Simon Scott

@simonscott1975.bsky.social

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Mythical regulator. Bi-furious one-way time traveller. Repitching with Peter Dinklage in the lead. Mucks about with a puppet and blender.

News cap that reads: "Ryanair says its planes are safe after passenger nearly sucked[sic] out of window"
A man in his early fifties, grey beard and glasses sat on a train grinning inanely out of the window. Through the window we see trees, bushes and additional railway lines.
Weather forecast showing daily temperatures of: Today - 30 Sunday - 29 Mon - 28 Tue - 30 Wed - 30 Thu - 30 Fri - 29
Guardian front page for 8th July 2026. Headline reads "Farage's £5m gift reported over money laundering concerns" Subs read Revelation comes as Reform UK leader quits as MP, forcing byelection; and But move appeared to backfire as rivals say they will not contest seat.
A platform at Seven Sisters tube station. Ever ad along the platform is for a well known brand of smart glasses.
A record slid two thirds of the way out of an album sleeve. On the album sleeve is a dandelion clock, mostly complete, with a few of its seeds floating top right of it, all on a blurred green background. Text in the top right reads Blue Jeans Committee. There is additional text in the lower right corner, but too small to read.
A news cap that reads: Three 16- year-olds from India developed Plas Stick, a biodegradable powder made from tamarind seeds that helps remove foron thang them the 2026 Earth Prize.
Six large nitrous oxide canisters dumped in an alley.
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
A plate on which sits a circular sponge base, holding a layer of custard which in turn holds a layer of halved strawberries under a thin layer of jelly, i.e. a flan.
A skeet from WeRateDogs accompanied by three photos of a blue-eyed dog named Bear, who is gorgeous. The skeet reads "This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10"
News cap. "Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months - for all white-collar work to be automated by AI".
Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer in navy blue jackets sat outside somewhere looking pensive.
A wrist with a "folk festival 2022" band on it.
Burger King logo but in the bun it says "PSYCHOKILLER QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST?" and the strapline reads "fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa".
The Reform UK logo (FORMER in bold above UK, left justified inside the image of a white house that has been tipped over onto his right-hand side. Oh it's an arrow, on alight blue / turquoise circle.) but instead of saying Reform it says Former, ah!
Thumbnail for a 28 second video with a text overlay that reads "Vance pulled out of his chair during panic on stage".
A Sainsbury's Shelf with one bottle of 0.0 Clean Co G (yum) and a number of bottles of 1.2 Clean Co G. Price info on the shelf only refers to the 0.0.
A photo of the subject of the skeet.
Still from the moment in a UK teacher recruitment ad that the teacher looks at the camera, while walking along a corridor.
A hand holds a soft backed red book with red edged pages. It rather resembles a hotel bible but is in fact Rinzler and Unkrich's book about the making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with a ribbon marking... Oo.. I'd say about 252 pages.
Trump says US took "last best chance" to hit Iran....
A Tweet (sorry) from jatin: "The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible."
Screengrab from the Guardian that reads: In his report, Greenberg also includes a letter from Farage in which Farage said: "In relation to my alleged breach of rule 5 of the code of conduct for Members, I accept that I have breached this section of the code and take full responsibility, and I would first of all like to say I am sincerely sorry.
Bsky screengrab I say: Oh so someone came up with a prompt strategy that allows LLM users to extract full texts from its training data with a 97% accuracy hahaha, lawsuits to follow. They [identity censored] say My British Lit professor could recite so many things word for word. One, the ability to recite with high accuracy technically does not prove storage vs. reconstruction.[sic] Second, so what? Our neural network does that too. Why are squishy brain based neural networks immune to lawsuits.
The Reform logo (a white (wink wink) arrow pointing to the right (wink wink) on a light blue (wink wink) circle) but instead of Reform it says Reject.
An Independent news cap that reads "Farage is still popular despite racism claims, poll finds"
Sam Altman, current CEO of OpenAI and founder of Loopt.
Ariana Grande dressed as a late-middle-aged man, struggling to keep the laugh in.
A page of writing that has been entirely redacted apart from, at separate points throughout the document, rather than in one stretch: "the West Indies" "aren't" "very good" "at" "cricket"
A photograph of a gaudily decorated office, all gold frames, marble and cheap crappy looking ornaments. Never has gold looked so cheap. An elderly, overweight man sits on an upholstered chair. He is wearing a red tie with a small dark diagonal stripe and is gesturing with open palms and splayed fingers. His face is obscured by a black rectangle. In the foreground is a toy plane on a desk. It is Trump in the Oval Office, aha.
News cap from the Guardian that reads: Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools
Sky News news capsule that reads "Netflix takeover of Warner Bros 'could be a problem', Trump says.
A Sky News capsule that reads "Nigel Farage allegations are deeply shocking - but will they defer voters?"
A Financial Times news capsule that reads "OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions".
A news capsule from The Royal Observer that reads: "Andrew Tops List of Brits Named in Epstein Files - Prompting a Major Warnin..."
'Match Bingo had obtained demographic information from 442oons in advance of placing the ad, which showed that over 91% of their audience was 18 or over. All content on the 442oons channel was marked as “Not made for kids” so that the YouTube algorithm would direct the content away from children.'
News headline reading "King to attend first official LGBT event after veterans' campaign".
An email capsule reading "Google Pixel Your chance to win tickets to see Arse..."
Daily Star news capsule. Headline reads "Sick users abuse Open AI's Sora as Epstein, Stalin and Hitler wrestling go viral"
A text chat conversation as follows: -Hi Simon. Are you in the office today? -Let me just check. -Yep.
An e-book reader showing a page of text from Ulysses. The top line is "Bull story. Uncle Toby's page for tiny tots."
Nigel Farage breaks silence
A Guardian news capsule featuring a photograph of the 45th and 47th president of the United States. The caption reads "Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump's health?"
A screengrab from birdfact.com that reads "There are two species of crows in the UK; the Carrion crow and the Hooded crow."
The exterior of a shop called Chisholm Hunter.
Technobezz news caption that reads "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns AI Industry Growth May Not Be Sustainable"
A news capsule that reads "OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament"
A copy of the catalogue of a Chris Ware exhibition from Barcelona.
"Penguin undertook all the necessary pre-publication due diligence, including a contract with an author warranty about factual accuracy, and a legal read, as is standard with most works of non-fiction." Quoted from a BBC News story.