Steve Parks
Geeking out about writing, entrepreneurship, journalism, food, tech — or ideally a combination.
European, living/writing in France & running a business in UK.
https://www.steveparks.me
- One aspect of this simulation is the names the software gives to characters in certain roles. For example, I just learned that one of the people leading AI research at the Turing Institute has been named "Cody Kommers". That is surely some higher entity having a laugh.
- So is it officially Labour policy now to "make the country a bit more shit so living here is a less attractive idea" ?
- Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Elongate stretches on and on...
- No bone spurs here
- The facts are in folks, and they mean business
- Reposted by Steve ParksA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Yep, there is now no such thing as a guaranteed private conversation with any kind of computer involved. People have transcription bots, ai personal assistants, and dodgy app installations 'to have a play around with fun new stuff'. Treat every digital conversation as if it is public
- Cripes, who were the other two? Ronald McDonald and Mr Blobby?!
- The first space war is underway
- Reposted by Steve ParksIt's kind of wild that the French foreign ministry has an official shitposting account.
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- Reposted by Steve ParksOver the past few months, hundreds of Americans have been pepper sprayed, threatened and detained for attempting to film on their phones the largest crackdown on undocumented migrants in recent American history. An #FTEdit video 🧵 on why ICE agents are so camera shy 👇
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- Musk has merged SpaceX, xAI, and X into a new company known as SpaceXXX, which will focus on making child porn on Mars
- And all this time, poor Liz Truss the master geologist has been mocked when trying to tell us everything is controlled by the blob
- Well done to everyone who stays active on X and helps feed this machine. A direct route from it’s funding and broadcasting disinformation to murder and kidnap.
- NEW: Elon Musk's X is awarding Nick Shirley—the creator who boosted the fraud allegations that led to ICE's Minneapolis surge—$100,000 for his "coverage. x.com/XCreators/st...
- Reposted by Steve ParksMan Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everyt…
- A bit disappointing that the FT's 'Global Tech Corespondent' is still marinating himself in the child porn and far-right disinfo over on X. Active there, but not here.
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- LA is giving as good as Minneapolis. Americans aren't standing for the brownshirts
- In FAWFFO (Fuck Around With the French and Find Out), Musk is now entering the FO stage
- French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Steve Parks“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
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- So Trump's US Dept of Justice is now publishing child porn. That's where we are in the MAGA clampdown on paedophiles.