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Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:31:06 -0000 (UTC), Mark Olson
<olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote:

My friend from Reykjavik emailed me this morning to say how upset
he is with what is happening to Minnesota. He offered to look for a
cottage for us in Iceland if we need to leave the US. He also said
he thinks his visit to the US in 2023 is probably his last.

Let's hope it won't come to it, but I think there's several people
over here who would take you in if you really need to become refugees

Honestly, that made me tear up a bit.

Thanks.
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:05:59 -0000 (UTC), Mark Olson
<olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote:

Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:

Let's hope it won't come to it, but I think there's several people
over here who would take you in if you really need to become refugees

Honestly, that made me tear up a bit.

Thanks.

No problem, and (from my pov) it's a genuine offer.

Of course, from your pov, I don't underestimate the wrench that
relocating across the world because your own nation is no longer a
place you want to live would be!
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
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Sqirrel99 wrote:

Peter Fisher wrote:

So where's the cool echo chamber place to hang out with the right sort
of people these days

ActivityPub

Or even better... in a pub !

Bad form, etc.
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On 28/01/2026 14:56, Mark Olson wrote:

Peter Fisher <nospam@nosspam.net> wrote:

So where's the cool echo chamber place to hang out with the right sort
of people these days - Mastodon or Bluesky? I still subscribe to DAG's
substack.

Mastodon. Bluesky suffers from the same centralized control problem
as Twitter, as I understand it.

There's a goodly number of UKRMers there and I'm following most of
them if I can figure out who they are.

Me, YTC#1, Timo, Eddie, and more.

I'll let someone who is more knowledgeable about which one of the
many instances (servers) you can/should sign up with chime in.

Had a Tusky presence since Mar 28, 2019. Posted a fair amount to begin
with. I'll pop in and see what's up.
--
Moto Morini 2C/375
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
Honda CB250RS (Not Waynetta!)
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"
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On 16/01/2026 08:20, Peter Fisher wrote:

Are you UKRM geeks who are still gainfully employed keeping an eye on
what the latest LLMs can do in the planning and coding arena?

Yeah, we're fucked.
--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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On 28/01/2026 11:18, Champ wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:58:51 +0000, AndrewR
<andrew.rockface.spam@gmail.com> wrote:

<of AI>

I also invite them to consider if they really think their job would be
better if it was reduced to explaining, repeatedly, what they wanted the
work-experience kid to do, and then checking it was done right.

Exactly. If the dev job becomes supervising and correcting the
machines, that, imo, is a serious downgrade

As seen elsehere:
Person 1: Wow! AI can produce art!
Person 2: I don't it to produce 'art'. I want it to do the washing
up, so I can produce art

Also seen elsewhere:

Voltaire stated rCLWork saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice,
and need.rCY So the big problem is that we must solve all 3, not just the one. --
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, England
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Mark Olson <olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote in
news:10lu89g$1vfsp$1@dont-email.me:

Ben Blaney <benblaney@gmail.invalid> wrote:

On Jan 26, 2026 at 2:31:06 PM EST, "Mark Olson" <olsonm@tiny.invalid>
wrote:

I am humbled by what my neighbors have been up to in that way.

You might be interested to know that Billy Bragg has written a
protest song, inspired my friend Steve Rapport's reaction to
Minneapolis.

https://consequence.net/2026/02/billy-bragg-minneapolis-guest-essay-sn
owy-streets/

Great read, thank you.

We'll probably go to Dachau on our Mnnchen trip. For obvious reasons.
I went in 1978, but haven't been since, and the missus has never been.

We went to Minneapolis this evening for a couple of nice Czech
("Zizkov") and Slovenian ("Metelkova") Pilsner beers.

Recommended if you're ever in town.

https://www.bauhausbrewlabs.com/

they should be making a Hellbier
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On 12/02/2026 12:00, wessie wrote:

an insider's view

https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

I sometimes wonder if my son is vulnerable. Works for a company providing engineering services to the national grid. 24/7 emergency cover as well as maintenance and installations.

He already uses AI tools in his back office role on the logistics side.

There is another side to this, the acceleration of the destruction of
the planet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-pollution-naacp

My stepson is probably safe for now as he is a customer service phone
worker for a bank, so he has to understand what people are saying as
well as answer their queries and carry out necessary tasks.
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