Laonikos (shakuhachi)
@laonikoss
he/him • shakuhachi, coaching, baking sourdough • #尺八 • anti-Zionist • http://laonikos.bsky.social 🦋
I'm more annoyed when the left pander to the far right
Everyone knows how annoying it is when you’re on a train and your signal keeps dropping out. So we’re going to install ultra-fast cables along major rail lines to get rid of those dead spots.
surely it should be a priority to seize and crush any vehicles used by drivers to, accidentally or intentionally, harm, injure, and kill other people? or guess what - impounding vehicles for extreme speeding or other road crime would do heaps to improve driver behaviour.
Labour is cracking down on cowboy waste operators and tackling soaring fly-tipping to clean up Britain’s streets ✅
OMG just deal with child poverty, a crippled health service and skyrocketing energy bills first, no one cares about flytipping
This is a message to the fly-tippers blighting our towns and villages: For too long, your actions have gone unpunished. That ends now. We'll use drones and new tech to identify your vehicle. Then we'll crush it.
Yvette Cooper would have prosecuted the suffragettes as terrorists
Does Yvette Cooper know the Suffragettes, whose rosette she is wearing here, planted bombs in St Paul’s cathedral, and went after Winston Churchill with a whip? And were completely on the right side of history? Asking for @Pal_action..
omg we are nowhere near AGI, why is everyone so obsessed with this, it's a language recombination machine that works *most* of the time and has no way of self-correcting or identifying low confidence when it is likely to be wrong.
BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)
Quite incredible, a country basking in the legacy of one of the world's largest and richest empires, and no one in power can muster the kindness or generosity to be kind to others, or the money to fund basic services, and maintain 20m people in poverty.
For too long, Britain has been addicted to cheap overseas labour — while 1 in 8 of our own young people aren’t in education, employment or training. I'm putting our young people first, investing in skills they need and ending our dependence on foreign labour.
My father was an immigrant. He became an English teacher and then someone who trained students to become teachers. He lived the whole of his life on this 'island'. Was he part of an 'island of strangers'?
A bit rich from the person who mixed up "hostages" with "sausages" during a very serious press conference.
If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense. So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.
Has anybody tried making life better for people in the UK yet
There's nothing like adding weak mechanical points to a structurally integral part of my bicycle, so that when someone attempts to steal it I have to replace the saddle post and/or frame.
The bike parking lock system is great
so boring to keep conflating language prediction with intelligence which predates language as any parent can tell you and can handle analogue multisensory data powered by bananas and oatmeal.
so let's be real. if you showed a normal person from 2020 a frontier AI model from 2025, and asked if this met the definition of AGI, they would've said yes. right ???
That's one way to kill children's imagination. It's like telling people they can watch a robot do weights and it will make them lose weight.
Google did a very good job with this commercial.
Just took 93yr old mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, “which box for KNEECAP?" A cheer went up from the waiting voters.
Listening to Kneecap on the bus with no headphones, but shaking my head so everyone here knows i disagree with it
Before taxing anyone they should see if they can afford a luxury car. If they can afford a luxury car, the tax rate should go up in 20% increments until they can no longer afford a luxury car.
In Britain, even something that can be delivered at relatively low cost and that might actually be quite useful must be ruthlessly stamped on. We must never of course miss an opportunity to hammer the worst off
Millions of parents in the UK who can't feed their children must be delighted at this news.
We're backing fusion power. This funding will help us take back control of Britain's energy by driving for clean, homegrown power, growing our industries & training the next generation of British scientists & engineers. Another important step in growing this exciting industry.
This is so boring. It's very easy to get ChatGPT to fail the turing test, that's to ask it for the most complex of topics and hear a response given confidently with no hesitation, or producing a limerick in a split second, or refusing to talk about certain topics.
It's over. ChatGPT 4.5 passes the Turing Test.