Iain Òg
@ogoftheskye.bsky.social
Whatever it is I probably haven't seen it. Left. Socialist Republic of Scotland (pending). "AI" sceptic. Blocked by Sleaford Mods. He/him. I have music over at https://gunaite.bandcamp.com
There are countless better writers who aren't cunts.
There are countless better composers who aren't cunts.
And similarly in any other creative pursuit you'd care to mention. Even if you haven't heard of them.
There are countless better composers who aren't cunts.
And similarly in any other creative pursuit you'd care to mention. Even if you haven't heard of them.
January 18, 2026 at 1:50 AM
There are countless better writers who aren't cunts.
There are countless better composers who aren't cunts.
And similarly in any other creative pursuit you'd care to mention. Even if you haven't heard of them.
There are countless better composers who aren't cunts.
And similarly in any other creative pursuit you'd care to mention. Even if you haven't heard of them.
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...
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LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
unlike this study which actually does establish a causal relationship between using LLMs and cognitive decline arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
Think I might have turned a centre-left acquaintance full on left this evening. Too soon to be sure, but such is the power of whisky and no discretion at new year.
January 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Think I might have turned a centre-left acquaintance full on left this evening. Too soon to be sure, but such is the power of whisky and no discretion at new year.
Only thing I'm taking from this is that US homeland security runs on ket and AI image generators.
An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Only thing I'm taking from this is that US homeland security runs on ket and AI image generators.
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
This is ironically funny given how much accelerationists previously put so much stock on "Moore's Law" (which was never a law in the first place).
Silicon Valley isn’t just polluting our cultural and information systems with AI slop and destroying the environment in the process.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
They’re also poised to force consumer electronics to shoot up in price because they’re buying up so much hardware for data centers.
Chip shortages threaten 20% rise in consumer electronics prices
Manufacturers and analysts warn AI data centre build-out is crowding out market for semiconductors
www.ft.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is ironically funny given how much accelerationists previously put so much stock on "Moore's Law" (which was never a law in the first place).
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Kerry Godliman is doing voiceover ads for landlord insurance. Just in case you didn't hate the comedy panelist circuit enough already.
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Kerry Godliman is doing voiceover ads for landlord insurance. Just in case you didn't hate the comedy panelist circuit enough already.
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Someone's had a nightmare here 😂
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Someone's had a nightmare here 😂
But but but but you have no idea of what it will be capable of VERY SOON
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
But but but but you have no idea of what it will be capable of VERY SOON
This must be a very rare instance of a centrist being honest.
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This must be a very rare instance of a centrist being honest.
Imagine if you could interview the figures in that Hopper painting, yet they turned out to be this boring.
December 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Imagine if you could interview the figures in that Hopper painting, yet they turned out to be this boring.
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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happy solstice from our family to yours
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
happy solstice from our family to yours
An old centrist/conservative trope is "Name a country where socialism has ever worked"
An easy answer is various countries in south and central America. Only for the CIA strangle them in their birth, or not too far into their development...
An easy answer is various countries in south and central America. Only for the CIA strangle them in their birth, or not too far into their development...
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
An old centrist/conservative trope is "Name a country where socialism has ever worked"
An easy answer is various countries in south and central America. Only for the CIA strangle them in their birth, or not too far into their development...
An easy answer is various countries in south and central America. Only for the CIA strangle them in their birth, or not too far into their development...
Trump's defamation suite against the BBC, whatever happens, is going to end up with reasons to hate the BBC even more. It's not like they're going to go "fuck you". Instead they'll capitulate even further, dilute their journalism even more, kill any opportunity for voices on the left to be heard...
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Trump's defamation suite against the BBC, whatever happens, is going to end up with reasons to hate the BBC even more. It's not like they're going to go "fuck you". Instead they'll capitulate even further, dilute their journalism even more, kill any opportunity for voices on the left to be heard...
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What conservatives mean when they say they are "under attack for their views" is that they are being accurately understood as the sort of people who hold the sort of views conservatives hold, and that makes them afraid they will be treated the way conservatives treat those whose views they scorn.
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What conservatives mean when they say they are "under attack for their views" is that they are being accurately understood as the sort of people who hold the sort of views conservatives hold, and that makes them afraid they will be treated the way conservatives treat those whose views they scorn.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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There are British people in prison who have been hospitalised after being on hunger strike - if it was for anything other than the Palestinian cause it would be front page news. As it is, no media outlet is even slightly interested.
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There are British people in prison who have been hospitalised after being on hunger strike - if it was for anything other than the Palestinian cause it would be front page news. As it is, no media outlet is even slightly interested.
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It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
World cup draw thoughts: I'm more pissed we're not going to Mexico City and Monterray, rather than on who we actually got. Haiti in Boston as an opener is total banana skin meh.
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
World cup draw thoughts: I'm more pissed we're not going to Mexico City and Monterray, rather than on who we actually got. Haiti in Boston as an opener is total banana skin meh.