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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Praying the last bus actually runs (which based on previous experience is by no means certain - thanks @translinknisupport.bsky.social)

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

MOT time. Thankfully a pass. And I clocked up another DVA centre this year.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Made it to October without putting the heating on. How's everybody else managing?

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

My car is into its teens and started to run into repair bills the last couple of years in the run up to MOT. £525 this time, though that included a service and a tyre. Suspension rattles thankfully now gone. Trying to keep it going for as long as possible. Insurance due next...

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Felt my foot brush something walking round the side of the house. Looks like I gave this lad a bit of a boot in the darkness, though he seems none the worse for it. Another 1, perhaps 2 snuffling in the bushes nearby.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

This is sad, and that she couldn't end her life at a time of her choosing as she wished.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Couldn't muster the enthusiasm for a run yesterday so deferred it until tonight. Fine on the way out then that breeze hit me on the way back.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 25/09/2026

75% of Britons say they have little to no confidence in the ability of AI companies to control their models and prevent them from being used to hack confidential data Great deal: 2% Fair amount: 12% Not very much: 37% None at all: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/09/2026

A thing I would write about if I wrote about media: The rise of the semi-pro Facebook news creator. Last year's algo changes deprioritised things you follow/friends. Now my feed is just turbocharged with random activists/angry people/auditors who create grabby content and earn a few £100 a month.

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FT letter makes a grim point on how the first AI war could start - www.ft.com/content/b912...

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

'Twas wile hot out there tha night. Sweat-stung eyes, and the sun felt SO strong today. Mustn't grumble.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

The whole spat between Diana's brother and the King highlights the privilege they both enjoy which gives them the freedom to place their own narratives widely via the media for what is a private dispute. 99.999% of the population don't have that facility.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

I've an event at Culture Night Belfast. Beautiful archive films on flax and linen and I'll be bringing along some of Daddy's work. 4-5pm, Linen Hall Bar, this Friday.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2026

A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said.

washingtonpost.com

It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo

The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 15/09/2026

Live footage of Ed Sheeran “staying out of politics.”

Image promoting the Concert for Ukraine in 2022, which Ed Sheeran performed at.

Screenshot of news website with article about Ed Sheeran and Ukrainian band:

“Ed Sheeran sends support to Ukrainian band who ask to join Birmingham charity concert remotely from Kyiv

Ed Sheeran told rock band Antytila - who are currently in Kyiv…….”

Ed Sheeran on some tv show talking about the Concert for Ukraine in 2022.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Bono has his phone on silent tonight. And tomorrow. Maybe the day after too.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't know who Macklemore is. I only know that it sounds like it's somewhere between Cookstown and Omagh.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Hopping channels last night and ended up watching the first 3 episodes of Blue Lights. Reminded me how good it was straight out of the blocks.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/09/2026

If you’ve been ingesting a load of AI-related bullshit online and despairing at your fellow human beings I can highly recommend living with a four year old who, when picked up from school, shouts DADDY WE MADE A MONSTER OUT OF TWIGS

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Somewhere in Fermanagh someone is thinking what a nice day it is. Elsewhere...

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

That seems like a LOT of money, not that I'd be going anyway.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Productive Sunday - first outside DIY job went so well I had time to tackle another and then hit the Maze for the Ulster Aeronautical Society open day for European Heritage Open Day, all while an Asturian type stew containing wild boar chorizo was doing its thing in the slow cooker.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Can I get to October without having to turn the heating on? Some maths tells me I need to use the heating 16% less to stand still.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 13/09/2026

Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the boss of Anthropic for the artificial intelligence (AI) industry to “slow down” to give safety measures time to catch up. jrnl.ie/7161318

jrnl.ie

Musk and Altman back calls to ‘slow down’ development of AI

The boss of Anthropic has said he is concerned that since this summer, AI has been “advancing drastically faster”.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Went for a stargazing walk last night up Slieve Martin. Pretty clear night, amazing how many satellites were visible. My ability to recognise and point out constellations remains stuck on The Plough though.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember first finding out about the September 11th attacks when arriving around lunchtime at the offices I worked at. The security guard was watching the news on a little TV he had at the security counter. Spent most of the next day in City Airport before all flights were eventually cancelled.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026

>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Last couple of nights I've learned how to use nested IF formulas and VLOOKUP tables. Fair to say it took a lot longer than it should have but I am now the King of (simple) Spreadsheets.

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bishops and Archbishops have voted against: abolition of slavery, abolition of death penalty, decriminalising abortion, decriminalising gay sex, same-sex marriage. So this is just the latest in long tradition of opposition to choice and freedom. It's scandalous that they get to vote on laws at all!

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

First run since the weekend. Quite nice temps out there, perfect for it at the minute.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Tried kimchi for the first time. Reporting it as a success.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Maybe, just maybe, we should be regulating the shit out of this - right now.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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anyoldname.eurosky.social @anyoldname.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

I couldn't give a toss what a local ex-terrorist has to say. Twenty seven years after the Good Friday Agreement journalists are too comfortable lazily regurgitating yarns about crazed psychopathic killers.

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CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

*Shares appreciated with anyone you know who might want to support this local Women’s Aid appeal* My wife is organising the appeal and sending the first order soon, DM for details Thank you @antisyzygy.bsky.social @brendanjharkin.bsky.social @lbangorstories.bsky.social @thealso.bsky.social

Women’s Aid ABCLN ‘send a moment of comfort’ details

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