adamcobb.bsky.social
Digital marketing type; European politics bore; language enthusiast; one of those gays you hear about; Eurovision nerd; that guy in the window seat. @adamcobb on Twitter
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I'm not saying there's not a chance something goes wrong or (bigger risk) that Trump's reaction is insane but as you imply this has all the hallmarks of an attack that is well telegraphed in advance allowing Iran to look (a tiny bit) tough without anyone getting hurt.
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And one would imagine that Iraq and the Arab Spring will have made a lot of the population (entirely understandably) more weary of doing that.
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It may be waiting for the EU to finally get ETIAS/EES out of the door - it's at least 3 years late at this point.
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To be fair, the old lady is clearly from the mid-90s at the latest so maybe she doesn’t know!
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My favourite 90s newspaper supplement.
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I've also encountered that! Apologies, limited format and the need to spin a yarn but middle aged man is an energy here, rather than a gender!
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Three quarters of people think other people should pay more tax? (Hardly anyone thinks 'wealthier people' means them) please, tell me more.
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Oh 100%. I do not want a calming English accented voiceover. I need a greying bearded guy from West Virginia (or possibly Adelaide) who will look anywhere but at the camera and get the thing sorted in 90 seconds.
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One of the few good things about the last decade of the internet is middle aged men who love to make videos about how to fix that one specific thing that has gone wrong with your dishwasher/washing machine. God bless them all.
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One of the few good things about the last decade of the internet is middle aged men who love to make videos about how to fix that one specific thing that has gone wrong with your dishwasher/washing machine. God bless them all.
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The rise of AI will make it increasingly impossible to trust anything online and eventually the answer for big transactions will be ‘come to this physical place and sign some documents with a pen’.
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Working in a shop selling anything with a plug because you can't reliably buy those off the internet anymore.
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I agree. To be honest the biggest battle is that people who want to believe something is true for whatever reason aren't going to go looking for these things.
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One would have assumed that Iran would run out first and find it harder to resupply (and their barrages definitely seem to be getting smaller) but who knows? I don't see what the off-ramp that also keeps Netanyahu out of court is though - and let's face it, that's a core consideration.
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(That and Israel has now basically committed itself to killing the Supreme Leader, a line they were unwilling to cross as recently as Tuesday).
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One does wonder if Israel is starting to run out of missile defence resources given that more seems to have got through this morning than previously - presumably the resources aren't unlimited?
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Surely they're the same thing at this point?
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Still obsessed with 80% of the Scots version of Wikipedia being written by a teenager from North Carolina who started doing it when he was 12. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...
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I miss sitting around, 3 or 4 of you trying to remember a fact, failing and then 2 hours later someone shouts ‘IT WAS STEPHEN HENDRY’ (or whatever) and everyone does a little satisfied sigh.
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We sometimes try to make it seem immensely complex but basically having lots of people who are grateful that you got them out of a hole that one time is good!
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I do remember it being said of both May and Corbyn that half the reason they’d made it was a willingness to
A) Go on the media at basically the last second and
B) Turn up to endless random constituency party events.
People do remember this stuff and as you say, it’s a fairly small pool.
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In Scotland, you only have to pay for a bue fare if you’re between the ages of 22 and 59. Usage still appears to be shit.
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MI5 has flagged a trend of some people who just seem to be really into violence and will flip from jihad to Naziism with minimal engagement with the actual politics (@stephenkb.bsky.social has written on this). Has that shown up in Canada?
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Someone really, really should be able to make Morecambe work and yet it just never quite happens.
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Plus people being able to 'drive' while drunk, too tired etc. etc.
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Agree - although it does have a bit of two bald men fighting over a comb energy. The vast majority of people are not on either.
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My worry is how they introduce a revenue model without alienating the user base. The counterbalance of that ‘we made more money selling T-shirts than domains’’ story was ‘oh God your burn rate must be horrendous’.
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If anything, I feel the take should be ‘microblogging is dying’. Bluesky is fine and pretty stable but does either site have the numbers to be profitable/wipe its face financially if not owned by a crazy billionaire?
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Same for the thing about Trump making an urgent statement to the international community that was apparently on CNN and going around here about 22:30 U.K. time last night. Wasn’t a great night for fake news on BlueSky.
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Do your teeth instantly dissolve on contact?
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Thank you! This is very helpful
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I’m getting a lot of fake news clips of horrible things (mostly videos of other plane crashes claiming to be the Air India one).
It’s also got into a weird habit of surfacing April Fools Day posts that were made on 1 April despite it now being mid-June??
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No thank you to Google for its help in the writing of this post.
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Rocking back and forth here thinking ‘at least the Iraq buildup took the best part of a year…’
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It’s usually people who (rightly) get very worried about fake news not applying any of the same rules when the issue in question suits their existing views.
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Is Trump still meant to be giving remarks today?
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Also ‘look at this load of code and identify the bit where I’ve made a typo which means it isn’t working’
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Nobody at Meta or OpenAI should be allowed to launch a product without a sociologist giving it a full going over first.
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I also wish the pushback wasn’t all about energy usage and copyright, which while issues (especially the latter) are not as urgent as ‘people are using this as a cut price therapist that will probably endorse their desire to kill at some point’.
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Combined with this story, it really underlines that the people in charge of these products have no idea what of what people will use their products for or how to do guard rails. www.wired.com/story/meta-a...
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Having “stuff” in quotations is also a choice.
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Like the fact this exists either points to a deeply dysfunctional corporate environment where there's some overly powerful person that nobody can say 'No' to or an entire team of people who lack any basic insight into why this would be bad.
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It really just underlines the enormous problem with AI - it's a tool being unleashed on the world by people who have zero interest in or insight into how people behave and will use the tool they've built.