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Andy Fraser

@andyfraser.bsky.social
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Finished just outside the top 3 Most Responsible Person in our 4 person household for a record 13 years.

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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 2h
Theory: hyper-religious societies like Iran or America cling to religion because they lack any robust morality.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 3h
Marchenko looks like he gives a shit
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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a child of a survivor of these hellish places called residential school, I can tell you with everything in me that the children who survived told the truth. Everything they said and what they didn't say, happened. We lived with the shell of the humans who came back. We know what they experienced.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 5h
No wonder Musk likes the virtual world so much cos reality ain’t doing him any favours.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 5h
That’s my first FUCK YEAH of the leafs season, 50s in!
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 5h
And so it begins. The Leafs take the ice. I hope they play with more spirit than last year’s miserable season, that McKenna is as good as billed, and that they play some fast, skilled hockey and not endless dismal dump and chase.
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 7h
Can’t we call it Super-Human Intelligence Technology instead of AI? Makes a nice acronym…
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 8h
Stop with the “if AI is conscious then maybe it should have rights?” 💩 and let’s start with “if a conscious human uses AI, they are legally responsible for the outcomes” and go from there. So much govt and commercial use of AI is simply a way to insulate themselves from legal responsibility.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 11h
Christ does the uk have a leader who is willing to set out a reasonable agenda? I didn’t realise that was still a thing. Andy Burnham, bloody hell.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 13h
What can the Leafs get if they traded Matthews? FWIW I thought they should have traded him and not Marner, I am in a poorly-informed irrational minority perhaps of one!
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
IRGC: “What is the reason for the existence of 800 US military bases in different countries around the world? What justification is there for [such an enormous] US military budget? Is it anything other than keeping the major arms factories and companies prosperous?
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 14h
An annual reposting of this paper, an absolute masterpiece of synthetic biology. Incredible feat of engineering: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
A microbial supply chain for production of the anti-cancer drug vinblastine - Nature
De novo microbial biosynthesis of vindoline and catharanthine using a highly engineered yeast and in vitro chemical coupling to vinblastine is carried out, positioning yeast as a scalable platform to ...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kerala cashew curry
Cashew curry
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For years, a group of scientists in Copenhagen fed their research into Anthropic's AI models to write code and draft manuscripts. @carlzimmer.com reports that among their work were findings about new enzymes—which Anthropic recently "discovered" independently, according to an announcement last week
nytimes.com
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unpeeling a fresh waxy perfect conker (uk word for horse chestnut) from its shell. A childhood joy revisited.
Conker in shellConker
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Superb thread drop what you’re doing and read it!!! 200m waves!!
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is there any food still left to eat in America that won’t make you seriously ill?
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah the good ol Medvedev trick. What an utterly repulsive evil man: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Serbia’s populist president Aleksandar Vučić resigns to run for prime minister
Vučić not allowed to seek third presidential term and election will test his grip on rule after widespread protests
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is it illegal to kill someone playing jazz flute in public? Feels like there should be some special circumstances pleading there. (Since it’s Ontario I guess I could just run them down with my car, that’s always legal)
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is f***ing fantastic.
Import ginger ice cream
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/09/2026
After receiving an award from the owner of The Telegraph, Politico, Business Insider, etc. Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is a "useful idiot" for the Chinese because he dares question Thiel's glorious AI future. The 120 schoolgirls in Minab killed by Thiel's Palantir were not available for comment.
thelettersfromleo.com
“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time
The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has sai...
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So cool that both Tkachuk brothers now play for the same team so you never have to question which team to hate the most this season.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
God it’s been ages since I listened to Bubble and Scrape and it still sounds wonderful.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would like to see much more controversial legislation go through but with a mandatory sunset clause eg we are in a difficult time so we need this to go through but it dies at end of this government unless next government votes to retain it for another term.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ronnie Corbett and Andy Burnham - is it just me that sees this resemblance??
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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46&2 @7719deftones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Coined by @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“…and it’s practical too because people can garrotte you with it when they realise you’re secretly filming them like a fucking psycho pervert”.
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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Arretez. d'acheter. la. bouffe. merdique. des. etats-uniens
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oooh a new M83 album.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 25/09/2026
Thinking of visiting the US? Consider it carefully, as they’re going to seize your phone and look at everything you have on it.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks to hockey practice in Mississauga I learned about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Ma...
en.wikipedia.org
Syro-Malabar Church - Wikipedia
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Private Eye:
London Fascist
Week begins
YES, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue.
Our models are sporting trademark black shirts twinned with black shorts and the very latest in balaclava chic.
The models sashayed through
London to the Daily Mail offices where they showed off the best of British Fascism for the World to see. A leading Fascism designer says, "You'll see this great new totally unthreatening look everywhere - Portsmouth, Dover, London. It's coming to a town near you soon, and we know where you live!"
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Alberta rat jokes just write themselves don’t they? The first rat - the Premier rat? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Awesome to see new @moleculargenetics.bsky.social PIs speaking at MoGen retreat. Some beautiful new science - great to see the department grow with such talent and really look forward to collaborations!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stalin picture with harp added in
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
londondaily.com
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No. Hungary and Brazil had it right. De-Nazify first. Germany suffered for a decade because besides Nuremberg they did not de-Nazify till the 50s. There is historical precedent. De-Nazify first. Always. Impeach first. Arrest first. Stop the corruption and funding of Nazi gov't agencies first.
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