Russell Garner

@rgarner.bsky.social

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Likes cats, Ruby, drums, synths, flippancy, unions. Charmander of cartography.

Founder at jointogether.online

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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What news from France?

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So Putin’s last hope now is the USA. Brace yourself, America, you’re about to get everything thrown at you.

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Delighted to find that poet Dennis Lee, whose Civil Elegies poem contains the couplet which inspired this maxim, also wrote the lyrics for Fraggle Rock.

Perhaps perversely, woke up with Alasdair Gray’s maxim in mind:

Stop. HAMMER TIME

thinking about Japanese work wear

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

Bill: So-crates - "The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing". Ted: That's us, dude.

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Looking for something to read while we wait for final election results? I’ve written up why we need to think about information architecure more in UCD www.vickyteinaki.com/blog/a-plea-...

A plea for the lost practice of information architecturewww.vickyteinaki.com How the Winchester Mystery house shows us what we risk if we conflate agile with constant bottom-up iteration and don't do any information architecture.

Every time I hear "Mbappé" now I think of

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Considering it, my favourite line of the night was probably @cooraysmith.bsky.social describing Penny Mordaunt as looking like “Catherine Deneuve, if she worked in a big M&S.”

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reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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The gov uk change of government module not quite working as intended www.gov.uk/government/n...

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If you're wondering, "OTH" here is the entire Green Party. Both GPEW & Reform have 4 seats yet they choose to to highlight Reform and relegate Greens to "other". Curious etc.

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Things Can Only Get Better is the wrong vibe for this moment, so Starmer is going to come on to the podium to the sound of Brian Cox explaining the inevitable heat death of the universe.

took less than six hours for my alma mater to point out the new PM is an alumnus

I had no idea Brian Clough had lost his seat

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That clip of Garage saying "something that's going to stun all of you" looks more sinister every time they play it.

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Oh God, just realised we're looking at the launch of five, maybe six new light-hearted-yet-forensic ex-MP political podcasts

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Awww not only did Carla Denyer get a descent result for the Green Party in central Bristol, more importantly Kellie-Jay Keen got less than 200 votes in total and so has lost their deposit.

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Honestly I don’t feel like celebrating much. Farage won a seat, reform or conservatives came second in many areas because hate is so prevalent here. Even the school elections I saw had kids with stickers from reform,no other party.

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Yup. I don't think there are many/any minorities in the UK today not feeling this.

I've never gone into a general election with such a sense of despair. It's quite something to have a ballot paper where five of the seven candidates are from parties who are a clear danger to your rights, your healthcare and your safety.

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Three adjacent headlines that say it all.

Oh "a new age of hope" is it Sir Keir? Will this bad thing get better? - No. Will this scrapped thing be fixed/reinstated? - No. Will this underfunded vital service get cash? - No. Will everyone be able to pee in peace - Of course... not.

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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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Meeting JK Rowling to discuss trans rights is like meeting a seagull to discuss chips

Good god I am unseasonably angry about so much tonight.

Fuck these "what is a woman" types, and what Labour is doing in encouraging them. This is where that gets you.

Too angry to comment.

Three boys arrested after woman stabbed in Stockton 'hate crime' - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk A transgender woman is in hospital after police were called to Norton Street in Stockton on Tuesday.