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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel like a virus would at least be more unobtrusive

A screengrab of a line of the Windows Task Manager showing:

Cynet Memory Scanner: 44.2% CPU

Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 07/05/2026

Literal Dead Internet Theory. Just saw the old Twitter account of my boss at a previous job is now posting random stuff where random strings are replaced by emojis. And he died a decade ago.

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the Renaissance left a profound impact in Britain. Through artistic in🌈novation, it influenced factory s🎉ystems. Its influe🍬nce shapes modern society. History offers lessons for today’s challenges. It laid foundations for today’s progress.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026

We need a logo for Claude… what simple design would represent it best? How about a puckered anus?

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026

Go to settings -> languages and check no language set for content languages, as this will block posts in other languages: Also, settings -> moderation -> Bluesky Moderation service and check what's being hidden. I hear they like to label things "Rude" and the default for that is to hide.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026

Accurate bluesky-map.theo.io

A section of the Bluesky Map <http://bluesky-map.theo.io/> showing your humble poster in the "Leeds United Football Supporters" part of the cloud map

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 21/12/2025

Is this thumbnail meant to make me think I started watching it?

Youtube thumbnail, at the bottom of the image is a white bar, with a portion from the left side filled in red, evoking the way Youtube shows a partially watched video.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 08/12/2025

This'll be our first visit to Pride Park in the FA Cup.

A table of results for Derby County against Leeds United in the FA Cup.

1962-01-06 2-2 Draw at Elland Road
1962-01-10 3-1 Win at The Baseball Ground
1968-01-27 0-2 Loss at Elland Road
1973-03-17 0-1 Loss at The Baseball Ground
1975-02-18 0-1 Loss at The Baseball Ground
1996-01-07 2-4 Loss at The Baseball Ground

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 04/12/2025

Suspect that should be 5th straight loss...

zone with a pressure-relieving performance and result against Chelsea. To say the win was timely for Leeds and Farke was an understatement; the manager had gone into the week knowing a fifth straight win – and seventh in eight games – could well have proved fatal to his reign.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 05/11/2025

Looking at Git blame for something I don't recognise and finding my own account listed as the author.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 20/10/2025

No-one who works on Microsoft Teams is under 40 I'm guessing.

The "Leave Call" button in Microsoft Teams shows a handset from a rotary phone.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025

I recall one of the two arguments for using the Designated Hitter in the National League was that pitchers kept getting injured when they were batting… theanalyst.com/articles/202...

A graph showing the "Combined Days Spent on DL/IL by Pitchers" on the Y axis against years on the X. Before the 2020 Pandemic season, the numbers were around 21000 a year. After 2020, it jumps to around 30,000 a year.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 03/09/2025

Feel sorry for whoever has to rush out between innings and change the advertising on the mound at Tiger Stadium

A view from behind the mound in the Tigers - Mets game in the top of the 5th inning. There is an advert for Japan Airline on the mound.

A view from behind the mound in the Tigers - Mets game in the top of the 6th inning. There is an advert for BW on the mound.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 27/08/2025

Half expected Wednesday's keeper to be the furthest upfield player. It's frustrating we still can't deal with these tactics, after seeing them so many times.

Average positions of Sheffield Wednesday in the game against Leeds United, with all but two players in the Wednesday half.

Average positions of the Leeds United players in the game against Sheffield Wednesday, with the keeper and three players in the Leeds half, the rest in Wednesday's.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025

Apropos of nothing, a page from the current IFAB Rules of the Game.

Three football figures. The top two are standing with their arms by their sides, the one on the left facing the reader, the other facing the first, in side view. Coloured sections on their left arm shows the shoulder in green "no handball" and the arm and hand in red "handball".

The third figure is also facing the reader, but the left arm is shown in two positions, down by the side and raised to a horizontal. Again, the shoulder is marked in green "no handball" and the rest of the arm and hand is red for "handball".

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 11/08/2025

LOL. LMAO even. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/s...

Sam Altman banging on about how AGI will arrive soon.

Jul 17
watching chatgpt agent use a computer to do complex tasks has been a real "feel the agi" moment for me; something about seeing the computer think, plan, and execute hits different.

May 24
i think we should stop arguing about what year AGI will arrive and start arguing about what year the first self-replicating spaceship will take off

May 23
great to work with the UAE on our first international stargate! appreciate the governments working together to make this happen.
sheikh tahnoon has been a great supporter of openai, a true believer in AGI, and a dear personal friend.

May 10
Replying to Elon Musk:
anyway, see you next week, let’s be friends
agi too important to let a lil feud get in the way

May 4
this is much less important than tweeting about agi[...]

Apr 14
>be you
>work in HFT shaving nanoseconds off latency or extracting bps from models
>have existential dread
>see this tweet, wonder if your skills could be better used making AGI
>apply to attend this party, meet the openai team
>build AGI

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

That's a very specific worry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jane Platt, 60, of nearby Gunton Drive, said she heard "an enormous crash".

[A picture of a car crashed into some roadworks with heavy damage to the front. Another damaged car can be seen nearby. Image source, Andrew Turner/BBC]

"I went back into the bedroom, I thought a wardrobe had fallen on to my husband or something and he was absolutely fine," she said.

"A little while later he went out and phoned me up to say go to the end of the road and look, and you'll see what the crash was."

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 11/07/2025

In fairness, this is my email address's rating on HIBP

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Timeline of data breaches affecting your email address

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 29/04/2025

Good day yesterday, what.

Leeds United 4-0 Bristol City

Scorers: Tanaka (21) Gnonot (55) Ramazani (82, 90+4)

New York Mets 19 - 5 Washington National

Winning Pitcher: Canning. Save: Ureña

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 28/03/2025

"I hope that the 4.5k people who retweeted my tweet will also retweet this correction." Narrator: 37 people re-tweeted the correction.

Tweet from MickCoffey2 praising Gary Stevenson for suggesting a wealth tax with video of him on BBC Question Time.

Tweet from MaggieThatch2 calling Gary Stevenson "another clueless socialist" with a screenshot of an analysis of Norway's weath tax that says it lost $594M because "individuals worth $54B left the country", resulting in a net decrease in taxes of $448M.

Tweets from DeliAnnaLuca analysing the Guardian's figures about Norway's Wealth tax where they calculate the $54B of the ultra-rich left the country, thus losing $594M in tax revenue and meaning the wealth tax resulting in a net decrease of $448M. 17k likes, 4.5k retweetes.

Long-ass correction tweet from DeliAnnaLuca saying that the Norwegian wealth tax actually increased tax income by $100M. https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1848817109901693219

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 22/01/2025

So, that's spending $5,000,000 to create each job, yes? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ChatGPT-creator and Softbank said the joint venture, dubbed Stargate, intends to invest $500bn over the next four years.

The plan, which involves the construction of AI infrastructure such as data centres, is expected to create more than 100,000 jobs, according to Trump.

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Si @chiark.eurosky.social · 17/01/2025

Hmmm... interesting. It's terrible there's no other way for Next to pay these tax increases... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2024/03...