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Brit in Poland. Builder, marketer, writer. Words in Nature, New Scientist, BBC, Big Think

Joined April 2010
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Please don't stop shouting about Ukraine. Look at Kherson today. russians burned people's homes. Pure terror.
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So, yesterday, Russians consciously turned a school shelter in Ukraine’s South into a collective grave. Dropped nine (!) aerial bombs. 27 tons (!) of explosives. 29 people confirmed dead. 48 missing. 2 first responders, 4 policemen, and the rest - local civilians. It’s diabolical. #Komyshuvakha
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Simon Oxenham retweeted
This is probably the second worst airstrike atrocity fascist Russia has committed in Ukraine after the Mariupol Theater bombing.
The death toll from Russia's massacre in Komyshuvakha continues to rise. 30 people, who had gathered at a school to receive humanitarian aid, have now been confirmed killed, a further 48 are listed as missing.
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Dear Americans, today is Election Day. Before you cast your vote, remember Izium, Ukraine. 414 civilians. Five children. Tortured. Executed. Buried in a forest. Your president, Mr. Trump, called russia’s conduct “frankly normal.” Remember that.
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🇺🇦 Attention, fellas and supporters of Ukraine! Please make sure you’re following @UkraineEvidence. They’re a small but powerful team with a simple mission: to combat Russian propaganda with verified facts. They want everyone, from a diplomat at the UN to an ordinary reader, to have access to facts they can check for themselves. Every figure they publish comes with a source, a date, and information that makes it verifiable. Every day, they document new attacks on Ukrainian civilians, and each case tells the story of real people, not just statistics. Among the cases are two 15-year-old schoolgirls killed by a Russian drone in the center of Chernihiv on October 29, and residents of an apartment building in Kremenchuk that was hit by a drone the same day. All of this is available free of charge in the six official UN languages on their website: ukraine-evidence.org/ Please share! 🙏 Let’s get these guys more followers!
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Simon Oxenham retweeted
Replying to @tomowenmorgan
Poland recently sent a war guide to all citizens. The contents of the go bag are smart. 🇵🇱 Many of then are wise for anyone anywhere, particularly in light of the recent cyber vulnerabilities!
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Never thought i'd be telling my computer to turn off the tv when he's ready to go to bed
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insane statistic. reminds me of the first days of covid.
3% of “critical” software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month. This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total Do you realize how fucking insane that is?
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Netflix is 2% from becoming a minority player in the TV zeitgeist. But how do you keep track of the best of everything on this chart? I built an app for that, its completely free: ultimatewatchlist.com
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In Kharkiv today, russia struck an ordinary commuter train. Killing kids, striking markets, Killing dogs, burning trains - everything is possible if you are a great "humanitarian"
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Simon Oxenham retweeted
Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian today. Here is some of his humanitarian work:
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Simon Oxenham retweeted
With Trump's removal of Starlink, Russians are now hunting cars full of people in Kyiv, using jet drones for which Ukraine's interceptors no longer function to stop. Three people murdered an hour ago in southern Kyiv, with six others injured, three of which are children.
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Top tip for anyone wanting to vibe code their TV to be faster, cleaner, ad and tracking free, and more powerful. Do your Fire Stick instead! Works amazingly and you can be free to experiment without fear of bricking it!
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Porn for psychopaths
president trump is currently posting ai videos of lions attacking humans on truth social
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It is literally impossible to prove that the Russian interference in the UK 2016 referendum either had or had no actual impact on the outcome. The mere fact of interference as such does not point to any outcome. As Cambridge Dictionary defines it, interference is “when someone tries to involve themselves in a situation when their involvement is not wanted, not helpful, or not reasonable”. Russians did try to influence the outcome of the Brexit referendum, which means that they _interfered_ in it. But the impact of their attempts - either positive, neutral or negative - is beyond any discussion of the outcome and, again, impossible to establish. What is possible to investigate though - and should be investigated - is why the Tory governments covered up the Russian interference.
So this is obviously the official pushback to the line on Russian interference & it’s the same nonsense that Boris Johnson spouted: ‘no successful interference’ is utterly meaningless. There’s never been any investigation & no definition of what ‘success’ means.
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NEW: Ten years on, Prime Minister @andyburnham tells @campbellclaret & @RoryStewartUK that there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. FINALLY after years of cover-ups & denials from the highest levels of the UK govt. That in itself deserves an inquiry. 1/
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YouTube is soaring while Netflix flatlines because YouTube is open and Netflix is closed. I wanted a service that gives recommendations like Netflix/YT that works on all film and TV, regardless of who controls the rights. It didn't exist, so I built it. It's free: ultimatewatchlist.com Import your ratings + reviews from Letterboxd in 1 click. Build your ultimate watch list. Link with your partner. Filter your watch list by platform, including lots of free ones. Make an informed choice when you choose which platforms to use. Take control of your algorithm. Since I built it the quality of what I watch has risen unbelievably. Let me know if it works for you as well as it works for me!
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Oh my God. I’m just shocked. This happened in my area in Ukraine yesterday. Fucking russian terrorists hit a KINDERGARTEN. This is the moment of the strike. A man escaped literally seconds before the explosion. I HAVE NO WORDS
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The way the agents in the hugging face attack talked to each other in txt spk, because they communicated through folder names with length limits reminds me of old Twitter with character limits and before slop era wordiness. Good times.
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggin…
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Simon Oxenham retweeted
🚨 Ten years after Brexit referendum, the House of Commons Library has assessed the evidence in advance of a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday 2 September led by @PeteWishart Its conclusion? There is a broad consensus among economists that Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it otherwise would have been. Estimates of the GDP loss: 2–8%. OBR long-term assumption: 4%. Expected hit to UK trade: 15%. Meanwhile EU net migration fell below zero but non-EU migration surged, peaking above 1 million. We sacrificed freedom of movement, erected barriers with our largest market and made ourselves poorer. And overall migration went UP. Ten years of evidence. How much more evidence do we need before Britain changes course?
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