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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Question for folk giving talks about AI, whatever field they’re in: have you noticed the change in the questions you’re being asked, skewing ever more existential and philosophical?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This didn't take long... 😬

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 21/08/2026

FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐

Mike Masnick @masnick.com:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.
I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."
I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).
I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comfortable here because a main area of their interest is...
... considered worthy of being mocked and attacked. And even as I've explained that I've been able to have positive conversations about productive AI usage here with many of you, the reputation of the community here as insisting their own lived experience can't possibly be real has driven them away.
And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI

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Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) @hssib.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🆕INTERIM REPORT ➡️Electronic patient record systems – electronic referrals for ongoing care: advice and guidance 📖Read the interim report: www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

With 4th July coming up, and it being the 250th anniversary, worth remembering what Thomas Paine, one of the founding fathers, said about accountability. (Photo taken outside Rights of Man pub in Lewes, East Sussex, where Thomas Paine lived and wrote for a while)

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Algae fans Live cam showing Trumps efforts in the pool www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/washi... Note also the “8647” scorched into the turf lower in the picture

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WAMO Cam

Explore America's capital from over 500 feet in the air with EarthCam's live streaming webcam embedded in the Washington Monument's pyramidion!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/06/2026

After two days with Claude Fable 5 the best way I can describe it is "relentlessly proactive" - here's an example where I dropped in a screenshot of a bug and it span up custom CORS Python servers and used pyobjc-framework-Quartz to capture screenshots simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...

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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Dexter enjoying some Stonehaven sunshine

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Great day teaching at Bayes Business School today. AI of course. One interesting takeaway: we are likely to see AI competence become a significant social division, empowering those that can/will use it, and disadvantaging those that don’t. However - may be reversed in younger groups re education

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The event is ORCA Innovate - can’t find them on Bsky

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Viktor Orban concedes. Some more good news! One in the eye for JDV

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 04/03/2025

A reminder that Scotland hated Trump before it was fashionable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbT...

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The Original Trump Haters | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 31/03/2026

Folks, can you not do April Fools' Day jokes on politics, pretty please? It's already seriously hard to tell parody from delusional politics and politicians, and often parody makes more sense. Just do them on non-politics subjects and in return I won't wish you a painful boil on the backside.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Is anyone *not* strict by the parallels between 2019 Watchmen adaptation (HBO) and current situation with masked ICE officers in US?

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Night sky over Seaford, East Sussex

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Watching Princess Bride because: 1) rob Reiner was a genius 2) Donald Trump is an arsehole

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

One statistic that really surprised me is how sharply disability registration has risen at elite universities. At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, it’s 34%, and at Stanford, it's 38%.

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Accommodation Nation

America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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luokai @luok.ai · 17/10/2025

Claude just got “Skills”—modular folders that turn it into a specialist on demand. ⚙ Key stats Products: Apps, Code, API. Features: composable, portable, efficient, powerful (code exec). Use cases: Excel/PowerPoint/Word/PDF.

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Anthropic models now available to Microsoft co-pilot users - great! Microsoft shipping data outside its secure cloud to do so, and losing all warranties re residency, copyright protection, etc, into the bargain - not great!

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The two sides of living in a seaside town

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Now is an absolute golden age for Product Engineers.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If your team already has a PM, encourage them to be a vibe coder. If not, hire one who can vibe code. A working prototype is invaluable for gathering user feedback. If you are a PM, learn to vibe code.

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Is Chain-of-thought and “reasoning” merely a simulation of reasoning, and therefore constrained by pre-training data? arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I’m about 18 months into learning the alto saxophone, having never played an instrument or studied music before. It’s been a total joy - sharing because if you are wondering if and when you should learn to play something: don’t. Go for it.

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Helen Hughes @helenh49.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A Trust in Cornwall said to their board that cyber security of health systems underwrites #patientsafety. Absolutely and an avoidable death sadly proves that 😥

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

For all me AI savvy followers, I’d welcome any links or refs to SotA eval approaches for translation using LLMs. It’s an area that seems to be a little stuck, but I could be looking in the wrong places

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

In September, 2024, physicians working with AI did better at the Healthbench doctor benchmark than either AI or physicians alone. With the release of o3 and GPT-4.1, AI answers are no longer improved on by physicians Error rates appear to be dropping for newer AI models. openai.com/index/health...

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I’m new to the MCP game, but running Claude desktop with custom extensions has really opened my eyes to what can be achieved. Connected Notion, Gmail, and WhatsApp in short order. Wow

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I’ve built a automated eval platform in 2 hours today. Something that would have been well beyond my capabilities pre-copilot, and even with help would have taken weeks. Incredible

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Soggy walk with Maneesh Juneja, still a great way to start Easter Sunday

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is quite an affecting piece of writing, and something that will stay with me for a while. It speaks to that which we individually have control over, which is also nice in current times

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It’s an incredible time to be building a startup

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So it looks like there's a third scaling law: you can make models better by (1) training them with more compute, by (2) having them "think" for longer about an answer, or by (now 3) generating large numbers of answers in parallel & picking good ones Both 2 & 3 seem to have lots of low-hanging fruit

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Keith Grimes @keithgrimes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is a keen observation. Specific prompting techniques have become less valuable as the tech develops, but familiarity with the tools and the ability to clearly describe tasks is taking over

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