2026

Looking at these charts, AI's like railways in the 19th Century. The tech is good. We need more of it. Everyone's raised a bunch of cash. Some people will lose their shirts. Some other people will flat-out *own* the main national comms links. Game over. And then someone will invent cars.

The Claudes don't need me anymore.

Coding in 2026.

This is the British Way.

We conjure sentient machines from sand, and yet... ...when I click 'Payment of £57.60' here (which I assume is the 'Pay Now' button), would you expect the order to go through? (Went through just fine ofc.) I don't blame the junior who wrote this, but I do blame everyone else in the world.

'Hats are black, Qwen is blue, I've recorded your voice, Now i can be you.' Such a small model, and it *is* 'good enough'. I've never played with voice models before and within 10 minutes I was scaring the crap out of my (11 yo) daughter with 'clone daddy' and 'clone mummy'.

Reading is building a ladder. Writing is climbing the ladder you’ve built. Unless your ladder is good, you’ll never be able to…

The wider implication is that humans have written their last major programming language? I always used to think 'when I retire I'll spend my time maintaining an obscure CSS framework that was popular in my youth.' and maybe I still will, but maybe we've written our last one of them too.

The whole project feels like an excuse to upgrade a gaming PC that accidentally saved a social network

Are you really a pessimist if the earthquake‘s already started?

🔴 Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall MP, is making a statement: Non-consensual sexual deepfakes on social media. Watch live ⬇️ parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly this is just Martyrdom

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I was trying to google the exchange rate, and you don't see this every day.

this report is really good stuff I love these charts, which are fascinating just for thinking about data and storytelling both charts a) display data correctly and b) tell you something true and important about the world and they're very, very different www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...

@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk This is exactly the thing I was saying. I would like LMMs to stop affirming everything I say, but we all need GPT-4o to stop affirming to vulnerable users that they are divine entities, for example. This offers affirmation to the delusional, it has to stop.

Always stuck with me: A friend asked how I voted, and I said 'I always look at what's better for the country', and they looked flabbergasted, and told me honestly that they'd never heard that idea before. For them it is 'who is doing more for me.' They didn't reject the idea. It was just novel.

I keep coming back to Barry. I've shared it with a few people who keep insisting it must be a parody. The original seems to have been deleted. Whatever, I've been muttering 'Barry doesn't do boring' to myself as I do my housework this afternoon. I don't know why, but it's been oddly uplifting.

“Only when there’s no defender between the striker and the goalie when the ball is kicked to them.”

Like it or not, these tariffs were **incredibly efficiently implemented**. It would have taken a normal government MONTHS to have prepped them and cost x20-x50 as much. When you think of the trillions of dollars wiped out this last week, you MUST take into account the ~ $1 million saved.

Listening to the latest 'Rest is History' - they quote the Bayeux Tapestry as the major source for the Norman Invasion. I wonder what D-Day's history would look like if our major source was the recent exhibition of 80 meters of knitted dioramas at Peterborough Cathedral. Woolier, perhaps. (sorry)

In 20 years time, right wingers will claim the Trump tariffs are the only thing that saved the planet’s ecology from rampant consumerism. They’ll say this with pride, looking out over the sea that used to be Florida.

Every so often I re-post this to remind the media to stop and think about how they frame stories: “When reality is asymmetric, balanced reporting is deceptive.” Brian Klaas, WaPo op ed 12/17/21

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit at crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...