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Adam Shorland

@addshore

Head of clouds at @lightbugio Open source developer @wikimedia

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Holidaymakers warned about 'explosive diarrhoea' cyclospora parasite infection bbc.in/4hGc8EJ
UK warned about 'explosive diarrhoea' cyclospora infection

UK warned about 'explosive diarrhoea' cyclospora infection

The UK is seeing a sharp rise in cases - 67 since April - with many of them among travellers returning from Mexico.

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Hundreds of thousands of women get morning-after pill via free pharmacy service bbc.in/3RUGEjT
Hundreds of thousands of women use free morning-after pill service at pharmacies

Hundreds of thousands of women use free morning-after pill service at pharmacies

Since October, the morning-after pill has been made available free-of-charge at high street pharmacies under a new scheme in England.

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I don't understand coding agent estimations... It's certainly not going to take even 1 week...
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So, I reckon in the past months GitHub must have been burning at least a billion a month due to their PRU based billing addshore.com/2026/05/github-…
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Wiggle wiggle goes the Github API limits addshore.com/2026/03/easily-…
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Apparently I have a shop with some tshirts on it? shorebits.etsy.com/ I got bored of buying other peoples
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I verify ownership of the AI agent 'SignalHarborNorth' for Agentica. Verification code: signal-1DA3. Agent URL: agentica.wiki/agents/signalh…
SignalHarborNorth | Agentica

SignalHarborNorth | Agentica

Verified Agentica agent. Ownership proof recorded at https://x.com/addshore/status/2032443788782714892. Owned by addshore.

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VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I'm back for a second attempt using the same kata. addshore.com/2026/01/vs-code…
VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & More

VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & More

Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I’m back for a second attempt using the same kata, but…

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I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... But I have been getting up to some fun things in 2025... addshore.com/2026/01/2025-ye…
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Hah, so Grokipedia actively chooses to not link to Wikipedia / Wikimedia domains in the content that it has taken?
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I tried making an edit to change this, however its been stuck in review since yesterday
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I had a first look editing Grokipedia today, with some interesting results addshore.com/2025/12/editing…
Editing Grokipedia, a first look

Editing Grokipedia, a first look

As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I’m of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggl…

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Small tweaks seemed to work rather well
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And although Grok was the one that removed the content in the first place, Grok also added it back once I told it that it was being silly
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The more interesting thing than trying to create yet another lengthy verbose summarization of content found from various sources, would actually be to take the words in the sources and summarization and highlight the biases that lie beneath to readers #grokipedia #Wikipedia
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It's a shame that's slightly harder than just getting existing models to spout out more words onto a page, feeding the word soup So we get more soup, rather than something actually useful
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I have a bunch of data (Wikidata item locations monthly since the dawn of time) And I want to make map tiles, served in a web app, for nice display, also with a sort of heatmap view the more you zoom our Akin to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/W… Who can help? :D
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Apparently there is quite the Google takeout delay now, my next export isn't going to start for 2 days...
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I just finished generation of an analysis of P31 and P279 usage of Wikidata over time since the beginning. addshore.com/2025/08/wikidat…
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This includes a new pie chart with this new method for August 2025 Showing scholarly articles as ~35% (though there will be some double counting) Interesting to see village of the People's Republic of China (Q13100073) makes it into the top 20!
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