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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3h

I imagine most IT and HR departments will just ban the bloody things, the risks are too high not to.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

the right defending multiracial democracy from the far right is exactly what you want, you don’t have to agree with them on anything else

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 6h

What a load of complete bovine excrement.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wife and I are struggling to take the football seriously as every time the commentators say "Potter" we're hearing it in Alan Rickman's voice...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Always interesting to see if episodic games are better played episodically or monolithically, especially since the reasons for the being episodic are often production rather than gameplay or narrative. (Haven't played this, but everything Stephen has posted about it sounds like a hard recommend)

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"write themselves off" - autocorrect clearly needs more coffee...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"cut an arbitrary proxy measure, say witless idiots who instantly calf themselves up as not worth listening to" "Screentime" is like "Blockchain" - instant licence to write someone off as irrelevant.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

is it possible to retroactively fail GCSE geography I wonder?

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I regret looking forward to this. It's complete arse gravy, apparently written by some political biographer who doesn't have a clue about education or AI, and should have been politely asked to write about something else. The only plausible explanation for publishing this is to humiliate the author

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A classic case of "forget that it's AI for a moment" working wonders - "we've made a piece of hacking software and it hacked a system we didn't mean it to" is so transparently human error.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/10/2026

*weary voice* AI agents are not "going rogue". They are doing what they're told to do by humans who are not thinking hard enough about the guardrails and restrictions they explicitly need to set for the agents.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yep, anything that lets you "store energy" is a win with those tariffs.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I suspect for a lot of people adding air-air and leaving the boiler for hot water and cold snaps would work fine, especially with a tankless system

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Certainly should be an option by default; there is a logic to air-to-water, as it plugs into existing houses better (IE, you can't just replace a boiler with it), but we just need All The Options to suit people's needs and budgets.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

agree with this post in general, but also, heat pump subsidies are not supposed to be redistributive, they are supposed to incentivise switching to heat pumps! it is a *good thing* if people take them up, regardless of whether they’re well off or not, and making them affordable to all requires scale

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking forward to reading whatever article gets such hilarious twaddle as a sub headline. The FT is an excellent newspaper, but ye gods does it print some arrogant shite sometimes.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Racists gonna racist. Would be fine with the party being proscribed at this point.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(it's still worth watching for the acting, effects, and possibly unintentional hilarity. McClure deserved that award, if nothing else for keeping a straight face)

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh, and the utterly ludicrous "artistic licence" (AKA unrealistic bullshit) over conventional explosives has now extended to nuclear devices and the science around them. I know they can't tell you how to make a nuke, but that doesn't mean they have to talk complete bollocks the whole time!

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On to episode 4 of latest series of trigger point, and we've some truly awful editing to go with this "is this shite or self aware parody?" scriptwriting.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Something has gone horribly wrong with the BBC/S4C’s subtitles on iPlayer. Seems there’s the proper ones and some perhaps AI-generated ones at the same time.

Photo of a TV screen with two sets of subtitles, one nonsense and one correct.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Seems likely. Suspect it will be an area where misused LLMs do real damage for a few years - even unlocalised subtitles are a lot of work, but are so important, so it's sooooo tempting to let the magic mechanical turk do it...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Quite. The only valid arguments for policing how people interact with AIs are to avoid impacts on people (either via bad habits, training the AI to be abusive, or humans reviewing inputs to AIs), so if you're not also worrying about how people treat people, it's literally meaningless.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026

This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/10/2026

TV *eats plot*. It just absolutely devours it. The sheer amount of story you need to fill even six hours is absurd. It doesn't feel like it as a viewer (if they've done it right) but once you've seen it through the other side of the process...oh boy.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

*LotR franchise has entered the chat*

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Horseless farmer wants to make sure barn door is shut. Seriously, you've been safe harbour for cranks for years, worrying about it now is idiotic.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So glad it's just a melodramatic headline... Don't scare me like that, grauniad...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This just feels completely broken. If inspecting schools is broadly bad for mental health of staff, that's probably not an issue with the inspection, it's a knock on of other issues like long term lack of funding. So why keep blaming Ofsted?

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're literally cosplaying what went wrong with labour, only their weird party structure makes them far more susceptible to it.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 09/10/2026

you'd have thought that someone with his alleged political skills might have noticed that the motion basically aligns the party with the Nazis and shown a bit of leadership over that obvious threat, eh

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oxford University's Vice-Chancellor has criticised government policy on international students. Visa restrictions have stopped students from taking up their places (as reported in March), and a new 'international student levy' will cost Oxford £925 per student per year. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-10...

ox.ac.uk

Vice-Chancellor’s Oration 2026

Professor Irene Tracey CBE FRS FMedSci has delivered her annual Oration to the University in the Sheldonian Theatre. Here is the full text of the speech.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/10/2026

If you don't know what folic acid does when added to flour, do look it up, and marvel at the fact Restore has decided to campaign against it.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Putting herself within easy fussing reach?

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's *completely insane* that labour are sticking to manifesto tax commitments in light of this. Just put up general income tax a bit you complete lunatics!

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, it's fun one for anyone doing this kind of modelling - "what bird is this?" is probably a much easier thing to model than "is this even a bird?"

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just no way they should go near this sort of subject after Wakefield. Zero credibility.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a good microcosm, certainly...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was including that under the umbrella, excuse ambiguity 👍

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yup. There are issues with IHT that are worth fixing - but if you look at "finances for retirees" overall it's not exactly the most pressing issue.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a constant "fix one specific problem" approach with no thought for the context.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I suspect things like maintenance and running costs have this covered tbh.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A live information screen with waiting time stats in a&e is a good idea, but the average wait time is longer than the longest wait time, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence... #EpicMathsFail

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