Paul Smith
@schmiff.bsky.social
Senior Educational Technologist, gamer, (ex?) blogger, reader, cat ownee, pointer out of things. @torallion on the Other Place
http://torallion.blogspot.com for nerdy gamebook playthroughs
http://torallion.blogspot.com for nerdy gamebook playthroughs
For a so-called 'truth-seeking AI', Grok is absolutely TERRIBLE at fact-checking X posts. You can click on the Grok button on a post full of entirely fictional events, designed to stir up hate, and it will always tell you about the event as if it were absolutely true. /1
August 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For a so-called 'truth-seeking AI', Grok is absolutely TERRIBLE at fact-checking X posts. You can click on the Grok button on a post full of entirely fictional events, designed to stir up hate, and it will always tell you about the event as if it were absolutely true. /1
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perfect comedy timing from the Speaker at #PMQs calling Nigel Farage after Starmer promises to go after “the fraudsters, the grifters, the con artists no matter who they are” 😄
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
perfect comedy timing from the Speaker at #PMQs calling Nigel Farage after Starmer promises to go after “the fraudsters, the grifters, the con artists no matter who they are” 😄
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Literally three weeks between these two images. Who could POSSIBLY have predicted something like this would happen?
July 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Literally three weeks between these two images. Who could POSSIBLY have predicted something like this would happen?
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
April 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
I guess there's cash in a lot of things these days, but I'll give this one a miss.
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I guess there's cash in a lot of things these days, but I'll give this one a miss.
Haven't seen this in the mainstream media anywhere... skwawkbox.org/2025/03/28/3...
30+ Met police smash down Quaker meeting house doors to raid anti-genocide gathering
Religious group and anti-genocide campaigners condemn violent intrusion and baseless arrests Quakers in Britain have strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship by a gang of Met Poli…
skwawkbox.org
March 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Haven't seen this in the mainstream media anywhere... skwawkbox.org/2025/03/28/3...
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jake humphey's plumber
March 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
jake humphey's plumber
Productivity boosters
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Productivity boosters
We seem to be at the point where according to the right wing, any political party stopping short of mass deportation is part of the uniparty, captured by Islamists, globalist, WEF stooges, traitors. Every time someone more right wing comes along, the previous lot are abandoned.
March 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We seem to be at the point where according to the right wing, any political party stopping short of mass deportation is part of the uniparty, captured by Islamists, globalist, WEF stooges, traitors. Every time someone more right wing comes along, the previous lot are abandoned.
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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They brought Zelenskyy, a man that’s led Ukraine through invasion with unparalleled honour, to the White House to humiliate and mug him in a despicable premeditated display. Zelenskyy should’ve spat in their fucking faces and walked out. Trump is a Putin shill c**t.
February 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
They brought Zelenskyy, a man that’s led Ukraine through invasion with unparalleled honour, to the White House to humiliate and mug him in a despicable premeditated display. Zelenskyy should’ve spat in their fucking faces and walked out. Trump is a Putin shill c**t.
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 30: Dragon Age: Origins
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 30: Dragon Age: Origins
#games
#gamechallenge
February 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 30: Dragon Age: Origins
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 30: Dragon Age: Origins
#games
#gamechallenge
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 29: Secret of Mana
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 29: Secret of Mana
#games
#gamechallenge
February 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 29: Secret of Mana
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 29: Secret of Mana
#games
#gamechallenge
Night out. Don't worry, I'll be home by 9pm.
February 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Night out. Don't worry, I'll be home by 9pm.
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
Maybe we should collectively start believing people when they show us who they are.
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe we should collectively start believing people when they show us who they are.
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 28: Cyberpunk 2077
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 28: Cyberpunk 2077
#games
#gamechallenge
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 28: Cyberpunk 2077
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 28: Cyberpunk 2077
#games
#gamechallenge
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 27: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 27: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
#games
#gamechallenge
February 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 27: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 27: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
#games
#gamechallenge
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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News
Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign from the left…It's like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.
February 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 26: Suikoden
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 26: Suikoden
#games
#gamechallenge
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 26: Suikoden
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 26: Suikoden
#games
#gamechallenge
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 25: Horizon Zero Dawn
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 25: Horizon Zero Dawn
#games
#gamechallenge
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Screw it, I'm doing 30.
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 25: Horizon Zero Dawn
#games
#gamechallenge
Choose 20 games that greatly influence you.
One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
Day 25: Horizon Zero Dawn
#games
#gamechallenge