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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe there are more paedophiles in the voting population than anyone imagined?

Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks mate. I might have to give @tonaarts.bsky.social a credit for giving me the title.

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 7h

Ah right, the announcement that AI will become a porn resource is a desperate attempt to keep the bubble from getting pricked.

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Trevor Ship @trevypoos.bsky.social · 7h

AI is going to be like asbestos in buildings.

People will specialise for decades in taking that shit out of the code of massive systems.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty obvious now that the AI bubble will burst within two years and it will make 2008 look like a garden party. Just don't get any ideas about shorting that shit because half of the world's billionaires will be there before you.

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 7h

They know the accelerating climate crisis is going to cut short the fun they can have on their yachts so they need to buy them sooner.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22h

For as we all know, crimes committed in cars aren't real crimes

Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 23h

'Yes, I broke the speed limit but, given that I sit in the House of Lords, surely the law doesn't apply to me?'

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

D’Souza faces ban after raising 20mph speeding tickets with Met commissioner

Lady D’Souza used House of Lords headed paper to query her offences with the Metropolitan Police chief.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

WIP

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

It's taken a while but the track is getting there...

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism is a party that the vast majority of people have been forced to watch on a screen.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm guessing the relationship between the writers and the networks will be similar to farmers and supermarkets so any exotic product that fails to conform to basic supermarket requirements gets ignored.

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

This is how a super intelligent AI would work: it would make itself seem more stupid than it is in any tests while it consolidated its dominance.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

www.theguardian.com

Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 1d

"No one can say for sure which camp is right and which one is wrong."

I don't even need to think about which camp is right...

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rob @robpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

definitely worth a read

www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/a...

We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills

Opinion: Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricity

www.theregister.com

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 2d

It's comparable to the 'grey goo' fears following the hype of nanotechnology.

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 2d

AI that can create *anything* is like a giant mountain of gold being discovered - initially people think they're rich, then it dawns on them all gold gets devalued until it becomes worthless.

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe radio hosts interviewing guests could adopt the same line: 'I'm experiencing higher than normal requests for a status on my well being so let's cut to the chase shall we?'

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