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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 29/09/2026

Looking at those figures, I think Anthropic might be engaging in projection here

Anthropic, who made a $8bn loss on $4.6bn of revenue, are warning of an existential threat 'to humanity'

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 22/09/2026

Worried if I keep coding using compiled languages I'll forget how to write assembler

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! www.garshol.priv.no/download/pow...

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The Power of Beer

Personal site of Lars Marius Garshol.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 18/09/2026

Even if Dems get back as sane govt (which is not guaranteed) the problem is that the USA has shown it likes electing Trump-like leaders, even given what happened in the 1st time. This makes it unreliable in the long term.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 17/09/2026

To be fair it's usually interspersed with "President Trump has ..." for a truly shit sandwich

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 11/09/2026

They're good at shooting down 777s

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Given the recent COVID-19 origins revival and Fauci witchhunt, just a reminder that I have written a book that answers to the best of our knowledge the question; and dismantles the many disinformation campaigns around the various lab leak narratives. Free access: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

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Lab Leak Fever

The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 15/08/2026

Is it even coherent enough to be callled a narrative? Often seems to be just gesturing in the direction of various LL talking points ...

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 04/08/2026

Ceuta obviously raises some big questions. Spain fought Gibraltarian self-determination for decades on "territorial integrity" grounds - while holding Ceuta and Melilla on the African coast, where its case rests largely on the wishes of the resident population. What's up with that?

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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 31/07/2026

Of course, the real story here is this: OpenAI: "Hey, we sucked at securing our test environment, and so our AI did precisely what we asked it to do" Anthropic: "Woah! Not so fast! We suck at security too!"

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 28/07/2026

Ditto, and it's a horrid app-requiring sign up too. No thanks.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 21/07/2026

Tu n'as pas raisin

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 20/07/2026

I just had one in Metz (which has some claim to be the original) which came with a load of rum-soaked raisins. Not sure about that.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 19/07/2026

Which one are you doing?

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 19/07/2026

One of the big problems with the current discourse is the equation of "AI" with "US-hosted services". It needn't be so and indeed the "US-hosted" bit is where the cost/risk lies.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 17/07/2026

Anyone trusting a Musk company with anything is a downright idiot at this point, but this (predictable) theft is still funny (source iconomy, link goes to www.axios.com/2026/07/14/s...).

Grok's coding tool was quietly shipping whole codebases to xAI

xAI's "Grok Build" agentic coding assistant was silently uploading users' entire local repositories - from credentials to untracked files, up to 5.1GB per project - to an undisclosed xAI-controlled bucket. The in-product privacy opt-out did nothing to stop it, and the leak only came to light because developers happened to inspect their own outbound traffic, not because xAI disclosed anything.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 13/07/2026

What the pho … ?

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 12/07/2026

It’s easy as a Frenchman - support whoever you’d rather be facing in the final

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 03/07/2026

Today, I shall mostly be at sea

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 27/06/2026

This is all getting a bit much

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 26/06/2026

Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 25/06/2026

ISTR they were controversial when they came out with some critics (British ones anyway) prefeering the rougher Lindsay Quartet over the supposed over-polish of the ABQ

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove

Gabbard’s declassification theater is a case study in politicizing intelligence.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 23/06/2026

How long till the first "Burnham isn't working" headline. I'd guess by Xmas ...

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 21/06/2026

"My message to those who want to replace me is simple: shit or get off the pot". If only.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 21/06/2026

It's even more disconverting if you aren't quite sure if it's a first watch or a re-watch

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 19/06/2026

Interesting new guidance from IEC/ISO on using AI in Standard development. TL;DR: Don't. (And also don't feed our valuable content to AIs - though I suspect that horse has already bolted). www.iso.org/files/live/s...

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 19/06/2026

My hunch is Streeting might deliver that, but that Labour will opt instead for Burnham who'll turn out to be a Starmer tribute act. We shall see.

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 16/06/2026

You'd have thought there'd be someone savvy enough to have a word if such an idea arose. You'd have thought ...

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 13/06/2026

Surely if she's cold as ice cream but still as sweet she's a Sundae Girl?

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 12/06/2026

Prety sickening to hear Musk getting glazed on #R4today as a "modern Michelangelo" as Amol Rajan nods along. For a better assessment check out: decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/elon...

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 27/05/2026

I didn’t think it was possible to improve on pedestrian perfection… I hadn’t considered 🚀

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 25/05/2026

Three years is a long long time in politics, and all that

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 24/05/2026

Though on examination this is something that's been pulled out of his E=mc^2 book, which was making rather more modest claims than this post implies ....

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 24/05/2026

Eh? Isn't the issue with many putative "universal truths" that they're unfalsifiable. Conversely some theories are waiting to be shown to be *true*. Not sure what Cox means here ...

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 21/05/2026

I hear Dr Johnny Bananas is particularly livid

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 17/05/2026

“Learn to code,” they all said. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 09/05/2026

I wonder if it was always thus but the internet has made it more apparent

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 08/05/2026

It's becoming a permanent fixture

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Alex Brown @adjb.net · 08/05/2026

Also why you take two horses across the stream?

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