Jotting down thoughts as I go. Not sure I agree with the central premise here but very interested to empty my cup and drink the tea

“Not buying books is scumbag behaviour… also buying books is scumbag behaviour”

Because they’re both transformational technologies, right?

Clowning: not bonk bonk

We have allowed social media to basically wipe out whatever traces of the Enlightenment remained & we are heading back to personalist authoritarianism & mysticism faster than anyone seems prepared to acknowledge. It's really fucking bad.

My hottest LLM take is if you rely on an LLM being "facts and statistics" about the training corpus rather than the corpus to argue it's not copyright infringement this necessarily implies that the result of this process is itself not a copyrightable work and therefore all weights are public domain.

Companies that “want your data” almost universally just want to make products and adverts you’ll like more and send you less spam not the opposite.

Just the most bizarre shit on the timeline today. JK Rowling chooses not to cure endometriosis now apparently?

A curated feed of psychedelic art, so people can shroomscroll

Graham in primary school told me he could fly but he couldn’t show me because then the government would see and take him away to do experiments.

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

Anyway Cory Doctorow explains it better than me, in case you're in doubt. And he's certainly no shill for Big Tech.

Waymo and Anthropic are two AI companies people here should reward, regardless of their feelings about AI as a whole or the respective companies. Waymo has, for years, incrementally plugged away at making a technology work. Out of the public eye, without any big flashy demos

Oh dear oh dear #PUSB

Octogenarian

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

Yet again, Canada finds itself being threatened with extra tariffs targeting its businesses. It is more important than ever to move away from Big US tech. I hope this one-page guide helps you not only do that, but also discover some excellent Canadian companies - from 1Password to Sync!

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

London really is lovely isn’t it?

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Banger after banger from Big Pharma recently.

Me explaining why I’m on BlueSky

Where’s Historic England when you need them?

If it can do one professional job, it can do them all. Big if tho.

So I stopped scrolling my phone in bed and started reading my kindle and now I sleep through the night and wake up refreshed, wt actual f?

When I signed up I did not realise the “Blue” in BlueSky referred to furry porn.

#pusb Been a Lampard skeptic and still am but it’s coming together. More basic football and five at the back has stopped the errors and meant the goals we score win us games. Not sure how it works when the three who are oh are back but that’s a nice problem to have. Now onto three very tough games…

#pusb Looks like Paterson is done. Will give him a chance but failing to make it in the MLS is a worry. Rak-Sakyi still on too. So very old or very young…

#pusb Rumours King has failed to attract investment and is open to offers on the club…

#pusb Rumour Roundup Haji Wright to the Dutch league (Dutch news) Rumoured CM target Tomas Nikitscher signs for Valladolid (Spanish press) MvE to Galatasaray (Turkish press again)

#pusb Gonna start doing a rumour roundup. If it gets traction I’ll carry on. In order of how much credibility I give them: CM and RB targeted (SBT) Sheaf out for six weeks (SBT) MvE to Galatasaray (everywhere) Rob Holding almost done (SBT) Loan offers for Kitching (SBT) Wright wants out (media)

New to this, Twitter refugee. Any Coventry City #pusb fans on here? How does this work?