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Graham Binns

@grahambinns.bsky.social
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Tech Solution Architect, former Interim CTO at Tracr. Photographer & Filmmaker. Software Engineer and Puzzle Seeker

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 3h
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pink Paradise at Dawn. This morning on Glastonbury Tor shortly before sunrise.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fixed that for you, BBC.
Racist gang forces its way into a hotel and threatens a group of teenagers
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
(Takes '500 Miles' off the dance playlist) (And yes, I've put it into DJ sets before, it works) (But, you know, fuck transphobia and all that)
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tante @tante.cc · 31/08/2026
Stanislaw Lem having almost perfect foresight again Jussi Pakkanen: Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
"We’re not saying cake is healthy. Birthdays in the RFK Jr. household are always celebrated the MAHA way—with a heaping portion of fermented whale meat, which has way more protein than funfetti. That said, for a limited time, we’re suspending FDA nutritional guidelines." buff.ly/epPztWX
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Relax, If Food Is No Longer Safe to Eat, Just Eat Cake
“Liberals can grumble all they want about ‘affordability’ and ‘access to food that doesn’t leave them doubled over on the toilet begging for death.’ This is ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And human sprinters need to be stopped with a big pad and then stretchered away with an arm off too, don’t they? What do you mean “no, you bellend?”
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
C'mon man what the fuck are we doing here with this one precious life we each only get here on this tiny miracle of a planet
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Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”
nytimes.com
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2026
this is exactly correct
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Can confirm. Show me what you can actually do, or I’m not buying. 
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0
Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being so racist against and jealous of Black people that you can't appreciate Stevie Wonder has to be a curse from God.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A doggie joined emergency workers in clearing out its yard from the debris after a Russian missile attack. 📹: DSNS
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Manchester, 1976, photo by John Bulmer.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 22/07/2026
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
This is a screenshot of an Instagram post from a rescue organization featuring a bearded animal protection officer with a tiny rescued heron baby on his handThis is a close up of the heron baby and it's like if you stuck a novelty beak and some regular bird-sized feet on a wad of cat hair
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/07/2026
"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...
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Wharton researchers coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe what happens when people let AI think for them
A Wharton study found people accepted wrong AI answers 80% of the time, as apps like Moot now let five AI personas vote on your life decisions.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
'Scientists are appealing to birders to limit their use of AI when editing images over fears that it could undermine the credibility of popular citizen science platforms such as iNaturalist and Macaulay Library, which are routinely used in scientific research to monitor species’ habitat range.'
theguardian.com
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Idly looking at software engineering / director of engineering / cto roles. So many “agentic AI first roles.” Would it be churlish to open one’s questions at interview with “what are your plans for when the token bill comes due?”
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Been wandering around a little with a camera today, trying to find a rhythm in something I once loved — #streetphotography. I’ve never noticed before just how scared I am — must be all the therapy. 🤷 — of getting caught practicing “art” without a license. It’s as though a piece of me is missing.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No, this really really really is rape
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Dunno if it’s cos I’m tired and too hot, or cos there’s smoke lingering in the air from the moorland fires…. Whatever it is, my patience is low today and I am really feeling the weight of the loathing that I’m starting to feel for a lot of the tech industry.
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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I want to know if an interesting, potentially useful package/library is slop coded because I can't risk including it in a project only to discover later that the "creator" can't maintain it and doesn't know how it works, and it requires rewriting before it can even be forked. It's risk.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m not a #football (the #soccer kind) fan; I’m a #rugby and #cricket man. So can a football person explain to me why #VAR seems to always be causing issues. I’m not saying that the rugby union TMO or DRS in cricket are without errors, but rarely do they cause the VAR-levels of kerfuffle.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026
Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.
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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Another example of how brilliant Championship cricket can be and what we are missing for the next seven weeks ... July 3rd 2024 at Cheltenham ... Glamorgan, chasing a record 593 to beat Gloucestershire, on 592 for 9 on the last ball... one to win, one wicket for a tie, with a draw also possible ...
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Sara Lando @bruko.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
But for real: (about meta glasses) why the fuck would you pay money to steal and share your friends' and neighbors' biometric data without their consent? It's the same people who were copy pasting "I do not consent Facebook to steal my children's photos" in their status a couple of years ago
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 01/07/2026
GQ, March 2021: NFTs are here to stay and the art world is having to catch up fast
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
All of these sorts of changes are designed, I believe, to address sites like Temu. And as always, no thought is given to the small businesses they have a much larger effect on.
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Cricinfo @cricinfo.com · 29/06/2026
Ben Stokes end his Test captaincy with 24 wins - only Root and Vaughan have more for England 🫡
Most wins as England Test captain
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Going to have to steer clear of socials for a bit I guess. Makes me too angry right now. #cricket #stokes #engvnz
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I think people have forgotten that there’s a lot to be said about the psychological impact of an unexpected berserker #EngvNZ
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𝕳 𝖔 𝖙 𝖍 𝖎 🎃 @gizzi-m.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What an afternoon of Test cricket Stokes is pure theatre A box office cricketer the game of Test cricket desperately needs these days #cricket #EngvNZ
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So, I work at a large, public university in the US, ostensibly helping researchers make use of the supercomputing cluster the university has for their research.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As a lifelong owner of a larger body, I have noticed myself reacting to the return of thin culture, combined with people who use fitness content as a way to further their own grift. At the age of 45 I am the fittest I have ever been in my life… yet I can still feel that boiling shame being stoked.
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Jon Marcus @jmcrapola.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
AI is not your friend @meredithmeredith.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/s...
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ | TechCrunch
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This makes me laugh every time.
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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/06/2026
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability. www.wired.com/story/uk-gov...
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Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
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Graham Binns @grahambinns.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I mean, I’m by no means the first person to think this, but Nigel Farage really is an opportunistic turd isn’t he?
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