Jack Allnutt
@jack.allnutt.net
He/him
Public-sector Software Engineer 👨💻
Lib Dem 🔶
Living in #Manchester 🐝 (well, technically #Salford)
Mastodon: @[email protected] (you can follow on bsky: @jack.mastodon.allnutt.net.ap.brid.gy)
Twitter: @allnutt_eu (disused since 2022)
Public-sector Software Engineer 👨💻
Lib Dem 🔶
Living in #Manchester 🐝 (well, technically #Salford)
Mastodon: @[email protected] (you can follow on bsky: @jack.mastodon.allnutt.net.ap.brid.gy)
Twitter: @allnutt_eu (disused since 2022)
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AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
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"The emails do not indicate any wrongdoing"
Astonishing levels of benefit of the doubt going on here to say an email to a convicted sex-trafficker asking for "inappropriate friends" doesn't indicate any wrongdoing. It bloody well does.
Astonishing levels of benefit of the doubt going on here to say an email to a convicted sex-trafficker asking for "inappropriate friends" doesn't indicate any wrongdoing. It bloody well does.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The emails do not indicate any wrongdoing"
Astonishing levels of benefit of the doubt going on here to say an email to a convicted sex-trafficker asking for "inappropriate friends" doesn't indicate any wrongdoing. It bloody well does.
Astonishing levels of benefit of the doubt going on here to say an email to a convicted sex-trafficker asking for "inappropriate friends" doesn't indicate any wrongdoing. It bloody well does.
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I think we're going to have to switch the Enigma machine back on to break this impenetrable code.
December 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think we're going to have to switch the Enigma machine back on to break this impenetrable code.
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turning up in my bedazzled Rousseau t-shirt and asking if we're going to have a problem
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
turning up in my bedazzled Rousseau t-shirt and asking if we're going to have a problem
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[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
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What are the chances the White House demands that the video gets hash-matched for designation as terrorist content, for enforced takedowns wherever it appears.
Yes this is how my brain works.
Yes this is how my brain works.
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What are the chances the White House demands that the video gets hash-matched for designation as terrorist content, for enforced takedowns wherever it appears.
Yes this is how my brain works.
Yes this is how my brain works.
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Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
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These people have always been this way
Good grief: a genuine, senior Reform candidate saying we should force Jews and Muslims to commit blasphamy to 'prove their sincerity to Christians'.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
This is just straight up racism and the fact Reform can't disown him says everything.
Reform candidate slammed over 'bacon' religion comment as Farage faces pressure
A senior Reform UK candidate faces fresh criticism over 'unacceptable' comments suggesting non-Christians should eat 'bacon' to prove their sincerity to the religion
www.mirror.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
These people have always been this way
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I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
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Some signs of progress on NPR, which was meant to be unveiled at the spending review, then conference, then the budget.
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
as.ft.com/r/bdec77e4-3...
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
as.ft.com/r/bdec77e4-3...
Ministers set to lay out details for ‘Northern Powerhouse’ rail scheme in new year
[FREE TO READ] Timelines and funding remain unclear for proposal that has been promised for a decade
as.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Some signs of progress on NPR, which was meant to be unveiled at the spending review, then conference, then the budget.
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
as.ft.com/r/bdec77e4-3...
But when it does surface, suspect it may be light on detail
as.ft.com/r/bdec77e4-3...
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I just don't think you can learn things about actual people without involving actual people.
Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
"We risk inheriting a future in which institutions answer to synthetic publics rather than real ones" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I just don't think you can learn things about actual people without involving actual people.
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Italian broadcast workers union calls for Eurovision 2026 boycott
Italian broadcast workers union calls for Eurovision 2026 boycott
The USB union at Italy's state broadcaster RAI has begun a petition calling for Italy to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel’s participation. It's seeking 3,000 signatures and urging RAI to follow five other countries in quitting the song competition.
l.euronews.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Italian broadcast workers union calls for Eurovision 2026 boycott
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I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product
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*gasps and clutches laptop screen*
GIVE IT ME
GIVE IT ME
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
*gasps and clutches laptop screen*
GIVE IT ME
GIVE IT ME
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This does seem bizarrely slow. @philbrickellmp.bsky.social raised this story in parliament in March and leader of the House Lucy Powell said the OfS were looking into it.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This does seem bizarrely slow. @philbrickellmp.bsky.social raised this story in parliament in March and leader of the House Lucy Powell said the OfS were looking into it.
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A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online. The streaming platform said it’s ‘actively monitoring’ the incident.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/dj0S
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/dj0S
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online. The streaming platform said it’s ‘actively monitoring’ the incident.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/dj0S
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/dj0S
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The DoJ made it easy to download everything that they released, which any experienced journalist does with document dumps by default (even if they don’t make it easy).
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The DoJ made it easy to download everything that they released, which any experienced journalist does with document dumps by default (even if they don’t make it easy).
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
So deleting without explanation is just dumb. It’s never going to work. It’s going to directly draw attention to what you delete.
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I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
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The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.
I was talking to a Labour MP the other day who said it would be easier to get behind Wes if he could just mask his ambition a little bit...
Tell me you’re positioning for a leadership bid without telling me :….Taxes too high as opposed to poorly structured?
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This has been said a million different times and ways and it never seems to penetrate but I’ll try again: Using AI to “do” art isn’t possible. Art is not the process of coming up with a good idea to get started and then executing it flawlessly in the style of someone you admire.
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This has been said a million different times and ways and it never seems to penetrate but I’ll try again: Using AI to “do” art isn’t possible. Art is not the process of coming up with a good idea to get started and then executing it flawlessly in the style of someone you admire.
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I had never even heard a hint that generational upward mobility had been higher in the UK than in the US for decades, until seeing that second chart.
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I had never even heard a hint that generational upward mobility had been higher in the UK than in the US for decades, until seeing that second chart.
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Altman is such a fucking fraud that he's just openly admitting now it's a data collection exercise. These companies just want your data. It's always been about getting your data. They're not profitable so all the can do is consume. Consume energy. Consume memory, consume data. Frauds.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Altman is such a fucking fraud that he's just openly admitting now it's a data collection exercise. These companies just want your data. It's always been about getting your data. They're not profitable so all the can do is consume. Consume energy. Consume memory, consume data. Frauds.