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@Petrie_JohnC Farage's choice is between a rock and a Binface

I'm torn between Binface winning and utterly humiliating Farage, and Farage winning and then being destroyed by the Parliamentary commission for standards. Tough choice

@KingiJosh Or you could also just not eat lots of carbs.

This woman just simplified why you need to build muscles

@zeta_globin You'd miss you're extra fine social perceptual powers though. Most men are terrible at reading things emotionally, socially...

my friend just told me a person who takes testosterone and just does NOTHING for a month makes greater strength gains than someone who does a lifting program and I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ENRAGED TO BE A WOMAN IN ALL MY LIFE, FUCK THIS SHIT I HATE BEING A WOMAN I WANT TO BE ABLE TO KNOCK SOMEONE UP BY ACCIDENT WHEN I'M 75 AND DO NOTHING AND BE STRONG

@jackieb12902590 So what connection does "Deb" have to the case then? I've ended up chatting with "her" before too. It's some sort of deeply vested person close to it all.

Here she goes again. We KNOW all three were filmed. Only ONE piece of footage was disclosed. The other two were WRITTEN descriptions. 🙄 #LucyLetby

@callebtc You're right, but most effective thing I've found is context management. Once you're >40% context used, export that chat as an md file (using a skill) then start new chat and have the LLM read that whole file. You do loads better working in first portion of context.

I’ve never used any of this for coding: • MCPs • subagents • agent coordinators • memory systems • loops or graphs Agentic coding is becoming like photography: people obsess over the latest gear, optimize every inch of their workflow, and still never produce a beautiful photo worth looking at. Don't waste time on productivity larping. Plan, code, win.

@davidyelland Well done David. A great achievement. That looks a bit like the outdoor pool in Lewes, Sussex?

21 years sober today. Love beats hate, connection beats isolation, each of us have so much in common. That’s what I’ve learned. And for that I am truly grateful. 🙏💕✨

@Chefdoo195 Think you forget to switch accounts

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💣🚨BREAKING: Declan Rice full of tears and emotions during his Post-Match Interview. 🎙️Interviewer:Declan, you’ve just won bronze at the World Cup. Take us through what you’re feeling right now. 🗣️Rice… I don’t even know where to start. My heart is so full and so heavy at the same time. Bronze. Third place on the biggest stage in the world. It doesn’t sound like much when you dream of gold… but right now, this medal feels like everything. 🗣️We left everything out there. Every single one of us. I gave this tournament my soul the late nights, the doubts, the moments I was on my knees in the dressing room asking for strength. And today… we stood on that podium. I looked at the flag, heard the anthem, and I just couldn’t hold it in. Tears came. Because this isn’t just for me. This is for everyone who believed. 🗣️And Saka… God, Bukayo. I’m so happy my brother. Watching him score that hat-trick, seeing the joy on his face after everything he’s been through… it healed something in all of us. He played through pain that most people will never understand, and he still showed the world his magic. I’m proud of him. Deeply proud. He deserve every bit of this moment and more. 🗣️This bronze isn’t the end. It’s a promise. We came up short of the final, but we never gave up. And I’m grateful truly, deeply grateful to every supporter who sang through the pain, to my teammates who became brothers, and to this country that never stops believing. 🗣️We’ll be back. Stronger. Hungrier. For now I’m just going to hold this medal close and be thankful. Thankful that I get to wear the Three Lions. Thankful for this journey. Thankful for moments like this that make you feel truly alive. 🗣️To every England fan… thank you for loving us even when it hurts. This one’s for you. We’ll make you proud again. I love you all. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #FRAENG

@duncanreyburn Oh I was talking about Christopher Nolan sorry. Why was he so bothered about the camera than everything else that could have been focused on here. This review of yours was very thoughtful.

@Loster An example, as in: it’s not as simple as some are making it out to be. I’m responding to what seems to concern most people.

Having subjected my eyeballs and ears to it (too curious to be persuaded to avoid it), here’s a fairly brief stab at a take on Nolan's Odyssey: Every adaptation is a paradoxical ‘faithful betrayal’, and the degree to which it is faithful or promiscuous is up for debate. Translating something so ancient for a modern audience cannot help but be torn in two; it is 'between' what was and what is currently taken as given (as Nolan seems to be self-consciously aware). Of course, Homer’s own work sits ‘between’ quite a number of things. It is situated within a tradition with various adaptations, and (now) various translations and interpretations; it is an adaptation of its own, which complicates any assumption that the text carries only one meaning or can be summed up in one simple judgement (good, bad, etc). In our time, in which meaning is typically reduced to tribal affiliation, or, worse, to mere ‘liking’ and ‘subscribing’, Nolan’s film is particularly jarring. It resists any straightforward reading. Much of my own way of reading films, which is bound to frustrate some people, involves ‘letting it be what it is’; i.e. I’m interested in looking at what the film does and says (including how it plays off various interpretations) even apart from any clear authorial or crowd-imposed intentionality. So, with this in mind, here’s what I think: At the simplest visceral sensory level, I thought it was superb. As a cinematic experience (beautiful cinematography, great acting, an amazing soundtrack, sound-design, etc), it’s worth watching. This is not to say that certain aesthetic choices weren’t odd. Agamemnon’s helmet (the one in the poster) looks particularly silly in the movie. And the scene ‘between Scylla and Charybdis’ is strangely underwhelming. The use of American-speak and vulgarity was the worst of the aesthetic decisions. Was I still glad I watched the movie, though? Yes. Most of the things I didn't like in how it was done are small when compared to the big picture. At the level of what was said, things get more complicated. Obviously, some of the aesthetic decisions play a role in how we'll read the film. The major question people have been wondering about is whether the woke signifiers contaminate the film too much. I think the answer is that they very nearly do but even this is complicated; to try contain a story this big in a few measly signifiers is like trying to contain a tsunami in a beach bucket. If this is mere woke propaganda, it is terrible propaganda. Jonathan Pageau’s take that these woke signifiers are largely there to invert/implode on themselves is right. An unusual example (to take something I haven’t seen/heard discussed) is Samantha Morton’s hyper-feminist Circe, who is clearly and rabidly nuts: she 'sees' men as the enemy even when they are not and fails to understand the complex interplay between appearance and essence (her transformations of men into animals don't always act like what she has transformed them into, which is not without significance). Odysseus shows up and corrects her skewed perspective and calms her vengeful mind. The hero shows himself to be pivotal to the restoration of right-thinking and order here. There’s a clear sense in this scene alone that working only with what you assume things mean is a grave mistake. Another one no one has mentioned: Helen of Troy, played with tremendous pathos by Nyong’o, apologises for the whole war — she sees her own guilt as being central to all that went wrong, which is radically different from what’s in Homer’s vision. Again, this doesn't fit the usual woke picture and this can’t be accidental. That said, there is something Nolan definitely gets more wrong than right, in my view, which is in his attempt to make the magical palatable to his own rationalist-engineer mind. He tried to “decaffeinate” the fantastical and supernatural elements in the story too much. In this way, he empties the movie somewhat (not completely, though) of its potential to resonate strongly with transcendent themes. On this, Paul Anleitner's take is also spot on (but only insofar as it doesn’t exclude Pageau’s take, just as Pageau’s take is right only insofar as it doesn’t exclude Anleitner's): Nolan doesn’t quite understand mythology, and the result is that he somewhat buries the central principle of the original story (ceasing to be Nobody and getting back/reclaiming home — and thus also true identity) under a pile of postmodern psychologising. Honestly, I didn’t want to see a guilt-ridden PTSD Odysseus whose RETVRN is more ambivalent than clear. In this and more, I would have wanted Nolan to be truer to Homer, but this is not to say that the parable he is trying to tell about civilisational decline and reclaiming the virtue of hospitality is entirely out of place. At the level of ultimate significance, I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. But what is great is that the film helps to usher a story about a king’s return (as pivotal for the reclaiming of righteous order) back into the collective minds of people. For that alone, I'm glad it was made.

@duncanreyburn An example, as in, why are you more concerned with that here than everything else about the Odyssey??

@duncanreyburn V interesting review. "make the magical palatable to his own rationalist-engineer mind" This makes *absolute sense* to me re Nolan. I've found all of his films emotionally flat, & I think it's because he is mainly a (genius) engineer. Building own IMAX camera here is an example

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When you are bedbound with a severe illness for a long period of time (years), separated from practically every thing, activity and person you love, it feels like being divorced from life.

@lowles_nick Getting arrested dressed like that is pretty funny

This is the best news to wake up to. Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in US on British extradition request. They face 59 charges of rape, trafficking for sexual exploitation, assault and offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.

Ridiculous score But England are third. Cool!

@VladVexler Sports commentary in general. Riddled with cognitive distortions and fallacies. Hindsight bias, confirmation bias, nobody attributes anything to luck or to the complex system of 11 people going at 11 other people on some given day.

One of the most hilarious aspects of professional football commentary is inevitabilisation. Each match is treated as though it had to go the way it did.

One difference is that France don't try to win by breaking your legs. #ENGFRA

@harryrag @TobeHon29809726 No she didn't

@TobeHon29809726 Serial killer Lucy Letby voluntarily confessed that she had killed these babies. Case closed. Forever.

Lucy Letby case is such a clear MOJ if I worked for the CCRC I would be embarrassed and worried about my future reputation for doing NOTHING after the evidence sent to them over a year ago. Are they really fit for purpose after Andrew Malkinson ? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@yhazony Free Palestine

@JohnMayo940133 @GBC_Press That's not the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Banks. It's the population in the "State of Palestine" in the UN census. It includes parts of Israel, and it cuts off in 2024.

@GBC_Press This genocide?

🚨 BREAKING: ​The International Court of Justice has announced that it has the jurisdiction to try Israel. ​▪️ Israel will be tried for genocide.

@rstormsf Cross-exchange arbitrage or market making?

I need help with new profit-generating ideas/projects/collabs beyond crypto. I have suffered from a creative block for almost 4 years. I don’t think I need to explain why. Obv consulted AI, I understand there’s a lot of untapped profit potential in the space and would like some human perspective. I’m actually surprised that my long standing project @multi_sender is still generating income, but it’s not scaling at the pace I’d like to see and I don’t have enough bandwidth to focus on growing it. I have all the infra and workforce available for execution. I just don’t have ideas for my next direction.

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