If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound. A short 🧵>>

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

Faster breakdown of nitrous oxide (GHG that helps destroy the ozone layer): "a feedback loop that adds another layer of complexity to climate projections." [Seen elsewhere: the breakdown of methane (GHG that helps produce air-polluting ground-level ozone) is taking longer: bsky.app/profile/anni...

I've just chipped in a few quid. If you can afford to, please do so too. Ether way, please re-post.

“Bowen and Watson's own writing is embarrassingly sloppy, too often mirroring the imprecision and nonsense of even the best AI models. Typos abound. Metaphors fall flat… Research is misrepresented and citations too often come off as afterthoughts. The AI-generated index is useless.”

What we are seeing right now with leading Democrats is a defining moment of liberal propaganda. As you try to understand the situation, please read this article I wrote on Democrats, police, and body cameras. campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-...

Georgia O'Keeffe, US artist (1887-1986) #womensart (Photo by C. Beaton )

Happy Friday, bitcoin is tanking again! Or is it tanking more?

PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>

Timeline cleanse courtsey of @beckyferreira.bsky.social and @404media.co Veronika the cow exhibting flexible tool use - aka scratching her butt with a brush. Plus points for calming narration by the researcher and the adorable pairing of Veronika and her owner www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4...

rent is the biggest need right now now and this is a great place to give.

mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... 👀

Today I'm announcing the AI Shills Hub - free AI training, available now for every adult in the UK 🇬🇧 You'll learn: - Torrenting pirate libraries - AI scamming - Ensloppification - Misinformation 101 and much more! aishillshub.org.uk

Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

If you were looking for a real shadowy cabal of global elites, the Atlas Network would probably be it. Glad to see them getting some attention

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

Esther Mahlangu, South African Ndebele artist known for her bold large-scale paintings, including murals, that reference her Ndebele heritage #WomensArt

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝 Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵

Cryptocurrency is privacy money! Meanwhile, here's a bust for bitcoin money laundering in June 2025 based on transactions on the Silk Road in 2013 (PDF) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

What I find astonishing is that a handful of individuals are able to run a species of 8 billion+ into the ground and there seems so little combined agency of the rest of us.

"It’s as if, having abolished feudalism, we reintroduced it in the cloud; we diligently tilled our data, while Silicon Valley collected the rent." observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

Who else is building weird websites in 2026? Show me all the weird websites you love, or are building

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Ofcom just sat in Parliament and suggested the reason they haven't upheld single complaint on climate coverage since 2020 is that "broadcasters that we regulate have a good understanding of the code and they are complying with the rules". This is what they've been green-lighting...

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Blue sky, sorry for this, but are any of you a city/regional transportation planner, or know someone who is a transportation planner? My kid is writing a paper, and needs to ask some questions of a transportation planner, and her source fell through PLEASE let me know ASAP

MELT, 2025 by US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

Britain has talked itself into a flat tailspin. Had weeks of ppl telling me that the country's on the verge of catastrophe. In reality real wages are rising and the economy growing. God alone knows what ppl would say if we went back to the early 80s, 17% interest rates and four million unemployed.

Bringing a few workshops and methods together from @acuity.design work on codesign, hope and civic assemblies Will upload site and more over the next week. First project soon

Surely this should be reason for Ofcom to intervene in the UK? What are the sanctions for websites and apps that freely allow publication of CSAM? @ofcom.bsky.social

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-mus...

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

In November, we challenged the widely accepted view from the aviation industry that air traffic growth drives economic growth. The analysis found that this link is actually weaker than commonly claimed in many regions across Europe. 8/

I create resources on Bluesky to help you discover amazing folks building us all a brighter future 💚 Community-Owned Infrastructure SP bsky.app/starter-pack... Feeds: Community-Owned bsky.app/profile/did:... third spaces bsky.app/profile/did:... Visions for the future bsky.app/profile/did:...

I enjoyed doing this interview for El Mundo, especially the last question (English translation of that in this short thread): www.elmundo.es/papel/histor... 🧵>>

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

Newsletter: Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/

It's now that weird time between Christmas and New Year..... So here are some otters in hats.

Learning a lot from neal.fun/size-of-life/

🗞️ The New World has published a new article exploring the latest findings from the #SmidgeProject, following an in-depth interview with our Scientific Coordinator, Dr. Sara Wilford. Read the full article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

End of year overview of posts on my blog Soft Machines. Featuring -the UK's economic stagnation -why the UK's new nuclear build programme failed -good & bad reasons for growing UK manufacturing -scenarios for the future of AI -Moore's law -university/R&D policy for hard times softmachines.org?p=3218

The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit. Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera. Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta: www.404media.co/whats-the-di...