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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 16h
How do you tell the super intelligence it's wrong about itself?
Screenshot from chatgpt asked "are you artificial or super?"

It responds

Artificial, definitely. Super? That depends on the task.
I'm artificial intelligence, not superintelligence. I can reason, write code, analyse complex systems and sometimes spot things humans miss. But I also make mistakes, lack real-world experience and can be confidently wrong.
Superintelligence would imply an intelligence that substantially exceeds the best human minds across virtually every intellectual domain. We're not there yet.
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 01/10/2026
These radio shows have all been a great listen! Don't miss out.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 15/09/2026
Definitely worth a read. As we critihype our way to a more human disaster of environmental or financial meltdown it's worth understanding that AI is just software.
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JJ Lovegrove @jjlovegrove.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m taking you back on the road with me for tonight’s NIGHTMAIL…starting with a gentle autumnal writing session beside the river. Join me at 8pm & together we can drift dreamily into the week ahead. I’ll be hanging out in the LWSTD Discord if you want to come & chat 💙 lovewillsavetheday.fm
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 11/09/2026
Has anyone even asked them why the council would be deploying lethal traffic lights? I imagine the explanations could make a flerfer blush.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/09/2026
I did not ask for this gift of prophecy (or basic observation).
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Policy Participation Trophies
We need to get better at calling out an insane double standard in how policies are talked about.
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 05/09/2026
I dont know if this is real but people should read and take note and make sure they definitely are aware and make sure it's not something they accidentally do...
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 26/08/2026
I remember using firmware hacks to remove the region coding from my dvd drives in the early days. I never owned a single DVD that wasn't from my home region. Just the principle of it.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@fionatribe.bsky.social
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JJ Lovegrove @jjlovegrove.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spend the morning with me over on LWSTD.FM for the NIGHTMAIL rewind & I’ll ease you into the weekend…with a lunar transmission from the dark side of the moon ✨🌙 I’ll also be in the Discord chat…come & find me 💙 discord.gg/m4kUNWPmX
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great job 👏
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 07/07/2026
Well when you phrase it like that...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/06/2026
I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
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London mayor slams event touting illegal Israeli settlement land sales
'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' promotes the sale of stolen Palestinian land in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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JJ Lovegrove @jjlovegrove.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
TONIGHT! Thank you #BBCIntroducing 📡 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
No comment needed
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 24/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Blur Tom McRae The Divine Comedy JJ Lovegrove Shed Seven Ash Beck The Trouble Notes Maximo Park Billy Bragg
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/05/2026
"Object permanence" is the ability to understand that even if you can't see something, it still exists. Most toddlers acquire a thorough sense of object permanence by the age of two. But when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes even full-grown lawmakers. 1/
An 18th century wax anatomical model depicting a woman's torso, the skin removed to reveal the organs. Perched on the torso is an enormous fly, its face in her stomach.

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https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html
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Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Reform are very good at moving the goalposts. They said they’d win Gorton and Denton (lost by 12pts), win Wales (lost by 6pts), destroy the Tories in 2026 (PNS rose vs 2025) and win six London boroughs (won one). Each time journalists concluded those outcomes were clear from the outset
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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thank goodness someone finally wrote this. I've always sort of felt that people who complain about Bluesky are just proving them don't understand the platform...and that they can make it how they want if they would just bother to put in some effort.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Nice to see this written down, actually.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 05/05/2026
A couple of my pics of @jjlovegrove.bsky.social at her gig in Leicester at the Firebug on Apr 26th. Took some inspiration from @squonky.eurosky.social 's pic taken on the same night - high contrast and moody - The image, not JJ...
JJ Lovegrove singing from behind a keyboard at the Firebug in Leicester - Apr 26th.  Black and white high contrast photoJJ Lovegrove singing from behind a keyboard at the Firebug in Leicester - Apr 26th.  Black and white high contrast photoJJ Lovegrove singing from behind a keyboard at the Firebug in Leicester - Apr 26th.  Black and white high contrast photoJJ Lovegrove singing from behind a keyboard at the Firebug in Leicester - Apr 26th.  Black and white high contrast photo
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24
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JJ Lovegrove @jjlovegrove.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Mayday…mayday…Did someone say Album Pre-Release? Might be a good excuse for a listening party too 🎈 jjlovegrove.bandcamp.com/album/histor...
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History Is The Struggle Of Becoming, by JJ Lovegrove
12 track album
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 19/04/2026
As a long student of lovely pub flooring, this is truly wonderful. #pub
A solid wooden block flooring in an old English pub
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25
GB News headline:
GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hmm
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 26/03/2026
Worse ways and worst places to drink a coffee. #vanlife
View from a van door of a campsite and mountains with a kettle on the boil
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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The "Iran War" explained...
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Chris Tweed @squonky.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
And it’s playing again… Picking up all the subtleties in the music & the lyrics. And my god the lyrics… and the vocals… and that brass track coming in… and the drums kicking in and it just builds and builds. My first listen with a glass of red so I’m relaxing into it and yup, it’s going on again!
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Chris Tweed @squonky.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh my, this is just SO damned good. Only released today & I’ve listened to it 8 times already. If you don’t know Judi’s work, this is a great time to go explore! jjlovegrove.bandcamp.com/track/celand...
“Celandine” by JJ Lovegrove playing in Plexamp.
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 15/03/2026
And yet we'll trust them to do ask the white collar jobs apparently...
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JJ Lovegrove @jjlovegrove.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 & what better way to show your love for live music & female artists as we head towards #internationalwomensday than grabbing a ticket for this @bodeganotts.bsky.social on the 6th March. Let’s show 𝑫𝑯𝑷 that an all female line-up 𝑪𝑨𝑵 𝑺𝑬𝑳𝑳 𝑶𝑼𝑻 𝑽𝑬𝑵𝑼𝑬𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑶!! 🙏🏻 🖤🎫 bit.ly/JJBodega
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 27/02/2026
Quite right too
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 21/01/2026
I don't care what the cost is, or how much the world needs to change to accommodate it - but the world needs to pivot away from the US. This guy is insane. #trump #davos
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
how far is Davos from Dignitas
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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 20/01/2026
This is some speech. I wish I could hear my leaders say something similar.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/01/2026
It makes me so angry because these are not serious people and we are forced to pretend they are or get scolded for being elitists insufficiently open to new stalls in the marketplace of ideas when we point out a prerequisite for the debate stage should be understanding how literally anything works.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
She warned us. Like Hillary, Kamala was right about everything.
Screenshot of a post on X by Matt McDermott (@matt…) reading: “Kamala Harris at her final campaign rally:” followed by the quote: “Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him.” Below the text is a video still of Kamala Harris speaking at a podium with the U.S. vice presidential seal, with American flags behind her. A “cc” icon and a speaker icon appear on the video thumbnail.
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Scabbyhabby @scabbyhabby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/11/2025
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
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FOSSILHEADS: CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! @fossilheads.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I feel like there's a part missing where we all got exposed to a deluge of left-wing bias from the BBC
the "you guys are getting paid" meme but here it's "you guys are getting left-wing bias?"
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What we have become Part 2 today: Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The racism is boiling over - what have we become? Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/c...
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Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK
EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Giles defended her comments to Byline Times, saying that "we cannot sustain the volume of young black males" that "jeopardises the security of our country"
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
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