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Iain AF Fleming

@legalweasel.uk

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker. Francophile/phone. Quoad ultra denied [Uphall, Scotland]

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 9h

They used to. Nowadays, they just leave it be; if it ever gets removed, someone performs a public service, and replaces it.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 10h

"can I cycle with hands crossed over?" -- and I thought I was the only person stupid enough to do that. Wrecked the front wheel of my bike, and split my eyebrow. Never did it again, strangely.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 11h

That's actually a close crop of the whole field!

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 13h

The Contingent Constitution.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 13h

It's more about the vibes, really, isn't it?

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 14h

Cops love shooting dogs.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 14h

And Waterstones, in turn, own Blackwell's...

Wretched, isn't it?

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18h

In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London

Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

Marvelous! We have rampant fly agaric.

Rampant fly agaric mushrooms in a garden

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 19h

Yes, A Sixth Republic. With a better electoral system; two-round runoff leads to polarisation, and least-worst voting. Which led to Macron.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 19h

Given the headline, that could well be deliberate?

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 19h

Ranking by price was always the intention - but the unis simply didn't cooperate, and all immediately adopted the highest fees allowed.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 22h

> When AI Became a Force Multiplier for Incompetence

but it started well before AI

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

If you see this QRP with a game that released the year you were born.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

As well you should.

Black lurcher dog, wearing a red collar, looking backwards over her shoulder, against an unfocused green field.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

For those who value such things, getting your Rolex stolen must be like losing your personality.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 2d

Wish I had a grey Cortina...

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 2d

Wouldn't it be nice if the full focus was on María Corina Machado and what she's done rather than how somebody else is going to react to her being awarded the Nobel?

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3d

Respect and fair play to all the gifted teachers who, according to Nigel Farage, are poisoning our kid's minds with race issues.
I had great difficulty teaching some of the little buggers about triangles.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 3d

Oh, that is just so perfect!

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 3d

Could you nullify an entire presidency?
Damnatio memoriae?

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Shafik Yaghmour @shafik.bsky.social · 3d

"A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size": www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

Black hats have to be trying (Why wouldn't they, the potential gains are large). If it's really this easy then likely malicious code is already making its way into real code bases, maybe at scale.

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In a joint study with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume. Although a 13B parameter model is trained on over 20 times more training data than a 600M model, both can be backdoored by the same small number of poisoned documents. Our results challenge the common assumption that attackers need to control a percentage of training data; instead, they may just need a small, fixed amount. Our study focuses on a narrow backdoor (producing gibberish text) that is unlikely to pose significant risks in frontier models. Nevertheless, we’re sharing these findings to show that data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than believed, and to encourage further research on data poisoning and potential defenses against it.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 3d

Marvelous. Mine are in geography, computer science, and law. No pattern, no plan, just doing what I love. And I'm a better, different, more complete, person for each of them.

A degree that doesn't change how you think simply isn't worth doing.