Danny Fraser

@danny.scot

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Data guy, over 40 therefore into birds 🦆 Found around Edinburgh & East Lothian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 LLMs bad, trans rights good, vote Green 🇵🇸

A reservation notice on a pub table. The important sentence is "if you wish to reserve a table in the future (underlined), please speak to one of the team."
Little nuggets of sea glass arrayed on a white stone
A child's drawing of a group of guillemots encircled by a rope
An affogato being made with Mr Whippy ice cream and a bean-to-cup espresso
A small Acer in a nice blue pot, sitting on a gravel bed outside a ground floor window. A cat is sitting on a paving slab alongside.
A fancy fish finger sandwich and a little half pint of lager
Lightning map showing hundreds of strikes across central Scotland
A system dynamics diagram of Afghanistan Stability, featuring more arrows than a John Wayne movie.
Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech
A nice boule
A feature on the cover of a charity junk mail: write your FREE WILL through Guide Dogs
An Ubuntu version update screen
A view across a railway directly under the footbridge
The food is cooked. It looks great
A coiled long sausage and four slices of crusty bread on a barbecue
A beautiful sleeping tabby cat
An innocuous linkedin post mildly critical of ai that links to a BBC article, flagged and removed for "nonconsensual intimate imagery"
Results from the British political spectrum quiz Eco-Socialist: Combines left economics with urgent environmentalism. Strongly progressive, broadly pacifist and in favour of radical democratic renewal.
Election candidates waiting for the results. One is taking a selfie, one is dressed as a Gannet.
Edinburgh Castle in the background, the start of this year's Military Tattoo stand construction in the foreground
What is not covered: Replacement for loss of, or damage to dentures, other than whilst in (emphasis) YOUR mouth
Classic IBM slide reading: "A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"
A clearsky screenshot showing me on the 'AI Haters' list and an 'Accounts on Independed PDSs' list.
From Terry Pratchett's 'Truckers': In the beginning... 1. There was the Site. II. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) Moved upon the face of the Site, and Saw that it had Potential. III. For it was In the High Street. IV. Yea, it was also Handy for the Buses. V. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, Let there be a Store, And Let it be a Store such as the World has not Seen hitherto; VI. Let the length of it be from Palmer Street even unto the Fish Market, and the Width of It, from the High Street right back to Disraeli Road: VII. Let it be High even Unto Five Storeys plus Basement, And bright with Lifts; let there be the Eternal Fires of the Boiler-Room in the sub-basement and, above all other floors, let there be Customer Accounts to Order All Things; VIII. For this must be what all shall Know of Arnold Bros (est. 1905): All Things Under One Roof. And it shall be called: the Store of Arnold Bros (est. 1905). IX. And Thus it Was. X. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) divided the Store into Departments, of Ironmongery, Corsetry, Modes and others After their Kind, and Created Humans to fill them with All Things saying, Yea, All Things Are Here. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, Let there be Lorries, and Let their Colours be Red and Gold, and Let them Go Forth so that All May Know Arnold Bros (est. 1905), By Appointment, delivers All Things; XI. Let there be Santa's Grottoes and Winter Sales and Summer Bargains and Back to School Week and All Commodities in their Season; XII. And into the Store came the Nomes, that it would be their Place, for Ever and Ever. From The Book of Nome, Basements v.I-XII
The Kenmore Street protests in Glasgow
Generative AI isn’t intelligent, but it allows people to pretend that it is, especially when the people selling the software — Altman and Amodei — so regularly overstate what it can do. By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to “trust” this “authoritative” service — whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press — the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of “intelligence” and “data.” None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by OpenAI and Anthropic. Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the “power of AI,” we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does.
Yet despite these suggestions, in the US, prediction markets are, in large part, legal, and are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.2 Per 7 US Code §7a-2, any prediction market listed to the public must be approved if it does not violate certain rules enumerated in the same chapter. Those rules prohibit contracts on: activity that is unlawful under any Federal or State law; terrorism; assassination; war; gaming; or other similar activity determined by the Commission, by rule or regulation, to be contrary to the public interest.
A screenshot of Simon's post, and immediately above it a post from @spavel.bsky.social quoting FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
An ad for a vrbo holiday let with a black plush torture rack front and centre, and a cage presumably not for dogs in the background
Bluesky galaxy map with one highlighted dot right on the fringes of society
Celery pot with the face of a man who looks a bit like Stalin
Painting of a sad clown
Lunch of eggs and coffee
A cheese toastie, cup of tea, Tunnock's caramel wafer and a paperback novel on a table
A cooling rack covered in mincemeat pies
A pecan tart and a flat white
Me in my button up PJs
Another angle of the bollard spot with an arrow showing the likely path of the crashed vehicle
Internet speed test showing ~500Mbps speed
A 3x3 grid of square wooden pigeonholes occupied by toilet rolls and red wooden X's. OXO OOX OO(none)
S1-S6: DEBATE CLUB ON THIS LUNCHTIME Do you love arguing? Enjoy a passionate debate or two each day? If so, debate club is for you! Our second debate of term will take place this lunchtime in the Debate Chamber on the topic, "This House would, as an intelligent rat, run to be the Mayor of New York City." Come along from 1:05 and feel free to bring your lunch as well as an appetite for argument - ALL welcome, including S1s!