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Definitely centre of the road, retired Chartered Accountant, Belfast born, Lancashire raised - in East Sussex for 39 years, via Antrim, Down, Lancashire, Fife & West Lancashire. Mile from the English Channel. Parents buried at Skeabost. Not pro-Tory nor pro-Labour but pro -EU. No profile, no follow. Boosts scorned! Moved on from CAFCA

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Definitely centre of the road, retired Chartered Accountant, Belfast born, Lancashire raised - in East Sussex for 39 years, via Antrim, Down, Lancashire, Fife & West Lancashire. Mile from the English Channel. Parents buried at Skeabost. Not pro-Tory nor pro-Labour but pro -EU. No profile, no follow. Boosts scorned! Moved on from CAFCA

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@CAFCA47@mastodon.scot · Feb 07, 2026

Now there’s a surprise! Not.
Once again the financial scales are balanced against Liverpool & Lancashire towns, as evidenced by this!
https://news.sky.com/story/northern-towns-shafted-in-new-funding-formula-that-favours-london-mps-say-13503707

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Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products. https:/

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@cstross@wandering.shop Hard to disagree. I remain a Y2K sceptic despite assertions by the ITsphere that it was vital. On AI convinced it’s worse than the South Sea Bubble for fantasy & delusion. As a

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@CAFCA47@mastodon.scot Y2K was a very real problem—I was in a dot-com, a payment service provider, in 1997-2000 and the banks were collectively shitting themselves over 40 years of technical debt. The

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Definitely centre of the road, retired Chartered Accountant, Belfast born, Lancashire raised - in East Sussex for 39 years, via Antrim, Down, Lancashire, Fife & West Lancashire. Mile from the English Channel. Parents buried at Skeabost. Not pro-Tory nor pro-Labour but pro -EU. No profile, no follow. Boosts scorned! Moved on from CAFCA

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@CAFCA47@mastodon.scot · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop …and 2038?

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Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products. https:/

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Definitely centre of the road, retired Chartered Accountant, Belfast born, Lancashire raised - in East Sussex for 39 years, via Antrim, Down, Lancashire, Fife & West Lancashire. Mile from the English Channel. Parents buried at Skeabost. Not pro-Tory nor pro-Labour but pro -EU. No profile, no follow. Boosts scorned! Moved on from CAFCA

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Definitely centre of the road, retired Chartered Accountant, Belfast born, Lancashire raised - in East Sussex for 39 years, via Antrim, Down, Lancashire, Fife & West Lancashire. Mile from the English Channel. Parents buried at Skeabost. Not pro-Tory nor pro-Labour but pro -EU. No profile, no follow. Boosts scorned! Moved on from CAFCA

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@CAFCA47@mastodon.scot · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Hard to disagree. I remain a Y2K sceptic despite assertions by the ITsphere that it was vital. On AI convinced it’s worse than the South Sea Bubble for fantasy & delusion. As a hard-nosed retired Chartered Accountant with 50+ years in commerce I really see little realistic business applications.

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