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Jared 🔶

@quantumjared.bsky.social

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UK physicist 👨🏻‍🔬 with a US partner, rock climber 🧗🏻‍♂️, social liberal 🧡, LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, YIMBY 🚆🏠 (he/him). Hoping the world doesn’t go fully to shit in the next five years 😬 PS: genocide apologia, transphobia, spam, & dickheadery will all get you blocked

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’m seeing a polar bear standing on a crescent iceberg in my morning coffee…

If this had been intentional I’d be very proud of myself! 😂

A top down view of a cup of coffee (latte style). Silhouetted in the pattern of white and brown is what looks like a polar bear on top of a white blob

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 4h

I love how Zelenskyy has worked out the key to getting US support is to say Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize 😂

Zelenskyy says he will nominate Trump for Nobel peace prize if he secures Ukraine ceasefire – Europe live

US president has claimed he deserves the award for what he has described as his work in securing ‘numerous’ peace deals

www.theguardian.com

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 9h

Well, I went for a diagnosis and got told I couldn’t possibly have it because I got good grades and a PhD 🙃

was wondering if the guy I was speaking to had ever met a single academic

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 23h

This is astonishing. So many “petty” crimes, that cost people hundreds or thousands and disrupt their lives, just don’t matter any more to the police.

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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 1d

British Transport Police's decision to not investigate bike thefts outside train stations where bikes have been left for more than two hours is really concerning. It could effectively decriminalise it.

Together with Lib Dem colleagues I've written to the BTP to get clarity.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 23h

We can in fact follow the “UAE’s example of energy”, and make use of our gigantic natural energy resources (offshore & onshore wind). But somehow I don’t think that’s what he means.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

I think they offered me a Win11 upgrade (maybe after a restart or a regular update?), I declined, and then it either came up straight afterwards or it was in the update settings. I can’t remember exactly, sorry.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

take your AI slop somewhere else please

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

I got offered free enrolment into extended support, until 2026. Strongly suspect they’ll keep extending it while significant numbers of people are still using it lol

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Feeds and people still work, at least

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, completely broken.

A search for the letter “a” on Bluesky, displaying no results.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Deal, can we get rid of the rest too?

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian has published a list of all the children killed by Israeli action in Gaza.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that last bit absolutely sucks.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

well yes, those are very different technologies. And it’s in the Hive TOS too.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s in the TOS. Every single social media site uses automated content labelling. It’s impossible not to, otherwise you’d need a literal army of humans to go through every image - and they’d be subjected to the most vile stuff, including literal CSAM. Automated labelling is not generative AI.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming they’re flat out lying in all public statements and their TOS is a pretty fanciful concept, without evidence.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

They’re claiming Bluesky images aren’t used for training. It’s still bad, but maybe not quite as bad as everyone is assuming.

bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

Every appeal gets reviewed by moderators, but literally no social media site at scale can scan user content in a timely fashion for violations using only humans. They do not retain or train on any Bsky user data or images.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

This will do untold devastation to marine life.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

I found an LLM was absolutely god-tier at helping me understand someone else’s code. Like once it saved me loads of work writing my own implementation of someone else’s code, because I simply asked it to go through the original code, write docstrings + useful comments, and explain the structure.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

would you mind explaining how sending in troops to put down protests, deporting people to torture camps, putting up massive tariffs on international trade, hounding people for free speech, trying to dismantle our very democracy, etc. is “liberal”?

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

do you know what liberalism is? Or is it just “stuff I don’t like”?

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

I mean plenty of people are hosting PDSs on their own servers, as far as I can tell. That is obviously the only way you’re going to get full independence.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

The difference between the GOP and liberalism is not “infinitesimal”, what are you on about?

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

thank fuck

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, you’ll be sorry after they bring back the death penalty* specifically for people with inconveniently placed letterboxes

*administered personally by a bungee-jumping axe-wielding Ed Davey