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Not hideous enough to merit rejection. Beer Gerk, ShanDad, Techno Bozo, InclusiveDance #freshformass

Been thinking a lot about the apocryphal story of Christy Moore arriving for a surprise Late Late Show special with a girlfriend not realising his wife was in attendance. Gay Byrne apparently gave the girlfriend a £50 note and instructed she wait in the bar of the Montrose until the end of the show.

Look folks, the thing you need to remember about power in Ireland is, if Bono says it's ok it's ok. Even if you think he's a dose, a pox, an overrated complacent dotard, whatever, it's just ok and there's no point arguing, ever.

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Very revealing how senior media people say Liddle's extremities could be explained away, even admirable, as they were underpinned by "moral scorn" for "piety" but when some nobody who isn't part of the press pushes the envelope on received wisdom it's lawfare and proscription.

if the resources being spent on LLMs were ever applied to smaller-domain models we’d likely see incredible results. specialised models have been useful for years. we’d likely see disease cures, exotic maths proofs, etc. at the moment we’re exhausting enormous resource on ‘seems like it’s speaking’

"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions" I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today thanks to the Cass review. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance. Why? I'll tell you /1

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

Finding this Dr Martens discourse quite funny. I got my first pair of Docs in 1976, they were cheap and robust, which is why punks and skinheads wore them. They’ve never been ‘high quality,’ they were affordable workwear which came with instructions on how to fix the sole with a ‘hot knife’.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

You can still buy the high quality made in England Dr Martens. People prefer the Chinese version because it’s $100 cheaper.