Arrest Bondi for not releasing all of the Epstein files. Arrest her Today.

The world is actually FULL of technologies that were created and then went away because they sucked and no one wanted them. it happens all the fucking time. The idea that as soon as they're here we all just have to learn to live with it and find a use for it is just stupid tech industry propaganda.

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact. The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Greed.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Elon: so at a party and you want to be very popular, go uhhhh, so that is to say, your web browser, and so you type into Bing “naughty jokes for happy men”, and then ahaha you can, really quite epic, read results of what that is displayed Rogan: that’s what’s so amazing about jokes is, you say them

Starting to look like Trump might be a bit of wrong un. Time will tell.

it does not necessarily mean this though, because the dominant way people end up on Wikipedia is through Google, and Google has loaded the top of all of its search results with AI-mediated info taken from Wikipedia. This does not mean consumers prefer it this way, the choice has been made for them

When did everyone decide that things in frying pans need a weight on them? Deeply weird.

it really was stunning how quickly so many managers and other people with power snapped over from "cautiously exploring AI" to "you must use AI to walk, shit, and breathe or you're fired"

There are an awful lot of seriously weird takes on Bad Things Happening in the UK on here at the moment. Please do take time to ask a Brit before sharing! I volunteer myself as tribute here.

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Unilateral talks between trump and Putin aren’t peace talks. They’re war plans.

Trump and Putin are meeting on US soil because a country lawless enough not to arrest Trump is lawless enough not to arrest Putin. www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1...

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

Thinking about it, and as someone who could never have cared less about them at the time, it is genuinely culturally embarrassing that The Liberties were a Thing. Oooooooh he's just like Byron. Grow up.

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵

Babbage indulging in some Victorian vaguebooking...

The best time to act was in Feb 2014. Then in Feb 2022. The next best time is now While Russia hisses at the West to dissuade it from helping Ukraine. Meanwhile it pulls materiel and fighters from abroad Russia sees the current approach to escalation management as weakness and exploits it as such

A recurrent theme throughout this war has been that Western decision-makers, driven by inherent risk aversion, are being pushed ever closer to a position where they will sooner or later have to accept tremendous risks to avert Ukrainian defeat and its catastrophic consequences.

A wonderful quote by Herbert Simon: "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. [...] It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

I was proud to be invited to give oral evidence that shaped this report on #science in #Antarctica 🧪❄️🥼🇦🇶👇 Let's hope the #UK Government acts on its recommendations 🤞

Ordinary people "feel like mugs" for paying when others feel they can get away without doing so, says Robert Jenrick, who was found to have falsely claimed £122 in travel expenses, and used his own office to help a Conservative donor avoid paying £45m in tax www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...

Hat off to my coauthors who are wonderful social scientists and so patient with all my philosophising: Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Rosa Marks, @ojgarling.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @michaelkenny.bsky.social

Very proud to be part of this. As a philosopher I relished the challenge to define a familiar but fuzzy untheorised and value-laden concept, then line up an ideal of measurement fit for it. I wish everyone such satisfying interdisciplinary work. Hope we are heard!

On March 9th 2025, the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat. But this is just a juvenile, a mere 30 cm in length. Colossal squids are not transparent as adults, but as juveniles they look very similar to other cranchiids.

It’s absolutely appalling to live in a timeline where we know Putin’s assault last night is still unlikely to change Trump (and other western leaders) minds.

Trump sucks.

JD Vance joins Liz Truss on an inauspicious list

Pascal about JK Rowling and the anti trans law on UK: ‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’

He is risen...

People exist, even if the law says they do not exist.

It's a step in the right direction but if we're going this far, why not go for membership of the SM and CU? You know, those institutions that every high profile brexiter swore we'd never leave.

he could have worn a shirt n tie.

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Preach. Could not agree more.

Anyway, perhaps the most frustrating thing about this stupidly damaging saga is the endless airtime, pages and podcasts which will fruitlessly attempt to dissect ‘Trump’s strategy’. There is no strategy, no endgame beyond the economically illiterate madness he has already come out with.

Yup. As others said, its an epic transfer of wealth from retirement accounts and union funds that cannot abide this chaos, to those invited to the WH Signal chat.

I know you can dye lettuce leaves through osmosis individually, but what about an intact head of lettuce? Specifically orange dye. Just in case we need some orange heads of lettuce on hand. I know an orange wig would do, but making it a teachable moment scientifically seems apropos.

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

they 100% dumped the cold backups into an s3 bucket to save $1m a year because they can't understand the value of tape storage

There is no reason to humour anyone talking about AGI or give someone credit for doing so, it is not an "opinion" to "debate" as there is no actual proof it's possible. "Extrapolation" is another word for making shit up