Jamie
@twodimes.bsky.social
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Jamie
@twodimes.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Break up Google. Tax billionaires. Investigate corruption. Double spending on schools, parks, and neighbourhood infrastructure.
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Four children who inherited their wealth and a crypto entrepreneur who went to prison.
That’s…a look.
That’s…a look.
December 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Four children who inherited their wealth and a crypto entrepreneur who went to prison.
That’s…a look.
That’s…a look.
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Had a conversation with a 19 year old over Christmas; I asked her where she gets her news and she said she doesn't. I asked her where she goes to find out about the world and she said she doesn't. Just...doesn't. Shook me to the core, in part because I should have known this is happening but didn't.
Logging onto this app is like logging into a parallel universe, the universe where everyone reads the news
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Had a conversation with a 19 year old over Christmas; I asked her where she gets her news and she said she doesn't. I asked her where she goes to find out about the world and she said she doesn't. Just...doesn't. Shook me to the core, in part because I should have known this is happening but didn't.
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'Deterministic Automation' in this context is absolutely hilarious. That's just regular computer programming. That's what we had before.
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
'Deterministic Automation' in this context is absolutely hilarious. That's just regular computer programming. That's what we had before.
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Aren't you surprised and impressed that this poorly argued essay you skimmed hoping to find even one well articulated point was written by AI?!?!?
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Aren't you surprised and impressed that this poorly argued essay you skimmed hoping to find even one well articulated point was written by AI?!?!?
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Salesforce in the summer: "AI is doing 50% of the work at Salesforce"
Salesforce now: "AI? I don't know her"
Salesforce now: "AI? I don't know her"
Salesforce Steps Back from AI: Executives Reveal Overconfidence in LLMs, Pivot to Deterministic Automation
Salesforce is rethinking its AI strategy after laying off 4,000 employees and deploying Agentforce, an AI-driven automation tool, to streamline operations. Executives are moving away from large langua...
opentools.ai
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Salesforce in the summer: "AI is doing 50% of the work at Salesforce"
Salesforce now: "AI? I don't know her"
Salesforce now: "AI? I don't know her"
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We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
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Hilarious new selling angle. Anyone who's worked in a creative field for 5 mins knows there is not and never has been "a lack of ideas."
You can't watch MEGALOPOLIS and go "this needed more ideas."
You can't watch MEGALOPOLIS and go "this needed more ideas."
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hilarious new selling angle. Anyone who's worked in a creative field for 5 mins knows there is not and never has been "a lack of ideas."
You can't watch MEGALOPOLIS and go "this needed more ideas."
You can't watch MEGALOPOLIS and go "this needed more ideas."
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
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“… the sociologist Charles Perrow’s 1984 book, Normal Accidents, which notes that safety systems increase the complexity of technology, inevitably leading to unforeseen errors, which can be catastrophic.”
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08...
The Unreality of Time by Elisa Gabbert
August 11, 2020 – On Henri Bergson, disasters, and the human perception of time.
www.theparisreview.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“… the sociologist Charles Perrow’s 1984 book, Normal Accidents, which notes that safety systems increase the complexity of technology, inevitably leading to unforeseen errors, which can be catastrophic.”
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08...
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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Goodbye, Monkey Cage - not as infinite as I imagined
December 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Goodbye, Monkey Cage - not as infinite as I imagined
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Cargo bike-pill them from a young age. 🤌
December 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Cargo bike-pill them from a young age. 🤌
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Can’t get to sleep, not because I’m thinking about Santa, but by thoughts that my final Monkey Cage is on in ten hours and I am troubled by putting together what led to my departure and why I felt I had to resign - deeply frustrated
Despite the title of this week’s @bigissue.com column , it is more about my love of Manchester than resigning from Monkey Cage - but here it is
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
Comedian Robin Ince: 'Why I had no choice but to resign from the BBC'
Robin Ince explains why he has stepped down from The Infinite Monkey Cage, after finding his values are at odds with the BBC.
www.bigissue.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Can’t get to sleep, not because I’m thinking about Santa, but by thoughts that my final Monkey Cage is on in ten hours and I am troubled by putting together what led to my departure and why I felt I had to resign - deeply frustrated
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I don't like a single word in this post, especially not in this order
As President Donald Trump's AI and crypto pointman, South African-born outsider David Sacks has quietly become one of the most powerful figures in Washington.
u.afp.com/S8A8
u.afp.com/S8A8
December 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I don't like a single word in this post, especially not in this order
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This is a WONDERFUL book and very, unexpectedly cosy.
I don't know who needs to hear this but ebooks are the perfect last-minute gift: virtually instant, doesn't need to be wrapped, and there's something for everyone - including, for example, sapphic gaspunk murder mysteries set on Jupiter: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Mimicking of Known Successes ebook by Malka Older - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Mimicking of Known Successes" by Malka Older available from Rakuten Kobo. “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and Th...
www.kobo.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is a WONDERFUL book and very, unexpectedly cosy.
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okay I am making it a point of going through my read later stack over the holidays and I’m gonna thread the good ones
me saving articles for later: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!
me later: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
me later: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
okay I am making it a point of going through my read later stack over the holidays and I’m gonna thread the good ones
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At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
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Wiseman is on Carney's council on Canada/US relations.
So is our former ambassador to the US, David MacNaughton.
But now MacNaughton is president of Palantir Canada.
And also chair of the fake front building a mega casino at Ontario Place - "Therme".
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
So is our former ambassador to the US, David MacNaughton.
But now MacNaughton is president of Palantir Canada.
And also chair of the fake front building a mega casino at Ontario Place - "Therme".
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Carney taps business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S. | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney has picked business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
www.cbc.ca
December 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wiseman is on Carney's council on Canada/US relations.
So is our former ambassador to the US, David MacNaughton.
But now MacNaughton is president of Palantir Canada.
And also chair of the fake front building a mega casino at Ontario Place - "Therme".
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
So is our former ambassador to the US, David MacNaughton.
But now MacNaughton is president of Palantir Canada.
And also chair of the fake front building a mega casino at Ontario Place - "Therme".
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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My first poetry book came out in Summer 2025 - ice cream models own
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December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My first poetry book came out in Summer 2025 - ice cream models own
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