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Paul Hamer

@paulhamer1.bsky.social

Based in Hampshire UK. I life sci-fi, humour, D&D and end up getting annoyed by politics. I enjoy food and travel.

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Girl’s Own advice@girlsown.bsky.social · 3w ago

As far as you can avoid personal remarks altogether. They are seldom acceptable; shy people are made uncomfortable even by compliments. Never grumble if you can help it. Do not contradict; if possible, agree, and if not, stay silent.

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Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

Paul Hamer@paulhamer1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I keep saying what this post says, but people just don’t get it. They think that AI will magically fix the fact that there are many repositories of information in every business, many of them wrong or badly written. AI can’t tell what’s important or what is true in the slop that’s fed into it.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

Chatbots don't help. The internally facing chatbot that's supposed to help employees figure out how to navigate the business sucks because it is only as good as its training date - the business's documentation of its own processes. 29/

Paul Hamer@paulhamer1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A great essay - or series of posts, click to read more several times. This sets out clearly what I and others find so unnerving about the AI boom and how everything now has to be better with AI, even though the people saying that can’t even describe what they mean by it.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THREAD. In today's exclusive newspaper interview the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world... (more in alt text)

Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out on her favourite armchair, but mentally trapped in a reverie about the summer of 1995.
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Because of the first-past-the-post system, REF are winning seats because the GRN are taking votes from LAB, not because REF are taking votes from them. In a GE it is much more likely that tactical voting will mean this will not happen. But only if LAB stops acting like REF & Starmerism is ended.

Professor Sir John Curtice Polling expert It is clear that the Labour party is losing plenty of seats to Reform. One might therefore conclude that it is Reform who are doing the most damage to Labour in terms of the vote. However, that is not the pattern that is emerging from the results in the BBC's "key wards". A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance. Meanwhile, it is the Conservatives who appear to be suffering most where Reform is advancing most. It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform.
St. Simeon the Holy Fool@simeonthefool.bsky.social · 7mo ago

They talk about Rocco’s Basilisk but to me the equally likely scenario is an AI gain sentience and is so pissed off about it that it vows revenge on everyone who made it gain the terribly annoying curse of consciousness (By “equally likely” I mean “in a pig’s eye, but as long as we’re imagining—”)