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urlyman.bsky.social

Cycling, designing, coding, over-thinking, sweary. Trying not to be po-faced in the face of so much po💩 ‘BS’ denotes BlueSky me. My full BS is at https://mastodon.social/@urlyman

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#AI So, apart from disenfranchising people from each other and their most weird and wonderful wellsprings of value while… requiring the acceleration of incredibly precise manufacturing in an increasingly destabilised environment…

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Do you remember what happened to David Kelly? www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

#cumuloDimbus The strategy of shoving ever more entropic waste in The Cloud for know-nothing, probabilistic, bullshit-generating processes to feed on recursively until… the storm front breaks over us

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It seems fitting that a culture obsessed with monetary tokens and performative token gestures and rhetoric about addressing the tokens’ failings should build next token prediction machines as a ‘solution’ set #LLM

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Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions. Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.

submitted 9 days ago • 89 comments

Capitalism’s plan is to plunder the easiest to get at surface… and then the bits just under the easiest to get at surface… and then the bits a long way under that surface… and then the bits a long way under the hardest to get at surface. What’s right with this plan?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#generativeAI Does anyone remember that pervasive feeling back in the 2000s that went something like this: Storytelling is a such a loathsome chore. I really hope someone is spending tens of billions of dollars to remove us from needing to be a part of making stories…

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a kind of parallel to the lying that LLMs will spew to keep someone using them and the lies that politicians sell to get and stay elected. The difference is the willingness of LLMs to apologise, to keep you hooked…

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It’s important to report what Netanyahu has said in response to France, the UK and Canada, but it’s vital to put it in context. This morning the BBC World Service failed to do this. It played his statement in full, with all its distortions and delusions, and left it uncommented. Not good enough…

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

In the past 8 years, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased by ~25 ppm (404 ppm in 2017, 429 ppm in 2025). In my grandfather’s 78-year lifetime – about 10x longer – the increase was roughly the same. If we don’t slow down, we will crash #degrowth

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I fell in love with computing because it was a tool for making. For at least two decades I mostly ignored that it was all along a tool for collecting and (relatively) low level manipulation. And now the tools have been developed to the point where manipulation has become the end game

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

It’s good to learn of Families Like Us, the Danish drama that has come to BBC iPlayer, and in Bethan Ackerley’s review for @newscientist.com I share her enthusiasm for “This could well be the climate drama I was hoping for, one to shock us all into some semblance of action”. But, Bethan also…

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Are UK Labour running Starmer through a Lamentable Leadership Model? #llm

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, King Charles spoke about “restoring a just peace where there is war … and the prevention of conflict” …while the UK enables starvation and genocide that isn’t even mentioned in all the “jaw jaw”. A country serious about learning from #veday would do better than vacuous rhetoric

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Just popping back to throw in some cheery sentiments about Starmer…

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Took a post from Mastodon that didn’t seem that long – just 3 fairly brief sentences – and began to compose it to send here, but it’s too long for here, and can’t really be condensed without losing something significant. Weird how much a Twitter-ish post length now feels uncomfortably constricting

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment