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perivale.bsky.social

Ex-astronomer, now cybersecurity consultant, millennial Londoner back in London. “The horrors persist but so do I” - someone in 2023 apparently

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Oh look the same garbage language the British far-right uses about London

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The fact we are making ourselves more dependant on US military assistance, not less, is fundamentally insane. We cannot rely on the US as a security partner, how obvious can that possibly be before the UK security establishment takes it in?

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Very excited by this! Season 1 is truly excellent - if you haven’t heard it do take a listen and then back Joel and Will

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who has been bemoaning the decline of face-to-face interaction especially since covid this might be the only benefit of AI slop?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Good news lads, looks like Goodwin won't be bothering us in London for a while.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

There's a special breed of Small Town Wanker that pop into London twice a year then whine about it for 363 days. They inevitably visit a tourist trap on a hot Saturday and, from that, believe they are now experts in the lived experience of 12 million people. Matt Goodwin is their patron saint.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

i can not cope with the london doomsterism. it is the best city in the world - sorry

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Cannot understand the “London has fallen rhetoric” from the far-right. It’s certainly got its issues, mostly that it’s ridiculously expensive but this is true of a lot of large western cities. I came back to London because I missed it (Toronto will always be my 2nd love)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I will say this: I am quite done throat clearing on this subject. The weakest A.I. booster argument is to whine about this point because it allows them to make success a binary "useful or not" rather than "actually capable of anything resembling the nonsense OpenAI and Anthropic promise"

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

In all likelihood the things will go pear shaped on Iran but c’mon it’s not going to lead to WW3.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

77 years ago, the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Dock. Today on #WindrushDay, we would like to invite all our members to join us in reflecting on the vital contribution of the Windrush generation which shaped nursing in this country, and their ongoing fight for justice and fairness.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad. Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly Wild piece:

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

I continue to wonder how many of these “stunningly attractive movie star” is “mid” takes come from a lot of these types only exposure to women being though filters so they see completely impossible looking women as “attractive” and anyone else as “mid” (1/2)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

One thing that’s probably bad is that, between the transit nature of information on the internet and the the rise of AI, it’s probably going to get a lot harder to actually verify things from the past. Which, is basically the opposite of what the information superhighway promised.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Still true: Britain is a success story Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well Multiculturalism is popular Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration Nostalgia is increasingly weird Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

Smart glasses are very much the AI companies trying to find some way to gather infinite more data on the real world to expand their models with zero appreciation of consent

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Very much what a lot of todays “titans of industry” (pronounced “maladjusted techbros”) want - a compliant, deskilled, workforce entirely dependent on automated tools managed by a small group of highly educated grifters

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot emphasize enough how needlessly cruel the UK immigration system is to ordinary people who want a family life together and aren't well-off already, and anyone wanting to make it worse should be shunned.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

The extent to which the London Standard (formerly the Evening Standard) properly hates London and always has properly hated London is really quite the phenomenon. It's like having a temperance crusader running CAMRA. I recommend www.londoncentric.media instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

And, of course, they’re being optimised to output answers that “feel” right by people who don’t have the requisite expertise to even come close to being able to determine how accurate the outputs are especially for these “general” models

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I very much have some cyber security concerns - China is a hostile power, as long as the CCP leads it, and leaving big chunks of your transport infrastructure (and likely huge quantities of visual data) open to said hostile power would seem somewhat risky

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I have long since said that AI is not useful in the use cases that we encounter it. This is my considered opinion as a scholar and an educator. The only way we can apply the usefulness claim is if we expand the term AI to cover every ML application and at that point, it's sparkling AI hype.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Reminds me a lot of the arguments about why the Ad Mech in 40K don’t just start doing research - because research leads to literal daemons appearing, eating your face and destroying everything in a 1000km radius, while ancient databanks are corrupted with viruses that can infect living beings

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment