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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 12h

The key is to be gone by Saturday night…

Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 13h

I recall that even in its early days, Wikipedia was checked against the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was found to have greater coverage and fewer errors.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 13h

Yes. Surely the priority should be to disentangle the network of bias in the Wikipedia editorship? Can anyone contribute details? Something more than "there's a ton of middle aged white European men with time on their hands"? What are the barriers to entry?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 15h

It's all about what you bring to the game…

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure he meant what he wrote: ruder servants. Claude is altogether too civil. It's creepy. And insinuating.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 23h

As the sage Eyore put it so wisely, not knowing for sure until afterward is what makes it so interesting.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sadly, they took away the death penalty for treason in 1998…

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I guess a pollster would say that the poll seeks to assess what people worry about, regardless of the underlying facts. If they're genuinely worried about a misconception, shouldn't we want to know?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Surely the point of social media is not to change anyone else, but to validate ourselves? Luckily, AI now allows us to do this without inflicting our thoughts on others. So there's really no excuse whatsoever for this reply. :0)

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hmm: Myth as Paradigm. That works. But we need paradigms: how else can we understand the world?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I take it you're bucking the trend and staying on? :0)

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of course, all the stuff about branding and condoms is cover. Goodwin's real point is that we should stop foreign aid entirely and leave the world to China. Which is pretty much what we have done. I can't help wondering whether we will come to regret this in a decade or two. But I digress.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not quite all the same things. An alert user would have spotted that this was the total cost of a twelve year program. Of course, keyboard warriors looking for easy gotchas to validate their world views tend not to be alert to this sort of "detail". A lesson for us all.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perhaps there will be students who don't like the idea of tying our fortunes to Weidel, Melloni and le Pen?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Presumably we'd be aiming for a supermajority to reverse a recent referendum and convince the EU that we're serious?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it's being said constantly and the government has a plan to address it, I'm not sure what the problem is here. Though I do hope Burnham's administration will do a better job of blowing its trumpet. And will include this in its manufacturing strategy. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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£380 million boost for creative industries to help drive innovation, regional growth and investment

Thousands of creative professionals and businesses across the UK are set to benefit from a new £380 million investment package as part of the Creative Industries Sector Plan.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Gloomspite Gitz would like a word…

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whereas we have digital creatives on the Isle of Lewis, which is at least moderately remote.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chaps just don't seem to trust a chap any more. I blame the press.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wasn't that exactly what the leavers had been doing? If you're saying that YOU don't make a habit of attending sporting events then: 1. I respect your choice 2. I respectfully submit that your views on the behaviour of European crowds might not survive rigorous fact checking.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you never attended an Association Football match in the UK?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we can just have the interest rates that Osborne squandered…

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After his steadfast refusal to come up with any sort of vision in opposition, the most I was hoping for was a steady hand on the tiller for this Parliament. All things considered, I think he more or less delivered that.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the short term, yes. In the medium term, it encourages employers to invest in improving productivity (and take advantage of the support for this which has been put in place by this government). It is crazy to be subsidising low productivity labour.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is not obvious why, at a time when we have a serious productivity problem, we are encouraging employers to rely on subsidised labour rather than invest in improving productivity. There is a case for subsidising key sectors such as hospitality. Or we may need to pay the full cost of our pints.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Where are the control totals for output and employment? We shouldn't be expected to take individual statistics on trust.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dangerous nonsense! Yrs etc. Eyore

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why?? You should be focusing on Halloween…

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And what are the chances of someone else failing to monitor a task they've abdicated to an AI? The user is part of the system.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I particularly liked this as a Handy Dandy List of Put Downs for All Conversations. Though I loved "The Goldfinch", so who cares what I think?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That rather depends on just how glorified it is, doesn't it? I don't subscribe to the view that self awareness is some sort of magic. It emerges from a physical system which could be described in similar terms.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have often seen this asserted on the previous generation of misinformation machines (social media). I have yet to see a convincing proof.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Isn't it about time we had a serious Opposition?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The USA may have had governments which were reliable in the short term, but no foreign country can be absolutely reliable in the long term. Science, defence, culture, technology, business all matter. We need to be contributing our share of all of these to our alliances.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We have spent decades paralysed by the chimera of capital flight. But we were blind to the risk of the flight of the voters to the populists.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This. Also, if we want rich people here, this needs to be the sort of place they want to live. Which means the very best museums, art and culture. What is the point of educating the next generation of movers and shakers if the place is such a hell hole that they leave at the first opportunity?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's right, Menon. Kick a man when he's going down. You loathsome bully. :0)

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We've felt world beaten ever since the effects of the second world war sank in. My entire life.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Doesn't he CARE about his BlueSky fans?? :0(

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's my plan for tomorrow. Also: feeding the pigs and preparing them for take-off.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Justice delayed is justice denied.

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Firstly, some of the complaints arise from the perception that utilitarianism has to be about maximizing overall happiness rather than minimising worst case misery. So be careful about the grouping function. A society may well be best measured by how it treats the worst off. #WWJD ?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, this is excellent news! Does this mean we can look forward to some serious, good faith trust building measures for the negotiations with Hamas, demolition of the settlements in the disputed territories and an immediate cessation of fire in Gaza?

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Will Ross @twistedbyknaves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, "Donald Trump's FTC" was kind enough to bung me $51 yesterday… #BoughtAndPaidFor

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