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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There should be a phrase for the specific trepidation you feel when you sit down to watch a TV/film adaptation of a book you really adore.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We know that the Good Law Project wasn't Man City's defence team, they'd have put out press releases describing getting them a not guilty on that one charge as a stunning legal victory.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the Southern hemisphere, because of the coriolis effect, footballers are only ever described as having "a wand of a right foot".

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney fucking sweepers, come to dust.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You'll know when Helen Lewis is aged because it'll be when it's almost universally agreed she's a national treasure.

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Patrick Hurley @patrickhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harry Hill's TV Burp is better than almost all of these.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is weird that the good people of Weetabix have an ad campaign that's basically "please buy some, we're not as popular as we used to be".

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't talk, checking YouTube to see if there's a pilot episode of Thomas the Tank Engine narrated by Pete Best.

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The latest grim assertion from an emboldened far right is that, however hard they try to integrate, migrants and their descendants can never be English Piece by me on a modern revival of dark racial fantasies

nickcohen.substack.com

If you’re not white, you can’t be English

Neo-fascism, modern style

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm never going to be middle aged then, because I'm planning to live forever. You may think this is unrealistic, but I've got to tell you, so far, so good. bsky.app/profile/youn...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I need to know exactly nothing bsky.app/profile/mirr...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The updates George Lucas made after its initial release, both visually, and to the story itself, obviously make it a much better film bsky.app/profile/thes...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see the "how good is Michael Phelps?" discussions are still getting out of hand. bsky.app/profile/yeet...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm not saying Keith Andrews isn't a good manager, I'm just saying I'm not talking seriously someone who looks like he's a Temu Michael Landon.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me, I'd have considered the crocodiles, but that's just me, I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There now follows a short prepared statement: I would like to make it very clear to my OH, and everyone else, that this has not been my motivation for, nor experience as a result of, articualting fears about AI Safety. I will take no further questions at this time.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm surprised there hasn't been more political pushback against crypto, given it would significantly help the cost of compute if it was banned, and there were no GPUs currently "mining", nor demand for new ones to do that. Virtually every £billion company globally would be better off.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A reminder that we're only borrowing the land. This is Nottingham. If humanity disappeared tomorrow it would take about an hour and twenty minutes for Sherwood to reclaim what's rightfully its.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's both bizarrely cynical and bizarrely naive at the same time to do a video in bad and halting Urdu, to a constituency with high levels of English proficiency, very few Urdu speakers, and then to post it on X. Is the plan to replace Labour as the UK's number one producers of 'who is this for?'

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

About once a year I get this stuck in my head for 24 hours. It's a good day. youtu.be/gtO2Nu0EJdU?...

youtu.be

Brett Anderson - Beautiful

YouTube video by BrettAndersonVideo

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gutted, absolutely gutted we didn't win that, but tremendously proud of the team. The performance, and reaction to going 2-0 down, were both magnificent #nffc

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

<runs finger under suddenly too tight collar> bsky.app/profile/youn...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

<looks at feet shuffling awkwardly while wringing his fingers> So, erm, it's bad to say "twenty-oh-one" then? You know? Like "Queen Victoria died in nineteen-oh-one"? bsky.app/profile/pawb...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I do apologise btw to those that follow me for half-assed jokes and bits on politics/science/football for all the wanging on about AI. It's just weird to see something that you've been worried about for many years, but reassuringly thought we were very many decades away from, become so very *now*.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The funniest poll I’ve seen in some time. Maybe also an inadvertent tell for the Greens’ true core?

Do you support or oppose the police using powers to ban protesters from wearing masks or other face coverings at protests?
Politics (6216 GB adults - 11 September 2026)
Strongly support
Somewhat support
Somewhat oppose
Strongly oppose
Don't know
All
42%
26%
10%
10%
11%
Con
53
27
7
Lab
51
25
8
Lib Dem
51
28
9
7
7
6
5
9
6
Reform
34
23
13
23
7
Green
34
32
10
13

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don't think Rob's 100% correct here. Lots of people aren't going to believe in the danger until there's empirical evidence of AI causing human extinction.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

True, but it's a direct result of both hyper-partisans turning every minor thing into a scandal until those who don't follow politics just tuned them out, assuming everything was just hyper-partisanship AND the rise of "scandals" that are just conspiracy crackpottery bsky.app/profile/anon...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cheering myself up by remembering that time Prime Minister Boris Johnson drew up plans for a special forces raid on a vaccine plant in Holland to recover COVID jabs he'd decided had been ‘kidnapped’ by the EU. Before realising it would be a bit nuts to invade a NATO ally.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why, in the year 2026, are we still having to take our TV remote control's battery cover off, give the batteries within a little twiddle, and put the cover back on? AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE IT WORK AGAIN???? Stone age behaviour.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI alignment is a really, *really* hard problem. It's been known as a really hard problem for decades. One after another, once theoretical behaviours have emerged. An unaligned AI smart enough to beat us CAN HAPPEN. We may be very close. "It'll be OK" has no more evidence than for climate change.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And we are possibly in the process of irrevocably changing our climate, making vast swathes of the planet completely uninhabitable by us. Billions needing relocation. Given how much we struggle with refugees in the thousands, our civilisations simply won't cope. Untold misery follows. IT CAN HAPPEN

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now, if we spot a comet maybe we can do something. It depends on size, and time, but maybe. But there is definitely a limit where if what we spot is beyond it, then bad luck, humanity's finished, it's over. And that, no heroics, no surviving profundity, *can* happen. And the universe will not care.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In March 1781 William Herschel turned his telescope skywards in a double-star hunt, and spotted something with a disc - he thought it was a comet, it turned out to be Uranus. If it had been a comet, and its trajectory was heading for Earth, they would have known, and been powerless to stop it.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the things that's 100% true, but remarkably hard for humans to process - there's nothing that means we'll definitely make it. The universe can give us challenges, some even too hard to pass, in which failure means our doom. Be it an asteroid heading our way, or man made climate change...or AI

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am 100% claiming this from now on as my amendment to Douglas Adams' 3 rules of technology.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They threw 10,000 agents, including their most capable internal model, at a possibly unsolvable maths problem, whilst they were explaining how their swarms of lesser models criminally bypassed their "strict safeguards". Sam Altman shows psychopathically unhinged levels of hubris.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LIV? Laugh love. bsky.app/profile/bbcn...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I must confess, my existential dread at climate change killing us all has really been soothed by the knowledge that AI will almost certainly kill us first. I enjoy the sunny days more is all. bsky.app/profile/meto...

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Kind of struggling to express how big a deal this is. One comparison is imagining that an AI-generated film won an Oscar, but that doesn't really work because Oscars are judged by humans and won every year. Solving Navier-Stokes is much much much harder

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"A" major? I think you'll find it's *the* major UK city... bsky.app/profile/mirr...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean I get this, anthropomorphising almost certainly isn't accurate in all sorts of ways, but this is the first time we've ever faced intelligent things capable of human level reasoning before that aren't human. What other language do we have to accurately describe them? bsky.app/profile/whip...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unqualified good news! If your instinct is to be upset that this is true, and are frantically looking for ways to rationalise that it isn't, STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET! Tribalism is melting your brain. PS, all due credit, and full pats on the back to Michael Gove

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of those enabling the far right, often whilst proclaiming to oppose the far right, is even more depressing than the existence of the pathetic, useless, dickless weasels who advocate for the far right.

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