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@loungeiguana.bsky.social
Lizard.Still sorting out my pronouns, but they/them will do fine. Cocktails. 🏳️⚧️⚧️rights, TERFs/GC will be blocked. Left-leaning but finance background, go figure. Climate change and renewable energy: ask me about my heat pump at your peril. UK-based.
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Brief PSA: If you're on the transphobia moderation list bsky.app/profile/asuk... I will never re-share any of your content.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
If the bar for harassment is so high that glinner can't get over it it must have been launched into orbit
I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If the bar for harassment is so high that glinner can't get over it it must have been launched into orbit
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i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
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how it feels to run this account
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
how it feels to run this account
I hate AI as much as the next sceptic, but I think we need to acknowledge that the Google AI overview (and crucially the accompanying links) and the only half-functional part of Google search results at the moment.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I hate AI as much as the next sceptic, but I think we need to acknowledge that the Google AI overview (and crucially the accompanying links) and the only half-functional part of Google search results at the moment.
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
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Noah Smith continues to be on The Trajectory™
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Noah Smith continues to be on The Trajectory™
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I don't know if Streeting is just a cynical opportunist, or if he's genuinely been radicalised into the TERF cult. I also don't really care: the end result is the same. This is really shitty behaviour.
1 - My son and I met with Wes Streeting last year with other families. He heard the most horrific stories of children refused blockers and how it impacts them. We begged him not to ban blockers, and he promised to work with us, to have further meetings.
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don't know if Streeting is just a cynical opportunist, or if he's genuinely been radicalised into the TERF cult. I also don't really care: the end result is the same. This is really shitty behaviour.
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All the signs are in the same font, same spacing and on the same cardboard type. Totes a grassroots protest drawing on actual local concerns there then.
NEW: Protesters targeted a Scottish primary school on Monday as English classes were put on for mothers
Signs read 'protect our schools' and 'Glasgow City Council protect our kids'
Signs read 'protect our schools' and 'Glasgow City Council protect our kids'
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
All the signs are in the same font, same spacing and on the same cardboard type. Totes a grassroots protest drawing on actual local concerns there then.
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I lost 11 seconds over 100m freestyle in the first year, the gender gap is 5 seconds, & I am 🌍 champion. Our haemoglobin levels reduce to F norms in 3 months meaning we have less delivery of oxygen to our working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites & muscle fatigue,
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I lost 11 seconds over 100m freestyle in the first year, the gender gap is 5 seconds, & I am 🌍 champion. Our haemoglobin levels reduce to F norms in 3 months meaning we have less delivery of oxygen to our working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites & muscle fatigue,
But who cares about facts if a TERF might get upset because they saw a trans woman? #IOC /s
I lost 11 seconds over 100m freestyle in the first year, the gender gap is 5 seconds, & I am 🌍 champion. Our haemoglobin levels reduce to F norms in 3 months meaning we have less delivery of oxygen to our working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites & muscle fatigue,
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
But who cares about facts if a TERF might get upset because they saw a trans woman? #IOC /s
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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“…that's a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.”
But whoever this is in the Royal Canadian Air Force is not being paid enough. 👏👏👏🏳️⚧️🇨🇦
But whoever this is in the Royal Canadian Air Force is not being paid enough. 👏👏👏🏳️⚧️🇨🇦
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“…that's a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.”
But whoever this is in the Royal Canadian Air Force is not being paid enough. 👏👏👏🏳️⚧️🇨🇦
But whoever this is in the Royal Canadian Air Force is not being paid enough. 👏👏👏🏳️⚧️🇨🇦
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
This is a fascinating bit of chart pr0n 🧵
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is a fascinating bit of chart pr0n 🧵
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It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
Next time some right winger moans about being "cancelled" in their national newspaper column, remember this
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Next time some right winger moans about being "cancelled" in their national newspaper column, remember this
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
em dashes have no valid use in British English, so this is a better test on the east of the Atlantic
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
em dashes have no valid use in British English, so this is a better test on the east of the Atlantic
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This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".
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Paul Brown's succinct summary of the past 30 years of climate diplomacy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Paul Brown's succinct summary of the past 30 years of climate diplomacy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...