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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 1h

Found the tourist

Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 1h

This is anti-Polish discrimination, because in Polish if you exclude recent loanwords basically everything is pronounced like it's spelled

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 2d

Ofgem just completely shat the bed here, we need more charger capacity or else other EV adoption efforts are pointless

www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ele...

Shock costs could cripple the UK's EV charging network | Autocar

Operators questioning viability of big charging hubs after hike in standing fees

www.autocar.co.uk

Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 3d

Did... Did he just try to call the rocket woke? I can't tell, maybe he just chose to sound like a Looney Tunes character

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 5d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 5d

These are not my cats but they like to hang out in the yard

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 5d

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness seems like an elaborate promotion for the soundtrack album

Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 5d

Oh is it now fashionable to leave Bluesky now?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6d

ironically, the whole Riyadh Comedy Festival has given me a worse opinion of every one of those comedians except Pete Davidson. there's something to be said for without shame demanding, "you guys kinda killed my dad, I'm gonna need $2 million for an hour's work."

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 7d

Possibly good news for criminal defence lawyers?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine selling someone a product and saying "yeah but don't expect immediate results". Pretty much only works with certain pharmaceuticals

Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 8d

So if a person breaks traffic law they get a fine, but if a robot does it, the company that owns it gets a "notice of non-compliance" which doesn't sound like it has a financial penalty attached? I'm glad we're clarifying two tier policing I guess

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Beanzy @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 9d

I am the servant of Sutekh. He needs no other.

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 12d

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Ghost Trains Of Old England - BBC Sounds

Ian Marchant travels on the trains that don't appear in timetables, to unused stations.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 12d

Keir Starmer but is an empty suit, a compliant moderate-right useful idiot for whoever he's met last. He's a large language model trained on Blair and Cameron governments. He'll do the usual thing of setting up the instruments of oppression for the next lot, the openly evil ones.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

www.independent.co.uk

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 13d

I'm so Palantired

tef @tef.bsky.social · 13d

re id cards in the uk, we all saw this earlier, right

www.gov.uk/government/n...

New strategic partnership to unlock billions and boost military AI and innovation

The UK will be at the leading edge of defence innovation as the government signs a new partnership with Palantir to unlock billions in investment and deliver on the Government’s Plan for Change.

www.gov.uk

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 13d

Tony is that you?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

www.bbc.com

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 14d

You know, if the government introduces digital ID, maybe they'll do something about phone theft as that'll instantly become a significantly more harmful crime.

No? Oh well.

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 14d

A while ago I thought I was depressed but maybe it's a justified reaction at how grim everything is these days

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 15d

Algorithms interview question: write a program that finds all the possible loops in this graph

anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 15d

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

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Filip @ftw.bsky.social · 15d

Literally just passing the same £10 note around a bunch of times

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 16d

And also by the death of local papers. Nobody is learning how to do civic reporting any more, how to cover councils, how to look for stories in dull paperwork. There's no bedrock of training; kids start covering politics as personality-driven rumour and gossip.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16d

Theory: much of this is explained by journalism being quite a young business (crap money at lower levels, lot of bottlenecks, people age out). A lot of political journalists barely remember Westminster before things went nuts c2014. Not enough of the lobby grew up in peacetime.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16d

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

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