Reposted by James DownesMicah @rincewind.run · 5hthis goes incredible places and I love everyone involved 262283434
Reposted by James DownesPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13hEmployers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up coststheguardian.comCompanies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling backRapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work 1072812794
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 10hIt's an interesting data point, it points to the value prop 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 10hAll good, 13 is so valuable, there's a reason they are toxic, and it's not you 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 11hPork chop, probably with cream, Dijon etc. Leeks somehow Yes I'm indecisive 110
Reposted by James Downessarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 15/10/2026It seems reasonable to argue that the next great web/social protocol/network is going to have a metric fuck tonne of agents in the mix 021
Reposted by James DownesAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026You have to appreciate the fact that these idiots always make these comments and never realize the context and facts. 13850091331
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Anthropic wrote the Agent code, they could stop this happening 010
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026You really have to ask the question, who came up with the questions that AI is apparently solving? 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It should be noted, that we are currently generating 60% of our Electricity needs from Wind grid.iamkate.com #r4todaygrid.iamkate.comNational Grid: LiveShows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network 130
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026100%, I've never plucked up the courage/been stupid enough to tell someone, but feel I should in a PSA way. I think that retailers should have a duty to explain this. 020
Reposted by James DownesProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 09/10/2026“We can choose to stop seeing AI developers as untouchable geniuses. We can push back against their grandiosity, evasions and fantasies,” writes Philip Ball:prospectmagazine.co.ukWe’re all going to die, but not from AIThat artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It’s time to challenge it 0236
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is more like it #totp Sade still underrated imho 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This was all we ever got of "Soul Train" #totp performances Missed out big time 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026TBF, they've got form with this The error that could subvert George Osborne's austerity programme | George Osborne | The Guardian share.google/wvJy0uAZi7JQ...share.googleThe error that could subvert George Osborne's austerity programmeThe theories on which the chancellor based his cuts policies have been shown to be based on an embarrassing mistake 0102
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Does polymarket have a prediction that it will be Trump? (most 2926 take I could think of) 000
Reposted by James Downesmatty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol... 251318632
Reposted by James DownesForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper for Morocco (1930). From a portrait by Eugene Robert Richee. 410115
Reposted by James DownesDoll @dollspace.gay · 08/10/2026We should tax the shit out of them, and also fund public inference 1432
Reposted by James DownesEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 141040323
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We should also remember that the UK property market over the past 25+ years has sucked investment out of equities (productive assets) into property (non-productive assets) #r4today 020
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Every time you pay VAT, you are being taxed twice, the same with all other consumption taxes #r4today 160
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saw it in the 70's, not sure it's changed since then 110
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If there was any doubt about that, she would be replaced in a heartbeat, the promise of power will prove irresistible 020
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I went to the WH Smith's closing down sale locally and stocked up with a years worth 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026...and all that was left of them was a small piece of nail 000
Reposted by James DownesChronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker 9863171
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Once again we have the nonsensical argument that people who get paid a lot of money "work harder" "What we want to see is that people who work harder don't get punished for doing so," Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. 050
Reposted by James DownesEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah -- if you're selling a system that you call an LLM and you're sick of being embarrassed by the fact that next-token prediction is a terrible way to do arithmetic, you run a little text classifier up front and shunt math problems to an actual calculator. 1411
Reposted by James DownesSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers. 37526176
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Eating in the Hotel tonight, so who knows. Back to London tomorrow so vegetables all the way after this week 130
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And in other news, just had some Fig Chutney (I kid you not), omg delicious 000
James Downes @james-downes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Early evening drinks at Gastrosor in Belgrade, Al Green on the music 100
