Paul Harman
@paulianharman.bsky.social
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Hey everybody, tiny suggestion, let's put quotes around "AI" every time we write it, and make finger air quotes every time we say it.
a woman speaking into a mtv microphone
Alt: Jennifer Lawrence uses air quotes
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hey everybody, tiny suggestion, let's put quotes around "AI" every time we write it, and make finger air quotes every time we say it.
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So very “Christian” to bomb another country on Christmas Day. This is the same guy who has practically begged for the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So very “Christian” to bomb another country on Christmas Day. This is the same guy who has practically begged for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Posh hotels: stop tucking the duvet under the mattress, you fucking maniacs.
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Posh hotels: stop tucking the duvet under the mattress, you fucking maniacs.
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Okay. I’m going to stop looking stuff up online. It’s getting too unreliable - AI inventing facts, Wikipedia being Wikipedia, Google deliberately making their search engine worse to get more ad clicks.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Okay. I’m going to stop looking stuff up online. It’s getting too unreliable - AI inventing facts, Wikipedia being Wikipedia, Google deliberately making their search engine worse to get more ad clicks.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
I have books. Lots of books. I shall use them instead.
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Every day that goes by, I become more and more demoralized by the sheer amount of tech debt being accumulated through reliance on LLMs.
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Every day that goes by, I become more and more demoralized by the sheer amount of tech debt being accumulated through reliance on LLMs.
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Really great that one billionaire bankrolling nuisance lawsuits by cranks can force a restructure of our entire society in order to impose discrimination against a marginalised minority. Real fucking triumph of democracy there.
The Women's Institute has been forced into excluding trans women too
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
Press Releases
www.thewi.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Really great that one billionaire bankrolling nuisance lawsuits by cranks can force a restructure of our entire society in order to impose discrimination against a marginalised minority. Real fucking triumph of democracy there.
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Hey, nice well-functioning system you've got there. What if we were to.... completely ruin it by injecting A.I. into it for no reason? Would that be something you might be interested in?
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hey, nice well-functioning system you've got there. What if we were to.... completely ruin it by injecting A.I. into it for no reason? Would that be something you might be interested in?
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My health care provider want me to sign up with "an AI app that supports your mental health." I'm fairly sure this means they want to kill me.
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My health care provider want me to sign up with "an AI app that supports your mental health." I'm fairly sure this means they want to kill me.
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Children whose schooling was disrupted by COVID should be given additional socialisation classes with tea, cakes, biscuits, and so on. In essence, a class tea party a couple of times a week where they can fill up on pastries and learn to chat with friends.
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Children whose schooling was disrupted by COVID should be given additional socialisation classes with tea, cakes, biscuits, and so on. In essence, a class tea party a couple of times a week where they can fill up on pastries and learn to chat with friends.
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A stripper, being human, is infinitely more likely to fall in love than a chatbot is to comprehend meaning in the textual structures it assembles based on statistical likelihood.
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A stripper, being human, is infinitely more likely to fall in love than a chatbot is to comprehend meaning in the textual structures it assembles based on statistical likelihood.
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The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
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It's messed up that you ahve to write to write things instead of thinking about them really really hard
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's messed up that you ahve to write to write things instead of thinking about them really really hard
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The headline is utterly bizarre.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
For Americans: Reuters utterly fucked this up, this election was a landslide for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. Labour collapsed, Reform was barely in the frame, but Reform is popular with English gammon-faced flag-shaggers (not Welsh folks), so that's what the lede has to be.
Amazing
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The headline is utterly bizarre.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
Reform thought they had this, but were crushed.
The lesson to be learned is 'Reform's support is five racists and a few million Tories protesting the state of the Tories. They mobilise voters, but only to switch votes to keep them out'.
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The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.
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"vibe coding" really is the worst development in software of all time. "woah what if you could just tell the computer what to do and then it did that" that's called writing code. code is the language that tells the computer what to do.
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"vibe coding" really is the worst development in software of all time. "woah what if you could just tell the computer what to do and then it did that" that's called writing code. code is the language that tells the computer what to do.
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I feel like every company/team, no matter how big, has some sort of load-bearing whimsy to their work and nobody quite knows what it is but the second you remove it, things turn to shit.
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I feel like every company/team, no matter how big, has some sort of load-bearing whimsy to their work and nobody quite knows what it is but the second you remove it, things turn to shit.
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It blows my mind that people use ChatGPT for "research." It literally makes no sense to me to consult a plagiarism machine that has been shown, over and over again, to be unworthy of trust and horrifically unreliable. Who looks at that and says, "That's for me!!1!"?
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It blows my mind that people use ChatGPT for "research." It literally makes no sense to me to consult a plagiarism machine that has been shown, over and over again, to be unworthy of trust and horrifically unreliable. Who looks at that and says, "That's for me!!1!"?
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The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
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October 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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“The Times today reveals that eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.”
Imagine Reform running the country.
Imagine Reform running the country.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“The Times today reveals that eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.”
Imagine Reform running the country.
Imagine Reform running the country.
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LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.
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We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.
“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.
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I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.