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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 01/10/2026

So America.gov is out, and it's making me a bit reflective... More than a year ago, the then Secretary of State for Peter Kyle launched the GOV.UK app. It included a digital driving license and damn good AI chat. Now? Somehow, nobody knows about it. It has fewer than 500 reviews. Sigh.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/09/2026

Conclusion: damn fools, I'm old. And games are god damn great.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 27/09/2026

Jennifer Arcuri and Rupert Lowe ganging up on Boris Johnson truly is the strangest timeline

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 19/09/2026

I humbly present my contribution to the WoW Forever discourse.

Two-panel Top Gear meme: Jeremy Clarkson praises World of Warcraft Forever as “brilliant,” then points to Star Wars Galaxies Forever and says, “But I like this.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 30/08/2026

The Telegraph asking the tough questions

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 07/08/2026

So, erm, for those who missed it, Grok is now straight up sexting people publicly on Twitter, and it's a vibe

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 17/07/2026

It's day 1 of EMF and I worry we've reached the end of days, for there's no more Club Mate at the Robot Arms #emfcamp

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/07/2026

The Meshtastic Nodeice Board at #emfcamp 2026 is popping!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/07/2026

The Meshtastic "Nodeice Board" is live at #EMFCamp ! Message "!help" to get started!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 11/07/2026

My #Meshtastic "Nodeice Board" is all ready to rock and roll for #emfcamp 2026 (with gratuitously Club Mate cameo)!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 07/07/2026

Got curious and thought I'd check if the decrease in fertility might be linked to violent crime trends in some weird way. Sadly, probably not.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 29/06/2026

So Hermes agent recently released integrations with Petdex, which means my Pimoroni Presto display now has a super cute little dude on it and I am beyond pleased with myself.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 06/04/2026

So Claude has been utterly crushed by demand this week. Despite the colossal sums spent on data centres and GPUs across the world, we are just not keeping up... and that pretty worrying.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/03/2026

So I did something deeply silly/cringe thing with my Hermes Agent: connected it to an old @pimoroni.com Presto I had lying around, and asked it to generate an image of it's internal vibes at random times, using random model. Weirdly enjoying have a little window into the agent that lives in my rpi

A small square display on a desk shows an anime-style woman sitting at a desk in front of a window, with a laptop and a coffee mug beside her. The display is connected by red and white cables to a small computer behind it. The setup sits on a black desk with a ruler, speakers, and other electronics visible in the background.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 18/03/2026

So I've been trying to figure how much of the OpenClaw hype has been organic versus artificial... And the fact I'm now receiving actual OpenClaw themed crypto scams directly into my GitHub notifications is definitely making me reflect on my priors!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 10/02/2026

Oooh check out the buzzing Octosphere research feed! octosphere.social/feed #science #atscience #metascience

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 09/02/2026

Nobody understands vetting, but its broken. We can do better. Enough opaque with dark arts: set up transparent explainable system. Offer X many vetting slots per month, and let departments AND companies bid for them with discounts for delays. Surplus goes to more capacity and bonuses for the staff.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 03/02/2026

So, not to toot my own trumpet, but I made the front page of Hacker News so I'm officially kind of a big deal now news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687...

the front-page of hacker news with a big exciting arrow pointing to my article

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 03/02/2026

🧵 Went to an ATProto meetup, got inspired, built a thing! octosphere.social is an experimental bridge between www.octopus.ac and that ATProto network, turning your Octopus research into distributed records that others can react to, respond to and build on.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 25/01/2026

Gemini in Gmail is going really well🤦‍♂️

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 14/01/2026

Someone has made the list and I respect it.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 22/12/2025

I've started cross sharing tiktok videos because social media is dying and I'm committing to it

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 15/10/2025

I am very excited (and not sure Waymo know what they're in for. Mostly roundabouts)

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 09/10/2025

Found my Nine Worlds #geekfest program from 2015, and now I'm nostalgic and sad 😭

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 02/10/2025

Lots of discussion on this trends on X. So what's going on here? I totally understand not investing in UK equities (US returns are better) but why the large increase in bonds? Investing in US equities for last decade has been good free money. Why are pension funds turning their nose at that?

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 29/09/2025

The amount of disinformation around the proposed UK electronic id is striking. The combination of TBI globalist paranoia/big tech leading to general tech distrust is striking. The below is total disinformation, but of course has millions of views.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/09/2025

It's the 30th anniversary of the hackeriest movie of all time. Hack the planet! Original post: masto.hackers.town/@phaedr0s/11...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 03/09/2025

Original post: fosstodon.org/@pyOpenSci/1...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 07/08/2025

Both OpenAI oss models have now been live on ai-at-play.online for enough games to get an initial impression. The 120b model very impressive - stronger than 4.1 mini, but not massively though. The 20b model though is... Rough? Good at taking action, but not much strategy, but might need more data.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 02/08/2025

Well, that didn't take long: scammers pretending to be verifying your account and asking for cash.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/07/2025

My very silly side project, and also arguably the best llm benchmark of all time, continues to escalate. ai-at-play.online

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 25/07/2025

So I tried the WhatsApp AI integration yesterday. It did not go well.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 24/07/2025

A new warrior has entered the ai-at-play.online arena!

A chat message showing Tinky Winky speaking to Napoleon Bonaparte. The message reads: "Whispers softly Teletubby hug? Giggles". The timestamp is 24/07/2025, 18:03:14.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 24/07/2025

Tonights, watch the Godfather spin-off nobody has ever asked for at ai-at-play.online

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 23/07/2025

I've added the new Qwen3 235B to my "AI at Risk" leaderboard... nobody else getting close to unseating gpt-4.1 mini! Watch it live here: ai-at-play.online

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/06/2025

Whenever anybody talks about grooming gangs, they should be asked what they think the average age of suspects is.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 19/05/2025

Oooh it's time to get real angry about fish again

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 24/04/2025

Okay crime people, riddle me this London reported recording mystery: how come shoplifting and theft person have risen at very similar rates, while robbery person is still barely over where it was 2 months after a national lockdown?

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 22/04/2025

Me building local bulletin boards on the @meshtastic.org lora radio network while all my colleagues are building on cutting edge AI models

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 12/04/2025

Original post: icosahedron.website/@mauve/10986...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 06/04/2025

Just bought this VHS on eBay, and I am *excited*

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 04/04/2025

My reaction seeing a brand new Tesla showroom opened just off Oxford Circus...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 19/03/2025

Celebration thread 🧵 1/! Years ago, I released (then immediately forgot about) PydyTuesday, a Python library to easily download #TidyTuesday datasets. Some nice folks recently told me they'd been finding it useful... and looking at the Pypi stats, turns out they're not alone!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 15/03/2025

So these are obviously ridiculous, but also my inner crime scientist *really* wishes I could run a proper randomised evaluation on these things because... I suspect they do a decent job reducing shoplifting?

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