irksomelib.bsky.social
lib. computer scientist (computational linguistics/natural language processing). british. likes metal, sci-fi and fantasy. extremely bad at posting. OCD-haver, ace/aro. he/him.
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Labour do a good thing without throwing in a needless bad thing challenge: Impossible.
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Keir Starmer, find some random thing and hold indicative votes on it coward!
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I'm not sure I've heard a single statement from a cabinet member lately that didn't cause me extreme second hand embarrassment.
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Also our next cat will definitely be named Mogatha Christie
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Thank you!!!
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Thank you!
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This is Hercule Purrot.
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Very true. I've definitely seen many fbpe types go down the transphobia rabbit hole. I can't help but wonder if it's because some of the early prominent online British transphobes (Rowling, Glinner etc.), had large liberal/left followings.
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That's definitely (or at least a very large part of) how I realised how completely full of it Steven Pinker and Sam Harris were
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Honestly, and I loved pretty much all of them, The Straight Story. Absolute masterpiece.
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Oh I should also add, I don't think any of this is actually getting implemented. I suspect it will just end up with a bunch of consultants ending up a lot richer and not much else happening.
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Yeah totally agree, I think a lot of the critiques are missing the actual problem (public facing workers having to waste time trying to use overhyped AI tools after being mandated to do so with no proof of their utility in saving time).