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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.
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Right now, I’m much more worried about the social and cultural impacts of AI.
What is it going to do to critical thinking, media, civil discourse, and disinformation?
I’m worried about *brain pollution* from AI, not so much the carbon pollution.
What is it going to do to critical thinking, media, civil discourse, and disinformation?
I’m worried about *brain pollution* from AI, not so much the carbon pollution.
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Right now, I’m much more worried about the social and cultural impacts of AI.
What is it going to do to critical thinking, media, civil discourse, and disinformation?
I’m worried about *brain pollution* from AI, not so much the carbon pollution.
What is it going to do to critical thinking, media, civil discourse, and disinformation?
I’m worried about *brain pollution* from AI, not so much the carbon pollution.
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This is potentially one of the most transformational policies this government has done if it holds its nerve.
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is potentially one of the most transformational policies this government has done if it holds its nerve.
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There's also the small matter that British schoolboys wanted to be on Churchill's side.
The argument here is that because the war was still a big subject in 1970s playgrounds, this excuses Farage's gross behaviour at the time. No, Farage went way beyond anything I remember - which was more about air-shooting phantom Nazis invading the school grounds
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There's also the small matter that British schoolboys wanted to be on Churchill's side.
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“I’m not in denial about that, but I am in open rebellion.”
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“I’m not in denial about that, but I am in open rebellion.”
Step 1 2027 - Andy Burnham MP
May 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Step 1 2027 - Andy Burnham MP
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I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Wes wants to be PM one day
A huge thanks to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social for joining us today at the Fabian Society New Year Conference.
Just like Wes, you can join us and become a Fabian today 👇
fabians.org.uk/membership/j...
Just like Wes, you can join us and become a Fabian today 👇
fabians.org.uk/membership/j...
January 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Wes wants to be PM one day
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do you think anyone in the near future will explain to Trump that if he wants other countries to up their spending on defence (in absolute terms!) then adopting policies that lower everyone's growth rate is not all that smart?
January 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
do you think anyone in the near future will explain to Trump that if he wants other countries to up their spending on defence (in absolute terms!) then adopting policies that lower everyone's growth rate is not all that smart?
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We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans.
At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
January 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans.
At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla has received almost £200m in UK grants since 2016
Elon Musk’s Tesla has received almost £200m in UK grants since 2016
Bulk of funds for electric vehicle firm relate to government’s plug-in car grant, analysis finds
buff.ly
January 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Elon Musk’s Tesla has received almost £200m in UK grants since 2016
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It is hard for public institutions to change gear and communication policies. But consider this: UK and German public institutions that post information on twitter but not on bluesky are providing free benefits and competitive advantages to a platform that aims to put the far right in power.
January 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It is hard for public institutions to change gear and communication policies. But consider this: UK and German public institutions that post information on twitter but not on bluesky are providing free benefits and competitive advantages to a platform that aims to put the far right in power.
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The state this man has left Tadcaster in is a disgrace. It’s not just commercial properties that are empty but homes too, with some empty for my entire life. It’s appalling. No one should have as much power over an entire town as Smith does.
What I like most about this article, which is as good as everyone says, is the theory put forward that Humphrey Smith was radicalised by the A64 Tadcaster By-pass. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The state this man has left Tadcaster in is a disgrace. It’s not just commercial properties that are empty but homes too, with some empty for my entire life. It’s appalling. No one should have as much power over an entire town as Smith does.
Hunter Biden would not have been prosecuted in the first place if he wasn’t the President’s son. And he only gets a pardon because he’s the President’s son. Seems fair.
December 4, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Hunter Biden would not have been prosecuted in the first place if he wasn’t the President’s son. And he only gets a pardon because he’s the President’s son. Seems fair.
Is relatively high infaltion always fatal to the governing party in a democracy?
November 6, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Is relatively high infaltion always fatal to the governing party in a democracy?
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Chancellor could change fiscal rules to allow billions of pounds more in capital spending, according to government sources
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves could change fiscal rules to allow more capital spending, say sources
Chancellor tells conference she will ‘look at the value and benefits of investment and not just the costs’
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Chancellor could change fiscal rules to allow billions of pounds more in capital spending, according to government sources
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This glorious autumn morning. Bircher muesli and blackberries for breakfast, pink cyclamen and white anemones open in the garden. Golden light through the fig tree. Refreshingly nippy too. A day to cherish.
September 14, 2024 at 8:45 AM
This glorious autumn morning. Bircher muesli and blackberries for breakfast, pink cyclamen and white anemones open in the garden. Golden light through the fig tree. Refreshingly nippy too. A day to cherish.
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I have the concepts
Of the plan
To replace Obamacare
And which you were probably
Hoping I'd have already written
Forgive me
I have so many indictments
And Bibles to sell
Of the plan
To replace Obamacare
And which you were probably
Hoping I'd have already written
Forgive me
I have so many indictments
And Bibles to sell
September 11, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I have the concepts
Of the plan
To replace Obamacare
And which you were probably
Hoping I'd have already written
Forgive me
I have so many indictments
And Bibles to sell
Of the plan
To replace Obamacare
And which you were probably
Hoping I'd have already written
Forgive me
I have so many indictments
And Bibles to sell
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I don‘t understand how people can be so sure about either candidate "winning“ or "losing“ the presidential debate. When politics are deeply polarized, &voters increasingly inhabit parallel universes, the answer is entirely subjective. If objectivity was still a thing, Trump wouldn‘t be a candidate.
September 11, 2024 at 11:51 AM
I don‘t understand how people can be so sure about either candidate "winning“ or "losing“ the presidential debate. When politics are deeply polarized, &voters increasingly inhabit parallel universes, the answer is entirely subjective. If objectivity was still a thing, Trump wouldn‘t be a candidate.
Found this 1971 guide to living in London while clearing out parents loft
September 9, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Found this 1971 guide to living in London while clearing out parents loft
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I fell in love with this image when @lccmunicipal.bsky.social posted it years ago. The white space. The sans-serif typography. The single small car lost among the concrete. The blue sky. There’s a mood and a story in it.
September 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM
I fell in love with this image when @lccmunicipal.bsky.social posted it years ago. The white space. The sans-serif typography. The single small car lost among the concrete. The blue sky. There’s a mood and a story in it.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's first commission as an independent architect, the Winslow House, is on the market in Illinois. The original parts of the interior are incredible and I'd never seen them before.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
#architecture
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
#architecture
September 4, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Frank Lloyd Wright's first commission as an independent architect, the Winslow House, is on the market in Illinois. The original parts of the interior are incredible and I'd never seen them before.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
#architecture
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
#architecture
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there is no technological or material obstacle that prevents us from building streets like this in the united states, only the rules we've stupidly imposed on ourselves to favor the needs of cars over the needs of human beings.
September 4th, 5:44am. Tachiai Road is a dog walking path. Ebara, Shinagawa Ward. Tokyo.
#Photography #Tokyo #Japan
#Photography #Tokyo #Japan
September 4, 2024 at 5:55 AM
there is no technological or material obstacle that prevents us from building streets like this in the united states, only the rules we've stupidly imposed on ourselves to favor the needs of cars over the needs of human beings.
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If Saturn were as close to Earth as the Moon, this is what it would look like:
September 4, 2024 at 4:28 AM
If Saturn were as close to Earth as the Moon, this is what it would look like: