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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 11h

It does feel like I get colonically irrigated with ai boostering on any social media I go on- just on the off chance I haven't fully absorbed how transformative it is.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 20h

Yes what's reasoned and what is part of the "possibility space" inherent in the training data

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Even here, this form of solar panel at this height could easily be installed on grazing land and livestock grazed under it without the remotest bother. I would suspect that were you to offer connections and/or grants, there would be an absolute stampede of farmers towards this.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's not to my taste and I've abandoned X but I think a case can be made for governments to have a presence on the platform

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Streeting seems to leave people cold as much as Starmer. The scenario is plagued by there being no self evident replacement, Raynor having to resign previously doesn't set her up well either

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Fundamentally it seems Starmer isn't a politician in the conventional sense so it probably is a matter of time. The problem for Labour is that it's not self evident who a decent successor would be.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Rinse and repeat of: Groups motivated enough to be involved with politics comprise of people with extreme views. labour/ tories are internally contorted with public sentiment vs party members.Then extreme plurality and frictionless comms of the web fuels populism & Starmer not an effective antidote

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Can the uk wholesale electricity market be redesigned to avoid prices being pegged to the highest priced input (often gas in recent times) or is it all mired in long term contracts and agreements?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I think once Blaire makes a decision he goes into advocacy mode and you'll never get anything sensible or nuanced on the topic out of him from that point on.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Trump's "Board of Peace" isn't an international organisation; it's a personal fiefdom. Its Charter names him personally as chair,subject only to resignation or unanimous vote of incapacity; lets him pick his successor; allows him to hire & fire the executive... www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

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Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace

No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I think the popular wisdom is that Blair inherited surpluses from the Major era so didn't have to spend as much political capital- though also he's a good communicator (or a good actor, if there's a difference)

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

How about the cash for "meetings" business?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Interesting to contrast what Laffer says in this Times radio interview only to find it's a load of baloney when you check out his arguments afterwards m.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1S...

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Economist breaks down how Rachel Reeves can get Britain growing again

YouTube video by Times Radio Politics

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I like a good fact check... it's probably difficult to calculate but the expansion of the civil service to cover regulation previously performed by the EU is must represent a decent cost ... to achieve....duplicate regulation...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The first episod of Alien earth is enjoyably silly, a mixture between an Alien film and Scooby doo-I presume the last episode will have a xenomorph saying "I would have got away with it had it not been for you kids"?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

.... and the media? It will be interesting how much Reform copy from the playbook of the populist right wing movement in America. With this I'm half reminded of the Nazi interest in pseudo science.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This is what I fed back to our local council (uk) in their last consultation: 6 storeys as a default, but in the inner rings of the city don't see every space as something to fill with housing to ensure there is capacity for leisure, culture, amenities etc otherwise places become charmless.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A stack of paper isn't a complex system

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Seems to be a few categories : sceptics; people who think Ai is anti-human; people who object to the training process (where it involves copyright theft); everyone else using it to save 10 minutes but spending 5 of those clarifying that it's not splurged some rubbish

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Figuratively if you feed an LLM 1000 books with overlapping content it will compress the content. LLMs are definitely a remix technology but alot of what humans do is derivative

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

LLMs could be described as a sort of exemplification of the power of collectivism (due to the way they compress knowledge and make it accessible) if the the services weren't being pushed by big tech who insist they have to steal all the source martial which they then charge for

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Essential overview of Hiroshima - it was thought that civilian casualties would be low and radiation sickness wasn't widely understood. It shows that the precautionary principle applies, lessons for new technology such as #ai #airegulation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Exposing Hiroshima

The forgotten story of the first Western journalist to report on the Hiroshima atom bomb.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Assumed crime was level if prisons are full but could be more punitive sentences?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Interesting article, I've always thought it's the "opportunity cost" of not doing other things but we don't think that about reading

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Strange I thought X was alot worse ... one reason to hold my nose and go on to linkedin more then

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Maybe if actually it ends up that intelligence is more like producing electricity and the method is easily reproducible (swap fossil fuels for the collective recorded efforts of humanity up to this point)? Then it becomes futile to compete?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Also are they importing vast amounts of timber ?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So although trees are part of the "free carbon" cycle as opposed to sequestered carbon like oil, it still takes years to grow a tree so it's not helping co2 in any way. Is that a summary of an argument against this power source?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I guess the rhetoric is all too try and neutralise the Reform party?As a thought experiment I'd imagine retired people do the most economic "harm" we can then examine why this sort of language isn't used for older retired people

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

LLMs are an amazing development but their thinking capability is limited, so still a tool (though a spooky one). If scientists can leverage neural nets to unlock further human like capabilities then it doesn't seem far fetched that humans will be outperformed in every activity very quickly

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

No, people form tribes around these ideas and treat people ouside of their tribes differently- which leads to conflict

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Bet there was a scrum to write this headline, made me chuckle anyway #ft

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

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Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty

In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I think the words covered it just fine on this occasion #ft #ukraine

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions. Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Feels significant.. I'd imagine that the government have been pursuaded by the argument that crippling US Ai companies will give the edge to China'sAi models-it's more like allowing companies to put peoples furniture through a chipper for free to allow them to sell chipboard flat pack furniture

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

UK ministers use "arcane parliamentary procedure" to block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted content www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Reasons given bills.parliament.uk/publications... Kidron is up for another round though. #DUABill #DataBill #genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy

"Across the creative and business community, across parliament, people are gobsmacked that the government is playing parliamentary chess with their livelihoods."

Kidron will table a rephrased amendment before the bill's return to the Lords next week, setting the scene for another confrontation. This could include removing the reference to regulation, or omitting a timeframe for it to be implemented.

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Titans of #Science: Podcast with brilliant Richard Thompson @plymouthuni.bsky.social "We need to develop #essentiality criteria for #plastic" getpodcast.com/uk/podcast/t... #Microplastics #PlasticPollution

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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Listen to The Naked Scientists Podcast on GetPodcast

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I think with Gemini upping it's game @anthropic.com should add better integration with note making apps, and other document file types.

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Is there an intelligent halfway house as a starting point i.e what george suggests but as a firebreak strategy? Gets things going in the right direction?

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

@economicsinten.bsky.social why are the treasury trying to avoid state ownership of Thames Water? It's asset rich with problems due to questionable financial practices which would be voided with bankruptcy?So it shouldn't add to govt debt/ be profitable? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Treasury threatens Defra with £4bn bill if Thames Water nationalised

Exclusive: Treasury threat an example of ‘scare tactics’ to help force through private sector deal, sources suggest

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Need a popular Brexit critic and maverick from a fringe party to hound him down on his terrible form and ideas

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Wish they'd employ ai to fix their software

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themajor.bsky.social @themajor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I only know 4 pensioners and they are all wealthy by any measure. I don't love the Starmer government but this thread is about the optics of politics

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