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GK3 was explaining his new imaginary friend, and she's a professor with pink hair. My immediate thought was @profaliceroberts.bsky.social but he doesn't watch archaeology AFAIK

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 3h

They're just bots. Real agents don't exist yet, but fact never stood in the way of hype.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 16h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 10h

Needs to rhyme and scan to be truly cheesy 😁

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 10h

What if it was a cookery book? Lots of them get remaindered and then sent for pulping, some possibly deservedly.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 20h

Your periodic reminder of the state of the English newspapers.

WHAT NEWSPAPER TO READ IN ENGLAND

The Times is read by the people who run the country.

The Financial Times is read by the people who own the country.

The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country.

The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think the country ought to be run like it used to be. The

Daily Express is read by the people who think it still is.

The Guardian is read by the people who think they ought to run the country.

The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country ought to be run by another country.

The Star, Sun, and Mirror are read by people who don’t care who runs the country, so long as they have big tits.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 21h

Never out of season here 🍷

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 23h

Of course he does. Fascists gotta fascist, racists gotta racist.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 23h

All under the guise of performative religious concern for the inmates' welfare, even when they were state-sponsored institutions. You want the core reason? Christianity. Lots of nice well-meaning believers in what has to a large extent been perverted into the most vile religion on the planet.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just walked down there the week before last, having not used the connections at Liverpool St for about 40 years. Quite a shock.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Done for the more squeamish and less geographical US market?

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But our politicians have been well rewarded for encouraging LLM/AI to proliferate.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@loreandordure.com I'd like to use one of your images of the curved type in an article I'm writing. Please can we discuss this in DMs or email? Or some other medium?

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Blue skies here, and as the weather pattern usually drifts from us to you, expect a clear day tomorrow.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fixed the CSS so it's back to investigating iXML for ingesting legacy printed recipes into a publication system.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You couldn't make this shit up

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sure you're well up to the task

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fascinating thread, thank you. And I'm glad it's been an improvement.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wrote exactly such a program in BASIC when I was a student in the 70s. I only had disk space to type in a short story, and a limited number of CPU seconds to process it, but it worked. Maybe I should claim to be the godfather of AI or something, but I'm sure the same idea occurred to many others.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A couple of dozen lines in any decent scripting language will let you read a plain text file and create a matrix of probabilities that a specific word is followed by another, and then take a seed word and spew out random sequences that sound plausible. LLM/AI is just this writ large with bells on.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It simply isn't intelligent, whether labelled artificial or super, and no amount of tech bro sycophancy is going to make it intelligent, at least not for another few generations.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With some adjustments for emigration, immigration, and societal development (barring sudden mass death like plague or war) the population of a country is pretty much known a lifetime in advance because a few sums in births and deaths will let you work it out. This is beyond most politicians, though.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Claimer: I run a small consultancy 😁

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Consultants have their uses in providing specialist short-term expertise in areas where the organisation cannot reasonably be expected to keep a full-time expert of their own. But what you describe is symptomatic of management by fools, and no amount of consultancy will save organisations like that.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Golly gosh. Who would have thought that getting rid of your best and most knowledgeable people meant you no longer had the experience needed to make key decisions. So you need to call in outside help for things you used to be able to do unaided. Not just colleges; companies too. Zero braincells.

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@sheenadempsey.bsky.social GK3 just got Viking Voyage and loves it, thank you!

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My evolutionary advantage is long gone 😁 I see natural selection no longer giving a shit as being the indicator that our job is done so far as the survival of our species is concerned, so we can turn to other things like teaching the upcoming generations and doing more fun stuff 😂

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You shouldn't have let it catch fire in the first place

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

GK3: Arfur's Seat is a dormouse volcano 🤣💜

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Doesn't classic theory say there has to be an evolutionary advantage? So we do less (or more) of something that self-repairing/replacing species don't? Mammalian ability to learn, or to adapt to our environment, or something?

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sounds good to me. Is this widely accepted? (Excuse my ignorance: we no longer have a local Jewish population here, and my Jewish friends live in other places, so I have no reference points except what gets published.)

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US evangelicals are going to try for it, ably assisted by the GOP, who seem to believe that crashing the US economy heavily enough will be good to fool the fundies into thinking it's the Rapture. (What I really want is aliens to come down and sweep up all the evangelicals and abduct them.)

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The insanity of the last 80 years, accelerated in the last 40, has been the pursuit of globalisation at any cost, and we are now seeing the true cost. In the Gadarene rush to subsidise imports, local production has been almost wiped out. Of course we want nice foreign stuff but not like this.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TCP/IP, the protocol of the Internet, runs on whatever wire protocol is underneath. "Ethernet" and "G5" are such "wire" protocols. The first TCP/IP ping packet sent by the protocol described in RFC 1149 is up for auction. RFC 1149 is "A Standard for IP Transmission via Avian Carriers."

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Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol

[WAITZMAN, David and the BERGEN LINUX USER GROUP.] One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149.Small scroll of paper, 41 x 210 mm. Rolling creases visible from when attached ...

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no bottom to the depths of ignorance of the AI tech bros and their fluffers.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reminds me Q. How do you tell a microbiologist? A. Washes her hands BEFORE going to the bathroom. (Ack. @drglam.bsky.social )

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chicken Bhuna, saag aloo, basmati rice, kachumber, Tiger beer. Coffee and chocolate fork biscuits to follow.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guy's a complete dickhead. No kid gets any sense of wonder from bible studies, just shock that a so-called "god who loves us" espouses unnecessary pain and grief; but children learning how nature works really do get gripped by a sense of wonder at how everything works together.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

However, some manufacturers treat convenience stores as test marketing booths.

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