Gavin Laking

First time daddy and long time senior Ruby developer. Mostly retweeting and link sharing.

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@underwaterryan This has been a journey I’ve followed with you Ryan. Glad it’s all sorted, go steady with it for a bit!

[Brian Wilkie @Bryz1]

Dear Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lid, Aldi, Waitrose, Morrisons, and all other stores that have self checkout.

You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now.

The lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping
everyone.

I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already

🛒 filled my cart
🛒 emptied my cart
🛒 scanned the items
🛒refilled my cart

and so I just skipped the exit line and left.

I heard her saying "umm - Excuse me " as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.

You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.

I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.

• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's vour problem not mine.

• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.

YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.

YOU DON'T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.

Signed ....All of us

These are jobs that are needed to have for young and old
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Copied and pasted, because I agree 100%.
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[abc730 @abc730]

Artificial intelligence development is accelerating at such a pace that even the makers of the world's biggest generative AI app, ChatGPT, have asked for greater regulations to protect humanity. #abc730 @MVincentOZ

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

Tried Kimchi for the first time last night, still thinking about how good it was today.

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

Today we’re releasing “The A.I. Dilemma” – a new talk @aza and I gave on 3/9, a week before GPT4 launched.

*Pls share it widely.* It's critical for institutions to understand how the race between AI labs is accelerating the likelihood of catastrophe:
https://t.co/AMphLEUXc3

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@richardhallam Probably using an app which has recently had its API access withdrawn by Elon and chums.

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@richardhallam Also, do this in Incognito mode on your browser as some sites track your visiting via cookies and prices can change based on you being interested.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

500,000 workers on strike tomorrow.

RT if you support every single one of them.

[Maye Musk @mayamuskl]

Wholesale Gas prices (year ahead) currently 134p per therm.

Wholesale Gas prices (year ahead) reached 702p per therm in August.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. We are being ripped up.

Gas prices must come down NOW!

[Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian]

The best thing about switching your web search to ChatGPT is then the people who put all this info on the web don't get any credit and you have no idea how reliable the info is since all sources are jumbled into a giant opaque probability distribution.

Oh wait, that's terrible.

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@WhatWeWitnessed This isn't funny at all. Poor little mite.

[John West 🕯💙🇺🇦 🗿🦋 @JohnWest_JAWS]

Yesterday (?) I wrote a petition for mandatory drugs testing of MPs - it was rejected as a similar petition already existed.

So, please sign THIS petition - currently at 139 signatures & due to end on the 23rd January.
100k to force debate consideration.

https://t.co/O11vp7J82o

[Gavin Em @GavinEms]

@mrjamesob My favourite is Bob. Good hard working train driver who's never been on a train in years.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

I'm pre-blocked by two of these accounts. Is it some sort of bot/troll farm?

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This was my first tweet. Sent by text on July 15th, 2009. It got 2 likes. Simpler times :-)

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@richardhallam This is a top mix.

[Kevin Austin @kevinaustin1950]

@NHSMillion

[Gavin Laking @gavinlaking]

@richardhallam We regret to inform you that lighting however, will be unavailable during this trying time.