Ben Rometsch

Ben Rometsch

@benr.win

Eggs Benedict connoisseur. Bollard lover. Feminist. Electrify absolutely everything. Entrepreneur I suppose.

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Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

Many times this thread

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz

where is the idea that AI is like Uber (where they are heavily subsidising the consumer-end product in order to Disrupt Markets and Get Everyone Hooked, only to plan to raise prices later) coming from? is this an Ed Zitron article of faith? it SOUNDS like an Ed Zitron article of faith

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

I don't really get this position if heat your home with gas. Like, the gas has to come from somewhere.

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social

Issuing oil drilling licences + blaming wildfires on disposable barbecues = not really taking this seriously.

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

100% this. > 30 days payment terms should be illegal. Late payment fees should be 10x higher and enforceable by the HMRC. And these insanely enormous delays for licenses etc need to get sorted

William Wright@williamw1.bsky.social

As the owner of a small business I also want larger businesses to not wait 90+ days to pay their invoices, and government agencies to not take more than six months to process business critical licences, or more than three months to give me tax reference number.

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Jordan
@jordanpfot.bsky.social

Replying to @jordanpfot.bsky.social

There is clearly a miserable streak in the British electorate, ingrained by years of austerity and silly buggers governments, that makes people entirely unwilling to accept wins, or see politicians through anything but the most cynical lens.

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Covie
@covie93.bsky.social

You don't even understand the damage Zelensky did to Republicans midterm messaging by taking out that Russian bot farm.

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Mark Watson
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social

Sorry to go on about this again, but I do think this is one of the best things on the internet. There are numerous examples to make my case.

ArtButMakeItSports@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

Celebration of the Manifesto of October 17, 1905 (flipped), by Ilya Repin, 1906, 📸 by Chris Kim

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦
@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

Imagine having the mega brain to want to stay outside of the EU after the last 10 years.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

I did, and would do so again.

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Sam Freedman
@samfr.bsky.social

When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social

On the substack this week.... I looked at the route back into the EU. It's going to become increasingly obvious that the politics works for a manifesto pledge. What are the barriers? What would a negotiation look like? How might another referendum play out? samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

samf.substack.comThe route back into the EUBack in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.

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Adam Squires
@adsquires.bsky.social

Vile cartoon in the Telegraph.

Natasha Devon@natashadevon.bsky.social

You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

this_is_fine.gif Nice touch bringing in the Nazis 👌

Hughstergeist@hughster.bsky.social

Full Lubna Speitan clip from OP. Transcript: "We will continue until we dismantle Zionism, from every country, from every place, they will be shunned. And inshallah that time will come…when they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi[s] were … We will obtain freedom. It won't happen without force"

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Fargaman
@fargaman.bsky.social

Replying to @buntersgut.bsky.social

He's a political opportunist with flexible ideology. Like Liz Truss, he started with the lib Dems then adjusted his views to look for whatever gap in the political market he could find. The Greens were vulnerable to entryist takeover, so he opened the door.

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Casmilus
@casmilus.bsky.social

Replying to @markreckons.bsky.social

I think we've solved the definition of "English". You're English if you can do a terrorist action and it doesn't count.

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The Alchemist
@alchemist19.bsky.social

Replying to @jessicaelgot.bsky.social

It's strange how the Greens have ballsed up their supposed breakthrough so thoroughly. Not only is it idiotic, it's bad politics. Particularly as Corbyn provided them with a map of where this all leads.

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James Ball
@jamesrball.com

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦
@tobyontv.bsky.social

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

How many Godparents/Grandparents of AI are there? Feels like I read about a new AI GODPARENT OMGWTFBBQ every couple of days...

Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

Imagine moving to a different country because of some new cul-de-sacs.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Lorna MacGillivray
@elemjay.bsky.social

Signing is super simple and fast:

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇

europeanmovement.co.ukAsk your MP to stand up for our future in EuropeOn 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
Ben Rometsch
@benr.win

Very serious physicists spent some time at Los Alamos trying to figure out if the Trinity test would set light to the atmosphere. Feels like there are maybe some similarities with current AI.