tomrunnacles.bsky.social
Software developer, philosopher, guitarist, whinger.
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Or indeed, come and have a goat.
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What a brave and original soul she was.
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I favour assisted dying in principle, but also believe it can only safely be introduced given concrete plans to fund improvements in palliative care. I’m far from sure we’re going to get that funding in the present context, which affects my view of a proposal to change the law.
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“People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?”
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I’ve not checked this formats as the joke requires on all platforms, but I reckon you have and for that you get a follow.
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“And the name of that Biblical scholar? Albert Einstein.”
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Also, the idea that the Word of God needs a wee boost from <checks notes> Frank Field, is just perfect. I’d like to see Nietzsche getting a ‘five stars, would revalue all existing values in the light of’ from say, Ricky Gervais next.
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It’s not the worst heuristic for deciding whether a city is worth visiting to ask: (1) do at least some neighbourhoods smell of weed?; (2) have at least some surfaces been defaced with ‘Fuck Trump’?
If the answer to both is ‘no’ I can’t imagine it’s a fun town.
Applies outside the US, too.
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Not stealing, training
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Brought to you by the very people who would under other circumstances be explaining that guns don’t kill people, people do.
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It might not be rational to trust our speaker, but he needn’t just be confused. Maybe?
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Our speaker might be in effect saying: there’s a bunch of stuff I can’t give evidence for, but trust me fellas, it sounds wild but it’s *all true*, I swear.
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Might ‘facts’ be true statements to which all should/will assent given the supporting evidence etc, and then there’s a complementary set of statements that are also true, which aren’t supported in this way, but which the speaker is imploring others to believe?
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They’ve given up any hope of being recommissioned for another season and are just phoning it in at this point - the ‘let’s bring Boris back again’ subplot is way too crazy to be minimally plausible, right?
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John Stuart Mill claimed that “the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings". Just leaving that one here for folks to chew on.
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This is a fluff piece and beneath the Post. You soft pedal what he did by saying he "exaggerated" the results of the cuts - he lied. He said things that were untrue, fomented hate. Why are you sanewashing DOGE. This is access journalism at its worst.
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I’ve been living in Greenwich for twenty years but have somehow never got round to visiting our widely renowned Fan Museum. I believe we continue to save it for an especially rainy day.
www.thefanmuseum.org.uk
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So they’re going to get all the bad headlines about Labour’s supposed betrayal on tax but stay locked onto their present course of being unable to make a material difference to the condition of public services. It’s confounding that they can’t see this.
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Wake up the next morning, spend hours figuring out where ChatGPT went wrong, troubleshoot problems, unenroll my five-year-old from a Neo-Nazi bowling league, cancel bakery order in city 400 miles away...
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We’re in Abrdn territory here, they’ll roll it back after a couple of years of nobody knowing how to say their name.
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Most of Stevie Wonder will end up being out of bounds, and that alone is enough to show something has gone badly wrong.
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Merz is an absolute unit, he must have some special moves that exploit his height advantage and do properly chunky damage.
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What I am, hiring people at the University of Oxford - a world-leading institution - supposed to say to the kinds of machine learning or AI profs the government allegedly wants to attract? Oh, don't worry Yvette Cooper will figure it out in a few months, maybe you'll get lucky. A pathetic joke.
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“What does a dragon need more gold and flesh? No way will he eat me!”
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But to make the claim to have a plan to increase care-workers’ pay credible, that funding should already have been signed off. It evidently hasn’t been, which is why this policy is so feckless and the rhetoric around it so rancid.
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It’s so dispiriting. I’ll *always* vote to keep the right out, but it’s enraging to be so utterly taken for granted because Labour supposes I have no alternative and that they they’re free to go chasing the votes of dim racists who will inevitably prefer Farage when push comes to shove in any case.
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3/ But most importantly, there is absolutely no reason why our public discussion of what is or is not corrupt should be limited by the stunted conception that the Roberts Court has chosen to apply.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Pope Smoothie the Third.
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Also good to catch up with any spin-off series so that you’re across important bits of lore you’d otherwise be mystified by.
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‘The cranks aligned and now they jointly control the GOP’ encapsulates much of the history of American politics in the last decade or so.
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Maybe that, or just the narrower conclusion that if we’re really trying to replicate human intelligence, we’ll should be trying to build physical devices that have to interact with the world in the loosely scripted, open-ended and often precarious ways we do, that is, proper robots.
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Can’t remember who, but I recall someone wise noting that one thing we absolutely know about brains, and hence about the human intelligence they support, is that they evolved to control *actual physical human bodies*, and that this fact is fundamental to understanding their nature.
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They have the dim part nailed, I’ll give you that, but they’re in the main very far from nice.
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The harm principle doesn’t have any determinate implications without a clear and probably contentious view of what a harm *is*, which is why discussion has so rapidly degenerated into fights over whether ambient unwanted music is a harm.