I don't know if this has been posted
There's a mistake here.
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An Egg ,D, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 23:19,
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that's got another bloke who's in that incestuous cabal of pop science content creators
not sure if I'm missing something
but the way he described the setup is that if you pick the million box just as the highly accurate computer predicted you would, you get a million dollars. Doesn't sound like a huge amount jeopardy in the choice
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 2:03,
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Hannah Fry wins the internetz
Who else would have this as a chandelier?
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She seems to be one of a small incestuous cabal of people that make a good living out of presenting
summaries of new scientist and nature articles, many several years old. Did you know...
I'm not against pop science vids, but I sometimes worry that an important part of science is critical analysis by
the reader/viewer, rather than just consuming factoids.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, it's a nice light.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 23:32,
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It is her job, you know?
She is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She was previously a professor at University College London.
/wikipedia.org
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 5:25,
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she's only published three papers
her phd, only cited 6 times in 15 years, and one as one of four authors on modelling of the london riots. I had a squiz out of curiousity, the maths isn't sophisticated, the modelling chock full of the kind of lick your finger and stick it in the air arbritrary metrics and assumptions any one of which could be challenged.
Since it is typically argued that individuals act rationally during a riot (i.e. that their decisions are based on some cost/benefit analysis) these observations can be used to inform a model of the actions of rioters
Anyway I'm sure she's fine at maths, and likely was a far better maths lecturer than many of the asberger types I encountered at uni. But her accolades are as a popular youtuber, she no savant, and not at all distinguished in her field for her research.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 7:56,
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one, my thesis
but I don't work in academia, my job as a geo was mostly making sure the dumptruck drivers put down their porn mags long enough to acknowledge that they were getting loaded with high grade which they were not, I repeat NOT to take to waste. over.
If you're an academic getting your name on three minor papers in 15 years is not much to write home about.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 12:08,
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god yeah, she's clearly stupid and shit
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 14:12,
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You seem quite the fanboy
I’m sure she’s bright, just as I’m sure Nigella Lawson is a good cook. And how both of them maintain that constant coquettish smile whether they’re talking about pork chops or black holes is quite impressive. My beef with these pop science YouTubers is that in their demand to put out constant content they mostly rip off the work of good science writers or research in these journals without attribution. The hard work was done by the science writers, these YouTubers aren’t pulling it from their own knowledge or research, Hannah exhausted all that several years ago. And like all journos, science writers are struggling as are the journals themselves
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 21:04,
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But part of the job is to communicate complex ideas to the uneducated
It's not aimed at those who find edutainment it beneath them.
I think she presents this stuff very well. So, yes, I'm a fanboy too.
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i think you misunderstand my issue
which is with her and the others stealing content from journals (without attribution), rather than the quality of their presentation or their smarts. It's a bit unethical and might eventually kill the hand that feeds it. It's like how google, facebook and now AI show or summarise news article without the paper or writer benefiting as there's no eyeballs back to the original publisher. As I said in my first post, I'm not against pop science vids. That she's undistinguished in her field (maths, not science communication) is no slight on her, about half of professors at any uni would have a similar output.
As an observation I noticed that a bunch of them, that beardy bald bloke, the clean cut yank bloke, de grasse tyson, etc have gone from plying their individual content to now constantly appearing in each others videos like some tv crossover metaverse. Maybe they get more views if they pool their respective followers.
And as a general 'old man shakes fist at sky' point, science is more than just watching facts, it's using your brain to question and being critical. That's not elitist, if you watch these vids and understand the concepts they're explaining, you're more than capable of not just accepting things at face value, of digging deeper and thinking for yourself at the assumptions they make and where and how they got their data. Like that line in her research about rioters acting rationally. Do you think that's a defensible assumption? Why or why not? It's a really useful but underpromoted science skill in a world increasing full of bullshit and lies.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 22:41,
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that job was created in 2025, long after she started making videos
and its role seems to be teaching the rest of faculty, and maybe even some pesky students, how to communicate maths to the public, rather than sponsoring her video work. Likewise, her presidency was about her public profile than her proving the riemann hypothesis. She started making popular maths vids in her field, bringing a kind of Nigella Lawson sensiblity that probaby didn't hurt her viewship among blokes. But now she makes content on any science topic, along with about five or six similar youtubers that now all seem to appear in each other videos.
I'm not fussed what her and the rest do with her time or how they make money. But none of the research is hers like the rest of them, and being a scientist the algorithm always pushes them to me. (at least Brian cox is doing active research at CERN). And I have noticed even up to several years after any interesting article appearing in Nature or other journals my work pays for, these people make videos about it without ever citing them. I guess it's less impressive if you start a vid saying, "so, I read this article in the Lancet in the doctors waiting room and now I'm going to summarise it for you"
In response to having their publishing thievarised, I've seen some of the journals like New Scientist hire similar kind of easy on the eye presenters to make content themselves e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrAJo6-SH4
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 7:06,
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The Courtroom Sketch Artist had a rough weekend by the looks of things...
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It could be worse
he might actually look like that
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 15:45,
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I know he had a gut shot wound, which he survived after being in a coma
but I also recall after he was finally brought down one of the survivors starting kicking the shit out of him in angry retribution, going for head-stomps, so he may well have facial fractures that account for the face puffiness. While I don't have much sympathy, I always found Bondi a bit overcrowded...
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 23:09,
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Looks like he got a bit smeared and fuzzy in the kicking then
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 11:47,
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Old sketch I made 18 years ago
I made this!
Have long since hung up the acting boots (chairs)
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No head rest for the wicked though.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 8:29,
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Not bad at all that.
Which is me saying, rather good, actually, T.T.S.
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unclepills, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 8:29,
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Genius
I'm trying to figure out ways to include this in politics.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 14:32,
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Two of the best. Just having a dad chat on TV
My b3ta birthday slipped from me this year.
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Sgt. Welt, Sun 8 Mar 2026, 19:28,
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Not great on the whole
(Presumably external) smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of haemorrhoids
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 8 Mar 2026, 4:46,
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'two blinded endoscopists'
a bit of an extreme step to prove your hypothesis, hope the endoscopists were willing
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The most common activity performed while on the toilet was reading “news” (54.3%), followed by “social media” (44.4%).
I take it the quote marks signify porn and wanking
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 8 Mar 2026, 11:48,
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This song has been running through my head for the past week or so
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 22:12,
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There must be times when you wonder
Will things ever be the same again
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Your new favourite band: Angine de Poitrine
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Debriel Mancovis And the Banyons of Utrecht, that's why, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 12:51,
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yup, ace
you were beaten to the punch by about a fortnight though :/
(, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 12:53, Reply)
Bugger, I used the Search on here and it came back with zero, oh well.
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Debriel Mancovis And the Banyons of Utrecht, that's why, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 13:08,
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Search is against Sn0tters' religion.
Soz
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 15:22,
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I demand a recount, I shall recalibrate my jobbion, good day to you madam.
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Debriel Mancovis And the Banyons of Utrecht, that's why, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 15:28,
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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie played them on the digital radio station BBC 6 Music
on Saturday. And talked about them for about 5 minutes.
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What were they wearing?
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Debriel Mancovis And the Banyons of Utrecht, that's why, Wed 11 Mar 2026, 13:15,
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GUMSHOE MEDIATION ERROR
Please parse your puddin.exe
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Debriel Mancovis And the Banyons of Utrecht, that's why, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 14:27,
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ASMR engine Pr0n
I want to hitch it up to something.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 0:34,
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People who believe bullshit
Turn out to be a liability
Who could have guessed
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Sn0tters 🇯🇴🇧🇧🇮🇪, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 15:40,
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it would help explain the popularity of NFTs amongst fucking idiots
(, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 17:14, Reply)
World class
Mean, median or mode? None of them should be an aspiration.
Quality... High, low, intermediate. A quality service or product is undefined.
I could go on, but you get the idea. I took both of these from the "mission statements" or other statements from places I have worked.
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An Egg ,D, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:12,
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I recently found out that the median they taught us in school isn’t the real median.
I’m still annoyed.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 8 Mar 2026, 18:32,
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I like it. Blue sky thinking
Let's take this research and run in up a flagpole, see who salutes. If we get stakeholder buy-in we can leverage the low-hanging fruit to quantitise sub-optimal effiencies in the productivity space to drive KPI realignment more adjacent to brand values.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:32,
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Equally
We could look at the "data" and hold a feeling session; if the standards are accepted by the stakeholders.
I tried but you did a pretty good job.
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An Egg ,D, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:49,
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I'll run it up your flagpole...
And see how agile you are.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:50,
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Nice move
We'll hold a standing meeting and make a viable product that may or may not work. There'll be a scrum to determine if the sprint team is working...
Did I get it right?
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An Egg ,D, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 23:12,
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I think there is further room to grow
We need to maximise the synergies across our diverse portfolio of solutions, providing maximum value to our partner entities.
We need to take a risk-tolerant approach, and our trajectory should align with our strategic endpoint, but always with an eye for innovative opportunities.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 7:54,
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The biggest threat to corporate group think types is ChatGPT
You can spew out this stuff endlessly without have to pay 6 figure salaries to some bald C type
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 3:20,
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Best shower time
Currently in the Holy Land, if you wish to shower or have a shit uninterrupted by incoming Iranian missiles
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 9:02,
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Seems a bit reduntant.
An Israeli practising good hygiene is about as likely as my cat flushing the toilet after it's been for a shit.
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All Israelis have poor hygiene, is what you're saying?
Seems unlikely.
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Your cat sometimes flushes the toilet, then?
This is very confusing.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 11:23, Reply)
In summary: you're sure your cat flushes the toilet in exceptional circumstances.
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What, in cat terms constitutes an exceptional circumstance, I wonder.
Mouse vomit disposal*?
*Might be a band name.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 21:56,
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It could be that Tony never ever flushes the toilet
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 8 Mar 2026, 2:08,
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I used to think that my wife was moving things.
Video revealed it was the cats. She, my wife, also didn't chew my shoes or pee randomly around the loo.
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An Egg ,D, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:21,
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People in the Middle East shower often
At least when not bombed
worldostats.com/country-stats/shower-frequency-by-country/
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 11:56,
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I don't know how reliable that site is.
France is rated 'High', and I bloody know that isn't true.
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Maybe it got France very wrong
But Israel has an ethnic cleansing routine
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 13:00,
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Obviously I'm late to this because I keep racist trolls on ignore,
but I'm really disappointed in the rest of you for not excluding this poisonous troll, or at the very least wishing him a painful and undignified death.
I don't understand what you people find so appealing about keeping a Nazi entertained and welcomed here, unless you are also worthless subhuman cunts of some kind.
If you can read this message, this means you, you fucking pathetic weasel. Stop giving comfort to Nazi scum.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 9 Mar 2026, 13:32,
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They don't shower in Iraq
Because of the Baathist Party
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:36,
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Norwegian consumer council information film
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 5 Mar 2026, 3:13,
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www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/forbrukerradet_aim_enshittification/
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They seem to be making a serious effort.
It seems like a logical feature of much private equity commerce to get as much as they can while providing as little as possible and retaining as much control as possible. While that pays, it will continue; 'AI' merely speeds up the degradation.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 0:31,
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MOSS is a painting toy where every brush is a tiny program
A bit of an unusual paint program
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Sn0tters 🇯🇴🇧🇧🇮🇪, Wed 4 Mar 2026, 19:06,
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Yeah it does seem to be
It promised a lot more.
Nice idea if the pixels had kept on animating
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Sn0tters 🇯🇴🇧🇧🇮🇪, Wed 4 Mar 2026, 23:31,
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I might not have given enough time to work out the interface probably
but that could be their fault as much as mine
*properly not probably
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Newsround comment sections are significantly more wholesome than the BBC News comment sections...
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Aww, such lovely innocent comments. It's a shame that they will have to grow up and realise that those are actually mind control rays that the Liberals are using to enforce their woke trans agenda.
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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 5 Mar 2026, 22:49,
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Didn't even think to look on youtube for this
But I can recommend the radio series ( if it's ever back on. b3ta.com/links/Poets_Tree_Kevin_Eldon_etc_is_finally_being_repeated) However, this is the bit I loved the most. Thanks for the link (and upload???)
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unclepills, Wed 4 Mar 2026, 8:36,
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That supply chain xkcd comic we’ve all seen done to death
But now interactive!
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LP, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 16:51,
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So it *does* all fall down if you remove it.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 19:43,
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It all falls down if you just look at it hard and don't even move it
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 10:38,
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And the HN thread about this linked to this, which is also wonderful - but 100% less interactive:
www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/actuallycompleteversion/
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Wed 4 Mar 2026, 0:01,
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I've used this for years, it makes a ringing phone less intimidating
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMe40bF5rs
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 7 Mar 2026, 3:24,
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demonstrate your approval visually
will also work for disapproval by using minus numbers
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This House
I made this!
Hello again. As you may know im unemployed. To get my arse out of bed I give myself pretend jobs. Tragic right but it stops me going mental. Me and my boy think this guy is funny so that was a good enough excuse to make this. Hopefully it brings in some real work. All the best. Swede
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swedemason another self-promoting cunt, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 10:37,
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Swede Bloody Mason!
Get a job you lazy fucker. Honestly, it's almost like companies have just decided that well crafted satire that makes people laugh is not as important as five second AI slop clips posted on CuntTok
*edit* YEAH?
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Octo I ruin everything., Tue 3 Mar 2026, 10:42,
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Some ai stuff is great, but then I get bored of it because it starts to look like its all made by the same person
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swedemason another self-promoting cunt, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 11:04,
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You've been watching Stephen Hawking boxing matches haven't you?
This is what happens in the job search time vacuum.
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Octo I ruin everything., Tue 3 Mar 2026, 11:12,
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No, but i had to take a look, now here i am 30 minutes later
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swedemason another self-promoting cunt, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 11:44,
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That's the thing - it's virtually impossible to make anything with personality if you've embraced AI
as it's all the tiny decisions you make, that give something your stamp
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rob, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 15:57,
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agreed. I think i liked gen ai beter when it was a bit crap
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swedemason another self-promoting cunt, Tue 3 Mar 2026, 16:58,
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just as a thought
just as people seek out organic produce, or fair-trade coffee. I reckon there'd be some appetite in the community for a "By Humans For Humans" kind of branding for creative work or an agency. Most people don't like AI and feel cheated and lied to when they discover it's AI
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 6 Mar 2026, 22:49,
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lovely stuff
fingers crossed it triggers a massive influx of cash and jobs for you
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Hurray
As a long time stalker/subscriber on the toobz I was very pleased to see a new offering. I have even bothered to dust off my B3TA log in to make this comment when I saw this vid showcased in the newsletter.
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fluffymitten NAN, Tue 10 Mar 2026, 20:00,
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