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insisted "It looks like there might be a minor typo or a mashup of musical terms in your query. You are likely looking for Mozart's Concert Aria: "Conservati fedele" (K. 23)" It seems to get particularly baffled if the query is in language A, but includes words from language B.

I am doing some reasearch today and it has made mistake after mistake. I don't know if it's just mythology and classical music that it is shite at, but it was notably unhelpful and pretty confident with its wrong answer. Earlier asked it which concert aria begins "Dove sei, mio bel tesoro" and it

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No, the gemini answers often provide a link at the end of the statement, as a source. It linked me TO the programme.

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FFS I knew I should have screengrabbed it because some ninny was going to pop up and basically call me a liar.

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It was typed. And yours came back right, probably based on my thumbs down "incorrect" feedback, twenty minutes ago.

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You sure this thing will have everyone's jobs by the end of the month?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15h

Google, who was the piano accompanist in a 1973 Franco Corelli/Renata Tebaldi duets recital in London's Royal Albert Hall? Gemini: "No such concert ever took place. It is a common misattribution in collectors' circles." Gemini's source for this? An ebay listing of *the actual concert programme*. 😂

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
General Manager FRANK J. MUNDY
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1973
S. A. GORLINSKY and DENNY DAYVISS
present
RENATA TEBALDI FRANCO CORELLI
and
in Duo Recital
At the piano:
GORDON JEPHTAS
S. A. GORLINSKY Lid. 35 Dover Street, London, W.I.

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Le Pen’s biggest problem has been that people hold their nose and vote against her in the second time. So, there may also be more than a small element of agenda in her claiming Macron is on her side.

Neither of your examples involve a second round election which depends on convincing people to hold their nose.

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Oh for sure. PROMPT: "Write me posts in the style of Matt Goodwin." Chat GPT internal process: "Do NOT make them too normal or people will know he didn't write them."

Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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Ann Harries @annharries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh how much do I love Quiet Riot. In depth analysis on Marine Le Pen, a lovely story about mudlarking and a multi-national duel about rolling R s. Such a lovely eclectic mix.

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georgie-momo.bsky.social @georgie-momo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Excellent explanation of everything France, which was needed by someone planning to travel there this year and finished off with a wonderful musical surprise!

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

B-Side: Élysée-come, Élysée-go 🥊 It's all kicked off in France 🇫🇷 Les elections ain't a fait accompli 💩 Fun in the mud? With Olivier Morel, @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/16HY... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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B-Side: Élysée-come, Élysée-go

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 9 October · 53min

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're laughing at ordinary working people, the bees and puffins. They get together at dinner parties, quaffing nectar and ethically caught sandeels, and they mock Sir Winston, call you flagshaggers, and LAUGH AT YOU.

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A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Martin @concretebadger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"What's next? Inviting a German journalist to discuss German politics? Or a Welsh person to talk about Wales?!" Oh, wait... This is why QR is one of my favourite pods: they choose guests who *really* know what they're talking about

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*okay, maaaybe Le Pen lost her lead a tiny bit earlier than the pattern, in April 2021, when links to the violent Generation Identity group were revealed and her party was close to bankrupt, but it's a minor variation.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here's a thing you won't hear on UK media, fanning itself at the idea of a far right gov't in France: “With the exception of de Gaulle in 1965, no one who was ahead the year before a presidential election, went on to win it. This doesn't mean it can't happen, of course, but it's worth remembering.”

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🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our expert on everything France, Olivier Morel, joins us to explain everything happening over the channel and all with a healthy dose of Grin and Share It, plus some top tips for visitors to London. Dems da Rules!

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Ben Bradford @benbrad4d.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Policy-rich? It was fiction! Every Tory gov't from Cameron onwards has been voted in on the same platform: Debt reduction, low tax, growth, stability, common sense, less red tape. What did they deliver? £1.9tn more debt, highest tax, stagnation, Truss, BoJo, and Brexit. When will people fkn learn?

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A great episode ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The God Less America story is a treat ☀️

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Tony @tony.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Excellent as ever in their analysis. You should listen to QR.

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Which is why there is so much fuss against any measure anchored around an indelible, immovable asset like land.

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Very good. I will delete your punishment.

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Also, the system is VERY generous after minimal estate planning. What I sense is bubbling under the surface is a sort of familial distrust, where parents like to hold the asset as a sort of insurance of the performance of filial duty, fearing their kids might turf them out, if gifted before death.

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And downright inhuman if one parent dies within six months of the other. The best thing any gov't could do is really encourage older people to do a lot more estate planning.

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I think that says a lot about this society.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's an informative piece of research, but not really an "explanation", unless the anti-IHT side of the argument is willing to drop unfairness/double taxation angles. It's not reasonable to count those receiving the windfall and those people making the bequest, as suits that bit of propaganda.

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Oh ffs

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Because of the propaganda. A whole class of people with assets in the millions deliberately misinforming people with nothing near.

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But that IS the propaganda. How many of those homes are worth two million quid?

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Of course it's not. It's decades of propaganda by wealthy people.

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Sure. And my mother, if she said "no" to me going to a party, would never, after pestering, say "okay, you can go". She would say "you do what you want anyway, why even ask me". Being too proud to climb down does not necessarily mean one is not grateful when the rescue helicopter appears.

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Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.

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