"Companies have three months to implement a technology that simply does not and can not exist"

It's going to fucking rock when we all have to upload our passports or have some kind of insane digital ID scheme so we can take selfies on our phones.

Wanna know something cool? This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome-- and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)

For the infinity bazillionth time, asking an LLM chatbot questions abt how or why it emits particular outputs can't possibly & doesn't ever trigger responses that are anything other than statistically fabricated gibberish.

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

Live your life such that your community makes a statue

Glad to see this from the FT, but many have been raising this for a long time and it's been disregarded as a sort of digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic. Labour needs a decent tech strategy and Blair and Mandelson's influence on policy needs to end with the change in leadership

When you see trans women being banned from co-ed competitions like darts, billiard, and chess—where even if we did have more muscle in defiance of all natural laws—you start to realize that these bans aren't about "fairness." They're about never allowing undesirables to be celebrated.

I've seen a lot of discussion from indie authors wanting to generate AI references then get real artists to "make it legit art" which suggests a HUGE lack of understanding of how to commission art/design as an author. So I thought I'd share my experience.

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

Financials website I use today: “do you want to buy some Space X shares in 2 days?” Me: “HELL NO!!!!”

Ya think? They weren't all lined up behind Trump at his actual inauguration or anything?

Fortescue is scrapping plans for a green ammonia plant in Norway, and using the reserved power supply for a data centre instead 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 www.nrk.no/vestland/pla...

"Peterson says she lost 11,000 followers on social media by coming out. But for every follower she lost, her story resonated with others."

The latest installment of a story that just gets grimmer and grimmer. If you thought such appointments ended with the Tories, you'll be sorely disappointed. www.ft.com/content/747e...

Such self-awareness

Roads - We'll upgrade a roundabout for £1bn (and tack on a 10km link road). Yeah, we'll build it and 20km of approach road. Rail - You wanted your London to B'ham line to actually reach London?! <Shocked Pikachu Face>. Oh, you actually want to run passengers services on the line we built?! 🤪

was thinking about this the other day — the big problem with the new LLM vendors is they’ve succeeded in completely obscuring and deprioritising specialised ML solutions that actually worked in favour of a general purpose product which largely doesn’t

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Do you remember when the BBC made a massive deal out of "BBC Verify", its fact checking arm? Weird how this kind of inflammatory nazi shit isn't in their job description, isn't it? Almost as if we were right to mock it.

The direct result of telling posh white women that maybe they had privilege was transphobia - they had to find a group that was "opressing" them so they could be the underdog again. Absolutely no surprise they're also seguing into racism, it's the same ego-driven self-centring behaviour.

i love never knowing who is lying about the actions of my government ever tbh it's great it makes for a sturdy and stable polity

Sometimes the world gives us omens that should not be ignored:

is this about me

I know they’ll never think it was their fault, but Jesus Christ, Republicans should feel so fucking embarrassed by what they have done to America…

This is great, and it's worth revisiting their wonderful Tintin kit from a few years back.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

I will never interact with any AI product if I can humanly avoid it. You wanted me to give this tech a chance? Too motherfucking bad, you should have thought about it before you started plastering cities with these ads

a fundamental rule of bsky is: one must be careful to avoid unintentionally setting up an obvious joke which many people will make, without stopping to think "this is an obvious joke, I should check replies before I post it"

trans rights actually aren't extra rights they're just the same rights everybody else has that you're trying to take away from trans people. sorry you have trouble with this, but it means you're a bigot not that we're wrong.

it’s like this for everything. it feels absurd to say it but we live in an almost post-scarcity world yet we choose destruction over life. we could have well-funded healthcare, housing for everyone, good public transit, scientists working full time to cure disease and we throw it all away

He reads a big book He reads a little book He reads an old book He reads a new book He reads a book that reminds him of the good times He reads a book that reminds him of the better times

Please read the entire thread, but this particular point is especially important. Generative AI reinforces the nonsensical idea that scientific & academic progress can be done by individuals rather than groups of individuals, & entices people to vastly overreach beyond their competence.

AI data centres are coming to Britain - from the US and beyond. This one's in the village where I write my books. It'll use the same amount of power equivalent to 1 million homes and will wreck the natural environment. Please sign if you value nature. www.change.org/p/save-the-l...

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Happy to see the project fronted by a trans creator overcome the movie that is being promoted with pronoun jokes

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

FFS

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

[Nutrition, food intolerances] I wanted to take a minute to discuss "ultra processed foods" Because they're becoming more and more politicized, and also people are on a moral high horse about not eating them But also they're one of my biggest MCAS triggers #NEISvoid #MCAS

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Men with no gold to dig are always whining about women being gold diggers, but so many of them are time diggers. They assume women’s time and attention is theirs by right, and they should just vomit whatever half-formed thoughts they have on the nearest woman, and she should listen and nod.

THE WEBSITE HAS A REAL MAP ON IT WHY GENERATE THIS IMAGE USING AI I'M LOSING MY MIND

It makes me really sad. Used to be, if someone wrote about a super-niche topic, it would because they cared—a lot. Their personal viewpoint would be interesting even if not entirely accurate. Now so much of it is meaningless digital effluent. Doing to fountain pens is just a twist of the knife.

ROGUE TROOPER Been a long time coming

DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."

FFS

An ABC report reveals Anthropic has hopes for 20 GW of data centre capacity in Australia About 33x the existing consumption of data centres in the country today This is why @greenpeaceap.bsky.social called for a moratorium: they won't build wind/solar to match this www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

I saw Masters of the Universe today. Absolutely fantastic! It was funny, some in jokes AND CRINGER ASKED FOR CONSENT BEFORE LICKING THE FACE OFF ADAM 😛🐯 See He-Man and not this shite 👇