So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

#AbolishBillionaires #TaxTheRich

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

Future is unclear but good news for my house plants

Hertz (abbreviated ‘Hz’), of course, is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves.

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It is absolute madness. For more than a decade, everyone worked like crazy on making data centres sustainable. Large cloud providers proudly presented their lowered carbon footprints and reduced impact. We developed low power arm chips for the cloud that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I love getting new information that makes me go, "OOOoooOOOOoohhhh"

Had a moment of amusement when I found an old DVD lens cleaner and it’s just a DVD with a couple of tiny brushes attached. 😂 📀 🧹

Dawid Zdobylak (Polish, born 1993) Winter Landscape, 2017 Oil on canvas 45 x 60 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement. "Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*. if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

#Trumpland #FelonMusk

In this age of LLMs, it's trivially easy to get a Phd-level-expert™️ summary of any journal article that will extract the main arguments and findings for you and often even flags up the most relevant connections to the larger literature: just look for the bloody abstract, kid #AcademicLifeHacks

The issue with Stephen Hawking was whether entropy would decrease if the universe recollapsed. Dieter Zeh thought it was clear that it would. In fact, he thought the Big Bang and Big Crunch were the same event – the Big Brunch, as he called it.

Anyone remember the Metaverse? No, me neither.

What was the last technology people hated so much? Flash?

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

à propos affordability: take a look at what serious government investments in renewables can do to a country’s electricity prices. Go Spain. ember-energy.org/data/europea...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Mandelson "conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged." "[R]evelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour." #UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Aid #Genocide #Trafficking

“The crust rises and falls by up to 25cm (10”) each day as the Moon pulls on it.” Wait, what? Also, I never knew the Earth contains so much metal. 🤘 apple.news/AC_ot_8iKQLi...

It’s frustrating that #Apple is focusing on adding #GenAI to its #iWork apps when core features like text flow in #Keynote or full-screen presenter display on iPad are lacking… 1/2 #CreatorStudio

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#HigherEducation #StudentLoans

"From the biological point of view Saint Paul was a failure, because he was beheaded." -- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

This is the philo-geekery I'm here for!

Roses are bled Violets are grue Seen after time t They may surprise you

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...

📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚 “Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...

When I visit England, in the rural North, the conversation can turn quickly to 'stopping the boats', largely thanks to the BBC upping a 'migrant crisis'. This is utter bollocks. The huge English crises are, as ever, poverty & illiteracy.

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As Jesus would have wanted.

Oh they know alright. They just want their customers and investors to think that it might be, and for the model to behave as if it is. Hence the misinformation. 🤨 #Anthropic #AIHype

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy. Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts. An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.

Roses are roses Blue is blue I say “I love you” truly Iff I love you

Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I tried the #CreatorStudio version of the #Keynote app and hated it so much I had to delete it immediately! What’s with the bright white background in full-screen mode? And the new toolbar is horrible. 🤮 #Apple #macOS #iWork