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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 22h

The AI bubble news is growing, even the normal media is picking up on it now, I've even seen some business news sections on it. @edzitron.com's powers are growing!

Feels like we just need a 4 hour @foldablehuman.bsky.social video to push it over the edge to take it's place next to NFTs & metaverse.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 23h

As a programmer who went through dotcom bubble, this all feels very familiar.

Mainly the people who a extremely pro AI, usually the CEO/Money people, literally have zero technical knowledge about it, just line go up.

The sooner it pops, the better for everyone.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 2d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

What do you think?

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · Jul 3

I don't know why people continue to inflict Windows on themselves.

If you're going to use something so much, don't you want it to be nice?

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 2d

Hardcore adulting on the to do list today.

- Speak to accountant
- Speak to insurance people
- Chase invoices
- Read new contract

Feels like I need to schedule in some finger painting to even it out a bit.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 3d

So if any one is ever wondering "What do DJs do?" just turn on AutoMix on Apple music.

That's what we make not happen.

You're welcome.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 5d

So it costs OpenAI $5 to generate each video. They charge $20/month for unlimited video generation.

Every video after the 4th is purely burning their (well, private investors) money (and the world obvs.)

Might be worth everyone signing up and rinsing them for a month just to end them now.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9d

Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 10d

I’ve just upgrade from the 11 pro max to the 17 pro max, it’s been quite good performance leap.

The 17 pro max feels like a tank, I can see this lasting me at least another 7 years.

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 12d

So we just give in?

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 12d

It looks like it'll be by the goverment's internal digital dept. But if you think the like of palantir don't already have a LOT more data on all of us you're very wrong.

Private corps are already persecuting/exploiting migrants and trans people, at least with a public system it can be challenged.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 12d

This thread is pretty much where I am with ID cards. Basically most people are handing over extreme amounts of data to shady corps anyway, privacy focused people who don't live in a cave probably are too. At least a Gov, any Gov, is more accountable.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12d

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.

Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 13d

So after a week of Liquid Glass/OS26, it's a mixed bag for me.

There are a lot of occasions where it wows and looks great. Even more so how well it performs. But there's too many cases of it just looking a bit messy. The move to flat design was similar. Hopefully they'll work it out soon and update

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14d

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 14d

Having a big project go live is always a bit stressful. A bit like a Rube Goldberg machine, you test all the bits individually, isolated from each other. But sooner or later you have to pull all stoppers out and just let it go. Either doom or success awaits.

Today?

Sucess!

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Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 16d

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15d

OK, theoretical theological question but as is, do you think the rapture could actively be happening without anyone noticing it because - ignoring disqualifiers like the genocide & things like US Christian extremism - nobody is keeping to the rule where you can't wear clothes made of two fabrics?

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 16d

The bright side being when it does go pop, there'll be so much spare compute crypto will crash too and after that, the only use for them will be for playing games on and 200k @ 3 million fps.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 16d

Nvidia will put $100 billion into OpenAI so it can pay Nvidia $100 billion for chips...

Super healthy, not a bubble, definitely not...

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 16d

Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash. Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a new “strategic partnership” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash

A deal for ‘at least’ 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters

www.theverge.com

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 18d

Got my car washed the other day and after days of pondering I think the air fresher scent they used is school dinners/canteens 1989-1997.

Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 19d

I’ve always thought councils should support them as community spaces. Or even for the likes of Amazon, Netflix and the like, it’d be great PR. Do free screenings of big season openers.

But nah. Typical small town situation of not enough population for anything to be doable on a small scale. :(

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 19d

Then even small cinemas are large properties and rates are worked out on a sq ft basis which fucks them over.

You make nothing from cinema tickets, only from the food and drink.

As a business modal it’s largely unviable. You have to have a few people behind it putting a lot in for the love of it.

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 19d

I’ve actually looked a few times at starting a small independent cinema and the problem is mainly rent and business rates. Commercial landlords are complete fucks, who’ll happily sit on an unused building as somewhere to park money.

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Ashley Allen @phlashman.uk · 26d

Sometimes scrolling google maps raises more questions than it answers.

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