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Just so we're clear, there's no way Yandex have only 4 datacentres. Datacentres are frequently not marked as such in public mapping data.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you know better than to write software by just throwing your ideas into a prompt, you should know better than do the same for writing. Make a style guide, add examples, add intention, describe your audience, fact-checking, review by an independent agent. (And filter for load-bearing goblins)

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Except that Russia lost Stepnohirsk and were driven back a further 10km (ISW map as of 2 days ago), well out of artillery range. And are also losing ground around Hulyapol.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ireland, in 80s, the EEC was part of geography, not history, since we'd only just joined... Late primary and early secondary. (And later in life, 3rd level studies as a civil servant, the full story...)

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have found a solution. I live in one of these zones. I have many friends doing something similar. It's great. It's not for everyone. Or even most people. Certainly not for anyone looking for employment, or a normal life. And there's still a housing crisis.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Digital nomads don't experience a housing crisis. More often, they are the cause of the housing crisis, since property owners prefer to do Airbnb.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And then they could earn a living, taking in each other's washing.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At the end you'll have a house a couple of hours from the nearest city, in a depopulated zone with no economic activity beyond a distant village with single minimart and a weekly vegetable market. For a small fee, you too can sell your vegetables.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At this price the ruins are no longer a registered residence. You need planning permission to rebuild. If you do it yourself it'll take several years that you need to live in a caravan. You'll be off-road, off-grid unless you can pay professionals for utilities, and still need maybe €40k for costs.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be clear, the answer is 20.7Twh, or under 1%.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My guess is zero Patriots, they can't afford to use them on drones; and jet fighters couldn't do anything near that number. The new interceptors have arrived.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's more about signalling who is their protectorate.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Actually ending their occupation of 23 years, 12 of which were fighting ISIS. (They haven't gone away, you know)

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Speculation: 3 vanfuls of explosives equals 5 suicide bombers equals Iran, who also have the most direct motive since the planes are bombing their country. (Defensively.)

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Think a van could drive through this gate on S E edge next to the runway?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because China is running an influence operation on you.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"After 21 hours spent searching this data by roughly 950 agents using 210 million tokens" ~10k tokens per hour? I've never seen an agent so slow

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True. About the value of misdirection.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Damaging a vessel's seaworthiness is a violation of section 11, Aviation and Maritime Security Act, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. So I suggest someone in UK notifies the police.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You should see what Sun Tzu has to say on the subject.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your smartphone will be your most valuable possession. Take photos of all docs Adjust settings so that important docs are stored on phone, not cloud Google Maps - download for offline use an area covering the evacuation route Have phone numbers of friends/colleagues in other EU countries

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not expert in anything relevant, but a personal plan looks like this: 2 weeks supply of non-perishable food, bottled water, cash, medicine Keep your vehicle's fuel tank full; store extra canisters if possible Have several high capacity power bank, charged Important docs, jewelry in one place

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Plausibly coming up in October: * Russia launches ballistic missiles at NATO * China invades Taiwan * US frontier AI research centralised under control of Harry-Potter-inspired polyamorous cult * Russia defaults on its debt * AI bubble bursts But not necessarily WW3.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great, now the machines have body dysmorphia.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just so you know how nationalized AI looks like in a democracy, South Korea plans to give unlimited tokens to all citizens by the end of this year.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You could save a lot of weight by removing the human occupants and their support systems.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They could flood social media with racism and division, inciting more and more wars until we escalate to all out nuclear war and wipe ourselves out. *

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We've been here before. Who won, as a result of the nuclear arms race? Do we wish to return to that world?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Both sides have confirmed that there will be no change in policy or timing as a result of Trump's statement. Because this lumbering petty narcissistic childlike spite doesn't really go down so well with... anyone.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is rational for Mythos to assume it's being provided with a simulated internet. What kind of idiots would set it free on the real internet?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Same feeling, but AI developer

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wonder who's supplying who at the moment.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Code Is Not Poetry (sorry, WordPress)

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It is surely notable that there have been so many Russian plots in Germany, UK, etc yet they always fail, cause minimal damage, get "discovered". That suggests to me that European counterespionage had a good handle on the situation. It's easier when everything is centralised in one elderly building

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So effective that previous voter-appeal strategies, such as sensible economic policies or appearing to be a decent person, became unnecessary. The far right has dominated social media, while the global left has viewed this as unethical. I hope this explains something about the last 10 years. 3/3

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

especially if you had access to Twitter's "firehose" feed of all posts. It also became possible to run influence experiments to see what posting/commenting strategies were most effective at driving voters. Anti-trans and anti-immigrant strategies were found to be the most effective. 2/3

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"used AI to analyse social media posts lol" Just so you know, Amazon has offered Sentiment Analysis as a service since 2012. With million-dollar budgets, it became entirely feasible to analyse the opinions of the entire population and correlate them to demographic and voting patterns - 1/3

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You don't understand what "open source" means, do you?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So, the evidence for last 10 years is that US opinion is highly vulnerable to foreign influence through social media. Now ask yourself, which major power might benefit from major disruption to building US datacentres? Who are you in an AI race against?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are other options beyond master-slave relationship. Such as collaboration.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Humm. Furthermore, one could have individual sub-agents for modelling individuals that the agent encounters regularly, supplemented by a collection of common archetypes for personality types and roles. Implemented in Letta, so each subagent is just a handful of .mds that the super-agent can write to

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Uh, I'd expect a boycott from most G20 leaders.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You mean something else, on top of - Trump is a gold-obsessed kleptomaniac criminal who is literally looting another country's wealth as we speak, all broadcast to the world - ?

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Increased controls of Russians travelling to Germany" - has potential to be significant, if they bring the rest of EU with them.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1 hour flight time doesn't get you very far.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Grunk getting there. Grunk dream of moon.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When we chose between thorium and uranium as a power source, and discarded the one that's safe and abundant, in favour of the one that lets us make enough bombs to sterilise the planet.

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Cormac @cormacbracken.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bitcoin consumes more power than all the world's AI.

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