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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 3h

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

Another American with a humiliation fetish.

Brandon @bcfox.bsky.social · 14h

watching great British bake off and once again asking if the UK is aware that the war ended

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

The 5 year old told me she saw some small flies go into a hole at the back of the cupboard under the stairs and I should go in and have a look, so I crawled in and she's shut and bolted to door behind me. I have about 5 hours of battery life and the BBC iPlayer installed. More fool her.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 7h

Suspect one side of that open relationship is getting more of it than the other...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 22h

Is this better or worse than the entire AI industry being run by people who read science fiction as teenagers and thought it was a manual for the future?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Lobbying isn't working, what else can they do? Hope the FDA collapsing doesn't increase costs elsewhere...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

If you perform the ritual you will protect the village. Cargo cult democracy.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

And that's only going to happen with the very real application of power in the sense of organised people with weapons using physical violence to restore democracy and the rule of law. Whether that's a revolution or if somehow the next election is free, a Democrat President.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

There were several layers of power specifically designed to stop the appointment of people like him. Every single one failed because the majority of Americans are cowards with no principles.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Like I said. The institutions are rotten. If you don't exercise power it doesn't exist. They haven't exercised it. Now they're dead as a brake on dictatorship.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

The systems are so rotten, and power so concentrated in one man and his lackeys, that nothing can be done through regulatory, legal and political systems. Sooner or later this will be realised and that's when people will die in numbers.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

It's the proof, imo, that America is never coming back as a democracy without some form of internal conflict to settle the issues (again). It's such a crazy set of beliefs that even the most authoritarian, personality cult led states wouldn't go for it and yet nobody in the USA can stop it.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

What, does he want people to return to the days of using a pork sausage to quench the flow?

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

The point is healthcare is fundamental in human societies.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Every village has a healer.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

It's because Kennedy is a crank. There are no business interests who could benefit. He's just a madman and the entire scientific and political systems there just seem paralysed by cowardice.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

No. The basic argument of Independent SAGE was you can't trust this government appointed body, trust us instead. But SAGE followed the evidence much better than ISAGE.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Just bizarre not only that they're dismantling the most fundamental parts of the state infrastructure necessary for civilisation, healthcare is usually the first thing built and the last destroyed, but that nobody is capable of stopping them.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

That's the universe's way of telling you need a new fridge. A decent modern one will not do this.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmmm, I don't think members of 'Independent SAGE' are well placed to talk about the risks of politicisation of scientific bodies and the weakening of the use of evidence given the whole 'Independent SAGE' thing.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Rented a hall, hired an entertainer

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly underestimated the acceptance rate on the youngest's birthday party... It's half term, we'll only get half the class at most we thought...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

Blair'll be back

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

Which is to say the legitimate, sellable, uses of LLMs are going to be limited by the supply of human expertise, and that's going to put a much lower cap on the market than the amount invested and the headline grabbing statements would indicate is necessary to survive.

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