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Hen Gymro Heb Wlad

@hengymrohebwlad.bsky.social
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Old Welshman without a country. Welsh. British. European. Gen X. Migrant. Putting the "grey" into "emigré".

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 10h
"humans will use these responsibly" no they wont. humans do not use a single goddamn thing responsibly. are you a fucking idiot
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 14h
so much this. It's not just the money, it's the sense that the care system is broken and threadbare, everyone working in it is exhausted and underpaid, and the bureaucracy is baffling - plus as anyone who has taken an elderly parent into A&E knows, NHS is struggling with picking up the pieces
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 15h
if you haven't been through this with an elderly parent yet it's maybe hard to explain why social care reform feels like a big deal but there will be a surprising number of people i suspect feeling quite tearful listening to this
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 19h
Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets--hospitals, universities, markets--knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h
you can just do things smart/dumb meme
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 21h
Important to remember that the debate around social care right now is about *free* care - ending the lottery of life that means some are financially ruined by care costs as they age. It is not about providing *better* care, which would require spending of another order…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h
They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 22h
"so my job is to create that fairness. In our immigration system" lmao we dealt with *ten* home secretaries and never once saw any of this "fairness". and some of the worst nonsense we experienced was under mahmood. this is what i like to call a massive lie
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 22h
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bezeichnend: Trumps Leute bedrohen nun direkt deutsche Parlamentarier, die sich für ein Verbot der Rechtsextremen einsetzen. Das zeigt: - in wessen Interesse die AfD agiert. - die Rechtsextremen sind offenbar so nervös, dass sie ihre großen Brüder holen. Und wie richtig ein Verbotsverfahren ist.
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Initiative: AfD-Bekämpfern droht Einreiseverbot in USA – Linke entsetzt
Die US-Kongressabgeordnete Anna Paulina Luna droht Politikern, die sich für ein AfD-Verbot einsetzen, mit Einreiseverbot in die USA. AfD-Gegnern wirft sie Demokratiefeindlichkeit vor.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Emma Gledhill @linguistforsail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Switzerland top European nation and 3rd worldwide at this global competition of vocational talent (not sure of the English title). But as the article says, success began much earlier with apprenticeships. One for you @phillipwatson.bsky.social 😉 www.20min.ch/story/erfolg...
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WorldSkills 2026: Schweiz holt 12 Medaillen und ist beste europäische Nation
Viermal Gold, zweimal Silber und sechsmal Bronze: Die Schweizer Nachwuchsfachkräfte überzeugen in Shanghai und werden beste europäische Nation.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If she was wearing a balaclava and called migrant men sex offenders she's probably be given an AAA pass
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate.” www.chronicle.com/article/harv...
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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane
When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the very least, since the OpenAI Navier Stokes controversy, a suggestive pattern is emerging. Writers remember: they took our work without thinking twice. The commercial and reputational rewards of stealing science may be too tempting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The government, banks, utilities and similar services MUST make it easier for those with Power of Attorney to manage stuff online. I find I'm having to do a lot of stuff by phone. It's like being back in the 90s except without the 90s infrastructure to help.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm so incredibly tired. Attacks, victim-blaming, attacks, victim-blaming, on and on and on. I want to scream into people's faces that it is not our fault that Russia is killing us, and that we need help. ​I once naively thought that if social media had existed during World War II,
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stop saying the agents are “acting improperly” or that the agents “went rogue”. AI agents are software. The agents just follow the instructions given to them. It was OpenAI who failed in ensuring their agents were controlled properly
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just as a reminder Trump apologists, in the last 9 months Trump has: Threatened to invade Greenland Seized the leader Venezuela Launched a war against Iran without Congressional approval. Any state in the world needs to worry about him. Except Russia of course. Putin is safe.
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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender telling you what the REAL Ai concerns are on the MIT Technological Review is the best proof I can offer that I really do love ya'll - www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Historiker: „Ost- und Westdeutschland sind zwei verschiedene politische Nationen"
Der britische Historiker James Hawes erklärt, warum die AfD im Westen nie so stark werden wird wie im Osten. Er sieht die Ursachen bis ins Mittelalter zurückreichend.
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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 24/09/2026
This is our podcast. There are many like it, But this one is ours.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 26/09/2026
It goes further than just briefly disrupting services.
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Why far-right protesters target non-political groups like lifeboat volunteers
It goes further than just briefly disrupting services.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/09/2026
'No longer hybrid' — As Russian sabotage grows bolder, Europe lacks red lines Moscow's shadow war on Europe grows bolder by the day, and no one can say how far the Kremlin is ready to go.
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'No longer hybrid' — As Russian sabotage grows bolder, Europe lacks red lines
Moscow's shadow war on Europe grows bolder by the day, and no one can say how far the Kremlin is ready to go. Russia is no longer only meddling in elections or hacking networks: Germany found explosi...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rather than shouting about a Brandmauer for years and then just capitulating to the AfD when things get tough, the CDU/CSU should set down a core set of conditions the AfD must fulfil before any cooperation is possible. Respecting the memory of victims of Fascism should be one of those conditions.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This has given me an idea BUILD THE NEW HUB AIRPORT IN PIDDINGTON
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 25/09/2026
Consumer champion Which? has named a Welsh museum the UK's best free-to-visit spot in the UK nation.cymru/feature/wels...
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Welsh museum named best free-to-visit day out in the UK
Nation Cymru staff Consumer champion Which? has named a Welsh museum the UK’s best free-to-visit spot in the UK. Analysing the UK’s museums, galleries, cathedrals and other historical sites that are f...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mae Reform UK yn disgyn i ddarnau yng Nghymru. Ar y llaw arall, mae Plaid Cymru yn gweithredu ar flaenoriaethau pobl Cymru. Plaid Cymru yw’r unig blaid sy’n sefyll i fyny dros Gymru.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools There is no chance of a birdie or an eagle any more. But there are skylarks, short-eared owls, avocets and curlew. Sandilands, a former golf course on the Lincolnshire coast, has been transformed by the National Trust into a 2km-long nature reserve with wetlands, wading pools, rough grassland and coastal scrub. Continue reading...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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