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Ian Betteridge

@ianbetteridge.com

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Anecdontalist. He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · Dec 15

Pinning this one to my profile for the hard for reading.

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · Dec 15

People have a right to speak. They don’t have a right for anyone else to have to listen. That’s why block lists etc exist. I don’t give people the benefit of assuming good faith in the same way I wouldn’t if someone followed me down the street demanding I debate them. I’d call the cops, to be honest

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 4h

When David Attenborough dies, the Earth's crust and mantle will be shorn from its core breaking into pieces and flying across the galaxy

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4h

Reform UK Kent Councillor and Cabinet member Chris Hespe would rather save Adolf Hitler from a burning building than a trans person.

There’s more.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 4h

A quick reminder that when David Bowie died, the world quickly went bananas. If the power that is Dolly Parton also leaves this world, Earth will be entirely unprotected from cosmic evil.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 10h

Radionuclides can be good medicine, but the early days of OTC radium water were uh, regrettable

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 10h

AI is an almost textbook case of a technology that’s being misapplied. There are areas where it’s super useful - but they are often not the ones which people are trying to shoehorn it into. This often happens with new tech, and it’s striking with AI.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 10h

One of the problems with AI search is that necessarily you’re searching for something you don’t know. AI works best in scenarios where you know what good looks like, so you have that human safeguard built in, but it speeds up your work by giving you a starting point.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 10h

A plan with no downsides:

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 11h

For the MAGA right, the only lives that matter are those of right wing men. Women? Nah.

The Mighty OCD @mightyocd.bsky.social · 12h

A Fan Of Charlie Kirk And Andrew Tate Killed Two Teenage Girls Last Week

www.wonkette.com/p/a-fan-of-c...

A Fan Of Charlie Kirk And Andrew Tate Killed Two Teenage Girls Last Week

He had been stalking one of them for months.

www.wonkette.com

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 11h

This is a very good article.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 11h

They don’t really believe in free markets. Like the MAGA crowd, they want rigged markets which work to enrich them.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13h

A Russian drone operator catches a Ukrainian drone while launching his own.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 11h

lol abolishing stamp duty is a policy that will prove hugely popular with the wonk set before absolutely blowing up the moment they announce what would replace it - or, alternatively, how they'd fund the lost revenue

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 11h

It's also very selective glorification of their efficiency. They're building far more solar and wind than nuclear, but she won't mention that.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 11h

One wonders if Badenoch knows that one of the keys which makes China able to do this is the ownership structure of land. All land belongs to the state. If they want to build a nuclear power plant, there isn’t a ten year public inquiry. Maybe she wants to adopt that too?

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 11h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15h

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 15h

Prof. Gurdon was Master at Magdalene when I was an undergraduate. I remember trying to make small talk while he had students over (generously) for Sunday lunch. But I also remember him making a magnificent job of introducing Nelson Mandela, who was being made an honorary fellow of the college..(1/n)

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 1d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 1d

One of the defining characteristics of the MAGA right is that they are lazy and want to be given stuff for nothing. Whether it’s fat government contracts for the likes of Thiel, or the legendary and mythical $2000 checks everyone would get from tariffs, they all want things that involve no work.

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

A large part of why American right-wing efforts to create their own versions of all the social institutions they hate - not just media, but also academia, film and TV, etc - inevitably produce such noticeably low-quality output is simply that they just don't want to put the work in.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 1d

That is a really smart idea.

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 1d

Something I've observed with testing AI to develop ideas for content planning: you really need to know what "good" looks like, or you're stuffed. And if you have only ever done content planning using AI, it's hard to see how you will ever develop that skill.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

There is no Prime Day sale over at my tiny shop. But you can buy a hand-sewn little guy that took me many hours to create.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hi Bluesky! I just launched my Big Cartel fabric art shop, and I was wondering if you could help spread the word?

All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Any sales are colossally appreciated.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, a strawberry ghost bag, and a black creature with sharp teeth. There's a white egg with yellow embroidered flowers and purple eyeshadow and purple lips. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. The watermelon creature and the watermelon ghost are sitting on metal doll chairs.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.

Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 1d

I think we know what the question mark indicates, don’t we?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

the question mark is how you know Fox has the goods

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