More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of the UK’s “broken” voting system. (They’re right.) #UKPolitics #ProportionalRepresentation apple.news/AGKJzsGvXS76...

Gallup is shifting to this stereotype-based synthetic polling process (this is how synthetic polls work). A growing number of quant-oriented academics say they use LLMs to speed up analysis. It’s all bunk, it’s really bad.

Really have a hard time getting over all these guyAIs looking at this world simply teeming with problems with well known solutions & deciding the best way they can help is to create whole new global problems that no human alive even remotely understands never mind knows how to actually fix

Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, there IS such a thing as a bad question, just as there are right and wrong answers to most Qs (though we don’t always know what they are). Bad questions often come from an unwillingness to engage, attempts to grandstand, or otherwise shut down debate.

WTF? 😠 #USIsraelWar #RussiaUkraineWar

A lot of #philosophy consists in figuring out how to ask better questions in specific domains, and what the right questions are. There’s a real art to asking a good question, which can crystallise the subject of discussion in interesting and productive ways. 🙋‍♂️ #questions

This is why I detest genAI. Creativity isn't having "a cool idea, but not knowing how to write". Creativity is the little decisions at each paragraph/line for what you intentionally include or omit. Good ideas are free and abundant. They're not special. Refining them into a 'piece' is special.

This is true. They made everything worse.

"11 May 2026 — Fianna Fáil 'made a difference' in housing, Taoiseach says." You sure have Micheál

Good. Now do this for text. #Google #SynthID #GenAI apple.news/Afw8N11iQQj2...

#Google #GenAI

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

In philosophy, when you force your opponent to say something that’s transparently false or stupid, you’ve won the argument. They just don’t realise it yet. 🤷‍♂️ #PhilTech #ResistAI

EXCLUSIVE: Ebola Outbreak Rages After Trump Gutted Global Health Safeguards “The outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus in the past two weeks show why international threats need an international response.” theintercept.com/2026/05/19/e...

This time it’s personal…

They grow up so fast! 👶 🌞 ⚫️

A lot of #philosophy consists in figuring out how to ask better questions in specific domains, and what the right questions are. There’s a real art to asking a good question, which can crystallise the subject of discussion in interesting and productive ways. 🙋‍♂️ #questions

#Trumpland #USCorruption #TrumpCrimeFamily

You are not losing your mind. Reality is just becoming more stupid.

This author is so full of shit. These are not “AI errors” you lazy hack. They are yours.

Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed

Just two superb owls flying in an #earlymodern print. #superbOwl

This is the only sensible way forward. New data centres should only receive planning permission if they add the required amount of clean energy to the grid. Not some vague promise of future capacity, but actual wind, solar or geothermal energy before they are operational. #GenAI

I really feel like people who use AI just are revealing how they don't care. "These are the parts I don't care about". That's what every AI use is. Before AI they also didn't care, but their solution was to either do a bad job at it, pawn it off on someone else, or just not do it. Just...careless.

Was looking for finches from my desk and turned to find this guy creeping on me

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

“We’ve built a railway by mistake!” #HS2 #UKPolitics

World models in natural and artificial intelligence royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... - super interesting and very timely collection of articles on what it means to understand the world...

I have brewed on this 🧵. A midterm change of PM comes with big risks and costs: electoral, reputational, and actual with bond markets. The equation only makes sense if the change of leadership is profound. Throwing the dice for someone who may be a marginal improvement presentationally is not smart.

Much to enjoy about this, but I think the 'you used to be there' hand gesture is my favourite and even more enjoyable than the original 'well, if you're gonna set me up' response.

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

Dudes just can't stop trying to remake mommy out of computer. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

possibly better than the original

“Speed and volume of code generation are not the same as correctness, security, or verifiability—and in domains where all three are non-negotiable, the calculus looks very different.” #GenAI #SoftwareEngineering

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

Courtney Love is not real and can't hurt you

That’s the best you’ve got against it?

People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.

Another AI success story… 😂

👀 #Antarctica

😂 #AIPilled #Micro$lop

“Machines will not outthink humans nor make them redundant. They just replace work, make some work easier like spelling and grammar. But also create new stupid work that takes longer than doing it without machines in the first place, like checking outputs of machines.” #GenAI #Slopification

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

The most corrupt president in history:

What an amazing surprise that a man of no values has no values.

‘Melt’ was always my favourite track…

OMG. It’s the same guy!! #ScamAltman

Seth Rogen reacts to AI slop videos on social media "Every time I see a video online that says 'Hollywood is cooked' ... what follows is the most stupid dogshit I've ever seen" "If your instinct is to use AI and not go through the process ... you're not writer" (via Brut America)