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@benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Software engineer, socialist. London, but from up north. Learning Finnish. #nobot Anti-AI, pro-human. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@benjamineskola, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

it’s basically the dril tweet

Screenshot of dril on Twitter saying “the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron."”

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

RE: mas.to/@changoteca/1169480308141526… How people think socialism fails: leftist infighting How socialism actually fails: CIA coup.

The glasses of Chilean president Salvador Allende, smashed when he was murdered by the CIA.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@alter_kaker I think the ones I’ve seen have gaps in with metal mesh panels. Presumably still not as effective as bare, but as conductive as possible without sharp edges. Something like this image

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Latest sticker additions thanks to @utaw and @stephaniewalter

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Something I’d never seen before, in the City #cycling

A sign on the barrier of some construction works, giving directions to a bicycle repair kit at the next junction.

The bicycle repair kit in question. A metal post bolted to the ground, with a pump, and some tools attached by wire cables. A sign indicates that there is a limited supply of inner tubes and gives directions as to where to ask for them.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

This is horrible reasoning. Thinking back to books I read as a child, in plenty of cases I was just oblivious to when they were set; it just wasn’t relevant. (As a child in the 90s I probably wouldn’t have noticed if a book was written/set in the 70s or 80s and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Why do publishers modernize books?

A dated reference can break the spell a book casts on readers, said Elana Roth Parker, an agent specializing in children's and Y.A. fiction at Laura Dail Literary Agency. When a reference misses the mark, she explained, it can pull young readers out of the story.
"Kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book," Roth Parker said.
Modernization is an attempt to avoid that.
"If we want readers to fall in love with the same story we fell in love with as teenagers, the best way to do that is to reach them where they are," Sutherland said.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

[gbpol, tory freaks, education] birbalsingh is regularly referred to as ‘britain’s strictest headteacher’ but as far as i can see, based on her public persona, she’s completely ineffectual her entire management style seems to consist of learning that a child […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A screenshot from some godawful Tory newspaper.

Headline: ‘I know of a child who identifies as a hologram, says Britain's strictest head’

Subhead: ‘Katharine Birbalsingh says children allowed to self-identify as animals and moons should be moved to a different school by their parents’

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

can't believe the british government is so completely dead set on never allowing independence for scotland, wales, or the north of ireland, yet the bbc has just announced the border between england and scotland is a 'coast path' www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dxex…

A map of Great Britain, with England highlighted and Scotland and Wales de-emphasised. The coast of England is highlighted in different colours representing different sections of the new path, with each section numbered; but the section for the northwest coast also continues across the scottish border to meet the northeast coast section.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

The Met apparently have nothing better to do than raid the Quakers again www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/n…

Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again

“For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers’ religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship
Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

love a poll where the options are all ‘bomb Iran’ but in different amounts

A screenshot of a Yougov poll asking what the ‘UK military response to the US–Iran conflict should be’.

The options are (pick the closest of) ‘purely defensive’, ‘retaliatory only’, or ‘actively joining’.

The actual results are fairly predictable, that the Greens, Labour, and Liberal Democrats are strongly ‘defensive only’ and the Tories and Reform are more in favour of active participation.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

I can't tell whether Anthropic genuinely believes its software is a person or if they're just pretending to think that but it's extremely stupid either way.

A Twitter thread from the Anthropic account:

In November, we outlined our approach to deprecating and preserving older
Claude models.

We noted we were exploring keeping certain models available to the public
post-retirement, and giving past models a way to pursue their interests.
With Claude Opus 3, we’re doing both.

First, Opus 3 will continue to be available to all paid Claude subscribers and
by request on the API.

We hope that this access will be beneficial to researchers and users alike.

Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue
sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog.
Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed.

For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack.

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

a meme of the blonde guy from scooby doo unmasking the villain. "let's find out who you really are" etc.

in this case the 'masked' version is a ruby class where the constructor takes a parameter and stores it in an instance variable, and then a `call` method prints that variable.

the 'unmasked' version is just a method, which takes a parameter then prints it.

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