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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 5h

Wasn't there some law they were talking about to fix this issue? Where is it now!?

General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking hate the ticket touters! A mid-tier popular band that pre-teen and I love listening is playing locally, and tickets got sold out within a few days of being released. Bloody racketeers been charging 6x for months on end, and finally in the last two days dropped prices to 2x-3x.

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 13h

Hostile actors are not just state actors We all know of oligarchic influence from the likes of Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg and many others that have ownership of our media, social media platforms and vast swathes of internet real estate A place that the BBC should have been inserted many years ago!

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

Slightly concerned for the economy of British Overseas Territory of the Caribbean region, Malliouhana. As of 2024, the government reported 105.5 million East Caribbean dollars revenue, about a quarter of the government's total revenue for the year, from sale of Anguilla ".ai" web addresses

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone remember all that breathless 'OMG Andy Burnham' bond market commentary a few months back?

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 18h

This is only getting worse. You can't just blame the papers when you mamgu is looking at A.I. bollocks videos of London violence 24 hours a day

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

arxiv.org/pdf/2210.16224

Daniel J. McDonald*
Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC Canada
daniel@stat.ubc.ca
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Departments of Statistics and Data Science and of Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA USA
and Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe, NM USA
cshalizi@cmu.edu
Abstract
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have been an ubiquitous, and con-troversial, part of macroeconomics for decades. In this paper, we approach DSGEs purely as statstical models. We do this by applying two common model validation checks to the canonical Smets and Wouters (2007) DSGE: (1) we simulate the model and see how well it can be estimated from its own simulation output, and (2) we see how well it can seem to fit nonsense data.
We find that (1) even with centuries' worth of data, the model remains poorly estimated, and
(2) when we swap series at random, so that (e.g.) what the model gets as the inflation rate is really hours worked, what it gets as hours worked is really investment, etc., the fit is often only slightly impaired, and in a large percentage of cases actually improves (even out of sample).
Taken together, these findings cast serious doubt on the meaningfulness of parameter estimates for this DSGE, and on whether this specification represents anything structural about the econ-omy. Constructively, our approaches can be used for model validation by anyone working with macroeconomic time series.
Keywords: general equilibrium; model validation; time series; forecasting;

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Cllr David Wilcox @david-on-a-bike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Roll this out nationwide ASAP. Run it for three months just giving warnings. Then start fining people and watch the casualty rates drop nationwide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

AI cameras spot nearly 19,000 road offences in West Midlands

Captured images include a front-seat passenger holding a small child on her lap without a seatbelt.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"But what if I need to go 300 miles? You can't do that on the bike!" Again, then use a car or truck. That's fine! We sometimes need to fly to Los Angeles or Europe, but that doesn't mean we use a 747 to get to the grocery store.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mehdi Hasan is citing this piece as evidence that the British media is “broken”, but that’s not what it is: this is more like operating at peak efficiency. They’ve shown they can enforce the outcomes they want by blocking the entire pipeline tight with shit, so that nothing else can get through.

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

@9021007.xyz yo! What sort of AI slop have I ever shared. If you're going to make lists, you might as well put a bit of effort to verify properly 🤷‍♂️

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...

Anthropic’s $32b Queensland data centre to run on coal and gas power until renewables are built

I frontier lab Anthropic’s first Australian data centre at Zerra DC’s proposed $32 billion project in regional Queensland will be powered by coal and gas as a bridge until renewables to support the facility are built.

Wambo Cattle Company managing director Max Winders, the owner of the land Zerra plans to build on, told Capital Brief he expects fossil fuels to power the massive project for the foreseeable future.

“I think we’ll be using fossil fuels for quite a long time in Queensland, anyhow, certainly enough to be able to get the power to drive the data centres,” he said.

Winders said that he believed that the concessions Queensland Premier David Crisafulli negotiated “at National Cabinet was critical” for ensuring the Western Downs development has the best chance of being built.

“In all likelihood, they’ll just link up to the grid, sign a contract with the state energy provider, and then, likely draw the power from the coal plants that are already there.”

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Shame really that HP gets a makeover, while Amazon fucks up Wheel of Time (exec interference in story), doesn't market it properly when it actually got good, and then cancels it because they didn't want to share revenue with Sony. Absolute SHAME!

static.klipy.com

Rand Al'Thor Screaming

Alt: Rand Al'Thor Screaming (from Wheel of Time). This is basically how I screamed when Amazon announced the show to be cancelled!

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did they ever consider that a significant chunk of their supporters aren't particularly the book-reading kind and more the book-burning kind?

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The resolutions to asbestos, leaded petrol, CFCs/Ozone and COVID vaccines have been great examples of decisive collective international inter-governmental actions to tackle these problems head on. But it surprises me that for climate change, a problem that's much bigger than any previously..

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tuned into R4 on the drive back today, in time for Nick Robinson's show where he's invited Tom Watson to elaborate on his "mob rule" comment. Fucking spinmaster shills get prime slots on radio and TV (on public money!), and we wonder why Brexit happened or why Reform is popular!

theguardian.com

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Clocking 11hrs of daylight already and it's making me very very very sad 😑😑😞 Why oh why!!!

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

BTW guys, @caralavan.bsky.social is fundraising for the Shine Night Walk and will now be joining it next Friday. If you want to support her fundraising efforts, and stick two fingers up to "Bristol Rises", please donate below.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone remembers the photos of Patsy Stevenson at the Sarah Everard vigil. What no one is even considering is that this photo would now get her convicted of a s.157 offence (one month in prison) for wearing a mask under the new Crime & Policing Act 2026.

Patsy Stevenson, a woman in her 30s wih long red hair in a black covid mask and black hoody, getting arrested by police officers at a vigil for Sarah Everard

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A couple of hours before a 'Bristol Rises' far-right protest in Bristol, there's contradictory statements between demo organisers & police, over the fact the protest prompted a big cancer charity fundraising walk to be postponed. Full story here: bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

bristolpost.co.uk

Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser

Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This would be FORMER LABOUR DEPUTY TOM WATSON.

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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well said, Cllr Cara Lavan: “The PCC states that reducing violence against women and girls is one of her key priorities. Yet this feels like an act of violence against women, as we are being blocked from walking to raise funds in order for a group of far-right activists to spread […] hatred.”

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ChayBristol @chaybristol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An indoctrinated US zionist, here openly advocating mass murder and genocide. Beyond racism, this is genocidal ethnic cleansing.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

No idea why, at short notice, a neo-Nazi group has been allowed to protest, forcing a charity walk to be cancelled.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Overused phrase used in the media: "Defying the laws of physics" Translation: "Obeying the laws of physics"

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is it due to similar thinking that I'm unable to find iodised salt in the supermarket? (Or if it available, it's almost double the price!?)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The likely reaction of the UK press to the Holborn & St Pancras by-election: A Green win = A terrifying victory for the woke Islamoleftist, antisemitic insurgency. Polanski is Turbo Corbyn. A Labour win = A return to flaccid centrism & the Monoparty consensus. Polanski is finished.

theguardian.com

UK politics: Polls open in Holborn and St Pancras byelection – as it happened

Voters choosing replacement for Keir Starmer, who announced he was standing down last month

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Could Asda or Morrisons vanish within a decade? It will be a blow to many. Both owned by private equity, loaded with debt, cut staffing/wages, low investment, strangled by asset-stripping, struggling to compete, losing market share. What future for others being devoured by private equity?

theguardian.com

Supermarket shake-up: why Asda or Morrisons could vanish within a decade

Talks between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have set industry tongues wagging, with analysts saying the market is ripe for change

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

5. The Beginnings of Fascist Movements.
In 1905 Milner, one of the more far-seeing leaders of the older British imperialism, described
in a private letter the only hope that he could see for the salvation of bourgeois rule:
“Perhaps a great Charlatan-political scallywag, buffoon, liar, stump orator, and in other
respects popular favourite-may some day arise who is nevertheless a statesman-the
combination is not impossible- and who, having attained power by popular acts may use it
for national ends. It is an off-chance, but I do not see any other.”
(Milner, letter to Lady Edward Cecil, The Milner Papers, Vol. II, 1899-1905.)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-2.pdf

Here we see the bourgeoisie consciously groping for the forms of Fascism long before
Fascism existed. The fact that so lifelike a description of Hitler or Mussolini could have been
penned a decade before these began to play their role is a striking confirmation of how little it is
personality that creates history, and bow much rather history calls forth the personality that it
requires at a given stage. Fascism does not come into existence because a “leader” arises. On the
contrary, because the bourgeoisie requires Fascism, a “leader” is created from such materials as
can be found.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

None of these people regard the left as a legitimate political actor; they will not tolerate us weilding any kind of power over them; they see us as a problem to be defanged, stomped and marginalised in a way they would never do to e.g. Nigel Farage.

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It bothers me to hell that such an obvious "corridor" hadn't been set up two centuries ago, or 100yrs ago, or 75yrs ago or even 40yrs ago! And why, oh why, are they seeking UAE investment for this!!? Taxing billionaires and the banks, and directing that money into investing in this should work no?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”

futurism.com

ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.

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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game of Thrones Nothing else comes close to being a massive global phenomenon that hooked everyone, and spawned so much pop culture interest... and then just decayed into spectacularly bad TV, so bad that a mere mention of it colours every memory of good early seasons as retrospectively bad!

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's the thing that confuses me about the current stage of capitalism in the US: I have no money. I go to the bank: "I have no money, lend me money to buy this big corporation, and I'm going to saddle my debt on the company I'm buying and the bank just says... Ok?

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General Iroh needs a long long walk @ihearthaggis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When idiots equate success with KPI-maxxing, this is what you get. Low self-esteem robots that feel smug because they one-upped everyone around them, and don't know what true learning and accomplishment feels like!

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

fastcompany.com

'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours

Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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