Some reporter should ask Trump if he knows the name of the son getting married

Scientists believe that a function of a zebra’s stripes is to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on several cows and discovered that it reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50%.

Tonight: Look west after sunset for the thin crescent moon between Venus and Jupiter (the two brightest star-like objects in the sky). Over the next two weeks the two planets approach each other and pass 1.5 degrees apart on June 9!

"...by the broad language it uses I am arguably breaching the part of the agreement that says I cannot 'harm the reputation of Company ... or the reputation of the Game'. Whoops!"

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Holy moly this has been bugging me for weeks because I couldn't place Altman and yup. Nailed it. The resemblance is way deeper than mere appearance.

How did I miss the resemblance for so long

This is what will kill AI. As soon as the AI companies stop subsidising themselves with spec money, and it becomes clear what doing mundane office tasks badly really costs, nobody will want to use it. And then the servers switch off. And it goes away. Lovely. BYE!

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

Don't forget what Reform promised the crypto industry after Farage took the cash: Farage....took an undisclosed £5mn personal gift from a crypto billionaire in 2024, months before pledging to slash tax and regulation on the digital assets industry if he becomes PM www.ft.com/content/6a56...

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Yes daddy, we know we’ve had breakfast, but what about second breakfast? #chihuahua #spaniel #dogsofbluesky

Tip: The key to shutting down AI bros is to just give them very basic animation direction

With energy prices set to rise (again) I beg everyone to learn about the UK's batshit stupid way of costing energy. It's called spot pricing, and it should radicalise you. THIS is why your bills are so high.

Until you MPs upgrade the voting system it is incumbent on all of us who want a political outcome rather than to signal tribal loyalty to vote tactically. Every reform councillor is a future canvasser and campaigner against the good society we claim to believe in. Stopreformuk.vote

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

1) There's no reason an administrator at NASA should care how a Solar System body is categorized. 2) NASA isn't the org that makes classification determinations for Solar System objects. 3) If Isaacman wants Pluto reclassified again, he can lobby the International Astronomical Union on his own time.

artists and designers created nearly everything people interacted with during quarantine from the videos you watched, the books you read, the games you played, and the music you streamed down to the fonts and layouts of the websites you browsed. Even the viral dances you joined.

Nigel Farage’s latest grift - plugging high risk crypto investments - has been lifted directly from Donald Trump’s venal presidency. If Reform UK’s leader is left unchecked his behaviour will prove nothing short of a threat to democracy. I explain in my column for @thenerve_news 👇🏽

They heard you liked satellites in space so they used a satellite in space to take pictures of a satellite in space

The “put giant mirrors in space” grifters are intimating that “sunlight on demand” will generate meaningful solar power at night and I want to emphasize that you’d get more energy from holding a lit beeswax candle up in front of your panels.

nature is healing

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

This may be able to discern humans from robots, but not physicists familiar with Planck's Law from robots.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Use Claude Code they said. The most advanced model they said.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Dear GOP: Please send Vance out to campaign for your candidates in the midterms.

Picard management tip: Have an opinion on one side of an issue. Stay out of the neutral zone.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

Today, the people of #Hungary toppled their tyrant. America, our return to democracy requires our full attention. We can see it can be done!

Let’s go #Hungary!!

Thank you, people of #Hungary! With the vile, Putin-supporting anti-democratic Orbán gone, Hungary, the EU and the world are all suddenly in a much better place.

“There used to be some sense that killing a reporter would mean serious consequences. Now that understanding has vanished” BBC world affairs editor @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social writes for the Nerve on the journacide in the Middle East 🔗⬇️

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

quick reminder to disable notification previews on any app whose entire point is privacy

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: