Pseud Bossk
@pseudonymous-bossk.bsky.social
Likes sustainable human progress, data and avoiding COVID
Wow social media is such a time suck. Off I go from here for another few months while I work out how the fuck to make my monkey brain deal with 1000 people shouting interesting things at me daily. Or should it even try?
July 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wow social media is such a time suck. Off I go from here for another few months while I work out how the fuck to make my monkey brain deal with 1000 people shouting interesting things at me daily. Or should it even try?
'Politeness doesn’t just disguise injustice, it makes injustice feel reasonable, and resistance feel extreme'. Illuminating stuff, well worth a read if you're a polite Brit
Not all legacies of the British Empire are loud. Some are quiet, habitual, and dressed in good intentions. In the UK, tone still trumps truth, and politeness remains more culturally sacred than justice.
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Please, Thank You, and Other Forms of Control
How politeness is the last surviving pillar of the British Empire. Not all legacies of the empire are loud. Some are quiet, habitual, and dressed in good intentions. In Britain, tone still trumps trut...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
'Politeness doesn’t just disguise injustice, it makes injustice feel reasonable, and resistance feel extreme'. Illuminating stuff, well worth a read if you're a polite Brit
The allure of LLMs slowly eroding my critical faculties is feeling a bit more real today - used Gemini to summarise all the morning news (having already read it) and then dig into longer term drivers of some of the stories. Impressive, but also infantilising. The next few years are going to be weird
June 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The allure of LLMs slowly eroding my critical faculties is feeling a bit more real today - used Gemini to summarise all the morning news (having already read it) and then dig into longer term drivers of some of the stories. Impressive, but also infantilising. The next few years are going to be weird
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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
June 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
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Listen to these Germans. They lived through it. They know how it works.
June 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Listen to these Germans. They lived through it. They know how it works.
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Algorithms are the antithesis of serendipity. It’s why the tech bro cult of optimisation is so corrosive - the Internet was supposed to broaden horizons but the idea that there’s a ‘best’ meal, a ‘best place to stay, a ‘best’ partner, ultimately just shrinks our world and reduces our experiences.
June 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Algorithms are the antithesis of serendipity. It’s why the tech bro cult of optimisation is so corrosive - the Internet was supposed to broaden horizons but the idea that there’s a ‘best’ meal, a ‘best place to stay, a ‘best’ partner, ultimately just shrinks our world and reduces our experiences.
LLMs just allowed me to set up hibernate on a Linux laptop (Framework! They are excellent). It might not be AGI but it can be pretty useful when it works - I'd tried this before multiple times and ended in miserable failure
May 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
LLMs just allowed me to set up hibernate on a Linux laptop (Framework! They are excellent). It might not be AGI but it can be pretty useful when it works - I'd tried this before multiple times and ended in miserable failure
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What is this "reconductoring" magic? Basically it's replacing the lines themselves with newer high-tech, high-capacity lines, which don't weigh substantially more & thus can string along the same towers. Lots more here:
One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines
Upgrading power lines — “reconductoring,” in the biz — enables the electricity grid to transmit more power and leak less of it. In this episode, I talk with a CEO and a researcher about the national p...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What is this "reconductoring" magic? Basically it's replacing the lines themselves with newer high-tech, high-capacity lines, which don't weigh substantially more & thus can string along the same towers. Lots more here:
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It was particularly disgusting for Archbishop of York to contrast the allegedly Christian values that won the war with ‘godless’ Nazism. He’s apparently unaware that the first organisations banned by the Nazis were humanist ones and Hitler gave a speech boasting he’d stamped out atheism for good!
Glad to be invited to the state ceremony for VE Day. I think it’s vital that we mark the defeat of fascism in Europe and commit ourselves to the defence of the open society. But it was a bit much to be lectured on freedom by the state church in a speech that told us all that Jesus is the only way!
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It was particularly disgusting for Archbishop of York to contrast the allegedly Christian values that won the war with ‘godless’ Nazism. He’s apparently unaware that the first organisations banned by the Nazis were humanist ones and Hitler gave a speech boasting he’d stamped out atheism for good!
A second attempt at bluesky, having just burnt my Twitter accounts to the ground. I'm sorry I took so long, them Skinner boxes are compelling
May 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A second attempt at bluesky, having just burnt my Twitter accounts to the ground. I'm sorry I took so long, them Skinner boxes are compelling