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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 9h

Software does not get a free pass from the Dunning–Kruger effect

Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 9h

Bridges are excellent things, and we need more of them, in every sense. Moor Park just got Preston's second one of the year. Well done to everyone involved.

Against a background of blue sky and fluffy white clouds and leafy trees, a tall crane lifts a green trelliswork bridge. People in high visibility jackets can be seen to one side, dwarfed by the height of the crane.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 16h

And a primary school will actually be built will it? We've heard that story before.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes (nod to Graeme Garden and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue)

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Does Musk think he is Batman, or The Penguin? It's hard to tell.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Good news for our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren ... but still a bit rough for the generations in-between?

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Good closing remarks 👍 As a wise man said: don't boo, vote.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

They have their place, but can be over used.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

The 1980's were a traumatic time

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Please use reposting sparingly. If I follow you, it's because I'm interested in what you have to say, not what you've just read. #netiquette

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Careful, you are a step away from reinventing the fax machine 🙃

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

Appropriate use of machine learning could be beneficial for accessibility of all kinds. The problem at the moment is that LLM are hideously inefficient in their use of resources, and are owned by latter-day satanic mill owners who only care about the power it gives them.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

I was still at school during the expert systems boom of the 1980's, and it had somewhat cooled by the time I was an undergraduate. Did the hype around that ever get as delusional as we are seeing now?

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

Respecting one vote does not prevent a future vote from changing the policy. That is after all what just happened.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 14/10/2026

I stand corrected. I spent more time in the Netherlands, where I guess the sauces are different.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

That missing mass the physicists worry about: it's fritessaus.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Marines would know if they were being asked to commit a war crime, and would be unlikely to consider a one way trip to the Hague a price worth paying for the likes of Mr Jenrick.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

I blame computing lecturers. Every time you set a lab exercise of designing a smart kettle, or a smart fridge, or some other Internet of Things nonsense, you prepare a mental pathway to a future stupid product choice. How You Can should be balanced by Why You Shouldn't.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

I can understand why they might report temperature and status information to the network, to allow central monitoring and compliance checks. Exposing the control interfaces, when that can surely be done manually or automatically at a local level without any need for remote access, is surprising.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

That would be a lot of extra work, but the end result would be more accessible and reviewable with more rigour. I'm slowly creating a web version of my doctoral thesis aimed at practitioners, so I may try that out in a few places and see how readability suffers or improves 😏

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Threatening inappropriate use of elite forces does not have a great track record for politicians that do it.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026

If, like me, you have had to walk away from the Green Party, please do not walk away from the people in it. Whether it is local conservation work, a litter pick, or just meeting socially, there are things you can still do and important conversations you can still have.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026

Subprime Nostalgia Club is the market's favourite band apparently

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026

Growing up next door to an aggressor, you don't take freedom for granted. As a young Latvian shares, Ukraine isn't just fighting for itself—it’s breaking a cycle of occupation so the next generation across Eastern Europe can finally live without looking over their shoulder.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

Terrible leaders happen. What matters is what you do about it. King John has a reputation as the worst king in English history. Our response was Magna Carta.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

I am very polite to my washing machine because I cannot afford for it to go wrong right now. Their motivation may be similar.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

It does give a useful baseline of silliness that you can reflect on when you see other survey results.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

A withering look from Rupert would answer most things.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

If you want a recommendation for BBC Sounds, @carolinelucas.bsky.social is putting in a proper shift on Radio 4 programme Any Questions right now and is worth listening to.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

The motion could have passed at Spring conference if it had not run out of time. What shocked and surprised me more was how few party members participated in the vote. I had always imagined thousands of us online, but it was just a few hundred. Further surprising policy changes could follow.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

Waiting list figures need to be treated with caution. There's a lot of variation in who is formally on the list. For some conditions, like hip pain, you can be waiting invisibly for years until it is bad enough to be added to the NHS waiting list for surgery, but "bad" is local clinical judgement.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

The Green Party needed a communicator. It elected Zack because it thought that was what he was. Turns out he is a performer, which is not the same thing at all.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

Many a slip betwixt cusp and flip.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026

Real men don't cause climate change

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

The algorithm supplied an advert to accompany the article: "British citizens can apply for Canadian citizenship." Yup. That's the only poutine we want 😀 🇨🇦

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

I did wonder what strongly flavoured crisps were doing to my teeth. Now I know. Booked in for my first filling in decades. No more salt and vinegar for me 🙄

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

For that budget, it will consist of all the civil servants sacked from running the public services we will no longer have, standing on the roofs of critical infrastructure buildings, with their umbrellas open in the hope that the attacking drones bounce off.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

If a chatbot steals my thesis, I'll be conflicted. Do I report them for plagiarism, or just rejoice that somebody actually read it?

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

On the plus side, it does give new opportunities for creative spoilt ballots, and for some very deserving parties to get fewer votes than a rude doodle.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

A fair point. It could just be a lousy LLM.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

A good example of a language model failing to be a knowledge model 🙃

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

It pains me to say it, because I know how hard people in the Green Party work for their constituents and residents, but Zack has the leadership abilities of a stray sock, and needs to go.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Pleased to see Hereford on the map, and I'm sure NMITE will be working hard to move it higher up the list.

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Given that the Tory spending promise for “Britannia Shield" is about 10% of what everyone else thinks it would cost, I propose we call it Wooden Dome.

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Eureka Penguin

Alt: Cute pink Penguin cartoon character holding a wooden shield

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Kevin Rigotti @kevin-rigotti.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026

The list of organisations that apparently stopped them building a successful economy just gets longer and longer. Can I shout bingo when they add the BBC?

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