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Dog, Pro-European Centre-Left, Atheists, TTRPG D&D, Meditation, Astrophysics, Mountain Bikes, Ecology, Tech, Woodworking, Other Stuff... #OliNichol #Oli #Nichol #ForestOfDean #Northampton

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A curious post. I'm interested to see where this thread leads

01.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.

18.02.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 523 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 11
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Ben J McKie (@therealben) How does a young man actually become a man today? Not in theory. Not legally. But internally. For most of human history, the transition from boyhood to manhood was marked clearly. A young man wa...

Some insightful observations and writing, in the need for challenge in coming from #boyhood into #manhood from #BenMcKie. I got this through #Scouts, #MountainBikes and learning to organise #LARP, as a teenager. This spoke to me. Thanks Ben πŸ™

substack.com/@therealben/...

03.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, the eloquence and intellect in the vision expressed with such clarity… πŸ™„

01.02.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not yet at a point where it's useful. I've run a deep trial of it over the last three days. While it can stay running indefinitely, communicate through messaging apps and run autonomously, it's highly erratic, forgets what it's doing and takes big risks.

31.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I setup #clawdbot/ #moltbot/ #openclaw as name iteration seem to have run, 3 days ago, gave it a massive Obsidian memory set I already had for #ClaudeCode. Result? Rapid chaotic lurching potential mess! Like your most talented mate that went on a huge charlie bender! This is not ready for dev... yet

31.01.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve had one for about 2 years. I use it for drifting off to sleep with podcasts playing just to me. My mum’s good one now and too. They are reasonably comparable and hold a charger for a few nights listening πŸ‘

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27.01.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ramsey Campbell's THE HUNGRY MOON - full cast audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson and Jemma Moore In association with Bleak December, Room 5064 are proud to present their full cast audio adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's acclaimed folk horror novel.Starring: Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Louise Jameso...

#horror Room 5064 Productions have released their full cast audio adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's 1980s folk horror classic THE HUNGRY MOON. Starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson & Jemma Moore (Host, Red Eye), it's available for Β£15.99 + extras as download here: payhip.com/b/SrbiG

24.01.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I read a piece from a TLDR newsletter link a little while back where someone had seemingly managed to extract the Soul Document from Claude. It’s good to see that Anthropic have released the actual version. Thanks for posting on this.

22.01.2026 10:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A very well written article. Thanks

20.01.2026 06:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown

20.01.2026 06:39 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 17

Yeah, just in this run the junior partner is Russian rather than Japanese

20.01.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We came across these lovely little characters while walking in the woods this morning… However, Coco dog decided they were wrong and should not be there! πŸ˜‚πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
#dogs
#spaniel
#snowmen
#walking

10.01.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This has now sold! Thanks good people 😁

05.01.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home Assistant Yellow original box kit + network cable

Home Assistant Yellow original box kit + network cable

Home Assistant Yellow from the back

Home Assistant Yellow from the back

Home Assistant Yellow underneath

Home Assistant Yellow underneath

Home Assistant Yellow factory reset & update screen, ready to setup

Home Assistant Yellow factory reset & update screen, ready to setup

#ForSale!
#HomeAssistant Yellow #RaspberryPi 4, 8Gb RAM, 32 GB eMMC version. Selling as I've migrated my #HA setup to a Linux web server running other things too. HA is a great open source #HomeAutomation, with a massive community supporting it!
Β£95 pick up UK GL17 or + Β£5 UK P&P
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Please share

04.01.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Things you can get for Β£1 or less this January 2026 #Β£1 #kindlesale #foraging #wildfood

02.01.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Forage away!…

02.01.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Introducing Forest Community Energy... getting going in the Forest of Dean!
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19.11.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

This looks a very positive initiative. I’ve joined πŸ‘

30.12.2025 07:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Congrats on finding the creepiest lamp going!...

24.12.2025 10:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fishβ€”and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

This a hilarious and insightful read. It shows what actually happens when current LLMs with a fair degree of autonomy are put into a setting with a group of capable intelligent humans.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
#ArtificialIntelligence
#AI
#Anthropic
#Claude
#LLM

21.12.2025 10:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

20.12.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 1944 πŸ” 669 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 43

Yeah, impatiently staring at you to get out of his way!…

20.12.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank, that’s an interesting insight. I’d assumed from media coverage of Trump rhetoric, that Americans would be less supportive of providing assistance to Ukraine than the British. Yet, it would appear that they could be, if anything slightly more supportive.

15.12.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Long live the strawberry…

13.12.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, in my association it's like talking to a spaniel with PHD...

09.12.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Randomly your post was top of my Discover feed. Hilarious! Cheers for sharing πŸ˜‚

09.12.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had a series of layout issues with Safari producing different results to Chrome and Firefox with model overlays. Rather than using Playwrite I gave Claude Opus 4.5 screenshots with instructions drawings that I’d written on them. It iterated through working out fixed very reliably.

08.12.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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https://ridge.at #ForSale #Tools

07.12.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I had a reminiscent walk through the forest with Coco (sock eater), listening to all your Who discussions and letting them bring all that British SciFi story telling back into my thinking. Then ended up talking about it with my BBC mate, when out running with our dogs. Thanks Mate!

05.12.2025 03:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0