John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Drowning people don't make that gesture, so it's a self-defeating, even dangerous, sign. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta seem to be one iteration away from a fountain pen spy camera 020
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A Pangram full screen live overlay would be wild right now 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They might bother to use Signal for a bit, but who's really checking, the only authority is Nigel's shame and that doesn't exist. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Coincidentally, I was just explaining the hotdog meme to my gf 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Journalists need to step up too bsky.app/profile/john... 120
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you want people to engage, maybe do some journalism. Explain what "AI" is. Execution environments, harnesses, goal definitions, guardrails. If all we hear makes it sound like some sentient sci fi god, of course people don't know how to talk about it. Tell us what the idiot making it are doing. 010
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026To answer his question, yes, we see you Zia, we see what you're doing. 050
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The polluting-car electorate is shrinking all the time as older cars go out of service. Also "real harms"? Cool story, bro. About my kids' lungs... 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I stopped listening to podcasts and couldn't get back to sleep. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026He is a very clever man who has chosen not to use his gifts for the good of society, a dilettante who sees it all as a game. He could have done something worthwhile, but he chose not to. 051
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Michael Gove is very self aware in interviews, he knows exactly what a dreadful person he is. I think perhaps that means he's a psychopath. Having psychopaths in positions of influence and authority is always pernicious. 191
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Rohypnol-shithole-batshit-foaming-at-the-gash Cleverly? I'm sure he'll get just as much media stick as a left of centre candidate would. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 29/08/2026He's got the evidence, you wouldn't know it, it goes to a different university. 050
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 29/08/2026No! Go spend a week of your life roleplaying shitty behaviour in the company of really shitty people, it's cool! 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026We took the Vogel cable car, it's beautiful up there at 1500m. 010
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 11/08/2026They could keep a fuzzy hashed record of all output and directly check text against it, like Turnitin. Something to do with all those under used datacentres 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 10/08/202648 years??! You're a GM with a sideline in medicine. I'm blessed to have shared 30 of those, here's to many more Bunbelievable adventures! 040
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Ironically given who loves X, it would have been shut down instantly in WW2 040
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Isn't that study addressing a question of the impact of adding HEPA filters to an unchanged complex system of human behaviour? It's not well controlled, sure, but it's a useful finding. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Has *any* interaction with Trump even ended with a "deal"? 120
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 25/07/2026He got stupidly rich easily out of online payment stuff. Must have made him think all fields are similarly open to great success for someone as talented as him. Meanwhile in reality, much brighter people devote whole careers to highly focused elements of what he thinks he can biohack. 0301
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Given you have a book on the ends of everything, you had scope to do something funny with glue and a craft knife. 010
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Make covert filming subject to licensing (so that eg documentary makers can still do it) with stiff penalties. Wearers with no license must wear a big hat with a sign saying "I am filming you with my hidden camera". 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It's strong evidence that you have been living in an escape room 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I loved this episode. Is there scope to do one on the academic side of this - university parapsychology, Sheldrake, Bem, @profchrisfrench.bsky.social, men staring at goats, etc etc? 031
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Rule1: If subject contains "wombat" stop processing rules Rule2: Reply to message: "Your email was deleted. If it is important, please resend it with "wombat" in the subject. Rule3: Delete message 010
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The antidote is M&S Luxury Gold leaf tea, properly brown and delicious, makes Yorkshire look like warm milk. 010
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Mate, you can George Best it for all we care. The question is whether you're bent. 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 09/06/2026And if you spent the previous years feeding your degree/masters work into AI, you won't have developed the cognitive capacity to do a PhD at all. 130
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 08/06/2026A single belief can lead to severe outcomes. For example, if you believe that most trans people have just been misled into poor choices, then making the world a horrible place for trans people will have positive outcomes in the long term, and is justifiable even if it contradicts your other values 200
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 08/06/2026it might not be possible to develop a very satisfying explanation because it'll be different for every person. 100
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 08/06/2026...limited capacity for critical self-reflection; variations in personality (conflict-seeking); susceptibility to bullshit (a real emerging construct!); unfamiliarity with the target group... 100
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 08/06/2026A range of mechanisms including: protective instincts (children, women vulnerable) justifying extreme response; social media echo chambers, confirmation bias; social identity, ingroup identity signalling; outlier anecdotes dominating narrative; pre-existing vulnerability, catastrophic thinking... 130
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Before we went the other way (open access), all academic research was paywalled and our libraries subscribed. Is there not something similar for journalists? 000
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 31/05/2026She did a lovely duet with Darren Hayman youtu.be/bopPCZ-OjzUyoutu.beDarren Hayman and Emmy the Great – Calling Out Your Name Again (Music Video)YouTube video by Darren Hayman 110
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Respectfully, there are 9.2 million people in London, I think we'd have noticed. 160
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Yes, he's a classic bullshitter. He's not interested in truth or lie, only in persuasion. 1170
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 27/05/2026That fish somehow manages to look like both Jar Jar AND Jabba. 020
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I never think of him, he's irrelevant and that's just great 020
John King @johnaking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026People need to understand that climate change doesn't mean everywhere becoming uninhabitable, there will still be lots of lovely places to live and as long as you're a 0.1%er you'll be fine. 010
