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James Downes

@james-downes.bsky.social

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Founder at House of Insurtech All views plagiarised from people smarter than me #ActuallyAutistic #pragmatist #sceptic #tech #innovation #insurtech

A model of Brains from Thunderbird
Screenshot of cricketer Ollie Robinson with the headline "Here's to you Ollie Robinson - England needs you more than you will know"
The cover of a cookery book called "Cooking with Poo"
A photo of a 4 storey building in a Viennese style taken in Belgrade
A picture of a large Christmas decoration in the central square in Belgrade
A piece of graffiti saying NATO with a horizontal line through it
Picture of a cute dog wearing a scarf
A screen shot showing a news site where the news story is only 4 lines surrounded by multiple adverts, video overlays
A poster for "The Curse of Frankenstein" film
A full moon over a scene of buildings and a conifer, the moon appears to be on top of the conifer
Snip from BBC website saying that "Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical"
Screenshot from Windows showing the temperature in Orpington as -273 degrees
A price sticker showing that Voltarol gel is the equivalent to £300 a kilo
Chart showing the relative life expectancy of people in the US versus comparable countries (and NYC) That shows the US life expectancy to be noticeably lower, and falling - with NYC being comparable.
Text from a BBC news report which mistakenly calls the "Black Death" pneumonic plague
Notification from Companies House that it will require all annual accounts filing to be done using commercial software from 1/4/2027
Photo of Sam Altman and Jonny Ives
A pack of ground roast chicory
"Figure" - painting by Varvara Stepanova showing a figure, that resembles a Bruce Forsyth pose, in a Constructivist Style
Image of the GBP vs EURO exchange rate for 2025, showing a sharp decline in the past month
Image telling disabled people to set their requirements, in the Royal Mail App
A screen shot from an online book seller showing a children's book "Stickman" in the Science Fiction Books section
Snip of an article from MIT that includes the phrase "LLMs are weird. (And not to be trusted)"
Image saying "To this point, a YC partner said that a quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are 90% AI-generated."
Dramatic sunset with varied clouds lit by the setting sun. The clouds are broadly dark grey, but are coloured red by the sun