eightnil.bsky.social
Toon fan, fed up with toxic twitter
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Always projecting
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WTF bob struggles with tap and pay. And who is this captain haddock? Dodgy fuckers the both of them
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That’s a weird take, that ai would sort it. The story says she was sleeping on a floor, hungry because the food had cockroaches in it, and she was five months pregnant. You don’t need ai to tell you that is barbaric.
We’ve seen this casual disregard for life before, books will still record it.
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Decent point but it could still seriously upset inflation, as it did two years ago.
On the plus side a higher oil price and a collapsing consumer will help with the trade balance.
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TLDR article about a story that they don’t think is a story, but recognise if could be valuable to their advertisers.
A fella down the pub said he heard from his cousins best mate, that her aunties hairdresser doesn’t think a deal will be easy.
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Too much is made of other countries decisiveness when it comes to building infrastructure where and in a way engineers suggest. This undoubtedly reaps benefits, but what really creates problems for us is that we only have a few large projects in any decade.
We don’t have the manpower or skills.
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That’s a whole different circus, I reckon a lot of companies are going to discover what FAFO means.
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It’s all relative, they’ll still be cheaper but making more dollars with the standard mark up. More people will shop there as they become price sensitive.
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SWSX will be T1 in 27
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Quite the opposite, everyone knows who to talk to.
The fact he didn’t go on gardening leave straightaway suggests he’s been working with the club constructively.
Two weeks early suggests he’s tidied up his loose ends, and would be twiddling his thumbs and creating confusion staying SD.
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It might work in Scotland, but in England people seem to have a problem picking up after their dog on the pavement or in parks.
Dog faeces can be harmful to livestock. If they can’t be bothered in a kids park, I can’t see them being responsible when its alfresco on a cows breakfast.
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That’s a big hyperbolic, it’s not destroying a park. And it’s not like Newcastle isn’t well catered for with green spaces. I suspect any planning application will involve providing a green space as compensation, and tbh I think that should be through remediating land where green spaces are lacking.
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My point being that if we don’t want a few disinterested people blocking it we should tell people we want it by signing.
It’s exactly what they are doing and at the moment they are the ones getting the media coverage.
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A lot of signatures are from a group of people who have banded together to try and stop development in their local areas. By acting as one they have a bigger voice, but distorts the views of those with a real interest.
The idea that people from Pudsey can block a development in Newcastle feels off
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Similarly the move away from universal to means tested benefits has created all sorts of perverse incentives and no doubt contributes to our poor productivity. More insidiously it traps people within a system that’s hard to breakout of without a large boost to earnings.
It also promotes division
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Aside from the valid points that 100k is a very good salary, you don’t start losing your personal allowance until you earn more than a 100k.
If they were interested in making a serious point about stupid quirks and incentives in our tax system they should say that £125,140 is the worst salary.
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Is no signings a concern?
No.
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It’s not really about AI, WPP have been complacent and too busy endlessly restructuring. Selling good businesses but not addressing debt. Analyst calls have been laidback affairs focusing on how well they are rolling out SAP.
CEO agent!? 29k ai agents
Publicis have been doing well, but it’s AI.
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Let’s say it works, and I think it’s a bit off yet, how does an autonomous technology that will replace many driving jobs create 38,000 net jobs?
Instead of relying on one driver, do they need a team to look after them?
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Sounds like a wrong un
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With hindsight I think that could have been because we couldn’t spend within PSR.
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You may well be right, but let’s get things into perspective. It’s always slow around the WC qualification and international friendlies. Over the last couple of years there has also been the 30th of June PSR deadline which complicates things.
We have money and a good proposition, we’ll sign well.
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He’s got a job, they’ve always been a double act. Well expect for a short period.
I wouldn’t want him to leave.
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Survivorship bias is a mo fo
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Not discounting your point, I fear the big threats are a distraction
AI is being used to flip, or entrench narratives on social and traditional media. Rather than put guardrails on the technology, they are persuading society to remove its own. Like social media we are ill prepared to deal with it
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The book supremacy references a similar dataset being used in earlier ChatGPT models. By adding more data (one source was Reddit) the results were, in many ways, much better than expected. However, the model also picked up undesirable traits.
Copy right and IP is an existential threat to AI.
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Really it’s a vast IP hoover, with inherent biases, but the rewards and power could be vast. They just need all the data, all.
It feels current politics is being driven by the desire of a few, already insanely wealthy, to capture it.
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Ireland’s doing well selling viagra to the states, because all those alphas can get enough of the stiff for there phallocentric convos.
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It looks like an elephants trunk formation. An apt close to a phallocentric discourse, mind your eye, not for widows or orphans.
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I think the farmer likes to fish as well, and was looking for a bite.
Must be nothing going on over at the other place.
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The club have done a remarkable job of growing revenues and in turn investing in the team. Given all the restrictions and obstacles put in our way we are doing well.
I can’t see any lack of backing, we were nearly fined last year for a PSR breach so it is obviously quite the opposite.
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Why do we have this focus/obsession with means tested benefits, universal benefits is the way forward. All in it together.
If a millionaire can be bothered to claim, and tell his tax accountant I want that 150 to offset your bill, so what. They will always be objectionable, but many won’t be.
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Man U spending £430m for 15th, are they going to have to get closer to £800m for a shot at anything. I can see a stadium sale incoming.
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That might be true but the spine that connects Leeds to Bradford already has an underutilised train line. Great bus links, roads and cycle path.
It would be better to spend sometime considering how to reorganise the one way system to reduce its fragility.
Anyway it will be fun and games no doubt
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We loved that gate, alas it was a fleeting few months as our bundle of joy worked out the latch far too quickly. My mistake was thinking walking would be a precursor to escape planning.
It was quite funny watching her try to climb over it first though.
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I do, that’s why I can say with confidence that this unholy alliance between Leeds’s fascination with trams and Bradford’s desires for a central station won’t level up Bradford.
It’s unfashionable, but Leeds would have benefitted greatly from HS2 and in turn Bradford.
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A Leeds/Bradford tram system will not bring great benefits.
Connecting the North more broadly to itself and the south would.
Improving international links would.
God forbid, improving the roads would.
So many things would improve Leeds and Bradford, but a tram ain’t one.
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Don’t forget, it’s a Friday. He’s usually full of courage and now has the whole weekend to worry about it.
China are thinking which agreement is this.
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On R5 he got such an easy ride it was unreal. He suggested knife crime was on par with petty vandalism. And how he was taking a stand.
Don’t remember him being so upstanding with all the antisocial behaviour in Downing Street during Covid. Or having a go at serious crime like PPE fraud. Tw1t.
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The irony, the country that gave the world, have a nice day, feels welcome sounds insincere.
WSJ fiddles whilst Rome burns
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Tumble dryer time
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Wokeness is their invention and defence for everything. The idea if people were just a bit more woke they wouldn’t carry on like this is for the birds. They’ve found something that they can blame for their extraordinary behaviour and they’re going to stick to it.
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The comments are flooded with consenting views which feels reminiscent of Russian operations. No doubt the American Moment organisation would be on hand to fulfill the role.
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The paradox is as it becomes easier to find out what you said yesterday, last week, last year, liars have become less constrained.
It’s almost as if there is a sweet spot of being outrageous where everyone knows it’s bollocks but can’t be bothered to fact check.