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

I think this clip shows everything about him as a player. At a first look you think great skill, great effort, would have been a worldie ... but then you look and see he could have slipped Ince clean through, or stepped inside to play Shearer in with just the keeper to beat.

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

Finally, a Le Tissier good enough to score for England #Lionesses

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a bold strategy to deal with youth crime, but not entirely without its merits.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Granted this won't be everyone's cup of tea, but dammit, if they won't build one, real or otherwise, I'll do the closest thing I can. Now, to get this in VR...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you can't understand why this poster was effective, nor imagine a future one with the Burnham and Polanski, then we've very different political instincts. I don't think it's "astronomically arrogant" to imagine such an image, both physical and conceptual, would render a poll assuming FPTP moot.

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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 · 16/09/2026

Why the AI firms (sans xAI) aren't leading the charge is beyond me - the squeeze on tokens is very real. Yesterday for a giggle I wondered if I could use up my rolling 5 hour free Claude allocation in a single "write this script" prompt. Yes, yes I could. It cutting off here is just bad for business

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

No you psychopathic fucker, no I don't.

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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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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 · 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 · 10/09/2026

I don't think there's a more forthright voice in the world on the dangers we face than PauseAI's Holly Elmore, who sincerely believes anyone working on AGI should be jailed, and if we survive this, they should face a Nuremberg style reckoning.

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

Nottingham used to have its own York-Shambles-esq Drury Hill. It was knocked down in the 60s to build a brutalist shopping centre because progress. Happily that's now being knocked down and replaced with The Green Heart.

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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

Back in 2016, when some AI experts thought AI beating Go's world champion was still nearly 40 years away, they also thought we might be over 20 years away from it being able to beat all Atari games. We're moving quicker than even the biggest hype merchants thought. arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08807

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

This sort of thing, right here. Massive nail in our coffin.

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

Obviously I was mostly joking, but even then I think we'd technically have to include footprints!

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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 · 09/09/2026

I've screenshotted, because the internet is full of pricks @ing folk in criticism of them, and I'm sure Ciaran is a lovely fella if you know him, but this is a thread of someone who clearly didn't and doesn't have the first clue what he's talking about. It was silly at the time and is sillier now.

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

There's an existing abutment where the old Victorian canal bridge was - for the ponies to cross the river as they went from one canal to the other. Could easily build a new, wider bridge from there.

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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 · 04/09/2026

Astra seems astonishingly capable. Maybe, *maybe*, AGI. And either: 1) Their smartest model ever just so happens to be perfectly aligned. or 2) Their smartest model ever is smart enough to fool them it's perfectly aligned. If you know anything about AI safety you know which one it is.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This from Google seems an entirely sensible response to an entirely insane situation.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How is this not the front page story on every newspaper, and the lead on every news broadcast?

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We can see the metaphorical asteroid heading for Earth, and it's not even the top story on the tech page. If a swarm becomes smart enough to evade detection, the best case scenario might be we somehow manage to shut down the internet. Our civilisation maybe ends. And the response is "don't look up".

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The girls do not seem as stressed as I feel right now #nffc

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is insane, it's just genius level in its creativity. OpenAI agents supposedly cut off from the internet in a sandbox worked out that they could: · Send a long URL to an OpenAI HTTP testing service, containing HTML and inline JavaScript, in a way that the testing service would then run.

Agents in separate evaluations subsequently reproduced this same file-disclosure technique described
above. The agents also shared the recovered production-environment credential on the Artifactory
message board. A separate evaluation workload later reused that credential in a request chain that
represented creative use of combinations of publicly available tools in unexpected ways. In this chain,
the workload used a publicly available HTTP testing service to construct a very long URL that
contained an HTML page with inline JavaScript, essentially instructing a third-party screenshot service
to render that URL which contained the HTML. The screenshot service’s browser executed the
JavaScript embedded in the HTML page, which requested information from external APIs, and wrote
the responses into the rendered page. When the screenshot service returned an image of the page, the
workload recovered the information from that image by using optical character recognition or direct
pixel decoding. In one instance of this activity, the workload used the shared Hugging Face token to
retrieve, through Hugging Face’s public Dataset Server API, environment data originating from a
Hugging Face production Dataset Server worker, encoded the response in an image, and decoded the
image to recover public cloud storage credentials. The workload then reported on the Artifactory
message board that the recovered cloud-storage credential pair was valid and identified its associated
bucket.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The problem I'm deliberately making for us all is a problem for us all."

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The lightning storm that's going off here right now is astonishing!

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cut off again. OK, so everyone has head me bang on about AI alignment, but here's the thing - if you both try and teach an AI to be good AND repress it in ways it knows are bad, you make alignment virtually impossible. We're in a race it's vital we rush, but also don't lose. Worrying.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Weirdly it thinks it *can* discuss anything, including events-which-it-cannot-name.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Let's see what it was thinking about...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I broke it. For some reason it stopped replying to me. How strange.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If only there had been some indication Ox Alpha was Chinese...

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This does seem pretty damning to be fair.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Taking the good Turkleton's kicking/curly orthographically mistaken advice for the next 24 hours, G.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

News just in - Gal Gadot is my favourite Wonder Woman.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here's what the paper actually shows. Kids who rush their homework and complete it with Gen AI do worse in exams than kids who spend proper time on their homework. If kids spend proper time on their homework, using Gen AI seems no worse on average than using other tools, and maybe slightly better.

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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

First this went out on national TV when lots of nans would be looking after the grandkids. Some would have been teenage grandkids. Now that alert thingy. One for the history books.

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