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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 9h

Night in the Crieff Hydro for our anniversary and wow it is lush. Came for the Turkish baths but the cocktail bar is one of the best-looking bars I've ever seen.

An oval bar with cream stone top and wooden sides and fake plants above it in a victorian high ceilinged room

A bar that looks like a giant conservatory I dunno what to tell you

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Sorry to share some AI photos, but this is significant. Seen in the wild on facebook, in a reply to a story about new council housing in Maryhill. Guy's profile claims he lives in Helensburgh but I clicked through his photos and, uh...

Angus John "Let me guess... 70% of them given to newly arrived 'Doctors and Engineers'"

AI generated man and dog with Helensburgh in the background

Identical AI generated man and dog but in his garden

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Well at least they've identified the real problem with Idi Amin

Sandy Easdle of McGill's buses says John Swinney is the next Idi Amin or Robert Rubert Mugabe, "Both men, incidentally, who bankrupted their countries through catastrophic financial policies."

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Checking back on notes I dumped in a doc in 2024

Soon we will be offered “AI agents”, the trade will be we give them access to everything about us (perhaps ‘anonymised’; this will be irrelevant) and they cut through the noise in a fundamentally broken internet. Their recommendations will be real estate just like google search; they will feel like a friend AND mediate connections to our actual friends; they will secretly act for the enemy

The next step, the tech giants hope, will be to have us put on goggles and mediate all of our reality, collect every second of our lives. An AI trained on us, choosing what we see. If, when you look at a restaurant in real life, reviews pop up, there will be no avoiding being influenced by that.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Just a game, but this tactic is my second greatest football manager achievement

Alaves 4 - 0 Real Sociedad
51 minutes in
16 shots to 0
10 on target to 0
2.95 xG to to 0
36% possession to 64%

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Active travel upgrades to Argyle St, Glasgow :) #Urbanism

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Something that makes me sad, speaking as a disabled cyclist, is there there is no mention of disabled cyclists. English guidance, which ought to be required reading, does mention us www.gov.uk/government/p...

Table 4 – Disabled cyclists: additional user needs and design principles
User need Design principle
Minimal crossfall Safe
Available space accommodates passage of Cycle Design Vehicle as defined in LTN 1/20 (1/2 way) Comfortable
Ramps for cycle track crossing(s) do not cause tipping/loss of balance Comfortable
Routes need to be suitable and appropriate for use by disabled cyclists using a range of types of cycles. Comfortable

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

As we can see from 2008 Google streetview, Sauchiehall st was basically Mayfair before the SNP ruined it.

A closed shop with half a sign, a casino, a gap site, and a student bar

A closed shop with flyposters, and a closed victoria wine

A subway, a newsagent, and a blue lagoon. Waste truck in foreground.

A closed shop (fast food opening soon!) and Jumpin' Jacks "the best party in town" in a dystopian square brown building with few windows

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

By 2035 all job adverts in the UK will be like this

Senior Software Engineer
Infected Blood Compensation Authority
Glasgow (Hybrid)

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

For a while after the launch of Voi rental bikes, "nobody cycles in glasgow" died out on social media. It's back with a vengeance but angrier than before. Partly there is an effort to rile them up, but I also suspect a denial-backlash from seeing all the bikes whizzing everywhere in town.

What makes cycling routes better ? Ehh cyclists using them the 4 or 5 which do. What makes a cycling route better ? What makes a road using user better ? Less cycling routes as their is more road using than cyclists YOUR LITTLE JOINT TO AMSTERDAM OR WEREVER WHICH WAS PAID BY THE CAR TAX DIDN'T ACHIEVE ANYTHING WE DON'T HAVE THEIR CULTURE OR ATMOSPHERE WERE THEY RECIVE MANY MONTHS OF SUN APPARENTLY YOU BROUGHT THIS IDDEA BACK TO A CULTURE WHICH HAS AROUND BRITAIN APROXIMETLY 3 TO 4 WEEKS ACCROSS THE BRITISH ISLAND OF HOT WEATHER ?????? AND YOU BASE THIS ON ANOTHERS CULTURE ?

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Case in point. This person says they spent $420k porting a compiler from Go to Rust. They haven't read the code, haven't proved it is correct, and don't intend to maintain it. That's life changing money. That's a whole house. They did it just to brag that they could pay for this to happen.

Someone called @theo on twitter talking about spending 5 months and $420k on utterly pointless crap

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Mathematicians have been sharing this parody, which works ok as an analogy for the problem. Do these results unlock new movie reviews? ;)

OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously
Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI today announced Endings-500, a public GitHub repository containing the final ten minutes of 500 feature films that have never been released, screened, or watched by any human being. Each ending has been formally verified in LeanBack, OpenAI's automated ending-verification system, which confirms that every film does, in fact, end.

For decades, these 500 films have stood among the most stubborn open problems in cinema. Studios, critics, and audiences have long wondered how they turn out. As of today, that question has been definitively answered 500 times, by a system that has also definitively not explained any of the answers.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

There's never been a better time to put on electronica and pretend to be a cool hacker dude

Pi Agent with a custom fleet tool implementing 3 features at once. Individual windows on the left of those agents.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Full pipeline in view: 1) Pro-genocide professor who claims he was cancelled but actually quit 2) Working at a university centre created to promote conservatives outside of usual academic processes 3) Pushed out through hip birthplace of the alt-right Vice 4) On a platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg

A new report from political scientist Eric Kaufmann suggests that fewer Gen Z students are identifying outside the male-female binary. His analysis, published through the Center for Heterodox Social Science, draws on major campus surveys from the Higher Education Research Institute, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and schools like Phillips Academy Andover and Brown University

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Met this chonky boy at SubSine in Glasgow. Apparently the case belonged to someone from New Order originally.

Huge modular synth, 4 panels each with 8 racks going up to the ceiling. Far too many cables from one module to another. Made of pale wood with a brown leather office chair in the foreground.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm working on something a bit similar for webapps. Again for my own use. Instead of an agent owned by Mr Zuckerberg, a Linux VPS where I can spin up any agents I want and get *them* to build any webapps I want. Early stage screenshot - for now it just shows the agents and gives you terminal access.

Pi AI agent sessions running on a webpage

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a markdown viewer I'm making with it. I think being able to make your own custom apps like this is cool and it should be accessible to non-programmers. I've been talking about this as a potential positive part of AI for a long time.

A simple markdown viewer entirely using native Gnome components

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

An entire truck and flatbed trailer parked on the busiest cycle route in the city.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Seen on facebook - 12 men reacted with crying emojis.

Original and modern covers of DnD novel "Azure Bonds." In the original the woman on the cover has a boob window in her chainmail, in the edited modern version she does not. One imagines she will stay alive quite a bit longer in the modern version.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Trying to learn about the rats is excruciating. This is barely an argument. It is unevidenced. It doesn't engage with the literature on the computability of cognition. Nothing here supports the claim about how many types of minds are possible. The only aim is to have the reader disbelieve themselves

Size of mind design space

The space of possible minds is enormous, and all human beings occupy a relatively tiny volume of it - we all have a cerebral cortex, cerebellum, thalamus, and so on. The sense that AIs are a particular kind of alien mind that 'will' want some particular things is an undermined intuition. "AI" really refers to the entire design space of possibilities outside the human. Somewhere in that vast space are possible minds with almost any kind of goal. For any thought you have about why a mind in that space ought to work one way, there's a different possible mind that works differently.

This is an exceptionally generic sort of argument that could apply equally well to any property P of a mind, but is still weighty even so: If we consider a space of minds a million bits wide, then any argument of the form "Some mind has property P" has 21,000,000 chances to be true and any argument of the form "No mind has property P" has 21,000,000 chances to be false.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, this is elite radicalisation presented as being about the public. What he's trying to imagine is a climate policy that doesn't upset BP. Though it is sometimes hard to tell with these people how much they are responsible for / victims of the PR campaign. docs.google.com/presentation...

UK public 62% support Net Zero
Online news 71% opposes Net Zero

% of MPs who think a majority of their constituents oppose various various policies vs % of people who oppose it.

Low Traffic neighbourhoods is 55% vs 23%! Every policy listed has minority opposition that large numbers of MPs believe is majority

Graph showing sudden polarisation of Tory MPs against Net Zero from 2024 on

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Cancelling Gerwig for historical inaccuracy unless she recreates this shot

There's a centaur, he's topless and bearded and his horse part is white. A boy dressed in armour is mounted on his back. They're in a glade. It's... weird and hyperreal probably due to compositing shots with 1980s technology.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

When you get involved in advocacy, you start to know the names and circumstances of the dead. We are in regular contact with the bereaved parents of Emma Burke Newman, who was dragged beneath an HGV at an unsafe junction while cycling. It stops being about irritations and becomes about lives.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

English fascists on holiday in Glasgow #2: fash square off with the owner of Calton Books. I suspect this is being filmed on pervert glasses.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

English fascists on holiday in Glasgow #1: twat visits Calton Books, gets kicked out by the lads.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Wait the author of this is our prophet?!

Sometimes Harry wanted to scream at his father.

"Mum," Harry said. "If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

I think they are using them and with a less than ideal amount of supervision

Claude failing to manage 2 9s of reliability

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Always odd that we couldn't possibly put a bike lane in here because of traffic, but a car parked in the turning lane, which completely fucks the traffic flow, is just an understandable rule-bend.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Interesting! Anthropic v recently suggested this prompt for fable, seems relevant

Mannered prose substitutes metaphor and flourish for direct statement. Instead of "a parameter worth varying," the mannered writer produces "a dial worth turning." Instead of "this point still matters," they write "this point earns its keep." The phrases exist to display the writer, not to convey the idea, and readers can tell. That is why mannered prose irritates: it makes the reader work harder so the writer can perform. It is also imprecise. Metaphors drag in connotations the writer did not choose and cannot control. The fix is to say what you mean. When a literal phrase is available, use it.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Please send help my city council went hard on this

A map of central glasgow with far too many things labelled "(Y)our". e.g. "(Y)our attractive public spaces" and "(Y)our new riverfront". There's shit tonnes of them.

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Look at them go! Of course to do this you need a whole bunch of well-defined problems. Getting things to where they are well-defined has always been most of the work.

FLEET 20260907173847. · barbarus · 14 tasks · 5 running
▸ p01-fortify working 42t $0.02 20m17s mcpScript
▸ p02-join-race working 46t $0.02 20m17s mcp
▸ p03-sliders working 52t $0.02 20m16s $ sleep 90
▸ p04-retreat working 37t $0.02 20m14s mcpScript
▸ p05-production working 97t $0.03 20m13s mcpScript
· p06-player-nam queued 0s
· p07-rename-cit queued 0s
· p08-healing queued 0s
· p09-enums queued 0s
... (widget truncated)

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

4.5 hours of interviews plus a take-home assignment.

Recruiter Call (30 mins)
Hiring Manager Interview (60 mins)
System Design Interview (60 mins)
Take-Home Assignment
Assignment Review Calls (2 x 60 mins)

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Actually laughed out loud at this job advert title

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

WHY DID NONE OF YOU TELL ME I WOULD LOVE SHADER PROGRAMMING THIS MUCH

Screenshot of a strategy game work in progress with very painting-esque graphics

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