You woulda thought they mighta learned this with the frigging paperclip that we all wanted to beat to death with a mallet.

Are AI scribes regulated as medical devices in the UK?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Start with all the hooky wizard, "candy" and FX shops please. (@londoncentric.media @jim.londoncentric.media - no extra £ for London it seems but I do wonder if maybe there are quite a few of these fronts in London... 🤔)

Ooh, that’s good stuff

Finally, here's an absolute banger of an article, published just last month (Hoffman et al. 2026), showing how incredibly powerful the cohort patterning of influenza deaths is, in regular (not pandemic) years, corresponding to how circulating strains match up w what people were exposed to as kids

Pasty as dumpling is a take. Also...where are suet dumplings of olde? Y'know, the ones so dense they caused black holes to form and were so absorbent you'd lose all your gravy?

Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com

Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Interesting/early new research on the Australian social media ban for under 16s. It asks what is the compliance tipping point at which bans tend to be effective? Answer seems to be c.2/3rds - whereas current compliance among 14/15 year olds is estimated to be c.27%. www.nber.org/system/files...

Local elections confirm it: we’re a five‑party system. Yet FPTP means seats don’t match votes and stability isn’t guaranteed. Govt’s restoring Supplementary Vote for mayors, so why keep FPTP for Westminster? The Representation of the People Bill is a start, but FPTP must go. #FairElections #PR #FPTP

Marking

Youth justice white paper today Thoughts: 1/k Tension between "tough on crime" rhetoric and (imo) sensible continuation of reducing youth custody (Inc remand) right to focus on persistent/serious groups re crime prevention. But 👍 to preventing entry/crime in first place Missing: evidence!

The rapture!

The great thing is the more attention these incidents get the more likely they are to spread and be mimicked, commencement/graduation speeches this year have the potential to do the funniest thing

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

Reprised from the other place, by demand: As a specialist in chemical and biological warfare, take this warning from me. Never get in a pool in Las Vegas. Don't even touch the water. (Or hot tub).

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia. David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful." The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes. 🥹😔

just had one of those "AI is really shit" moments. Basically didn't say it couldn't do something and then made stuff up over and over. Doesn't learn either - if an RA did that and I said "don't do that" the human would get the point (or get fired).

Where are people putting things they make with "AI"? Git? Personal website?

This is a serious problem. There is hardly any scrutiny on the fragility and conditionality of Reform’s support, but plenty elsewhere. I think their potential to go up is certainly there in our data. Also to go down. Too many people just taking the spin as fact.

personal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.

The far right try to claim our flags but in truth hate our country. They despise what makes the rest of us proud & makes us British, from the NHS to our BBC. They peddle anti-British propaganda globally. Thousands may march today but millions more stand against hate & for Britain

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... amazing thought that this incredibly important trend might be accelerated by something as seemingly trivial as smartphone use

I genuinely LOLed at this 😂

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

I wonder where they propose that the regulatory liability for that advice will lie

Extraordinary application of the Cincelli & Hazlett sensitivity analysis to the case of overcrediting in forest protection projects. The carbon credit industry claimed that overcrediting accusations are due to unobservables. The paper shows this is highly unlikely. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

youtu.be/MEPtyb9OHP8?... In case anyone wants to hear EP in his own words and have someone point out a different perspective on "just asking questions / raising an issue"

Enjoyed speaking to @bylinetimes.bsky.social to discuss ten years of championing the most open, diverse and successful city in the world. As the rise in disinformation shows - London’s enemies resent us because of our enduring success ⬇️ bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/s...

"AI will make researchers more productive" - well, I've got to say, the captchas on every journal website now that I have to wait for don't make me more productive

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Hi... I'm Patrick, an independent sociologist and applied data scientist in British Columbia, Canada. I build NLP and network tools for academic, NGO, and policy contexts. Work spans violence against sex workers, academic labour markets, and ethical ML. #introduction #AcademicSky

#OTD 1899 Joseph Berkson b (d 12 Sep 1982) ASA Fellow 1940. Introduced the logit model 1944, & Berkson’s paradox (collider or ascertainment bias). Like Fisher, he strenuously opposed the idea that smoking causes cancer, complaining about poor quality observational data & being a heavy smoker himself

Well, happy 230th anniversary to Edward Jenner carrying out the first successful vaccination against smallpox, opening up a field of science which has saved a number of lives too unfathomable to count, and which continues to be uncontroversial and widely accepted to this day

YOU DREAMED OF THE OVERMAN! BUT EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE! AND YOUR ESSENCE IS NOTHING! *high kick*

'A School for Scoundrels: How Newbies learn in the Cybercrime Ecosystem': this is just one of the talks on the agenda at our 2026 Cambridge Cybercrime Conference. 🗓️ Monday 22 June 📍the William Gates Building, Cambridge. ℹ️ For more details & to register, see: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/school-...

Ukrainian drone pilots were invited to train NATO forces in Sweden - and delivered a critical message to the alliance. The pilots said the Western forces would have been dead if the mock attack they carried out had been real.

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

110 years ago to the day, my grandfather Henri Auclair led his squad in the assault of the "tranchée de la Madone" in Verdun and was met with a barrage of machine gun fire. He was knocked unconscious by one bullet; but saved by his helmet, without which, well, you wouldn't be reading this.

Just seen a paper published in a top criminology journal. n=52, a factorial design, 5% alpha... ...one-tailed test. ...AI used to write the paper. What are we doing here? This is like social psych circa 2010s with AI added to it. That didn't go well.

@michelnivard.bsky.social seems like my kinda can-do person.

New pod out today with Charles Fain Lehman. We're talking about crime, disorder, why crime is falling and why people don't believe it. It's a great listen so check it out! Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/4VWW... Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...