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Steve Grand

@enchantedloom.bsky.social
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Father of many artificial life forms but hater of 'AI'. I wrote my first intelligent chatbot in 1978 and I promise never to do it again. P.S. I'm not the hunky gay country singer! Although if you're interested in artificial life too, then I'm your guy.

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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
That's a really nice demo! I don't think he once mentioned the word capacitance, yet coax is a capacitor. I wonder what, if anything, happens differently in a delay line. Fantastic channel!
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yes, apparently so! At least partly, anyway. Charlie Brooker reviewed it or maybe interviewed me, when he was a game journo, back in the 90’s. I guess I made an impression. A slightly sinister one!
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Yes!!!! Perfect! Good luck with the takeover. Here's hoping for a sunny day. I have a few good targets for you, when you're ready...
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
*Batteries not included
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Haha! Wonderful. Lucy’s in the Science Museum, amongst loads of (other) rusty old stuff. A friend is exactly what she needs!
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” So that’s a 100% failure rate, then. All those people who were supposedly “protected against measles infection” actually got measles. Can I wake up, now? I don’t like this dream.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump will kick Canada out of Five Eyes? I think he’ll just find Four Eyes staring right back at him, waving goodbye to the one-eyed lunatic.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
HOW did they decide this was a mistake? Upon what criteria? Public outrage? Toss of a coin? Musk’s say so? Musk’s cat’s say so? I don’t know who the hell ever thought this cretin was a genius. He’s an incompetent idiot with severe impulsivity problems.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I feel sure they can compose a well-crafted joint resignation letter in an hour.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Struggling to agree? “Yes, the Martians have invaded and they’re killing everyone in sight, but what should our messaging be, here? Maybe we need to run a focus group…” Jeez.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Looks like the giraffes and elephants decided to pass on the deal. Don’t blame them - that ship's going nowhere.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Is it one of those "help! I'm being abused" secret signals that we're all supposed to know about? Should we mount a rescue operation?
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Surely remaining in our homes and hoping for vaccines so that we could protect our fellows is the very epitome of prosocial behavior?
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thanks, Graham!
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The chickens had hundreds of millions of years to evolve, yet they still won’t clean up after themselves. They had their chance and blew it. Easy choice. (I’m starting to feel much the same way about humans.)
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hey Jenny! Yeah, I decided to come and join the cool kids. Haven’t quite plucked up the courage to delete my twitter account yet, but I hovered over the button, so I’m close…
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Likewise! Bluesky is like a breath of fresh air, isn't it? I'm glad I noticed you. Lucy is now in the permanent collection of the Science Museum, and 9 year-old me is very proud of her! I'm expecting her to write to me any day... :)
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Guardian will no longer post its content to X
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
the problem with tackling "wasteful government bureaucracy" is it's like deleting files from your computer called hostserver.dll that look useless and take up a lot of space and then your computer stops working
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Everything is feedback, but the worst scenario here is a half-hearted tit-for-tat, where the protests and suppression ramp each other up inexorably, in an arms race. We need to become an immovable object, before they become an unstoppable force.
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Steve Grand @enchantedloom.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
I've been lurking here for a whole hour now, and what I've learned is that the levels of snark, tribalism and psychopathy are higher here by ten whole IQ points. So that's good, I guess.
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