John Nurick
@jmnurick.bsky.social
Retired, King George Sound. Makes things including photographs, furniture, recipes, software, coffee. Not enough time for reading.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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Microsoft's own documentation says that Copilot is great, except for those rare circumstances where you're using your spreadsheet to do something with numbers, look up data, do finances, or need it to consistently return the same result.
Other than those outliers, you're grand.
Other than those outliers, you're grand.
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Microsoft's own documentation says that Copilot is great, except for those rare circumstances where you're using your spreadsheet to do something with numbers, look up data, do finances, or need it to consistently return the same result.
Other than those outliers, you're grand.
Other than those outliers, you're grand.
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God, there really is some disgusting stuff on X!
January 9, 2026 at 6:49 AM
God, there really is some disgusting stuff on X!
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Enough. Americans, do you have a republic or an autocracy?
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
Full Story: bit.ly/4jsbyJC
Full Story: bit.ly/4jsbyJC
January 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Enough. Americans, do you have a republic or an autocracy?
Excellent contribution to said thread about university rectors in the Low Countries
“How she brought the bad news from AI to Ghent”
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Excellent contribution to said thread about university rectors in the Low Countries
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beyond belief that the NSW Health Minister and zionist lobbyists reject the right of Aboriginal people to mourn their relatives killed in custody by citing community safety and “a time for grief”. Are Aboriginal people not the community? Victims of massacres on their own soil?
Link in alt text.
Link in alt text.
January 7, 2026 at 10:08 PM
beyond belief that the NSW Health Minister and zionist lobbyists reject the right of Aboriginal people to mourn their relatives killed in custody by citing community safety and “a time for grief”. Are Aboriginal people not the community? Victims of massacres on their own soil?
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Link in alt text.
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Fed up with Copilot popping up in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook?
Learn how to switch it off completely across Microsoft 365 apps — no more #AI intrusions
#copilot #microsoft365 #microsoftword #excel
office-watch.com/2025/turn-co...
Learn how to switch it off completely across Microsoft 365 apps — no more #AI intrusions
#copilot #microsoft365 #microsoftword #excel
office-watch.com/2025/turn-co...
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Fed up with Copilot popping up in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook?
Learn how to switch it off completely across Microsoft 365 apps — no more #AI intrusions
#copilot #microsoft365 #microsoftword #excel
office-watch.com/2025/turn-co...
Learn how to switch it off completely across Microsoft 365 apps — no more #AI intrusions
#copilot #microsoft365 #microsoftword #excel
office-watch.com/2025/turn-co...
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Hi Laura, Tim Bousquet, of the Halifax Examiner, wrote this hypothetical scenario piece today. It's worth reading for all Canadians:
The arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America - Halifax Examiner
As with the once-independent countries of Texas and California before it, Canada rightly should become a state under the flag of the United States.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hi Laura, Tim Bousquet, of the Halifax Examiner, wrote this hypothetical scenario piece today. It's worth reading for all Canadians:
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I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
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I spent weeks watching hundreds of videos from Jan 6th to place them in time and space as part of a collaboration with Richard Engel, and I can categorically say this version of events is bullshit.
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I spent weeks watching hundreds of videos from Jan 6th to place them in time and space as part of a collaboration with Richard Engel, and I can categorically say this version of events is bullshit.
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Folks who still post on X, is this finally a red line for you? If not, then you seem to have no moral objections to using a CSAM site.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Folks who still post on X, is this finally a red line for you? If not, then you seem to have no moral objections to using a CSAM site.
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How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.
January 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.
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Hinter den erleuchteten Fenstern sitzt Edward Hopper und spannt eine Leinwand auf den Rahmen.
January 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Hinter den erleuchteten Fenstern sitzt Edward Hopper und spannt eine Leinwand auf den Rahmen.
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards
January 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards
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Trump acting like Putin (something Anne Applebaum also observed in recent podcast - concluding US now an oligarchizing nation whose foreign policy designed to advance business interests and not the greater US)
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trump acting like Putin (something Anne Applebaum also observed in recent podcast - concluding US now an oligarchizing nation whose foreign policy designed to advance business interests and not the greater US)
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Amazing record for the FIFA
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Amazing record for the FIFA
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Something that was pretty troubling about all of this -- besides the nature of the content, of course -- was the nonchalance and even glee with which this stuff was generated, like it was all just one big meme. Felt like a normalization/mainstreaming of some of the worst parts of digital life.
January 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Something that was pretty troubling about all of this -- besides the nature of the content, of course -- was the nonchalance and even glee with which this stuff was generated, like it was all just one big meme. Felt like a normalization/mainstreaming of some of the worst parts of digital life.
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Earlier this week, a large number of X/Twitter users started using Grok to create nonconsensual nude and sexualized images of real women and alleged girls.
While digging through this content, we noticed a subcurrent of users asking Grok to depict women in degrading and/or violent scenarios.
While digging through this content, we noticed a subcurrent of users asking Grok to depict women in degrading and/or violent scenarios.
January 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Earlier this week, a large number of X/Twitter users started using Grok to create nonconsensual nude and sexualized images of real women and alleged girls.
While digging through this content, we noticed a subcurrent of users asking Grok to depict women in degrading and/or violent scenarios.
While digging through this content, we noticed a subcurrent of users asking Grok to depict women in degrading and/or violent scenarios.
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NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...