Reposted by Justen HydeSimon @hungryhatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It can be done! (Also, it *should* be done.) 051
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Appalling decision by Oxford university. You didn't need to get into bed with these grifting slop merchants to digitise your texts. 000
Reposted by Justen HydeEleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot) 19501213
Reposted by Justen HydeKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776142098
Reposted by Justen HydeLyra @8bitblackmage.co.uk · 24/09/2026"NHS Impose requirement to live in your desired neurotype for 2 years before being able to seek treatment" 1930183
Reposted by Justen HydeSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group. 22936177
Reposted by Justen Hydedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12971091694
Reposted by Justen HydeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I thought the police were supposed to be stopping balaclava-wearing 'protestors'? www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2657097... 4629
Reposted by Justen HydeJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I've been asking this question for a while now 76821
Reposted by Justen HydeLiam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country. 261489235
Reposted by Justen HydePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either. 381081333
Reposted by Justen HydeWillard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess. 641821418
Reposted by Justen Hyde👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026y’all don’t go looking for this but. one thing I really wish everyone would internalise is that we’re not gonna win against the puritans, or the fascists, or anyone else, by accepting any part of their premise as valid. they do not have legit concerns 2681158
Reposted by Justen HydeAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc...... 491142256
Reposted by Justen HydeJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401522708
Reposted by Justen HydeDr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Once again: Burnham, why aren’t you DOING SOMETHING? For the love of god, do SOMETHING. 13115
Reposted by Justen HydeSnigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026RNLI volunteers are having their car tyres slashed by radicalised racists. Where is the Prime Minister and King of the North Andy Burnham? Where is the government? bsky.app/profile/joxl... 73516
Reposted by Justen HydeSnigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Andy Burnham, Lisa Nandy, and the Labour party have said and done nothing about racists forcing the RNLI to close their Portsmouth Station. Why defend an organisation of volunteers who save lives at sea, when you can try to appease people who will never vote Labour? bsky.app/profile/atul... 42916
Reposted by Justen HydeBrainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am continuing to make friends in "AI in the workplace" sessions (image duplicated for alt text) 55610
Reposted by Justen HydeMichael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days 6246841587
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Or, and here's a crazy idea, stop desperately trying to use AI for every task?theguardian.comEurope must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s LagardeCentral bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations 000
Reposted by Justen HydeGarbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...garbageday.emailThey want you to be scared of AI in a very specific wayRead to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy 26628
Reposted by Justen HydeTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This - from a psychologist who notes, btw, that "Even professors find making friends anxiety-provoking"- is great. If anyone you know is starting university this week or very soon, do flick it on. It might really help and reassure them.theconversation.comWhy making friends at university feels harder than it really isWe overestimate how much other people notice our own behaviour and any social missteps. 23217
Reposted by Justen HydeDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Labour's stupidity around universities is driving me insane 1017530
Reposted by Justen HydeDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies? 37652182
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yes, AI has a fair chance of causing a civilizational catastrophe. Obviously. Look at the resource consumption and carbon emissions from the industry when we're teetering on the brink of disaster already. We don't need to speculate about superintelligences. The catastrophe is already unfolding. 000
Reposted by Justen HydeGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 763083812
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"How would you like it if loads of immigrants started living where you are?" ask the right wing nutters. Um... I feel fine about that? Basically no different to anyone else living near me? Also, I've lived in and around Oxford for twenty-odd years. It''s not even remotely theoretical. 000
Reposted by Justen HydeMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved 121036180
Reposted by Justen HydeChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to 451459420
Reposted by Justen Hyde👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026This story is doing the rounds today so here’s some credit to the Oxford Clarion, who have been reporting on this org, in depth, for a lot longer than the BBC has been. 630787
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No. Next. Seriously, @theguardian.com, do you really need to shill this hard? Uncontrollable corporations *behind* the AI hype with far too much money and bugger all regulation might be more worth your time to investigate. 000
Reposted by Justen HydeChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026every single day people get ground up and spat out by endless injustices from local council right up to any and all branches of government. but certain people can seemingly get away with anything, and the chocolate fireguards responsible for theoretically doing something about it largely shrug 02111
Reposted by Justen HydeMatthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Governments being terrified of being left behind in tech but not of extinction is a crazy flex. Hey, but have it. At least in ten years I can ask my AI gf how to find high ground and drinkable water and they be absolutely wrong. 2228
Reposted by Justen HydeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026AI is not inevitable. resistance works!motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 2852731075
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This would be a hell of a lot more useful than throwing money at AI startups in the hope that they will magically fix public services somehow. 000
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I didn't know the underpants gnomes were members of the government. What am I saying, throwing some money at the buzz du jour in the vague hope it will fix everything with no clear idea how... They've all been gnomes all along. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.uk£100 million competition to back British AI companies to fix public services£100 million fund competition will help promising British AI start-ups start in the UK and tackle some of society's biggest challenges. 000
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This weekend I'm playing Name that Pain: sinus or tooth edition. I do not like this game. 000
Reposted by Justen HydeKate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem 382942731
Reposted by Justen HydeBree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/08/2026because let's be so fucking for real right now: 1) you can't appease the people who don't want ADHD to exist by sacrificing the "functional" ones who have managed to string together coping mechanisms that will burn them out by 50 2) stigmatizing support will make it harder for all of us 554078
Reposted by Justen HydeThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 04/08/2026The Great Sun Myth, from the producers of Not Quite Walls, Not Quite Gaps: What are Doors? and Trees: What’s Their Game?, will hear from the growing number of professional opinion-havers who are boldly questioning mainstream “science” and “facts”.thedailytism.comThe Great Sun Myth: new documentary seeks to answer question – where does it go when it’s dark?A groundbreaking new documentary reportedly seeks to question the conventional narrative around the mysterious and unknowable orb at the centre of our galaxy. The Great Sun Myth, from the producers… 525082
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'd have more opinions about the channel 4 adhd hatchet job if I'd watched it all but turns out I'd rather not sit through some dickhead assert how he reckons it's not a real thing at length. I get enough of that without seeking it out thanks. 100
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Big Corporations Make Everything Shit: Phone Edition (it's not just about audio jacks) 000
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"I don't want an audio jack on my phone" said no one ever. But manufacturers decided you can't have one, and so increasingly you can't even choose to buy a model with one. Most people can decide to live without it, or just faff with a usb dongle but... why should we? 100
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026When did every mobile turn into an AI phone? I DO NOT WANT that shit. Are there any options for new phones at all without AI baked in at the hardware level? It's the removal of the headphone jack all over again but a million times worse. 000
Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Why the fuck are Reform always on the goddam news - but not because of all their corrupt dodgy shit, because of whatever latest batshit "policy" they've made up that the media inevitably seems to want to wank over? 000
Reposted by Justen HydeChristina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Might text them back and warn them about fossil fuels. 231569
