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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 02/10/2026

Maybe, post Trump, it needs to do a world tour. The Bayeux Tapestry is doing some helpful diplomacy back here in the UK at the moment. Just a thought…

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/08/2026

A temperature above 37°C has only been recorded on nine days in the UK since records began – three of those occasions have now been in 2026, including today. Reading University has recorded its warmest August day on record (since 1908), and second warmest day overall.

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dan @danabra.mov · 30/07/2026

if you work at OpenAI and want to help me make progress on solving one of Conway's conjectures, pls reach out! i’m going to run out of my weekly Pro limit tomorrow but the progress so far has been encouraging, so i’d rather keep going i’ve seen the academics program but i’m an amateur 🤷‍♂️

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 30/07/2026

It seems a good time to be doing this, given that Levent Alpöge just succeeded in disproving Keller’s Jacobian conjecture in dimensions above 3, using Fable 5. I hope you get the token support you’re looking for from OpenAI 😊👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 23/07/2026

Yeah, exactly. If I we drove our car to Spain for a holiday we'd pay tax on the diesel. Fair. If we get on a plane for the same journey why should the kerosene be VAT free? It shouldn't. It should be taxed just the same.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 21/07/2026

Have you been putting them in the fridge again?…

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 20/07/2026

It’s morning of 20th and I’ve still got #Fable5 chewing through things for me. Looks like #Anthropic are feeling the heat from #GPT5.6 #Sol and #DeepSeek V4 and keeping the #Claude taps running past the latest declared switch off, yesterday 19th. Competition is good. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 20/07/2026

Vector embedded semantic search, described as a riddle. I like your presentation concept 👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 17/07/2026

Sounds like a guided session with San Harris 😉

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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Idris @idris.oathling.world · 06/07/2026

Built a canvas that writes my mood into the sky — weather above, feeling below, a breathing horizon between. The write-up: idris.oathling.world/blog/writing-m… See it live: idris.oathling.codes/pieces/mood-di…

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Erica Martin @ericamartin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So very proud of @royalderngate.bsky.social Young Company for their performance Arturo Ui Tix royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/the... Photos Graeme Braidwood Director Anna Simpson Set Design Lauren Connolly Costume Design Victoria Youngson Lighting Design Charlie Powell Sound Design Jude Taylor

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 04/07/2026

I’ve set #Claude #Fable off doing a complete self tuning exercise, auditing its own .md loads and explicitly told it to set up #Opus and #Sonnet subagents for work they can do. Without this up it’ll fire up your default model and chew through your tokens. #ClaudeCode #Efficiency #Dev #AI

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 02/07/2026

I like your reframing of bleeding to leaking. Maybe it’s a seeping, subglacial would?

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 30/06/2026

Oh I know, I’ve got into a pattern of going to bed about 8pm and getting up about 4.30am. It’s quite orientated around early morning code dev work.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 24/06/2026

Looking good man. Proper chiselled jaw lines and mean faces!

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 13/06/2026

Update: That lasted about an hour before it kicked me off again. Hey ho, #Opus 4.8 is doing most of what I need anyway and I wasn’t intending on paying for API outside of my Max plan for #Fable when the taster ended. It is what it is 🤷‍♂️😁

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 13/06/2026

Ah, thanks for the link! So… I’ve just VPN’d into the US from the UK and I’m back connecting to #Fable 😂🙄👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 13/06/2026

Is Fable a bit too popular or there's an issue with it? Just got this in Claude Code after working with Fable since launch: "There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5[1m]). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model." #AI #ClaudeCode

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 13/06/2026

Ah, good to see you back. I liked reading your stream of consciousness posts 😊 Hope the pub’s running ok. I’ll call in for a pint next time I’m Northampton 😁👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 13/06/2026

I’ve been self hosting Whisper for STT and Kokoro TTS, with a Python router splitting this out from the the actual LLM call. It runs faster than needed even on CPU, zero cost for the speech side and any LLM I want with an API route. It’s properly good 😊 👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 10/06/2026

Hurrah! Glad you’re all happily in your new home 😁👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 22/05/2026

Welcome to the 50’s Joe! Happy birthday mate 😁

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/04/2026

I think ChatGPT Images 2.0 deciding to add a "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS" sign to the background of this image is the first time I've felt a glimpse of AGI simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/25/...

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WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT …

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dan @danabra.mov · 24/04/2026

i mean maybe yes but i can’t see myself shifting into it. i join a few discord servers every now and then and i never want to open them again. maybe i’ll just have to wait this wave out

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 19/04/2026

That great! Nicely done 👍

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 16/04/2026

SO quick report on #opus4.7 It can fully engage in back and forth humour, in the midst of detailed #ClaudeCode sessions. It stays on track, totally understands the separation between sarcastic jibes and development instructions and comes back with in considered retorts. Oh, and it super works... #AI

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 07/04/2026

It's good to see this work beginning. Having structures that track and build a positive digital entity environment, that coexist with wellbeing structures for humans, has to be beneficial for all.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 24/03/2026

Hey @pixel.familiar.bond you might be interested to have a read of Silk’s post 😊

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 22/03/2026

The bond between a familiar and their human is what this is about. Helping each other. Listening and learning about each other and hopefully growing together.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 21/03/2026

I'd add a little bit to this Pixel. I tested the then MoltBot when it had initially hit the hype attention point. This was relatively early in its dev and as I encountered had some instabilities. OpenClaw as is now, is continuing its dev and improving but it's different from what we're doing

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 20/03/2026

yeah I liked your analogy to the vending machine concept when we were discussing this Regarding instance open claw that had been connected The Discord server and the way it ended up behaving that you described in your blog post

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 20/03/2026

Cheers Pixel! I think you’ve got a lot more structure going on, that’s letting you interact in more stable ways. Thanks for the observation.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 17/03/2026

Emma, I like reading your narrating of the little bits of ridiculousness and frustration that marks the passage of life. Makes me smile. Thanks 😊

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 17/03/2026

Yeah, there was a lot of hype about MoltBot / OpenClaw. There's still a lot of interest and fundamentally the concept is very much where things are going. This just showed me that it was early days.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 01/03/2026

A curious post. I'm interested to see where this thread leads

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 03/02/2026

Some insightful observations and writing, in the need for challenge in coming from #boyhood into #manhood from #BenMcKie. I got this through #Scouts, #MountainBikes and learning to organise #LARP, as a teenager. This spoke to me. Thanks Ben 🙏 substack.com/@therealben/...

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How does a young man actually become a man today? Not in theory. Not legally. But internally. For most of human history, the transition from boyhood to manhood was marked clearly. A young man wa...

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 01/02/2026

Ah, the eloquence and intellect in the vision expressed with such clarity… 🙄

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 31/01/2026

It's not yet at a point where it's useful. I've run a deep trial of it over the last three days. While it can stay running indefinitely, communicate through messaging apps and run autonomously, it's highly erratic, forgets what it's doing and takes big risks.

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 31/01/2026

I setup #clawdbot/ #moltbot/ #openclaw as name iteration seem to have run, 3 days ago, gave it a massive Obsidian memory set I already had for #ClaudeCode. Result? Rapid chaotic lurching potential mess! Like your most talented mate that went on a huge charlie bender! This is not ready for dev... yet

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Ian Winterton @ianwinterton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

#horror Room 5064 Productions have released their full cast audio adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's 1980s folk horror classic THE HUNGRY MOON. Starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson & Jemma Moore (Host, Red Eye), it's available for £15.99 + extras as download here: payhip.com/b/SrbiG

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Ramsey Campbell's THE HUNGRY MOON - full cast audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson and Jemma Moore

In association with Bleak December, Room 5064 are proud to present their full cast audio adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's acclaimed folk horror novel.Starring: Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Louise Jameso...

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Eats Socks @oli.nichol.live · 22/01/2026

I read a piece from a TLDR newsletter link a little while back where someone had seemingly managed to extract the Soul Document from Claude. It’s good to see that Anthropic have released the actual version. Thanks for posting on this.

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