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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1h

Plus ça change, etc etc.

Some AI idiot asking the literal Pope how many local models he runs.

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" -- Joseph Stalin

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2h

6 lines of only greens, FFS Wordle 1,932 6/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 10h

Not sure why people think Italian might be a difficult language to learn. Seems a lot like English to me. 🤷‍♂️

An Italian KFC poster, almost entirely written with English words.

An Italian ad for make-up, almost entirely written with English words.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 16h

Now everyone will do it an my advantage will be lost.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Nope. bougeaparis.fr/metro/statio...

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

It's always the ones you least expect. 🙄

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

My wife refuses to learn the NATO alphabet. Today she was in 7 Denis.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

I discovered this a couple of years ago, when someone was in my assigned seat and I told the cabin crew. They called their colleague at the front of the plane, and the conversation ended with "6 Delta". So I was sent to 6D, but I made a note to always use the phonetic alphabet in future.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

It is amazing the (positive) difference in treatment you get from cabin crew simply by using the NATO alphabet when mentioning your seat number ("17 Charlie"). They seem to assume you're ex-aviation industry and know what you're doing.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Walking through Palma airport is like a game of Frogger. So many people not looking where they're walking. Most of them are not even on their phones!

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

I wonder what the legal human euthanasia clinics use?

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

The cupboard is on the opposite side of the kitchen to the fridge, and I haven't seen many near to the fridge, but if this continues I will bear that in mind. Not looking forward to dragging the fridge out of its place though!

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Does anyone know why the same drugs used to euthanise dogs, and for that matter humans in countries where that's allowed, can't be used in such cases? (Not that they should be used at all, of course.)

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

When you've removed everything that isn't a can from the kitchen cupboard and you still have food flies 3 days later.

static.klipy.com

Person Pulling Hair, Screaming 'HELP!'

ALT: Person Pulling Hair, Screaming 'HELP!'

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Huge screeching of gears right now from people who think that spotting hallucinated references will let you catch LLM-generated papers.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

There seems to be something about Facebook, specifically, that makes a lot of posters think that you are in the room with them and know everything that they do about a situation, so they can just ask a completely context-free question and then act surprised when everyone is bewildered.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

This story is all kinds of awful, like any death penalty case, but having critical-care doctors working hard to restore her to full health so it's then going to be OK for the state to try to kill her again is... whatever's beyond Kafkaesque. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Christa Pike in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections, lawyer says

Pike’s lawyers have asked for her death sentence to be commuted following the botched execution.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Sadly I think "Nobody wants to read all this shit" also applies to a great deal of pre-AI output too. Maybe one of the silver linings of AI is the understanding that we are publishing way too much schmience.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

I was in a Mallorcan seaside town the other day and 100% of the restaurants had AI posters, complete with 15-degree slope on the text (h/t @aitch2.bsky.social)

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 26/09/2026

This song seemed a bit over the top when I first listened to it in 1979. Now the lyrics (below the video) are basically the TV news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIrQ... (Also, it is just an amazingly good power-pop song!)

youtube.com

XTC - Real by Reel (remastered)

YouTube video by Ntinos Tzimas

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

And pretty much anything in social psychology from the mid-1980s onwards.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

"A new observational study has found that..."

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Part of my shock at the spread of AI is discovering how many otherwise intelligent people think it's actually cool, and not something to be embarrassed about. It's a bit like if someone were to say "You gotta see this clip" and showed you a 1970s Benny Hill sketch.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Catalonia says Nooooooo.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Nobody's getting that in 3, I think.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

Not easy today Wordle 1,931 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 01/10/2026

From my Dad, who in response to "Anything else?" in a shop, would always say "An ounce of fivers out of the till".

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 01/10/2026

If Richard E Grant isn't a traitor, everyone will assume he is. Shirley.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 30/09/2026

I'm a much bigger believer in cock-up than conspiracy. That's not how it works. Six levels of people down the chain had to find a million or two each.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump's effort to rebrand AI as SI doesn't go far enough. It should be called Super Human Intelligence Technology. We'd get more accurate news headlines, like: "Under Trump, Government Turns to SHIT" or "SHIT Heads Visit White House"

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 30/09/2026

"According to a study that was probably p-hacked, if it took place at all".

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 30/09/2026

TIL that LLMs are Buddhists (or, alternatively, that the authors of this article assume that all human belief systems are alike).

The same study found that LLMs judged setting traps to kill stray cats and traps to kill rats as equally unethical, whereas humans reliably distinguished between the two. Again, the models tracked the surface frame (“killing an animal”) rather than the morally relevant distinction that humans recognize.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

Another 50-50 Wordle 1,929 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

When your search function is 8 lines of vibe code.

A post on X found with the search string "Mar-a-Lago". The letter "a" on its own is highlighted in the post, suggesting that the search has looked for each component of the search string as an individual word, including the indefinite article.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

"Behind" every successful man, etc

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

I suppose it's no coincidence that the reaction of AI CEOs to their models fucking up is about the same as the reaction of the models themselves: "Oops, you got me, I'll try to do better. Would you like some help clearing up the radioactive fallout?"

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

Bad road surfaces or sampling error ?

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

I suspect that if cars were invented today, given how good modern roads and tyres are, there would be no such thing as a spare, or maybe even a repair kit. There are many other things that are probably more likely to cause a breakdown. (Although with EVs maybe not.)

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

I would assume that was at least partly an inside job...

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

I can't remember the last time I had a puncture. I think I've had two clutch failures since then.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

Worst pat-a-cake chant ever

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 29/09/2026

Your personal cloud to rant at is on the way.

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