Simon Scott
@simonscott1975.bsky.social
Mythical regulator.
Bi-furious one-way time traveller.
Mucks about with a puppet and blender.
Bi-furious one-way time traveller.
Mucks about with a puppet and blender.
Taking a huge risk on Bluesky with that second sentence.
Trump demands Universal cancels Columbo - claims show is stupid because they tell you at the start who the murderer is. Claims Peter Falk is a phony Italian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Taking a huge risk on Bluesky with that second sentence.
Trump demands Universal cancels Columbo - claims show is stupid because they tell you at the start who the murderer is. Claims Peter Falk is a phony Italian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Trump demands Universal cancels Columbo - claims show is stupid because they tell you at the start who the murderer is. Claims Peter Falk is a phony Italian.
Weird watching the oligarch rightwing media having to begrudgingly admit what we already know about NF, BJ etc.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Weird watching the oligarch rightwing media having to begrudgingly admit what we already know about NF, BJ etc.
Bill Maher quit stand-up? I thought he gave up years ago?
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Bill Maher quit stand-up? I thought he gave up years ago?
Trump should concede Florida to Ukraine as a sweetener.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Trump should concede Florida to Ukraine as a sweetener.
I guess NF's defence of peddling the same talking points as Gill is going to be that Russia wasn't paying him to do that, he was just doing it for funsies.
(Though I doubt very much that there isn't a money trail, probably through the usual suspects.)
(Though I doubt very much that there isn't a money trail, probably through the usual suspects.)
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I guess NF's defence of peddling the same talking points as Gill is going to be that Russia wasn't paying him to do that, he was just doing it for funsies.
(Though I doubt very much that there isn't a money trail, probably through the usual suspects.)
(Though I doubt very much that there isn't a money trail, probably through the usual suspects.)
Has Gill flipped on Farage yet?
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Has Gill flipped on Farage yet?
Uncritical AI boosting there from government and the Today Programme, flying in the face of research into the impact of chatbots for businesses.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Uncritical AI boosting there from government and the Today Programme, flying in the face of research into the impact of chatbots for businesses.
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Congratulations Andrew! Putting the Great back into Great Britain!
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Congratulations Andrew! Putting the Great back into Great Britain!
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Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.
A growing conviction that a lot of the money that's being invested in LLM software and infrastructure is just taking a circuitous route into a few men's pockets.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A growing conviction that a lot of the money that's being invested in LLM software and infrastructure is just taking a circuitous route into a few men's pockets.
Love it when this stuff happens. Just the sort of order you'd make if there wasn't a memo, right? Right?
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Love it when this stuff happens. Just the sort of order you'd make if there wasn't a memo, right? Right?
Oo! Step up from sleeping under his desk.
an easily-overlooked detail in this piece: Musk appears to be living out of a hotel suite these days, which strikes me as a subtle but important indicator of where he is in his personal Howard Hughes arc
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Musk Is Back in Politics. Does He Want to Stay a While?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Oo! Step up from sleeping under his desk.
It's not just that it's wrong, but that it's wrong so confidently.
LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's not just that it's wrong, but that it's wrong so confidently.
Blocking Motley Fool from my news feeds because of their incessant second-degree AI slop articles.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Blocking Motley Fool from my news feeds because of their incessant second-degree AI slop articles.
Weird to think this guy's chatbot, THIS GUY'S chatbot, is denying the holocaust.
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Weird to think this guy's chatbot, THIS GUY'S chatbot, is denying the holocaust.
Scraping the Epstein emails for the next training round of ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Scraping the Epstein emails for the next training round of ChatGPT.
AI might be a bubble so the smart thing to do is invest in the companies building the infrastructure for the bubble? Isn't that... um... nonsense?
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
AI might be a bubble so the smart thing to do is invest in the companies building the infrastructure for the bubble? Isn't that... um... nonsense?
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
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Working on new ones up till Christmas. A long read and a playlist, with a new episode each Sunday. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)
For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Working on new ones up till Christmas. A long read and a playlist, with a new episode each Sunday. #FirstLastAnything
Interesting to hear an interview with Sundar Pichai on the Today Programme. We're getting mainstream questioning about the bubble and the fact that the technology doesn't work, but still feel like boosters are getting an easy ride. No countering or follow-up questions.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Interesting to hear an interview with Sundar Pichai on the Today Programme. We're getting mainstream questioning about the bubble and the fact that the technology doesn't work, but still feel like boosters are getting an easy ride. No countering or follow-up questions.
Trump dies and is pleased to find himself in Heaven. After a while, though, he grows a little bored. Everyone's nice. No-one gets pulled into his grief. He can't grab anyone by the pussy, etc. so he complains.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump dies and is pleased to find himself in Heaven. After a while, though, he grows a little bored. Everyone's nice. No-one gets pulled into his grief. He can't grab anyone by the pussy, etc. so he complains.
The BBC would be right to challenge any defamation lawsuit from Donald Trump. You can't libel the dead.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The BBC would be right to challenge any defamation lawsuit from Donald Trump. You can't libel the dead.