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By day, an ESOL teacher and programming tutor
By night, indie games author and creator of cyberpunk adventure TECHNOBABYLON
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In Scotland, abortion is legal up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, provided two doctors agree that continuing the pregnancy would be more harmful to the woman's physical or mental health than terminating it
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Certainly, but (putting on my Amazon hat) aren't they *all* fronts for SMERSH? Can we afford to take that risk?
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Funnily enough, in the original (novel) Casino Royale, Le Chiffre is the money man for a trade union in Alsace (that is, of course, secretly a front for Communist influence)
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"I assure you, Mr Le Chiffre, I'm quite serious."
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They had such great educational bits with Sue Perkins that ended up being dropped, too
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I certainly agree, though it's got me wondering how much lack of tectonic activity and water would change the dynamics of it on Mars
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Not at all, and that's the problem - lawyers attempting to use chatbots for their cases, and being sanctioned for using false citations as a result.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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You don't think games have actors as well? Maybe you should have gone for that.
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But his machine didn't make them up from scratch, did it?
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There are certainly appropriate uses for the technologies labelled as AI in medicine, like the pattern -recognition aiding detection of tumours
But management wildly overestimates its ability to do things on the human side, like training doctors
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The medical industry that is also seeking to replace doctors with chat bots?
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"ChatGPT says ChatGPT is great for education!" shocker
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So to say that your example is "just" the kind of task is used for is wilfully ignorant at best, given the scope that industry is trying to shove it down our throats.
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Lawyers are increasingly trying to use it to generate casework, leading to completely made-up citations, and in California recently got a dead man to "read his own" testimony in a case
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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In my own field, ESL schools are desperate to use it to replace teachers by developing lesson plans, and hope to use it to outright replace teachers in remote learning.
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According to the World Economic Forum's 2025 report, 41% of employers are planning layoffs with roles replaced by chatbots.
www.weforum.org/press/2025/0...
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- E-commerce company Dukaan has replaced 90% of customer services with chatbots
- IKEA is replacing all of its call centre staff with a chatbot called Billie
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Klarna, UPS, Intuit and Cisco are replacing staff with the environmentally-ruinous plagiarism machines
www.forbes.com/sites/jackke...
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No, industry is trying to use it to replace human creativity in plenty of places - the games development industry, bigger than steel and fishing combined in the UK, has been laying staff off in favour of replacement by chatgpt since 2023
www.wired.com/story/ai-is-...
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I'm definitely a "Kook"
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If they do, it'll be the second override in two months
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He might say "if you help me out with a different vote, then I'll let this through and you won't have to bounce it back to the senate and house, which could take weeks"
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It's certainly very poor optics to veto a unanimous vote, but there may be reasons beyond "I'm an idiot" or "I'm in the pocket of Big Ambulance".
Because he knows that it would pass again easily, he might trade his assent for something else he wants from the state Congress
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Two thirds of both houses needed to override a veto. First it goes back to the state senate, then the house.
Last month the senate voted to override his veto on social media safety, and it looks like the house is going to agree with them on that
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It's also a good representation of what my internal monologue looks like
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Lorem ipsum is so old hat, I opted to use the baseline test from Blade Runner 2049.
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Quite so, not *every* Quaker is necessarily a good person. Richard Nixon, for example!
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Not even necessarily a block to bring a Quaker, folks like Piers Anthony, Ruth Cadbury MP, and Charlie Brooker are nontheist Quakers!
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Tulips for every meal!
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Glad you liked it!
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It was a pleasure!
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I have to keep rewriting it as current affairs keep overtaking cyberpunk dystopia
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It'll get there eventually, one way or another
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I know the feeling
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I'm certainly not going to argue with that
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The other key detail is that the Tory went to Oxbridge, while the Labour one *merely* attended the London School of Economics