Richard Urwin
@soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk
Writer, technical proof-reader, software engineer
Books:
Artificial Intelligence: The Quest for the Ultimate Thinking Machine
Artificial Intelligence in easy steps
Rust Progrogramming in easy steps
WIP:
Return to Fairyland
Books:
Artificial Intelligence: The Quest for the Ultimate Thinking Machine
Artificial Intelligence in easy steps
Rust Progrogramming in easy steps
WIP:
Return to Fairyland
Interesting observation: we use " to indicate inches, but we never see ' indicating feet. We use " for seconds and ' for minutes, for both angles and time, but we never use ° for hours.
What's that about?
What's that about?
September 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Interesting observation: we use " to indicate inches, but we never see ' indicating feet. We use " for seconds and ' for minutes, for both angles and time, but we never use ° for hours.
What's that about?
What's that about?
Ofcom is calling for evidence on the online harms to women and girls, including misogynistic abuse and sexual violence, coordinated harassment, stalking and coercive control, and image-based sexual abuse.
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
Creating a safer life online for women and girls
Women and girls’ online safety is a priority for Ofcom. This page provides a summary of the work we are undertaking in this space.
www.ofcom.org.uk
September 12, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Ofcom is calling for evidence on the online harms to women and girls, including misogynistic abuse and sexual violence, coordinated harassment, stalking and coercive control, and image-based sexual abuse.
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
Change a letter, change a movie
Star Wart
Star Wart
Change a letter, change a movie
The Bunt for Red October
The Bunt for Red October
August 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Change a letter, change a movie
Star Wart
Star Wart
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If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
August 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
Pong is best played with a knob, not a slider, and definitely not with a joystick or directional buttons.
“Verify your age”
I understand the relationship between a pencil and a cassette tape.
I understand the relationship between a pencil and a cassette tape.
"Verify your age"
I upgraded *to* composite video.
I upgraded *to* composite video.
July 18, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Pong is best played with a knob, not a slider, and definitely not with a joystick or directional buttons.
German hears small leak surrounded by unity (8)
June 2, 2026 at 7:57 PM
German hears small leak surrounded by unity (8)
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As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
May 27, 2026 at 11:05 AM
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.
May 26, 2026 at 6:22 AM
TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.
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many chefs talk about their menu as a love letter to their roots but, brother, my roots was a microwaved slice of ham with some Cheez Whiz in it.
May 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
many chefs talk about their menu as a love letter to their roots but, brother, my roots was a microwaved slice of ham with some Cheez Whiz in it.
There is a hotel in Brynmawr, Wales, that, for a short time in the mid 80s, had a fantastic chef. I need to taste those garlic mushrooms again. Big mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce. Incredible.
Your time traveling homegirl asks if you want to hit up any restaurants of the past. Do you have any in mind?
May 25, 2026 at 3:43 AM
There is a hotel in Brynmawr, Wales, that, for a short time in the mid 80s, had a fantastic chef. I need to taste those garlic mushrooms again. Big mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce. Incredible.
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If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur
Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
May 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM
If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur
Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
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Whereas really *tough* sex writing is not just about the profound depths of interpersonal union, but WHERE THE HECK EVERYBODY’S ARMS AND LEGS ARE when stuff starts getting hot. 😏
People who disrespect Romance and smut writers fail to appreciate how hard it is to write a really GOOD sex scene. Bad, depressing "literary" sex scenes are comparatively easy to write.
May 8, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Whereas really *tough* sex writing is not just about the profound depths of interpersonal union, but WHERE THE HECK EVERYBODY’S ARMS AND LEGS ARE when stuff starts getting hot. 😏
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Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
May 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
"What has been destroyed belongs to a god. No one is able to take it away."
Encompasses both martyrs and nostalgia.
Encompasses both martyrs and nostalgia.
Reading some mesopotamian proverbs and I love how they swing between immediately intuitive and nearly indecipherable
April 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM
"What has been destroyed belongs to a god. No one is able to take it away."
Encompasses both martyrs and nostalgia.
Encompasses both martyrs and nostalgia.
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An old, much-loved, grounded, sensible and scientifically minded friend once said something to me about someone else experiencing karma. It surprised me.
I said, "really, do you believe in that?"
She looked me straight in the eye. "Yes," she said. "I do. I really do."
I said, "really, do you believe in that?"
She looked me straight in the eye. "Yes," she said. "I do. I really do."
April 22, 2026 at 12:10 PM
An old, much-loved, grounded, sensible and scientifically minded friend once said something to me about someone else experiencing karma. It surprised me.
I said, "really, do you believe in that?"
She looked me straight in the eye. "Yes," she said. "I do. I really do."
I said, "really, do you believe in that?"
She looked me straight in the eye. "Yes," she said. "I do. I really do."
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This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
April 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
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You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.
April 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.
My local high street is documented to represent 23 different countries. It's a great place to live, to shop and to eat.
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
April 12, 2026 at 1:12 AM
My local high street is documented to represent 23 different countries. It's a great place to live, to shop and to eat.
It is great that the one problem that Artimis II had has been corrected by turning off the toilet and turning it back on again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdV...
April 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM
It is great that the one problem that Artimis II had has been corrected by turning off the toilet and turning it back on again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdV...
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Reposted with ALT cos its funny .
How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:
How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:
March 30, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Reposted with ALT cos its funny .
How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:
How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:
Tuned LLM genAI models contain verbatim sections of the text that they were trained on. This contradicts AI companies' court testimony.
Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme
papers.ssrn.com
March 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Tuned LLM genAI models contain verbatim sections of the text that they were trained on. This contradicts AI companies' court testimony.
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The government should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law.
/end
/end
March 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The government should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law.
/end
/end