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JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot
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This account encompasses politics.

For general, non-politics, stuff see @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP@toot.wales.

For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP@tty0.social.

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
I thought that #ElonMusk causing 14 millions deaths was yet another piece of social media bullshit, propagated via the usual nonsense of anonymous sourceless screenshots. It isn't. It's a study in next month's #TheLancet, a collaboration between Brazilian & Spanish universities. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01186-9 It does not include other Department of Dodgy life-affecting consequences such as cuts to aviation safety at the FAA, NOAA cuts, cuts at the NIH, and others. #USPolitics #DOGE #TrumpDeaths
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk There is a suggestion in the comments section of this video that the #CountBinface Party be renamed 'Refuse'. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116776847428636964 #UKPolitics
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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  1. #CountBinface would be a far less depressing loss than #CarolVorderman would be if #NigelFarage won.

There's a significant chance that Farage will win, given #ClactonOnSea's past record. Beating Vorderman, whom they hate, would be a feather in #ReformUKLtd's cap.

But they couldn't crow about sticking it to 'the establishment' when they only beat a comedian in a bin; who, moreover, has 9 years of practice turning election losses into pointed sound bites. c.f. Makerfield!

#UKPolitics

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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  1. #CountBinface running would spur the political commentators into remembering when #NigelFarage ran against John Bercow over another little matter of houses, and faced John Stevens's dolphin named Flipper.

It's Silly Season, remember.

#CarolVorderman & the others need only to step back and let the journalists, desperate for stories, gorge themselves on Farage versus Binface; which will just make Farage look even worse, especially if xe gets cross on camera again.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop If anyone wants more confirmation other than PasteBin, here's the Irish Independent's article on this, from yesterday. https://independent.ie/irish-news/government-td-reports-x-to-gardai-under-child-sex-abuse-laws-over-grok-ai-images/a45604064.html The Independent has been covering this quite a lot over recent days, and Barry Ward is not the only TD to speak up about this. Here's Niamh Smyth from the day before. https://independent.ie/irish-news/elon-musks-x-is-trying-to-let-grok-off-the-hook-for-nudification-app-says-minister/a1109922538.html Here's a Gardai rep speaking to an Oirechtas committee on the 14th. https://independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-probing-200-images-relating-to-grok-ai-tool-amid-nudification-scandal-committee-hears/a1501424291.html #Grok #BarryWard #IrishPolitics #Twitter #Garda
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Government TD reports X to gardaí under child sex abuse laws over Grok AI images

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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2026-01-23 is the day of the #MinnesotaGeneralStrike, which (apparently to avoid the barmy stigma that U.S.A. people attach to the word 'strike') they are calling a 'Day of Truth and Freedom'. It has been called in response to the death of #ReneeGood and the general military and paramilitary violence in the U.S.A. over the past few months. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ice-protest-faith-union-and-community-leaders-call-for-one-day-economic-blackout The #Minnesota Star Tribune and FOX9 have failed so far to report this. But CBS has it. #NoKings #NeverAgain #fascism #MIRAC
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @Sobex@social.sciences.re @theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Amusingly, #CountBinface would then have outdone #NigelFarage twice. Farage once ran against Bercow, and lost. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116880503058147802 In reality, Binface will likely lose. But that will have still undermined and damaged Farage, especially in the eyes of Farage's own supporters and donors. 'You called, and spent our money on, a by-election against a dustbin, Nige?' #UKPolitics
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  1. #CountBinface running would spur the political commentators into remembering when #NigelFarage ran against John Bercow over another little matter of houses, and faced John Stevens's dolphin named Flipper.

It's Silly Season, remember.

#CarolVorderman & the others need only to step back and let the journalists, desperate for stories, gorge themselves on Farage versus Binface; which will just make Farage look even worse, especially if xe gets cross on camera again.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange#CountBinface declared candidacy at 15:19 BST yesterday. The last remaining major party, the #GreenParty, withdrew at just after 21:00 BST. See reason 1 and update. It's Binface, #NigelFarage, an attendant chorus of Monster Raving Loonies, and a couple of the (to use a Binface joke) 'named after what we used to do to floppy discs in the 1990s' parties (Reclaim and Rejoin). https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116880480362431263 @mathzy@mastodon.green#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics
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I thought about it, and here are some serious reasons why #CarolVorderman should hold back in the first #ClactonOnSea by-election and let @CountBinface@mastodon.world have the first go. Yes: 1st by-election. Per ¶40 of the Protocol approved by the House of Commons, #NigelFarage winning the 1st by-election allows the standards commissioner's investigation to be un-suspended, and could result in a *second* by-election should the Committee on Standards then so decide. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmcode/1084/1084.pdf#page=12 #UKPolitics
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
What are the shortest odds that @CountBinface@mastodon.world has ever been given to win an election? Because if they weren't 5/1 before, they are now. William Hill. Down from 9/1 a few hours ago. They might have shortened even further between the time that I write this and when people wake up and read it. (-: #ClactonOnSea #CountBinface
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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  1. #CountBinface has already declared (as of 15:19 BST today) as a unity candidate.

https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116880095978834495

The only people left to state a position, as I write this, are the Greens and any other potential unity candidate such as #CarolVorderman.

It's daft to split a 'unity' vote.

Yes, the Count is satirical, whereas Vorderman would be serious. But that brings me on to point 2.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics #NigelFarage

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JdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)

If you've only been giving this peripheral attention, note that the CUP, the LCP, and RestoreBritainLtd have all said that they won't field a candidate, whereas at 15:19 BST today @CountBinface@mastodon.world announced in Another Place: > Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house. > > Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it. > > Leave him to me. #NigelF

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop They're not far off, either. I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer. So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-: https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/ Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo. @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro
I sat in a near-empty cinema for Melania - here's what I thought
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I sat in a near-empty cinema for Melania - here's what I thought

Propaganda is usually less dull than this.

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
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@fgbjr@indieweb.social#ReformUKLtd won't touch #LizTruss with a barge pole. #NigelFarage has already gone out of his way to avoid being photographed with her at events that they have both attended. And this despite Truss having money to pay. She has a well-financed social media operation and is touring the U.S.A. claiming that she will spearhead an English version of MAGA. Reform U.K. Ltd has nonetheless clearly drawn the line at letting her in. @cstross@wandering.shop @militant_dilettante@mastodon.social
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop The review in @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings. https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417 #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@arrrg@kolektiva.social I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards. And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622 The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day. https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836 https://abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/melania-trump-movie-and-why-we-might-need-to-follow-the-money/106285248 @cstross@wandering.shop#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place If you liked that, go and see Daisy Cooper MP asking a question at PMQs last Wednesday. Xe wanted to make a joke about #NigelFarage's old 'Leave means leave.' slogan. Xe got as far as 'The Honourable Member for Clacton' before being interrupted by calls of 'There isn't one!'. Then David Lammy had a go. https://clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/26263107.clacton-voters-must-facts-mps-say-pmqs/ It's better if you can find a video of it. @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social#UKPolitics #ReformUKLtd #ClactonOnSea
Clacton voters must 'have all the facts' before Farage’s by-election gamble, MPs say
Clacton and Frinton Gazette

Clacton voters must 'have all the facts' before Farage’s by-election gamble, MPs say

Clacton voters must “have all the facts”, MPs urged, as Nigel Farage’s shock decision to resign as MP for the town and fight a by-election for his own seat was met with open derision in the House of Commons.

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
I suspect that @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net will be slightly conflicted about this one, especially as the methodology involved asking 'AI' for the answer, and it came back mostly 'No.' in the body of the piece. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791799 https://economist.com/interactive/finance-and-economics/2026/07/02/is-the-economist-always-wrong It's worth noting that the print edition did not use this question headline at all for this piece, but went for a pun instead. #TheEconomist #QuestionHeadlines #AI
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The internet of 2026. Betteridge's law wrapping a paywall wrapping an AI piece m... | Hacker News

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop Not the specific claim, but there is news coverage claiming that opposition to U.S.A. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being suppressed on #TikTok. Standard caution about question headlines applies, of course. https://forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/01/26/are-new-owners-censoring-tiktok-top-democrats-influencers-celebrities-raising-concerns/ https://cosmopolitan.com/politics/a70144099/tiktok-ice-censorship/ But let's put it this way: the notion has reached Forbes and Cosmo, and isn't just some anonymous poster on Twitter stirring the pot. #USPolitics #fascism
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@ReggieHere @TJ1001 By the way: Someone should use the Twitter geolocation feature on that account, to find out if it is yet another 'British' account being run by the scammer operations in India and Bangladesh. #Twitter
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social Lest we forget, there was also a time more recently when #NigelFarage ran against someone else who was accused by opponents of having some dodgy dealings with a house. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116880503058147802
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  1. #CountBinface running would spur the political commentators into remembering when #NigelFarage ran against John Bercow over another little matter of houses, and faced John Stevens's dolphin named Flipper.

It's Silly Season, remember.

#CarolVorderman & the others need only to step back and let the journalists, desperate for stories, gorge themselves on Farage versus Binface; which will just make Farage look even worse, especially if xe gets cross on camera again.

#ClactonOnSea #UKPolitics

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop It certainly tracks too that the Trump Court wants to stamp down on, in their very own words, 'anti-Fascist' groups. #USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #SebastianGorka
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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I read the MOU between #Iran and the U.S.A. re the #TrumpWar. The rumours are true. Iran is going to get $300billions, and the U.S.A. is going to ensure that this is legal by removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's status under #USLaw as a foreign terrorist organization. FTO status was assigned in April 2019 by one #DonaldJTrump, and reaffirmed by Trump in February 2025. It's illegal to pay even $1 to a FTO under 18 USC § 2339B. https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339B https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-2/
18 U.S. Code § 2339B - Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations
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18 U.S. Code § 2339B - Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@matlag Not in Ireland only, for the record. Amongst the Irish Independent's coverage of this. that I mentioned elsethread, here's a PA report about Indonesia's and Malaysia's reactions to #Grok that it published on the 12th. https://independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/malaysia-and-indonesia-become-first-countries-to-block-elon-musks-grok-over-explicit-ai-images-as-uk-regulator-launches-investigation/a655651340.html @cstross#Twitter #IrishPolitics #IndonesianPolitics #MalaysianPolitics
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Malaysia and Indonesia become first countries to block Elon Musk’s Grok over explicit AI images as UK regulator launches investigation

There is growing concern over generative AI tools that can produce realistic content

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 6mo ago
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@ianbetteridge Khan will be instituting canon law and ecclesiastical courts next. You mark my words. https://legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2st1/13/12/contents/enacted #UKLaw #ChurchOfEngland #history #CanonLaw
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 6mo ago

I really dislike using 'TACO' here. It's a poor show that this has caught on as the name for this. Not bombing a nuclear power plant should not be regarded as 'chickening out'.

It is not cowardice. It is refraining from performing an evil act, one that should not have been decided to do in the first place.

#TrumpWar #FIFAWorldWar #NuclearWar

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop Guillotines might. Missing from the social media discussion of these is that this only happened to young sea slugs. Older ones just died after some days, and did not regenerate their bodies. https://sciencefocus.com/news/solar-powered-sea-slugs-are-able-detach-their-heads-and-regenerate-a-whole-new-body-within-weeks So the middle-aged sea slug oligarch/monarch, sitting all green on xyr emerald seaweed throne, is not as safe from the French Revolution as xe might think. I suppose that now you have an excuse to use '#kleptoplasty' and '#autotomy' in a story. (-: #SeaSlugs
BBC Science Focus Magazine

’Solar-powered sea slugs’ are able detach their heads and regenerate a whole new body within weeks - BBC Science Focus Magazine

The finding is an extreme example of autotomy – an animal’s ability to shed a body part when under threat.

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop It's peace prizes, belligerence, gunboat diplomacy, and invasions on the crazy monarch calendar, today. Secret police, disappearances, murder, and breakdown of the rule of law was yesterday. They might return later in the week. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115921003477397814 #DonaldJTrump #MonarchistParty #USPolitics #Greenland #FIFAPeacePrize #NATO
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Petulant lying letters to ambassadors now, eh? There is only one country threatening to invade #Greenland by force, and its head of state is doing so openly for all the world to see. The sad thing about all this is that Greenland has been coöperating with the U.S.A. over the latter's security since the 1950s. This will go down in history as how the spoiled brat ego and avarice of a stupid monarch and xyr toadies wrecked it all. #DonaldJTrump #ElbowsUp #NATO

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 6mo ago
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@claudemp @Wen More of the amusing things are that (a) the four kings all have a picture of #DonaldJTrump, and (b) none of the games is being played legally. There are 5 cards, not 4, in a poker hand; that's not actually a checkmate on the chess board, and there seems to be too many/few of various pieces; and there are 3 throws in a darts round, not 6. #TrumpWar #FIFAWorldWar
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@radarskiy Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on @cstross , who has never even seen Rebo and Zooty. Anyway, we haven't even had the vice-president become #PresidentVance, yet. Although we do know where to find Nightwatch now. #Babylon5
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop It might be about to kick off for a different reason. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115892467098565720 Combine that with the MAGA divisions over #DonaldJTrump's cover-up of Eppstein, the oil industry declining to deliver the promised $100B to #Venezuela, the only postponed economic effects of the #TrumpTarrifs, and #BoycottWorldCup. #USPolitics
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 6mo ago
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@markdennehy We've really got to think of a better name for it than that. Otherwise it's risking #NuclearWar as the result of a person who writes in all-caps on social media from the toilet having the same problem with being called 'chicken' as Marty McFly. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116278790863761105 @cstross#FIFAWorldWar #TrumpWar
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JdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)

I really dislike using 'TACO' here. It's a poor show that this has caught on as the name for this. Not bombing a nuclear power plant should not be regarded as 'chickening out'. It is not cowardice. It is refraining from performing an evil act, one that should not have been decided to do in the first place. #TrumpWar #FIFAWorldWar #NuclearWar

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@peachfront@toot.community @cstross@wandering.shop According to the paper: The people did not read the books. They fed the books (and others) to a computer system in order to construct an LLM that spat out potted summaries (in the forms of questions and answers) of specific plot points (involving AI) in the stories. The paper states that the LLM sometimes went wrong, giving its condensed form of a Terminator plot point as one example. #GitHub #USLaw #LLMs #Google #PrincetonUniversity #Microsoft #SciFi #SkyNet
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@diazona @cstross I agree. It is the so-called 'Sci-Fi Benchmark' LLM dataset that, as the paper explicitly says (on pages 96 and 97), is based upon two of Charlie Stross's works. And that's being published on GitHub. Thus, Microsoft. Not legal advice M. Stross, but one avenue to point your solicitor towards exploring. @peachfront#GitHub #USLaw #LLMs #Google #PrincetonUniversity #Microsoft
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 7mo ago
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@lindasgoluppiart The world's prior experience in this area is with the likes of #FerdinandMarcos and #ImeldaMarcos. Although Imelda claimed to have been reduced to pauperhood at one point, by no reasonable standard was that true. And xe had the same level of fanatical popular support despite everything that #DonaldJTrump has. As well as the #EdificeComplex. The Marcos model seems likely to be followed here, the one possible fly in the ointment being #PresidentVance. #USPolitics #shoes
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop Unfortunately, Robert F. Astaroth Jr, Prince of Health and Human Services, has taken one of the demon names. JD Beliar? @etchedpixels@mastodon.social#demonology #PresidentVance #RobertFKennedyJr
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop The laws of physics of this Post-Stross Universe hold. You still talked about a future better than reality turned out to be, where a #FIFAPeacePrize awardee started a war 28 days later. Although the universe taking less than 6 hours to hit below your mark must be something of a record. #Venezuela #USPolitics #PeteHegseth https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115776208271482130
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JdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)

I forgot that we now live in a Post-Stross Universe, where what Charlie Stross can imagine is now the upper bound on how positive the future can be. A couple of hours after I wrote that post, I learned that *in reality* the toadies and Trumpanzees have perverted the #CocaCola #SantaClaus into something well beyond people's pessimistic imaginations. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115776155828082944 American Coca-Cola Santa Claus is a menacing horror figure, now. ♪ "Holidays are coming!" #USPol

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@snaefell Let me welcome you to the #PresidentVance hashtag, that has been quietly sitting and waiting since 2024. (-: https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/113506867140999415 I made some predictions back then, and reality has yet to rule them out. @cstross
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JdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodon.scot)

Not many people have given serious thought to the probability of #PresidentVance within the next few years. #DonaldJTrump may get healthcare as part of the job, but that is *federal government* healthcare, and Robert F Kennedy Jr is going to be in charge of health, remember. When any health problems develop, which is a "when" not "if" for an octogenarian, Trump is going to be prescribed hourly prayers and a foil-lined MAGA hat. Either Trump's or Kennedy's days are very numbered. #USPolitics

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 8mo ago
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk I just read a U.S.A. person in another timeline telling the world that 'all freedom of expression and free access to information in the UK' is being banned, because a porn company dislikes the restrictions on porn. I really wanted to tell the po-faced idiot that the restrictions on porn match what we've had in newsagents and sex shops for decades; whereas the people who *actually* want our freedoms are the parties with the strong ties to the Trumpanzees, openly going after the #ECHR.
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk I think that you'll enjoy #CountBinface's own observation in another interview from that night about what we used to do to floppy discs in the 1990s. https://youtube.com/v/l5W1OQJj0xk #UKPolitics #ReformUKLtd #RestoreBritainLtd

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 3mo ago
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@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk That one about the hand dryer in the gent's toilet dates back to when the Count stood against Johnson in #Uxbridge in 2019. https://indy100.com/news/general-election-count-binface-boris-johnson-brexit-9243176 Xe did a line at one point recently about how the BBC actually did let xem bring back #Ceefax for a day, but only on radio. I looked it up. #BBCRadio4 actually did, on Christmas Day 2024. https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00268v4 Utterly amazing that Sky News's senior political correspondent Jon Craig had no clue. #CountBinface #UKPolitics
Exclusive: Count Binface on unseating Boris Johnson, LGBTQ+ rights, Ceefax and a second Brexit referendum
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Exclusive: Count Binface on unseating Boris Johnson, LGBTQ+ rights, Ceefax and a second Brexit referendum

Count Binface – on the eve of the general election that could see him unseating the prime minister – sat down for a galaxy-exclusive interview for indy100 with Sean O'Grady, the associate editor of The Independent who's covered every election since 1974. Here's what he had to say.The Time Lord who i...

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@mhd @cstross 105,000 pieces, we are told. https://famouscampaigns.com/2026/04/tescos-fruit-giant-gives-schools-a-bigger-helping/ #Tesco #TheFruitGiant
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 6mo ago
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@ArabellaLovejoy Even #Canada's reaction was underreported. Non-Canadian news organizations, apart from a few dedicated politics ones, didn't mention it, as far as I can see. https://thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/carney-reiterates-call-to-respect-international-law-as-trump-threatens-civilization/article_a2218b63-f228-566c-807c-3403bc4f0ad7.html The big news, it seems, is that U.S.A. people who a few years ago would never have gainsaid #DonaldJTrump are now doing so publicly and often. I wonder whether #PamBondi got rung up by a journalist for an opinion. @lindasgoluppiart @JackTheCat#TrumpWar #FIFAWorldWar
Carney reiterates call to respect international law as Trump threatens 'civilization'
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Carney reiterates call to respect international law as Trump threatens 'civilization'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said leaders involved in the war in Iran must "choose their words" and act prudently, but didn't specifically criticize U.S. President Donald Trump for

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 9mo ago
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@jschwart @cstross Is it not an allusion to J.R. Ewing? (-: #PresidentVance #Dallas
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop It's a stock image, a 'retouched' 'simulation', from 2014. https://istockphoto.com/photo/step-inside-your-dream-home-gm528556505-54130428 @weirdestate@eigenmagic.net#StockImages
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop I think that the Argument From U.S.A. Prohibition about banning things is over-used. What happened in the U.S.A. was unique to alcohol, the religious and temperance movements of the 19th century U.S.A., and the socioeconomic shifts of the time. It does not generalize to every drug, nor to all countries. One of the more ironic of the many differences is that the weight of the #WorldHealthOrganization is behind controlling #tobacco. https://fctc.who.int/protocol #USPolitics #history
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 5mo ago
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@bobdvb@mastodonapp.uk Yes, indeed. https://ft.com/content/08eb1b45-91c2-4312-9d3c-ac5e4e557278 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_833 El reads these things so we don't have to. (-: The slight caveat is that the #HouseOfEl thumbnails and titles have a tendency to use the present tense for things that haven't quite happened yet. #EUPolitics #DigitalSovereignty
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodon.scot
· 7mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop What's confusing is that the original training advertisement (going by the text in the image) does not have this image or anything like it. https://www.azubiyo.de/ausbildung/dornstadt/?job=a5624e52 #azubiyo #Dornstadt #AIs #LLMs #AIslop
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