eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Looking for canditates with lots of guts, and a big heart 020
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025But are they in the movie business, or the money business? 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025So heres a podcast with lucid and grounded commentary on Ukraine which appears to have just a hundred or so veiws! If quality is what matters this should spread far and wide 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025m.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCu...m.youtube.comThis Happens if Russia Wins | Michael KimmageYouTube video by The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus 111
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Isn't it so unutterably bizzar that I am looking out of these eyes and not another's, there is simply no reason for it. 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 27/12/2025The amount of power and water that AI data centers use is the least scary thing about them 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The return of the jedi wasn't written with a prequel in mind, they're two completely different universes. I just don't think there's any point trying to follow a narrative thread back in time from one to the other 050
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Being a politician in the age of the internet must be completely shit 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Certainly agree with you there, people just really like farmers for some reason, their PR is incredible. Personally I think its a side effect of supermarket advertising, 'British beef' 'local potatos' and all that. Maybe also the distribution of seats to rural areas with lop pop - a magnified impact 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Its a nice interpretation :) 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025True that, can't be any more energy effcent that just not burning the fuel in the first place. 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I believe the world can be improved 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025There are two kinds of environmental activist: The local activist concerned with plants/animals ect, in one partcular place and the global activist concerned with climate change These people are often in conflict. To fix the world it is necessary to find a compromise between the two points of veiw 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025So here's a provocative opinion: why do we care so much about protecting local farmers? What if we treated it as a business like any other and let non competetive operations go under? 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Look I know you're just trying to wind me up, but I feel like this is missing the point - where does flat earth conspiracy fit into where we should / shouldn't build solar panels? 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025That's a good one, i've changed my mind, let's never build another solar panel on virgin land ever again. 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025One of the main reasons China is so sucsessfull in the green energy transition, where others are failing, is because they are unafraid to build out industry. Not every plant is sacred, ugly solar farms mean cheap clean electricity. This is a good thing. 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Some times you've got to destroy a habitat to make room for new infrastructure - give it a few years some of the foliage will have grown back and it'll look much nicer. 200
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Whereas English speakers famously call all places by their local names - looking at you München (Munich) and you Vein (Vienna) 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 18/11/2025As an unrepentant contrarian I can't help but wonder how the monster in Frankenstein got to be so sickeningly pretty. 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I have decided to be smashing 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025This misses that you have to pay human drivers, but driveress cars take no wage - also every taxi service, traditional or otherwise, has to shut down when noone needs a ride, its not a new problem for self driveing vehicles 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Suggestion for improveing the Turing test - the subject must also cause human examiners to fail a reverse Turing test. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse...en.wikipedia.orgReverse Turing test - Wikipedia 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Btw i'm not saying the Turing test has or has not been passed, I'm saying you can make a good argument both ways and that makes the test 'fluffy' 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I can't believe you're saying people that grade university level course work don't care if all their students are cheating - there's pleaty of angst about it out there (www.economist.com/podcasts/202...) - reasonble people with good domain knowledge are worried because the problem is hard.economist.com 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I wonder what counts as sceptical enough? University lecturers struggle to distinguish AI generated coursework from things written by their students - clear incentive to distinguish one from the other and as much skepticism as could be wished for - would you consider that a pass or not? 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Isn't the Turing test passed by just proving that a group of people can't distinguish between a machine and another person? Its a criteria fluffy enough that it can reasonably be claimed simple chat bots from the 2000s have passed it and at the same time that the latest LLMs have not. 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025No one can save the world useing technologies not yet invented 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025He loves oil, he lovesoil not, he luksoil, he lukoil not, he Lukoil ... 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Where is this from - its a bit blurry but is it suggesting there is some fixed casualty limit that, once breached, will cause the Ukrainians to give up? Also if that plot is showing cumulative casualties over time why does it rise and fall? Would love more about how that model is put together 110
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Europe must also reduce what we give the Russians in hydrocarbon revenue. How can we justify spending all this money on Ukraine when we give just as much to Russia though oil and gas sales - we've got to commit to defeating Russia - cutting energy ties now will shorten the war and ultimately save $ 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The wacky morning DJ says democracy's a joke 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025This is still one of the most horrible ideas I have yet come across also how is this patentable? All that's changed is the type of user input required to skip an add 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Why are they talking about compute power in watts? Thought flops was the relevant unit? They care about computing capacity not power consumption don't they? 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Thats just what the weasels want you to think.. m.youtube.com/watch?v=au_t...m.youtube.comWind In The Willows / Mr Toad's Wild Ride - Secret Of SurvivalYouTube video by Jess Wolf 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025There is no such thing as a good star trek film 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Its interesting to note that 3 of 7 members of the CCP politbuero are engineers by training including Xi Jinping - whereas the US cabinet the most common academic background is law school (7 of 17) followed by political science degrees (3 of 17) 020
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025'Its' between 11'3" / 13'9" for those that are wondering 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Gosh 9/11" is pretty big already! 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Has the method they've used to estimate global temperature rise by 2100 changed since 2009? Does anyone now how this was estimated? 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025From the man who brought us brexit - a proud supporter of the Liz Fruss minibudget - our very own Nigel Farage brings you... *drum roll* climate change! * may contain expensive electricity, urban air pollution and extreme weather events ** voters are not reposible for their own actions 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Shenanigans beget shenanigans 000
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not anticipated. All through the coldwar it was widely belived that the soviets would attack but it never happened. I can't from the top of my head think of a conflict between peer adversaries that just went off on schedule. Maybe I'm wrong 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I've seen a number of public figures state that they think the next war - China vs tiwan, Russia vs Europe, some BS thing going down in america - will happen in the next 3-5 years. But I wonder how many wars have there been when the onset of hostilities was widely known before hand? 100
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Fair doos I live in the UK - rainy and densely populated 010
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 13/11/2025This sounds great in principle but the problem is that characteristics that make a site good for wind and solar aren't necessarily the same as those that make a site good for a data center. 020
eightroundsrapid.bsky.social @eightroundsrapid.bsky.social · 13/11/2025'oh look! a fully functioning diesel replete with oil, coolant, all its axuillaries, inflated tires and a charged battery!' - the things people will throw away 😔 000
