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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

He also, despite his intellectual prominence, didn’t spend his time flying on the private jet of a billionaire pedophile.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Farewell, CIA World Factbook; you’ll be remembered most of all for your weirdly precise estimates of country’s Population.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tautologous headline: King Harold coins could ONLY come from 1066! …. Too soon?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

This is indeed fantastic news. My daughter ended up in ICU with a complication of Chicken Pox. If other kids (and their parents) are spared this, I’m delighted.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy “When is Bin Day” Day to all who celebrate.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sorry! But, thanks for sharing! And thanks to @marcusolang.substack.com

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

You’re right on the cause (and, by the way, what a depressing career for someone able to write eloquently in their second or third language). But that doesn’t take away from the brilliance of that piece from @sirosenbaum.bsky.social! So much now about Kenyan English makes sense now!

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Appreciate this piece from Marcus but the piece that’s missing from this essay is the fact that Kenyans and Indians are the primary content moderators or “clean up crew” for the commercially available AI data sets. So yes, he’s right to be upset at the implication but the next step is asking “why?”

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Die Hard with a Vengeance is also a Christmas movie. Yes, it’s set in summer, but it has endless Christmas references, jokes, Characters humming carols etc.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Dear Ars Technica, I wish to draw to your attention the error in the image for this article.That’s no moon.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

You’ve earned enough credit by now that I let “favourably quoting the guy who wrote 1421” slide.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Wish I had an interesting anecdote for this. My own career path is just so cliched, you’re seen it a thousand times. (lecturing in North African history at a Tanzanian University/road safety charity in Huddersfield/privacy NGO/civil service).

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I might be being unfair, given that the name: A) originated, as I understand it, with African Americans; B) it is appropriate to have a name so closely linked to a particular time and place as Thom shows; and C) Charles Lindbergh’s views weren’t known at the time.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

But: I’m sorry, I have trouble getting over the name, and the grim irony of something so wedded to African America experience and the Harlem Renaissance is associated with an America First Nazi sympathiser. Maybe a rebrand is in order?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A tour-de-force on the history of the lindy hop, written with an infectious joy that appeals even to someone like me who can barely manage the Hokey Cokey.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This is good news! The weapon we have against the AIs conquering the world isn’t military resistance, or that humans are capable of love: it’s cat memes. And if there’s anything the human race is good at, it’s producing inane nonsense on social media. The world is safe.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I originally included a footnote on this very issue in my PhD on the political history of Kilimanjaro. However, I followed the advice of a friend and removed it. I have regretted it ever since.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I don’t know what to worry more about: A) the subeditor who decided that “Pharoh’s anus” would make it click bait; or B) the algorithm that decided I was a Pharoh’s anus kind of guy.

Apple News headline on a click bait article featuring a oharoh’s anus

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medConfidential @medconfidential.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Today in anonymisation is hard: bsky.app/profile/waff...

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Was a picture of a larger weevil also submitted to the contest; did they choose the lesser of two weevils?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Will I be able to understand MacOS 26 if I’ve not seen MacOS16 to 25?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Clever people of BlueSky, help me out: a) Putnam’s ant on a beach drawing a caricature of Winston Churchill is disturbingly similar to an AI Chatbot, but why isn’t it? And: b) does that mean I’m a brain in a vat or not?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

They’ve also gone to lengths to capitalise the ‘W’, putting it at the start of a verb-less sentence - grammar be damned - after what clearly should have been a colon.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

My daughter ended up in the ICU after one of the rare complications to chickenpox. While she made a full recovery, I’m delighted that no other kid has to go through that. Brilliant news that the vaccination will be offered on the NHS!

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Great stuff. I know that these are in no way have personalities, but I do find it amusing how often AI comes across as just being really lazy. For LLMs, it’s always Friday afternoon, with a hangover, in a job they hate.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hehe President POO-tihn. Yes, I have been spending the a lot of time with my 5-year olds this summer holiday, why do you ask?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This article also flagged to me how many US systems break with the end of birthright citizenship.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It wouldn’t get very far, with great big gaps in its wings (which would be far too heavy anyway). Which means people would be able to catch them easily to harvest them for their wool. We’d end up with factory farms of woven butterflies. Not a pleasant thought.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Calmly watch Mr Tumble with a nice glass of warm ketamine.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Not now, giant doomsday herring. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“The Boss” (whoever they are) is a a scary villain. Anita is pregnant to the Head of HR, who she started a relationship with when potentially in a vulnerable state after finding out about The Doctor and Rogue. This raises serious questions about the HR policies of this mysterious “Boss” character.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Or “pen name”, which is almost a name.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, yes it will survive.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Someone please leak the client list…

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The head of Teleperformance SE says that Indian accents are “difficult to understand”. www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sr3t

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Jonathan

Dailymotion video by willce

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If you’re a fan of superheroes randomly getting new powers halfway through a movie: watch out for the scene in Captain America: BNW where Cap inexplicably gains the power to negotiate plea deals.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A level of soft power that Britain has had for a long time: how many African independence leaders studied in Britain? Nyerere, Kenyatta, Nkrumah.. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis shows

Research reveals UK institutions educated 50 world leaders in post in 2022, despite job cuts, course closures and a fall in foreign students

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Through necessity at work, been dealing with a travel agent all week; dear God, trying to explain what you want with words is so much harder than a well-designed website. Of course, if anything goes wrong, I’ll be glad to have someone at the end of the phone. But I want a human for that.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This story on the impact of quantum computing on cryptography reads like Good News to me: a future problem was spotted; clever people came up with a solution in good time (except for maybe a handful of edge-cases). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

Quantum computers will be able to crack existing encryption and threaten critical infrastructure.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As we see once-unstoppable franchises fizzle out, Bond was truly remarkable run of form. I don’t see that continuing under Amazon, to be honest. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

theguardian.com

James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007

Deal is struck with heirs to film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, long-serving stewards of franchise

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It’s unprecedented because so much of it MAKES NO GODDAMN SENSE.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The world might be in a deeply pessimistic place, but there are people trying to make it better. How awesome would a norovirus vaccine be?

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

There’s a parallel universe when AI didn’t become big when it did, and so Meta was stuck talking about the metaverse. They’d be in serious trouble.

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

On the plus side, the avatars now have legs! On the down side, I really wish they didn't.

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