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BashStKid

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.

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ianbetteridge, to random
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There are definitely times when the Urge to do Journalism bites. For example: I'm sat drinking a coffee overlooking Whitstable harbour. There's a ship unloading, and I search for the name. This leads me to find out that it was impounded earlier this year for a bunch of safety violations, and is owned by a reasonably elaborate bunch of shell companies. Probably nothing illegal, but quite a lot of playing "pass the asset" from one company to another.

BashStKid,
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@ianbetteridge @wordshaper
Yep, assume all company reports are written by PT Barnum with some creative accountants on hand.

cstross, to random
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Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

BashStKid,
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@cstross @Oggie
I suppose there’s a change from the old robot as metaphor for the strong but suppressed male worker to the intangible ai as knowledgeable and entertaining but submissive and servile.
Does that connect to Asimovian male robots being exterior-focused in the factory or on the frontier, while female ais are all around the homes and interiors?

No matter how far we travel, we don’t leave our preconceptions behind.

spytfyre, to instagramreality
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From now until the , I'm playing the Benny Hill theme tune at full volume and adopting a Kenneth Williams "oooh matron" voice, because it's now the only way to keep a grip on

This video for the latest fishing hook () helps too

https://youtu.be/u7T-SHu5wi8?si=-bFVY-h1s3HlHbw1

BashStKid,
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@TCMuffin @Thebratdragon @PaulNickson @spytfyre @Man
Please say if wrong, but low-level US Atlantic radar was not that great at the time? Plausible they could simply fly in low, if refuelled of course.

BashStKid,
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@PaulNickson @NormanDunbar @TCMuffin @Thebratdragon @spytfyre @Man
We used to live not far from Fairford, so one got to hear everything whether you wanted to or not!

BashStKid,
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@PaulNickson @NormanDunbar @TCMuffin @Thebratdragon @spytfyre @Man
Usually quite quiet unless bombing Iraq.

Did once have a spooky coincidence of watching Dr Strangelove with the loud turbo whine of real overloaded B52s overhead …

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