rejects pleas from disabled peers for national wheelchair and equipment strategy
The government has dismissed pleas by disabled peers for ministers to introduce a national strategy to address the “untenable” state of wheelchair and community equipment services. A trio of disabl…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Minister rejects pleas from disabled peers for national wheelchair and equipment strategy
@salbrinton.bsky.social
#WheelchairServices #CommunityEquipment
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-rej...
@salbrinton.bsky.social
#WheelchairServices #CommunityEquipment
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-rej...
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
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and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
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"Odysseus must travel the Mediterranean locating *all* the vertebrae of the fabled Golden Stegosaurus: for only by assembling them all can he summon Dino Powers and defeat the suitors" exactly as Homer wrote it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Odysseus must travel the Mediterranean locating *all* the vertebrae of the fabled Golden Stegosaurus: for only by assembling them all can he summon Dino Powers and defeat the suitors" exactly as Homer wrote it.
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Lettuce is grown in the desert because 50 years ago, lighting was expensive and water was cheap. Now lighting is cheap and water is expensive, so here on the East Coast greenhouse lettuce is pretty much price-competitive (esp. since it lasts longer!)
www.freeingenergy.com/facts/led-bu...
www.freeingenergy.com/facts/led-bu...
Cost of LED lighting dropped 15-times as volumes increase
The cost of LED lighting dropped significantly between 2010 and 2019 as a result of the increase in the volume of LED lights sold.
www.freeingenergy.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Lettuce is grown in the desert because 50 years ago, lighting was expensive and water was cheap. Now lighting is cheap and water is expensive, so here on the East Coast greenhouse lettuce is pretty much price-competitive (esp. since it lasts longer!)
www.freeingenergy.com/facts/led-bu...
www.freeingenergy.com/facts/led-bu...
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All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
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We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a
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'globalize the intifada' is motte-and-bailey shit, it's mostly people who want the thrill of being associated with violence but a deniability option when questioned.
I will say that "'globalize the Intifada' can't be antisemitic because 'Intifada' is in Arabic, a Semitic language" is an extra-special new stupid twist I didn't see coming
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
'globalize the intifada' is motte-and-bailey shit, it's mostly people who want the thrill of being associated with violence but a deniability option when questioned.
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Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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The Home Office has lost (for the third time) an attempt to stop the First Tier Tribunal considering the lawfulness of removing asylum claims from the system, when hearing legal challenges from people who lost housing and financial support as a result
The Court of Appeal dismissed its case today
The Court of Appeal dismissed its case today
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Home Office has lost (for the third time) an attempt to stop the First Tier Tribunal considering the lawfulness of removing asylum claims from the system, when hearing legal challenges from people who lost housing and financial support as a result
The Court of Appeal dismissed its case today
The Court of Appeal dismissed its case today
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A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II
this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Normal financial regulators: Here’s our list of open consultations, with a explanation for each, and the response deadline
US financial regulators: here’s a context free pdf,with a numeric title, and you have to calculate the response deadline based a date that may or may not be on the pdf
US financial regulators: here’s a context free pdf,with a numeric title, and you have to calculate the response deadline based a date that may or may not be on the pdf
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Normal financial regulators: Here’s our list of open consultations, with a explanation for each, and the response deadline
US financial regulators: here’s a context free pdf,with a numeric title, and you have to calculate the response deadline based a date that may or may not be on the pdf
US financial regulators: here’s a context free pdf,with a numeric title, and you have to calculate the response deadline based a date that may or may not be on the pdf
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Lol, I think the Labour Party is the only political organisation in the entire world with enough self-loathing to listen to a guy tell them that the last 80 years of their party, including every majority government they ever had, was a mistake and then make them head of strategy.
One interesting nugget in this piece could explain the (otherwise baffling) appearance of Ramsay MacDonald in a 2024 Labour Party Election Broadcast
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Lol, I think the Labour Party is the only political organisation in the entire world with enough self-loathing to listen to a guy tell them that the last 80 years of their party, including every majority government they ever had, was a mistake and then make them head of strategy.
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Where the 'if you can't afford kids don't have them' crowd run headlong into the 'we need more indigenous breeding and less immigration' crowd.
They are of course the same people.
They are of course the same people.
It's bad - really bad: "At the end of 2024, 4.5m children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, living in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income. And 18% of all children were growing up in food-insecure households, without consistent access to nutritious food."
Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?
Four and a half million children are growing up without basic necessities in the UK.
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Where the 'if you can't afford kids don't have them' crowd run headlong into the 'we need more indigenous breeding and less immigration' crowd.
They are of course the same people.
They are of course the same people.
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I don’t support criminalising slogans, except when they’re directly used to harass or intimidate.
But I think it’s a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn’t stop using them long ago.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
But I think it’s a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn’t stop using them long ago.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I don’t support criminalising slogans, except when they’re directly used to harass or intimidate.
But I think it’s a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn’t stop using them long ago.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
But I think it’s a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn’t stop using them long ago.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...