AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Actually as a reminder for certain meds when it's above 25c it's best to keep them in the fridge, concerta is one of these, and we're coming into a period of 27c+ weather so plan accordingly

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Not doing *great* there, UK, are you

I won't say I'm *excited* about spreadsheets but I definitely will say that building the sheet is how I think things through. I need the process, not just the results. Also it hella satisfying.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

AI freaks on bluesky: umm all the AI doomers online are being completely paranoid about its impact on labor which isn’t measurable literally AI companies: lmao you can use us to fire those uppity bitches so you don’t have to pay them a living wage

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Yarny friends! What interesting/thoughtful knitting or crochet magazines are out there right now? I'm looking for publications that have features, not just patterns and techniques.

"One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran. I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation." #MinabSchool t.me/politblogme/22

I really want every author pushing the use of GenAI in their workflow (like the one @societyofauthors.bsky.social was promoting in their magazine last week!) to sit with that. "What are LLMs really good at? They’re really good at averaging what everybody says." how ... aspirational.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

I am an AI pessimist and yet I still overestimated its success. I am not pessimistic ENOUGH

What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.

Hi Bsky, sorry for the radio silence. I had a job offer fall through in January and have spent the year so far scrabbling to pay bills + feed myself + my cats whilst I try and get a new job. Accepting bird doodle commissions where I'll draw you any bird you want for a $10 KoFi ko-fi.com/tytonidaeus

“Before introducing the scheme, Kickstarter reached 70% of its objectives, but this number has since increased to 90%.” It’s a win-win for workers and employers. It’s time for a 4-day week. ⏰

Except, this isn't a boycott. This is a mass transfer from one war loving brand to another war loving brand, enacted by a pro-AI faction of centrist effective altruists.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

there's not really a point to this, i just wish non-tech people knew: every part of the web has become worse because of GenAI. Millions of SEO-optimized sites packed with cognitive asbestos. Companies taking down our services scraping every word they can find. Hardware is too expensive to buy...

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One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

My kids' (Swiss) high school (7th grade and up) introduced laptops a few years ago and I'm so unimpressed. Makes everything worse, for some kids more than others.

The parody movie about the AI bubble is going to have nowhere to go.

Today is my birthday and if you wanted to get me a gift, feel free to share my work 😊 🦊 🐟

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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Das schlimmste Wort, das mir dort begegnet ist: Klima-Keulung (climate culling). Natürlich wissen die Herrschaften ganz genau Bescheid über Planetare Grenzen. Ihre Antwort darauf ist in ähnlich abartiger Form verfasst, wie auch ihr sonstiger Umgang mit Menschen.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

One amongst many reasons I won't use "AI". I'm autistic. By definition that means my brain thinks differently to the majority. AI spits out the average of its training set. By design it will water down my thoughts into mediocrity. I've done a lot of work to learn to celebrate my square-peg brain.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

This is a very good analysis of a very tiresome phenomenon. Also...Goodge Street. [waits expectantly]

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

And here we are. The robot overlords need you.

The only surprise is they admit it

The more specific point, and pertinent, is that you don't get to become a billionaire without having reconciled on some level that your comfort, leisure, lifestyle, desires, can and should be facilitated through the exploitation of others

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

I wonder if one reason women tend to find LLMs less appealing than men do is because many of us have a history of being flattered for gross ends and find flattery more off-putting and suspicious than men do

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Those aren't hallucinations. It's 100% obvious this mushroom lets you see the fairies.

Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵

I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

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