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Peter Mackness

@PeterMackness

Devon based, gainfully employed.

Exmouth Katılım Aralık 2008
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Alex Prompter
Alex Prompter@alex_prompter·
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Vivek Sen@Vivek4real_

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

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Joe Pompliano
Joe Pompliano@JoePompliano·
Como is one of the best stories in sports right now. • Bankrupt in 2017 • Purchased for €800,000 • Went from the 4th division to the 1st • Qualified for the Champions League • Revenue has increased from $1M to $60M READ MORE: huddleup.substack.com/p/inside-como-…
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Atlas Press
Atlas Press@realAtlasPress·
C.S. Lewis, this is what life boils down to at the end of the day
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Katie Lam
Katie Lam@Katie_Lam_MP·
When the Government say that they're "creating jobs", it's reasonable to ask "for whom?" The latest figures show 330k fewer British citizens on the payroll. But employment amongst non-EU migrants, mostly from low-income countries, is up by nearly 250k.
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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.
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Claudette
Claudette@ClaudetteSurrey·
@davidrichards We DON’T want data centres (regardless of whether they use “90%” less energy, or not).
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David Richards MBE
David Richards MBE@davidrichards·
The British company that might break the AI energy trade. Two weeks ago, I watched its CEO make the most aggressive claim I've heard in British deep-tech this year. 90% less energy than the hardware the entire industry currently runs on. Light, not electrons. Free weekly.
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Catherine Blaiklock
Catherine Blaiklock@blaiklockBP·
Andy Burnham: Went to Cambridge to do English. Couldn't find a job for 2 years, which is really weird for a Cambridge graduate in those times. Seems he went home and did nothing. Got a paid job with a trade magazine for a year. The only time that he has not been paid by taxpayers.
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Interesting things
Interesting things@awkwardgoogle·
In 2017, a British man desperate to sell his £500,000 mansion came up with a bold and unconventional plan: he raffled it off online for just £2 per ticket. The idea took off. He sold nearly 500,000 entries, cleared his debts, and handed over the keys to a lucky factory worker who won the draw.
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Robert Colvile
Robert Colvile@rcolvile·
It is quite funny that the zoomiest of the zoomer Nats donated £500k to a dedicated second referendum fund and it ended up getting spaffed on £3.5k wine coasters and £2.6k salt and pepper grinders.
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David Davis MP
David Davis MP@DavidDavisMP·
This case strikes me as extraordinary, both for the police behaviour and judge's apparent direction to the jury. Carrying an 8" knife is illegal with very limited exceptions which do not include "self defence". The Criminal Justice Act makes that plain, and the Sentencing Council says in terms "carrying a knife or other weapon for protection is not a lawful reason. " The Attorney General should be reviewing both this case and the case of the two teenage rapists ASAP. I don't know what is happening with our justice system at the moment, and I am not alone in that concern. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Tom Gordon
Tom Gordon@DMScotPol·
The vast list of luxury items bought by Murrell with other people's money is jawdropping. Like £200 Fortnum & Mason advent calendars and £2.6K Lalique salt and pepper grinders. But my fav so far is £160 for Folio Society edition of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Handy.
Scottish Daily Mail@MailOnlineScot

Nicola Sturgeon's estranged husband Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,310.65 in SNP funds and is remanded into custody mol.im/a/15846287 via @MailOnlineScot

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Peter Mackness
Peter Mackness@PeterMackness·
@MPrinParr Weird isn’t it, someone juiced up for 2 years and it still want enough
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Major D Malpas
Major D Malpas@MajorDMalpas·
Behold the new intake at Holyrood. Middle class, soy latte revolutionaries. These dafties are making the laws you will be forced to live by. Laws they won’t understand themselves…..
Sam Taylor@staylorish

Three cheers for that audience member. And deft moderation by @StephenJardine. “So wait a minute… we pay the supermarkets to lower their prices… is that what you’re suggesting?” An unusually entertaining and illuminating 90 seconds from last week’s #bbcdn

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