barrynorton.bsky.social
He/him.
I write queer/speculative fiction, with ND representation, in Denmark.
MA in Creative Writing and PhD in Computer Science.
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It's to my shame that I still listen to Radio 4 in the morning, given how loudly I turned away from The Guardian.
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It has?!
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They're all just saugells to me.
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The Handmaiden
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Not sure, to be fair, as the US doesn't restrict civil suits to what most of the rest of the world would accept as material damages.
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Defending idiom by attacking idiom? You've won me over.
Is there anywhere you would draw a line? Filly, vixen, bitch, cow, sow...
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“Mare"?
Are you from the past?
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Call me grumpy, but why would they be restricted to four spatial dimensions? Is it just because tesseract sounds smarter than hypercube?
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Behind seven proxies
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Sounds like you're all ready for Gigot d’Agneau aux Anchois.
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But... insurrection!
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Angelenos and Harvard grads, shoulder to shoulder
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Came to say this.
Bonus: for thousands we use t in Danish. 4kEUR is 4tEUR (or roughly 30tDKK)
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Stop trying to make mice nuts happen
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Did you have any luck finding the actual guidance? I just shared a BBC sorry on this, but I'm struggling to find the original source.
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ARM? A leading AI company?
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I heard you're a scientologist, that your last four books were written by unpaid interns, and that you're unable to prove your whereabouts the night Princess Diana died. Just saying.
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Fundamentally disagree. The member states do not know how to implement Chapter V. I'm addressing a delegation of all 27 member states early in July as Denmark is trying to provide some leadership as we take on the presidency.
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Respectfully, that's not true. Some requirements come into effect in August, others in August 2026 and August 2027.
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The problem is finding a source of truth. For so much of human 'knowledge' there is none such, and the best one can accept is competing 'authorities' (see Wikidata's approach, for example).
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This is where Brexit yet again screws the UK (and it will have to look at equivalent terms and inclusion): the EU AI Act may move towards banning use of large models (including LVMs) that are opaque about their training data. This would allow a space for more ethically-trained models to compete.
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I'd actually forgotten that.
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Did you hear about that withdrawn documentary on Greenland, though? There are many here just competely unwilling to listen. And that's just the 'white' colony. When I try to talk to them about having taught in Ghana...
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I feel your pain. The panic of trying to get an unblocked VPN for Eurovision, then the frustration when it starts buffering in the middle of a song.
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Yeah, that would pretty much have been my guess. I meant more that I just don't hear it here. To be fair I'm in a pretty different environment from when I worked at the British Museum 🫣
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Getting back in should have been even worse, but I spotted the same border control agent, and she waved me through with a laugh, a smile and a "welcome home". I'm frequently wished "velkommen hjem". I don't hear that in some of the other lanes.
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Here's a story I shouldn't relay for various reasons. I'm an immigrant here. A certain kind of immigrant. I turned up to the airport yesterday without my resident's card. They should have locked me up because I'd no open visa in my passport. They sorted it out for me, despite my halting Danish...
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I think part of still being very emotional today is having managed to listen to the whole Jhalak Prize ceremony before my flight back. At least @profsunnysingh.bsky.social could say decolonisation in English. You know what the Danish is? No, seriously, if you know, tell me...
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not idealising the UK. I left the place over the horrible sentiments behind Brexit. But at least there's another side.
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TV or radio?
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Disclaimer: I used to do a bit of tech consulting at the BBC (and even knew a couple of folks in the iPlayer team), so I'm more than positively disposed to them.
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It's the third time changing the app, though. They went from the iPlayer Radio app to the Sounds app, now they want to steer people to a new one again. They say all the content will still be available. The Sounds app annoyed me from a navigability pov anyway.
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It's ironic that I didn't hear it broadcast because I was in the UK (for the day).