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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"So the reality is we can easily get away with it" lol www.channel4.com/programmes/r...

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Reform Exposed

Going undercover to expose Reform UK's secret donations plot

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's a good one: Looking-Glass.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Working on a puzzle generator, if you like this kind of thing, I can't decide if this is too easy :?

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Took way too many attempts at this to finally figure it out [sound on if you're interested and not wearing headphones]. Essentially makes a video into an editable vector (of sorts) cos it _kinda_ teaches an agent how to change/regenerate it, even if metadata was stripped.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoyed Star City for its great direction and acting, but nothing will strain your suspension of disbelief more than everything in the last two episodes, where they might as well have done jazz hands and yelled "magic in spaaaace".

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

History Guest is out on Wednesday with Einstein as my first guest! I was trying to find out if AI can make something that isn't slop, tbh the answer is maybe-just-about-sometimes, but I found a lot of these interviews genuinely interesting perspectives. youtu.be/iiZxpH0D1Ew

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Einstein on Becoming Famous for the Wrong Reasons (And Hating Every Minute of It)

YouTube video by Bob

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think I finally cracked auto skipping podcast ads in my client if anyone wants to beta test pro in a few weeks

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Since most of the corpo world are a couple of years into uptake, you'd think we'd have seen more "How AI improved my business" from real people in real jobs by now, if it was actually delivering at scale on serious work.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"It was an etiquette bloodbath" qotd

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

£70 for 30fps is going to be a struggle cos it gives me motion sickness since getting acclimatised to 60fps+. Hopefully they've got zero input lag or a very soon after release performance mode with potato textures.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still miss ceefax. Might bring it back :)

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Listening to oldish radio lately, just hit early pandemic radio and laughing at everyone being like wash your hands, will be back to normal in a few weeks.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now SMRs please. Finally solving real problems.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

m.soundcloud.com/thekennyever...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am quite enjoying that the reaction to AI from so many real artists is to make real art genuinely of such poor technical quality that it can't possibly have been made by a computer. It's like everyone is realising their own Jackson Pollock moment, and actually it's much more interesting

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Through listening to his episode several times, I really ended up liking Machiavelli

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What it looks like actually trying to get LLMs to make something only they can do, instead of just lazy slop :D

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just about finished cleaning up the mess that ChatGPT made of all my projects in the month I tried just not reading the code and trusting it (mistake). It took just over a month of work, but between me, GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7, we finally have codebases that are built how I actually wanted.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was fed up of trash news feeds peppered with ads and trackers, so I made a nice clean one that uses OpenRouter to curate, collate and de-clickbait. In theory it updates automatically 3 times a day, and you can use it to ship your own on pages.

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The Daily Broadsheet

A daily news digest. No clickbait, just the facts. Stories clustered and summarised by AI.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Bet it still can't actually answer a simple question simply or write only the three lines of code I actually said that I want.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Byebye Chatgpt. Sick of it not doing what I tell it to, in increasingly harder to detect ways because it's gotten better at pretending it did stuff it didn't. I've been using more open and capable models for a month, and holy shit, the quality of experience is so much better.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Took me a couple of days to get used to Devin and find the settings I like, but I am so far much preferring it over Cursor. More consistent long-running jobs, smarter unlimited/basic agent, less opinionated and it's not yet moved the goalposts so it could claim to have technically scored a goal.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Still pissed off about no physical edition of GTAVI, but now I have the dilemma of whether to buy it on PS5, where it's a little cheaper and will look better, or on Xbox, where it won't feel like such a massive waste of time cos it will give me 'achievements' for taking two weeks off :D

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"How tolerant does this interface need to be?" seems to be a daily-driver question for vibe-coding at scale.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Putting policy before drama, that was a pretty productive legislative era. Let's hope Burnham can keep it up, but also find lots of things people really really want and like, instead of _just_ things we actually need. Updated to Starmer's resignation. betterbritain.org.uk/year-of-labo...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I got sick of reading/listening to AI generated text/audio (work projects testing big models and working on the context problem) so picked up some pulp adventures from audible for a break, and tbh the writing in the AI stuff was better. Certainly scene by scene, but occasionally over time too.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Conspiracy theory of the day: Guy Fieri has never swallowed food

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Every big-tech corp making AI-related layoffs right is proving their management have no interest in the innovation they could be realising by freeing up newly 10x'd employees to work on experiments and new ideas. It's an old-world way of thinking, primed to be disrupted by AI, not to benefit from it

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Well, here's the tool and data. better-britain.github.io/voting-depri...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If there was a general election tomorrow and the same picture played out as at the recent locals (even adjusted for the shift in voting patterns between locals and generals) my census-signals based model says Reform comes away with 252 seats, the Greens 145, and Labour are wiped out.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Started pulling together my own take on Google Podcasts (now it's long dead) on Monday, and now I have an 80% complete project and only 93 TODOs, so I expect to be finished by 2032 :D

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Before Iceland's famous advertising sign-off was "Mum's gone to Iceland" it was "Come Inside" and "We're full of surprises". www.youtube.com/watch?v=obti...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Reform voters don't want 'change they can believe in'. Many don't want change at all. They don't want net zero or legal immigration, let alone illegals, they don't want transexuals or gays, or to be strong together in Europe or to be a good labour market. They don't want garden cities or big ideas.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My attempt to find out who is actually voting Reform? The voter deprivation map, now covers all of England, census signals, locals-only turnout, regional filter and some other cruft.

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Voter Deprivation Map

Explore how English local election winners map against deprivation, turnout change, census signals, and GP ratings.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If Starmer undoes Brexit in all but name and then quits to try and sell us someone slightly to his left, I hope he whistles behind the door on his way out, like Cameron, the pig poking bellend.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

interesting that when tories do corruption, it's openly/brazenly stealing 33 billion quid, but when the left do it, it's a couple of grand and it's because the tax system is intentionally a fucking mess to make tax dodging easier, for tories... According to newspapers, that's the same scale of thing

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This puerto rican dentist lady joined the US Army because the insurance system wouldn't let her treat patients, and in the Army she could finally treat patients like humans again. Heart breaking. www.dvidshub.net/video/100649...

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Why This Mid-Career Dentist Chose to Serve

CPT Mara Pagan is an Army dentist who left a lucrative but stressful 15-year career in the civilian sector to find deeper meaning in Army service. She describes burnout, corporate pressure, and how in...

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I got tired of seeing the same basic trendline-goes-down on turnout... Here are stacked bars showing who didn't vote of absolute population. Roughly the same overall number of people are voting, but usually as a smaller share of a growing population.

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Bob Davies @bobbigmac.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's Manchester only for now, but here's my Voting vs Deprivation map, updating daily as results are counted. better-britain.github.io/voting-depri...

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