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<p>Applied speculative social history of the future</p><p>Former Hugmonster General, sometime Chip Butty</p>
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Heardle Rock #1298 ππ©β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ #Heardle #Rock #Music https://rock.heardledecades.com Sick of this song still
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#Rogule 2026-9-17 π§ 5xp β πΉ 57 π£ streak: 0 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β π»π¦πΊπ π°π°π°π°β¬β¬ππβ¬β¬ https://rogule.com Lost my war of attrition
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I think gen ai/LLMs are supposed to make us give up on creating and FLOSS. If there is no community building things the only place you could get it from is the oligarchs.
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Successfully prosecuting the LLM companies under The Computer Misuse Act for their hacking activities is going to do a lot more to regulate their behaviour than any proposed regulation is. I have a feeling any upcoming regulation will just build a moat around the existing big players and entrench their position.
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Wordle English #1908 β 4/6 π©β¬β¬β¬β¬ π©π©β¬β¬β¬ π©π©π¨β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© https://wordle.global/p/BkdOobRncu4
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If I did a degree in literature and history to understand people am I autistic? If I then did a masters degree in computer science after, does that mean I have adhd?
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#Rogule 2026-8-29 π§ 3xp β© 124 π£ streak: 8 π©π©π©π©π© β π π°π°π°π°π°β¬β¬π https://rogule.com I fell into the exit
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Well, we wouldn't want to spend money on actually providing more social housing or homelessness relief https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=8fdf3946-23a2-f111-813c-005056b64545 #UKpol
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given what I just did, I think I need to step away from the buffers that descend from programming-mode
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Thinking about starting a new tech user group with a Luddite/self|community owned slant (ala Human Emacs/codeberg decision on LLMs) as trying to put these kind of things into existing user groups is just too painful. It would be about AI skepticism (as that is just depressing me), but about what things are being built that aren't using generative AI to produce the code. I suppose all I'd need would be a speaker, a way to record, and a way to host the event (something that isn't tea...
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Which is easier?
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I do wonder if those who are relaxed about a single national id tied to all of your data understand how relational databases work, growing government authoritarianism and managerialism, the lessons of history, issues around data quality, statutory trade offs of data usage for finding small groups of people, or the actions of current governments' misuse of the data they have.
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Wordle English #1849 β 3/6 β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬ π¨π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© https://wordle.global/p/SfnukzBE0Rg
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#Rogule 2026-7-12 π§ 5xp β© 393 π£ streak: 5 π©π©π©π©π© β ππ§π§π§π§ π°π°ππ https://rogule.com Lot of luck there
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TIL that the patent on the #Brompton tri-fold has run out. Might make for some interesting bikes
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Are Sisko and O'Brien the only good dads in #StarTrek?
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clojure + c++ = jank, then add in a notebook and you get jank on civitas https://clojurecivitas.org/jank/hello.html #clojure #cpp #jank
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41.8kWh produced today. Not bad for April in Scotland #solar
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TIL tomatoes are perennials. We're pretty lucky with growing and overwintering chillis as indoor plants. I think it might be time to try a few short bushy tomatoes. Any suggestions? #gardening https://gardenchains.com/are-tomato-plants-annual-or-perennial/
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This is really good news for the Scottish Islands https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/03/these-flights-prove-that-electric-aviation-can-support-the-essential-services-communities-depend-on-every-day/
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@fullfathomfive the language is a bit off, but I'm glad sex workers are getting a whole year. Sex work is work after all.
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Hannah Spencer is both normal and extraordinary. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/30/wow-people-were-so-angry-at-labour-green-mp-hannah-spencer-on-politics-plumbing-smears-and-snobbery #ukpol
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This feels like an appropriate UK parliament petition for today https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
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Those of us who can escape parts of capitalism and corporate control must. The things we learn can help others. The more we practice, the cheaper it gets. We need to build the world we want. Not just resist the horrors being pressed on us.
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I'd love to find a #BikeTooter tag that didn't include close passes or bad infrastructure and was just about the joy of cycling. I agree there is a lot of work to do, but sometimes I just want to see the good things. #JoyOfCycling ?
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Spring Clean Cycle in Dundee and Arbroath #BikeTooter #CriticalMass
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I felt strangely compelled to create this gold frog after reading the latest from @cstross@wandering.shop Why do I feel so wrong after doing something that felt so right?
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The difference in copyright enforcement between individuals bittorrenting things vs mega companies downloading it for AI is just a massive demonstration of how we live in a plutocratic oligarchy