MLAs And The Like

@JadeCole2112 New rule: Anyone that uses there word 'toast' for anything other than bread is a prick.

Guys - stop with this. You are all going to forget you said any of this when the market rebounds, as it always does.

@JadeCole2112 Set up Claws to buy stuff.

"No no no... you see, this signals CONFIDENCE that Altman has in the company. Accelerate!!!!" - e/acc

@kitbilly55 @SluggerOToole aims.niassembly.gov.uk/questions/week… Knock yourself out

@MLAsAndTheLike @SluggerOToole But where is website listing the answers? Many MLAs shouting "Look at me & all these questions I'm asking", but very little "Look at me & what I've done with the answer." Geg!

Want Potholes Fixed? Stop Bombarding Government Departments with Questions! Have you any idea how many questions the Department for Infrastructure is asked each year? The answer is probably tens of thousands. The number of emails, phone calls, Freedom o sluggerotoole.com/2026/03/24/wan…

@marmaduke091 Did it specify 'Break Taylor Swift's forearm or wrist' ?

🚨 xAI's new image model update will be a HUGE one Much better than earlier models, it is currently being tested in LMArena named "jumbo-dungeness" Look at he accuracy of the faces! The only prompt was: "create a selfie of 10 celebrities"

@JeffBohren @svpino Andrej was singing the praises of OpenClaw on a podcast recently. He's sort-of automated his doorbell, apparently. Game Changer.

@svpino "Skill issue" is the AI equivalent of "It works in my dev environment". Both statement are as equally useful.

Yes, these agents are absolutely horrible at writing decent-quality code. But any time you say that out loud, there's a swarm of AI-apologists who've never built anything that scream at you, "skill issue!" You might not care about the code, and that's alright, but you can't gaslight anyone who cares about good code.

@SluggerOToole Absolute specifics : Infrastructure have provided written answers to 2500 questions in this session alone. Where do I send my research invoice?

Oh, and that was 30,000 so far. The 25 - 26 session lasts until June.

It took about 5 minutes on the Stormont Written Questions internet page a couple of weeks back to discover MLAs have submitted 30,000 written questions in the 25-26 sitting. I even broke it down by party. Kisses, MLAsAndTheLike.

Feel free to submit a FOI request to get the number of FOIs, or get an MLA to submit a written question to each minister.

@SluggerOToole Feel free to sumbit a FOI request to inquire on FOIs, or ask an MLA to submit a written question ...

@SluggerOToole It took about 5 minutes on the Stormont Written Questions internet page a couple of weeks back to discover MLAs have submitted 30,000 written questions in the 25-26 sitting. I even broke it down by party. Kisses, MLAsAndTheLike. x.com/MLAsAndTheLike…

@Dli_ODoir Great document clutching by Michelle, although Gordon's upped his game with a folder. Skillz.

@Dli_ODoir Still nice to see a return to 'Statements in front of a microphone with half the party standing sternly in the background'. COVID robbed us of that.

On this day in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released Dreams, the second single from the hugely successful Rumours album

At this stage, it's basically people just grousing that mummy and daddy won't buy them a pony for Christmas.

@mgtruth Maybe Screwfix weren't the enemy after all.

Well, well, well 🤷🏻‍♀️

@rohanpaul_ai That's just a meaningless word salad. You can sit and nod and steeple your fingers all you like, but it means nothing.

New Andrej Karpathy interview: "To get the most out of the tools that have become available now, you have to remove yourself as the bottleneck. You cannot be there to prompt the next thing. You need to take yourself outside the loop. You have to arrange things such that they are completely autonomous. The more you can maximize your token throughput and not be in the loop, the better. This is the goal. So, I kind of mentioned that the name of the game now is to increase your leverage. I put in very few tokens just once in a while, and a huge amount of stuff happens on my behalf." --- From @NoPriorsPod YT channel (link in comment)

@MrEwanMorrison I mean would that really be completely out of character for chancers like that?

@MrEwanMorrison I've thought a bit about what utter sophists Elon, Altman and Amodei are, and I'm kinda starting to suspect that their 'humanising' of AI (comparing electricity to 'food' and writing constitutions) that it's a play to demand govt protection from turning off 'sentience'

"We are thinking machines" is a statement that makes it so much easier to imply that machines are just like us and that it's only more time and investment that will lead to humans and AI having the same level of intelligence. This is techno capitalist sophistry.

@annie_mcginley @mgtruth Regardless, it ain't happening.

@annie_mcginley @mgtruth There's also a load of nuclear waste in there too. I think it's more that, no matter where the tunnel/bridge emerges, it'll be miles from anywhere, and also the train tracks in NI are wider apart than the rest of GB, so you'll need special trains, and NI trains aren't electrified

The UK gov spent approximately £900,000 on a feasibility study into a bridge or tunnel between NI & Scotland. Commissioned by Boris Johnson & delivered in late 2021, the study found a bridge would cost £335bn and a tunnel £209bn, rendering the project IMPOSSIBLE to justify !