Alison@alisondennison.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor everyone looking for generation spanning fun stuff to watch while you're at home for Christmas, you can't go far wrong with River Hunters. Rick Edwards and an American called Beau Ouimette go metal detecting for historical stuff in UK rivers www.history.co.uk/articles/ric...
on fighting talk just now, one panellist claimed they were “world class” at knowing when a minute had passed so rick edwards started a timer and turned to the other panellists. the guy interrupted someone else’s answer to say “now!” at 1’00
Stumbled across this piece I wrote 11 years ago about young men (well, young people) becoming disillusioned with politics. Disappointingly I think most of the arguments still hold... www.shortlist.com/news/why-are...
Why Are Young Men So Disillusioned With Politics?
Why Are Young Men So Disillusioned With Politics?
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
Just heard the 5Live Breakfast Team on the radio talking to a Professor conducting research on this & getting massively excited about handling bits of the moon & seeing the dust & it was just a lovely bit of radio. So wholesome 🥺
David Blanchflower BSc@davidbflower.bsky.social · last yr.Moon dust 'rarer than gold' arrives in UK from China. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Morning. So @rickedwards1.bsky.social watched Liverpool become champions in a takeaway in Euston yesterday afternoon. When have you watched great sporting occasions in 'less than ideal' circumstances? We're also talking baby food pouches, school uniforms and NHS winter figures @bbc5live.bsky.social
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.
It is quite surprising that there is a sequel to Escape Plan (Stallone/Arnie prison break vehicle). But not just that - there is an ESCAPE PLAN 3. Surely no-one has voluntarily watched all three of these films?? WRONG. I HAVE.
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ALT: a man wearing a striped shirt looks at the camera
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Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?
Morning BlueSky gang - @rickedwards1.bsky.social is off to Downing St to interview the PM this morning - you can hear that at 8.30 - any Qs for him, send them over. Also more on Ukraine ceasefire, Turkey protests, England football, and school music lessons. @bbc5live.bsky.social
Just caught myself muttering ‘let’s clean up this crotch porridge’ to my toddler.
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
I drew @bbc5live.bsky.social breakfast with @rachelburden.bsky.social and @rickedwards1.bsky.social #radio #bbc
[pretending to be on the phone to krishnan guru-murthy to impress a stranger] ok krish, have a great channel 4 news [after hanging up] that was krishnan guru-murthy
Is it acceptable to ask if someone has 'been at the ozempic'