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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 3h

Implementing these “laws” is about as practical as forging a sharp knife which can’t be used to stab people

Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 3h

I think this is the wording you want “Defects in OpenAI software led to illegal interference with US government systems”’

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 4h

He writes the way he talks

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 4h

It was particularly weird the way she said it. As though everyone passed on the family home for the next generation to live in. Maybe she sees it as the logical end point of the boomerang generation

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 4h

We were talking to someone who works for English Nature today at Gait Barrows in Lancashire. He told us that dormice have been seen there but he has never seen one in the wild himself! Apparently a very shy creature

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 5h

And fire half the England football team

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 5h

Israel will probably claim that they stood alone for the first five minutes

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Would junk bonds and private equity have existed on their current scale without spreadsheets? Even this limited technology has had profound ramifications

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ABM systems like Patriot do seem quite effective. They have been used widely in Ukraine, Israel and the gulf. And when intercepting conventionally armed missiles, you don’t need to be 100% perfect. Every intercept is a win

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even so, that only equates to about 30 minutes per week while the overestimate was in excess of 4 hours

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reform voters who support the England football team should accept its criteria for player eligibility

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One aspect is that it would gradually claw back the tax free cash which can be taken from pension schemes by levying the higher rate on the taxable portion. This is probably less painful than capping the tax free cash -- where even the idea caused ructions a couple of years ago

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wasn't very clear. I meant 25p instead of 20p. Even if the 5% surcharge applied to all rates, a pensioner would need to be on about £250k before it was worth foregoing the SRP

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was just thinking on the basic rate. But since average pensioner income is only about £17k it would only raise about £3 billion

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fairest and simplest way to tax the more affluent pensioners -- although politically impossible -- would be to impose a standard income tax rate of 25p on everyone drawing SRP.

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From James Marriott in @thetimes.com "The encounter will remind viewers how much stranger right-wing politics has grown over the past decade. Rees-Mogg was once unsurpassed as a reactionary oddball; Carlson managed to make him seem almost conventional."

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe they feared the IRGC pulling off a stunt like the Ukraine did against Russia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Spiderweb - Wikipedia

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Easier to imagine a killer being inspired by the famous one

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you mean Zak or the famous one?

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rental rates for supertankers take off due to Middle East wars bsky.app/profile/lemo...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe they fear something like this. Question is, are their bases in the USA any more secure? Probably less so given the availability of guns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Spiderweb - Wikipedia

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In about 1993, being in urgent need of a C compiler to do some work at home and being able to buy it in the local computer shop. Always reminded me of Back to the Future where the prof says that by 1987 the corner store would sell plutonium

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More to the point why did the USA fight Japan? They didn't want any territory in the US sphere of influence. They could have accepted an apology for Pearl Harbour and made peace

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rees-Mogg had to search the entire globe for someone who made him seem moderate

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You could just make lotto winnings tax exempt like they are in the UK (where the stakes are taxed instead)

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On BBC iPlayer, “Children of the Blitz” is a bit too long but the last 15 minutes is particularly moving where they describe their own feelings about the bombing of Germany and their fears for the future

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the purpose is to kill Reform, I'm sure supplementary vote is the best option because they are the most disliked

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the UK could really use that right now bsky.app/profile/mygr...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Could be worse. You might have a foreign number

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Provided he stays off the beach?

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ideally there should be regulations requiring that bots are banned from being able to pass the Turing Test. The less human they are, the better

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Average total pensioner income is about £17k per pensioner

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Checking how many pensioners are on DB schemes. Table 2.4 of this document indicates 4,308,000 or about 30% of pensioners www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

True. In the UK the whole thing is cognitively unloaded to the National Health Service which pretty well takes care of everything

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Investing in energy shares is why I can afford to pay my gas bill

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Computer science is my third favourite oxymoron — after political science and financial engineering

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Insulting to Musk to put him in that company

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only bourrée we ever hear is the one from the Handel’s Fireworks but I’d guess there were probably dozens or hundreds around in the 18th century

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism," since 2008, extending across parties and sexes and "robust to the inclusion of controls meant to isolate gender conservatism from other expressions of conservatism."

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Gender-Role Traditionalism and Opposition to Trade in the United States | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Gender-Role Traditionalism and Opposition to Trade in the United States

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What’s the SI unit for intelligence?

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just learnt the French for “heat pump” bsky.app/profile/lemo...

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I visited Silverton the easy way — via the railway from Durango.

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's another story where all the world's telephone systems are linked which accidentally creates an "SI". The ending is something like "For mankind, the telephone bell had tolled"

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Brian Probert @brianhprobert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have been leafleted by Restore. Didn’t know there was an imminent election but the positive is that their standing would make it harder for Reform

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