Tim Holmes
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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when a journalist writes that “AI doesn’t understand context or emotional nuance the way humans do”—when LLMs don’t understand anything at all—I wonder if they imagine they are being fair-minded without seeing that they are framing the issues just the way the tech companies want them framed.
> models give unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid. So-called guardrails are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through
www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
2/n
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2/n
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
when a journalist writes that “AI doesn’t understand context or emotional nuance the way humans do”—when LLMs don’t understand anything at all—I wonder if they imagine they are being fair-minded without seeing that they are framing the issues just the way the tech companies want them framed.
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become incomprehensible
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
become incomprehensible
“...deciding whether something is worth the effort seems to tax apathetic people more, meaning they sidestep the decision altogether. When faced with a choice to actually do something, they’re biased towards simply saying “no”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Does ‘laziness’ start in the brain?
Understanding the surprising mechanism behind apathy can help unlock scientific ways to boost your motivation
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“...deciding whether something is worth the effort seems to tax apathetic people more, meaning they sidestep the decision altogether. When faced with a choice to actually do something, they’re biased towards simply saying “no”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Totally insane bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Totally insane bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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“The trouble is, there’s an alliance between Treasury officials and ideologues on the left” is the saddest Labour mandarin quote I’ve ever read. Just how lost are these people?
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“The trouble is, there’s an alliance between Treasury officials and ideologues on the left” is the saddest Labour mandarin quote I’ve ever read. Just how lost are these people?
No shit? bsky.app/profile/thei...
“The GHF model is one of the worst ‘aid’ — and I use ‘aid’ in quotes — models that’s been tried in the 21st century, if not longer than that,” said Anastasia Moran, advocacy director at MedGlobal, a Chicago-based medical aid organization that has teams inside Gaza.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.
interc.pt
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Let us go then, you and ’mandz,
When the visage is half sunk upon the sands
Like two vast and trunkless legs upon a table
When the visage is half sunk upon the sands
Like two vast and trunkless legs upon a table
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Let us go then, you and ’mandz,
When the visage is half sunk upon the sands
Like two vast and trunkless legs upon a table
When the visage is half sunk upon the sands
Like two vast and trunkless legs upon a table
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NEW: There’s a crisis in the TV industry. People with 10, 20 even 30 years experience are now stacking shelves, working in pubs, using up savings - even selling houses.
It’s the talk of the TV world. An industry crisis in plain sight.
Many factors at play - but this is not normal.
Story:
It’s the talk of the TV world. An industry crisis in plain sight.
Many factors at play - but this is not normal.
Story:
Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: There’s a crisis in the TV industry. People with 10, 20 even 30 years experience are now stacking shelves, working in pubs, using up savings - even selling houses.
It’s the talk of the TV world. An industry crisis in plain sight.
Many factors at play - but this is not normal.
Story:
It’s the talk of the TV world. An industry crisis in plain sight.
Many factors at play - but this is not normal.
Story:
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Appeal Court *very slightly* reduces sentences on some of the 16 peaceful climate protesters, jailed for total of 41 years. This isn’t justice. People desperate for climate action to save lives treated like organised criminals, while big oil & gas get away with ecocide @defendourjuries.bsky.social
Just Stop Oil: Co-founder's sentence reduced in Court of Appeal
Sixteen climate protesters were jailed last year for their roles in Just Stop Oil demonstrations.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Appeal Court *very slightly* reduces sentences on some of the 16 peaceful climate protesters, jailed for total of 41 years. This isn’t justice. People desperate for climate action to save lives treated like organised criminals, while big oil & gas get away with ecocide @defendourjuries.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social You just wrote that one of the perpetrators (the UK) is “committed [to] democracy & international law”. That’s a bit like saying Dr Shipman helped a lot of sick people. bsky.app/profile/geor...
If Russia is allowed to overrun Ukraine, Ukraine will become another Gaza. Netanyahu has demonstrated that you can commit repeated atrocities and still receive the support of successive US presidents.
I fear that Gaza will be the model for future occupations.
I fear that Gaza will be the model for future occupations.
March 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social You just wrote that one of the perpetrators (the UK) is “committed [to] democracy & international law”. That’s a bit like saying Dr Shipman helped a lot of sick people. bsky.app/profile/geor...
‘All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.’
– W. H. Auden
– W. H. Auden
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
‘All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.’
– W. H. Auden
– W. H. Auden
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“We should have never gotten to this point to begin with. Joe Biden should have demanded a ceasefire a long time ago. It’s what a majority of voters wanted. And if there’s any voters upset with him about that, it is his fault not theirs.”
February 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“We should have never gotten to this point to begin with. Joe Biden should have demanded a ceasefire a long time ago. It’s what a majority of voters wanted. And if there’s any voters upset with him about that, it is his fault not theirs.”
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Bulgarian police blocked rescue of Egyptian teenagers who froze to death at border - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bulgarian-police-deliberately-neglected-three-egyptian-minors-who-died-hypothermia-near-border
Bulgarian police blocked rescue of Egyptian teenagers who froze to death at border
Dog paw and boot prints were found in the snow surrounding the frozen bodies, suggesting the police had left them there
www.middleeasteye.net
January 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bulgarian police blocked rescue of Egyptian teenagers who froze to death at border - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bulgarian-police-deliberately-neglected-three-egyptian-minors-who-died-hypothermia-near-border
Disgusting reporting.
Hamas “agreed” to a ceasefire before the onslaught on Rafah began. Remember that? Then Israel simply changed their mind & murdered Hamas’ lead negotiator.
As for “the most important thing is that the hostages will be released”, what can you even say? bsky.app/profile/kenk...
Hamas “agreed” to a ceasefire before the onslaught on Rafah began. Remember that? Then Israel simply changed their mind & murdered Hamas’ lead negotiator.
As for “the most important thing is that the hostages will be released”, what can you even say? bsky.app/profile/kenk...
Andrea Mitchell reporting Gaza ceasefire deal has been reached and that it will begin in a day or two
January 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Disgusting reporting.
Hamas “agreed” to a ceasefire before the onslaught on Rafah began. Remember that? Then Israel simply changed their mind & murdered Hamas’ lead negotiator.
As for “the most important thing is that the hostages will be released”, what can you even say? bsky.app/profile/kenk...
Hamas “agreed” to a ceasefire before the onslaught on Rafah began. Remember that? Then Israel simply changed their mind & murdered Hamas’ lead negotiator.
As for “the most important thing is that the hostages will be released”, what can you even say? bsky.app/profile/kenk...
Incredible bsky.app/profile/scot...
NEW: Ian Murray has claimed Labour's poor polling support is because the public 'don't like honesty' 👀
Ian Murray says public 'don't like Labour's honesty' amid poor polling
IAN Murray has accused the Scottish Government of announcing it will scrap the two-child cap “without a policy”.
www.thenational.scot
January 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Incredible bsky.app/profile/scot...
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The largest wildfire in Texas history just happened eleven months ago and destroyed thirty times more area than the one in Los Angeles
January 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The largest wildfire in Texas history just happened eleven months ago and destroyed thirty times more area than the one in Los Angeles
Hilarious in retrospect that we thought massive tech companies constituted some kind of liberal bulwark against the far right, as if none would go full-fat fash in a heartbeat to stop employees unionising or users from gaining basic privacy rights.
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Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
interc.pt
January 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hilarious in retrospect that we thought massive tech companies constituted some kind of liberal bulwark against the far right, as if none would go full-fat fash in a heartbeat to stop employees unionising or users from gaining basic privacy rights.
bsky.app/profile/thei...
bsky.app/profile/thei...
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Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
interc.pt
January 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."
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Surprise! Nothing matters!
January 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Surprise! Nothing matters!
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With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
Lifeboat Capitalism
Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
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of what value is an academy that benefits from this sort of protection
January 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
of what value is an academy that benefits from this sort of protection
"Committed to propping up a Labour government that lacks meaningful policies and whose instincts are conservative, the Observer is reduced to a combination of liberal nihilism and anti-modern nostalgia." fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/12/libe...
Liberal Nihilism
The Observer is reduced to a combination of liberal nihilism and nostalgia.
fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
"Committed to propping up a Labour government that lacks meaningful policies and whose instincts are conservative, the Observer is reduced to a combination of liberal nihilism and anti-modern nostalgia." fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/12/libe...
“Without a politics organized around class—fighting not for the interests of women of color but for the interests of personal care aides—the left, when it comes to economic inequality, is just the good conscience of the right.” nonsite.org/the-politica...
The Political Economy of Anti-Racism
This is why some of us have been arguing that identity politics is not an alternative to class politics but a form of it: it’s the politics of an upper class that has no problem with seeing people …
nonsite.org
December 29, 2024 at 2:43 PM
“Without a politics organized around class—fighting not for the interests of women of color but for the interests of personal care aides—the left, when it comes to economic inequality, is just the good conscience of the right.” nonsite.org/the-politica...