Mr. Sure
@mrsure.bsky.social
Very occasionally makes music: https://soundcloud.com/mistersure
Otherwise you'll sometimes see me post music, art, book recommendations, things of this nature . He/him 🏳️🌈
Otherwise you'll sometimes see me post music, art, book recommendations, things of this nature . He/him 🏳️🌈
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Here's a bonus ep of Better Offline. I report on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for OpenAI to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 08/22/2025 · 29m
podcasts.apple.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Here's a bonus ep of Better Offline. I report on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for OpenAI to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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That Kudus touch in slowmo
August 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That Kudus touch in slowmo
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If you need more ideas on how to explain to a TD (who may get their secretary to print out emails and then handwrites the replies in fountain pen) why this is a bad idea, I have a few extra ones here (no paywall)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
The Gist: A Bad State of Affairs
This week, the talk has been about empowering the state. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If you need more ideas on how to explain to a TD (who may get their secretary to print out emails and then handwrites the replies in fountain pen) why this is a bad idea, I have a few extra ones here (no paywall)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
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Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire
Forcing companies to create access pathways would insert vulnerabilities that could be exploited
www.irishtimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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"Bluesky is dying"
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Bluesky is dying"
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
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Really, very seriously, the UK tax & finance system is dedicated to preserving the advantages accrued to people who are already rich, at the expense of supporting everyone else to be merely, modestly, prosperous. It’s a foetid, stagnant system, one that a Labour Party should be ashamed to support.
”Britain is economically dead,” argues Prof Richard Murphy. “We are being screwed by the system, and not by accident. It's by design…What we're seeing here is market failure. But it's also the consequence of deliberate political policy.”
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Economically dead: what is wrong with our economy?
The Resolution Foundation says UK incomes will flatline until 2030. This isn't an accident – it's by design; we need change
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Really, very seriously, the UK tax & finance system is dedicated to preserving the advantages accrued to people who are already rich, at the expense of supporting everyone else to be merely, modestly, prosperous. It’s a foetid, stagnant system, one that a Labour Party should be ashamed to support.
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lol
and may i add
lmao
and may i add
lmao
A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik.
jrnl.ie/6743403t
jrnl.ie/6743403t
Ivana Bacik holds up meme of bald baby JD Vance in the Dáil
Bacik said the meme was “amusing” and that the US clampdown on visa’s is “authoritarian”.
jrnl.ie
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
lol
and may i add
lmao
and may i add
lmao
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Why are house prices so high?
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Why are house prices so high?
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Israel is now bombing my father’s hometown of Yazd, so in lieu of talking about how terrified and furious I am in this moment, let me tell you a little about Yazd. 🧵
June 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Israel is now bombing my father’s hometown of Yazd, so in lieu of talking about how terrified and furious I am in this moment, let me tell you a little about Yazd. 🧵
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If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.
LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.
June 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.
LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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After the measles outbreak in Texas began, @iwriteok.bsky.social reached out and asked me if I'd be willing to do a special series for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social. Today, we released the first episode of Anti-Vax America, a five episode series that run this week. Enjoy.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Anti-Vax America: Viral Texas - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>The viral measles outbreak that began in West Texas has taken the lives of two children and one adult, and has reached over eight hundred cases, with thousands potentially exposed to the disease. T...
www.iheart.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
After the measles outbreak in Texas began, @iwriteok.bsky.social reached out and asked me if I'd be willing to do a special series for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social. Today, we released the first episode of Anti-Vax America, a five episode series that run this week. Enjoy.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
This thread will dive into its activity.
🧵 1/x.
This thread will dive into its activity.
🧵 1/x.
June 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
This thread will dive into its activity.
🧵 1/x.
This thread will dive into its activity.
🧵 1/x.
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do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser.
I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
www.zeropartydata.es
June 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser.
I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
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Analyzed 30 years of UK trans media coverage across 12,000+ articles. Found coverage exploded after 2016, with public support dropping 18% as stories shifted from rights-based to threat-based narratives. Shows manufactured controversy, not grassroots concern.
June 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Analyzed 30 years of UK trans media coverage across 12,000+ articles. Found coverage exploded after 2016, with public support dropping 18% as stories shifted from rights-based to threat-based narratives. Shows manufactured controversy, not grassroots concern.
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So grim to see in numbers
June 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So grim to see in numbers
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The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
May 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
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In 2022, Curtis Yarvin (Peter Thiel’s “in-house philosopher”) wrote that, “it is Russia’s fate to again to restore order in Europe,” but “Trump needs to let Putin really know it’s okay to do it.” Yarvin added: “There is only one way to send this message unequivocally: withdraw from Europe.” 1/
April 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In 2022, Curtis Yarvin (Peter Thiel’s “in-house philosopher”) wrote that, “it is Russia’s fate to again to restore order in Europe,” but “Trump needs to let Putin really know it’s okay to do it.” Yarvin added: “There is only one way to send this message unequivocally: withdraw from Europe.” 1/
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This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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Handy variety of blocklists here for accounts that are follow-farming, where you can block by selecting the threshold for the number of accounts they're following.
April 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Handy variety of blocklists here for accounts that are follow-farming, where you can block by selecting the threshold for the number of accounts they're following.
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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
February 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
An excellent article to explain the madness of last week's ruling
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
An excellent article to explain the madness of last week's ruling
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New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
April 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
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Incredibly good. Its longish, but I really recommend reading.
This article is so good
Definitely read it, especially if you aren't British and want to understand what is going on
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
Definitely read it, especially if you aren't British and want to understand what is going on
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
April 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Incredibly good. Its longish, but I really recommend reading.