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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I might, I've made a bunch of other text processing tools hence the comment. But I'm in the middle of a big, complex project at the moment so bandwidth and tokens are limited

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sounds like a three hour Claude project

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did a a gingerbread latte cheat on Good Housekeeping?

Two news articles from good housekeeping, headlines
"M&S has launched adorable chocolate penguins so good they could replace our Gingerbread Latte
Whip obsession"

And

"Move over gingerbread latte: Lebkuchen is the flavour of Christmas"

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Earthquake museum/experience is a fun couple of hours

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess you drink aiced coffee made in a data centre from the last cup of water in the state or something what?

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You're not wrong. Very good points, very well made.

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why did a province with no rats have a rat patrol??? I smell a rat

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are books for kids and teens that list and describe all the different jobs there are. Could be useful

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💯 multi-layer timeline, keyframe animation, database connections 🤯 at the time

No it really isn't. Over 100 yelp reviews, ranging from 1 month old to 16 years old.

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Have you noticed anything about the price of meals in them over the last few years?

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm in the UK too. I know what you mean but also have you been to a proper restaurant recently?

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Is her jaw operated by a switch behind her ear???

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stock Market. Single screen text only trading game on the acorn electron 😍 youtu.be/rScdqr6v-_M?...

youtu.be

Stock Market Review for the Acorn BBC Micro by John Gage

YouTube video by John Gage

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But doctor, I *am* a snack and tall of drink of water and a nap

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the Bluesky style guide recommends "exuded an elderberrish aroma" for cover letters

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A vagina in the foot would do numbers on onlyfans

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Such a delightful game! I loved it, never seen anyone else talking about it.

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's a brave dachshund somewhere who is the talk of the dog park

if you felt harassed, not intentional.

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No shade intended. We had different experiences of the early days of Wikipedia, which you'd expect from a college student vs someone in what was charmingly called new media industry at the time. But it wasn't even you who said it was "universally loved", it was another comment in the thread so apols

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Knew it, youngster 😀 I don't know what teachers were telling school kids, I was a grown up working an information job at the time (still am). It was considered entirely unreliable for information I the early days, "I read it on Wikipedia" was a punchline.

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Some people here clearly too young to have ever heard the phrase "some guy in pajamas on a computer in his parent's basement"

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm guessing some of the people in this thread are young because Wikipedia was absolutely not universally loved since its creation. Paul's comment is more accurate than "everyone always loved Wikipedia and blogs and podcasts".

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I definitely remember people hating being forced to use computers at work in the 90s. "I'm fine with the typewriter, why do I need to use a computer?"

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rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm also impressed at the people who feel a compulsion to use every single feature their apps have, so can't just ignore a copilot button. I never print anything but i don't begrudge apps having a tree-destroying print feature. Some people might like printing and I know Word isn't just for me.

rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone here is 38 Paul. They were 18 years old 20 years ago and weren't in those conversations. I remember Before Internet, this lot would be amazed at how the entire web was side-eyed and mistrusted in the early days.

My suggestion is regulate the fuck out of AI, make the providers pay for externalities and prohibit harmful use. What's yours?

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That's a great quote but the trouble with it is that it provides little incentive to explore the ethics of anything. We're all under capitalism. If there's no ethical consumption, fuck it, might as well use AI that's powered by children's tears.

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Claude is an application not a model and you can in fact run Claude with a local model running in your computer not a data centre. Paul has also previously discussed his experience using local models too.

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Data centres = 1.5% of the world's energy consumption, projected to grow to 3% of the world's energy consumption. Farming animals does way more to accelerate climate collapse and eating them is definitely unethical. Try shouting at carnivores, you'll make a bigger difference to the world!

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is neutral. You're angry at how some businesses are using the technology, not the technology itself. What's your beef with a model trained on the creators own data, in a zero emissions data centre?

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Again you're confusing business with technology. AI is way bigger than OpenAI/Anthropic/Google, there are lots of models that employed zero content theft, all data centre energy is about 1% of global energy consumption. The technology is an approach to building machine learning models which

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No there are definitely people who seem to think that the output from AI is incorrect & hallucinated, and can never be trusted. There are also people who question the ethics of the some businesses making models. The technology itself is ethically neutral.

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Doesn't have to be insanely energy consumptive (see the DC thing) and most of it doesn't, can't and won't make CSAM. But do you know what is used to to make CSAM? Whatever device you're posting from. Phones, laptop, the internet. No-one sensible suggests banning the technology, instead we have laws.

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In the EU there's a legal requirement to declare it's a goblin if it talks to a human.

I don't even know what conceptual slippage is so this could be it for us

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I'm in the UK where we had a horrific school shooting, then implemented policies that restricted access to guns. So it's more like the position of someone who has lived through appropriate regulation of dangerous technology and seen the benefits.

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I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. It is precisely where technology intersects with the real world that regulation has to step in, to mitigate risks and harms. What's the proposed alternative? Uninvent AI?

and the problem is the politics.

"Data centres are bad" = my country under-regulates data centres and I don't know about local models "It's always wrong" = objectively no it isn't "It's useless" = objectively wrong People conflate the business with the politics with the tech. The tech's fine, the business is shifty

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💯 shut every data centre in the world and coders will still be vibing. But debate here skews heavily towards "i don't use it, formed some opinions about gpt3.5 and I'm hanging onto them"