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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 13h

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 4h

Ditto and apparently now we have to do so only after carefully checking for the potential of arrest first:)

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 4h

I never put even a closed cup with coffee left into a bin , because it seems a grotty thing to do to whichever poor soul has to empty the bin!

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 5h

'Piccadilly Circus' (from 'Looking Round London', c.1938) by Helen Carstairs

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 13h

The convoluted links, by the by, amount to
- I want to buy widgets but my business can’t afford them bc makes no money
- but without the widgets, no business
- I go to the widget maker. ‘Hey what if you invested in my business and I used the money to buy widgets?’

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone who cares about art and creativity would have to get together and throw a parade?

The Economist @economist.com · 13h

The ubiquity of the startup, plus its convoluted links to other AI firms, is raising eyebrows. To understand the model-maker’s centrality to the whole AI enterprise, consider a thought experiment: what if OpenAI went bust econ.st/3WeWvIA

Illustration: Brett Ryder

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 13h

It is truly nuts how many drivers beep all the time for nothing. I’ve had my car over a decade and in all that time used the horn once when a vehicle was blocking our close. I’d never use it when annoyed bc quite aside from owt else, the other driver might be a lunatic and not take it well:)

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve never been clear on who pays for policing football matches - I had thought maybe the club must pay. But they don’t I guess??? That’s bonkers. They should pay and in turn so should the spectators (so if you’re a bunch of spectators likely to be thugs afterward, your ticket costs more)

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 19h

'Piccadilly Circus' (1960) by LS Lowry

(Private collection)

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 19h

Sigh. Buying stock on margin if you weren’t a professional was idiotic in 1929, and it’s idiotic now.

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 20h

Having said that given the more likely cause of a crash round about now maybe one would just be even more maddened by the non-intelligent IP-theft mania than already

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 20h

Just starting Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book. thought occurs that should we get another crash, anyone who cares about art and intellectual property could console themselves - well, least no more blithering copy about LLMs, either from tech bros pushing their crap, or the gullible

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 20h

I shall get my hopes up that they had just sold out of seitan and removed it from the menu for a bit then:)

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 20h

U.K. mind, maybe different in US? They still have another one that’s veggie if not vegan, but some of us aren’t keen on aubergines:)
Sigh. I really liked that katsu .

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 21h

I went to order from Wagamama the other day and found to my horror that the vegan katsu had vanished. Ended up not ordering anything (I’m not even vegan I just liked it , always prefer to not eat meat if possible )

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

Ah my regular book store :)

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'Recent Past', Waterstones, Piccadilly (2004) by John Duffin
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

You mean kind of, Surete go to their informants and it’s like ‘ah well only BobTheFastAndGoodWithArmouredGlass could pull this off’

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'Piccadilly Circus Underground Station' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

Am sat pondering exactly how much grief I’d get at work if I posted a link to your excellent piece on channel:) (my work have drunk the LLM drek kool aid)

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic :) but I remember that series, that Vong group were genuinely scary if I recall . And they were how the expanded universe Han/leia son originally turned to the dark side ?

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

By the by the new David exhibition is awesome do go if you can

eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who spends a decent amount of time in the Louvre for a non resident of France (most recently on Friday, here’s some nice art:) I am getting a bit ‘will people stop being mean it can’t be easy to look after that many items can it’ defensive :)

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

All the expanded universe books should become canon again and anything to do with the latest films should be under ‘we’re sorry oh dear that was dreadful wasn’t it’-verse

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 1d

The number of people who clearly spend time on there and not in an ‘oh bugger I can’t avoid this if I want a new job can I’ way continually astonishes me