Rens Troost

Clear thinking, Straight talking

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@perrymetzger Im going to bookmark this post so that I can tweet it at the next disingenuous hypester that tries to get people wound up about the imminent quantum doom.

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@DanNeidle Why dont you go focus on farages illegal donations and give it a rest.

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@bcherny @EricBuess Nobody is going to forget that you introduced this huge price increase on Sunday of a holiday weekend.

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@nicrypto I’m afraid that the existence of this index makes it Schrödinger‘s taco.

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Pretty bored of everyone posting their largely identical, middling claude.md files.

Multisession context management is the real unlock.

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@TheEconomist A better headline would be 'the man the british media wont ignore because they are addicted to click-bait'

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there is a massive #virginmedia outage affecting both their #broadband service and the website you need to use to report problems and look for status, and there is no clear communication about what is going on. Whats going on, @virginmedia !!

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@SusHue75 @WollastonWntr63 He meant to write 05/11 but he is an american

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@mattpovey It’s entirely reasonable to think that uk AIs would be heavy drinkers.

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@zack_overflow I seem to remember paying less than $70 for ‘turbo C’ around then. But yeah; GNU changed the game!

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@eatnik Music.

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@carolecadwalla @guardian @ObserverUK @NUJofficial @HackedOffHugh @carolvorders @wmarybeard @jeremydeller This assertion (existential risk to the guardian) does not ring true.

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@Suhail 127

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@robertgraham Revisionist nonsense about Solaris in 1996. We were there. NT barely worked.

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@Sathnam The episode on Janis Joplin in ‘the history of rock in 500 songs’. Here is a link: https://t.co/5zuf6Ya4vu

[Rens Troost @renstroost]

Exactly this. We have seen this in three consecutive elections now. Active transport, LTNs, ULEZ….all vote winners. The angry motorists have led the tories into political irrelevance.

[Rt Hon Chris Skidmore @CSkidmoreUK]

These elections have shown pro-environment parties and mayors who made net zero central to their campaigns made significant gains.

Reform have won 2 council seats out of 2500.

Time to recognise the net zero row back and kowtowing to an extreme fringe was a strategic disaster

[Charlie Beckett @CharlieBeckett]

The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach

[Rens Troost @renstroost]

@PeteBeds @afneil Tiptop!

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

Today, we're announcing Alliance for the Future @aftfuture — our ED is the indefatigable @psychosort, and the board consists of me, @JonAskonas, and the legendary @beffjezos.

For too long, the AI discussion has been dominated by crazy people along with companies that want to regulate competitors out of existence. That ends now. AFTF will be a voice for sanity.

We're a 501(c)4, the same form that is used by the ACLU and many other organizations. This allows us more flexibility to lobby but it means donations are not tax deductible. We know that's a drag for many people but it means we can engage with politicians about legislation and the like without having to worry about our status being in danger.

You might want to follow @aftfuture for future announcements.

Web site is https://t.co/eAR4NCLWiZ — forgive the imperfections, we're all pretty new at this.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

First upzoning, now low-traffic neighbourhoods:

We’re now consistently seeing evidence that many policies which are supposedly unpopular (because the system is designed so we only hear from the objectors) turn out to be popular when you do proper representative surveys.