Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess

When Geneticists learned they had the power to create harmful things, they just... voluntarily stopped until they developed their own guidelines. They didn't wait for governments to catch up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiloma...

this is a very basic point to make but I hate that so many tech people are going "whoops haha AI is about to destroy society as we know it!" and yet incredibly few tech people are arguing in favour of just...slowing down the roll-out of AI, apparently progress must crush us and we have no say in it?

Just got a form rejection. I'd forgotten about the submission, which was 10 months ago. They said not to worry, they only accept 0.5% of stories submitted. I refrained from replying that percentage would be higher if they'd published the advertised 3 issues in that time period instead of... zero.

England’s Giant Sequoia are only 170 years old, but already BY FAR the tallest trees wherever you find them These three are in the centre of Tonbridge Because of the clientele who bought the seeds, they also mark the location of churches, grand houses and ornamental gardens

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

Onstage cold readers and parlor mediums usually get less than a 10,400 word write-up before they bamboozle a mark, but bamboozling a mark is all this amounts to.

Just announced - The Best of British Science Fiction 2025, published by Newcon. Includes the fabulous Dark Matter by Caitriana NicNeacail, our winning story for the @cymerafestival.co.uk / Shoreline of Infinity Scottish competition. Published in Issue 39. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Delighted to share the full ToC for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Pre-orders now available on the Newcon Press website! www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

I'm delighted to let you know that my story Twin Engines will appear in Best of British Science Fiction 2025 (ed. Donna Scott). Now open for pre orders.

Not a surprise to anyone who read my story "Autonomous" in Aurealis #157 in 2023. (Or anyone who read Waymo's blog in 2024.) @aurealisfsf.bsky.social

Not a surprise to anyone who read my story "Autonomous" in Aurealis #157 in 2023. (Or anyone who read Waymo's blog in 2024.) @aurealisfsf.bsky.social

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

One I use all the time.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I dunno. I find Gong rather relaxing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZT...

65 Million Women Deserve the Right to Vote The SAVE Act threatens the rights of women to vote if their married names don’t match their birth names. You can find the story several posts down on my page. This is Pack 1. Please see Pack 2 also Pack 1 go.bsky.app/R5H9AaN Pack 2 go.bsky.app/3ZynozC

My working life has been spent with medical scientists. Many were staunchly ethical as well as brilliant. That's not always the case. (The screenshot below is about the *least* egregious thing uncovered in this whole long expose by Ben Taub of bad science.) From: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hello, AI overview! What are we overviewing today? Using a query "nichols institute diagnostics case parathyroid", it said the case was about "falsely low" results. The case was about falsely HIGH results. The reference it gave doesn't even have the word "low" in it.

1 in 200 #polio infections leads to irreversible paralysis. In the 1960s children suffering from irreversible paralysis caused by polio were required to use 'iron lungs' to help them breathe. We don't see these 'iron lungs' anymore today because #VaccinesWork

Can I nominate this for a Hugo?

Interviewer: what's your biggest strength ? Me as an developer: Machine Learning Interviewer: what's 10 + 20 ? Me: 0 Interviewer: Incorrect. It is 30 Me: It's 30 Interviewer: what's 50 + 30 ? Me: it's 30

Happy birthday, TV! Before you watch the clip below, remind yourself Doctor Who revealed that the first image ever transmitted by television was an interdimensional trickster god that could still erupt at any time. It'll prepare you for the sight of the actual...visage... of the thing.

The BBC news is on in the background, and I just heard a journalist (quoting Milei) refer to "Judo-Christian Values."

Monogragh proposal:

A reminder that I had an eligible fantasy story published in Black Cat Weekly #186 in 2025: The Oathbreaker.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

A reminder that I had two eligible SF stories published in 2025. “Twin Engines” in Black Cat Weekly #217 “Hey, Marilyn” in BSFA’s Fission #5

each day on this planet is worse than the last

Batley Beck.

Däniken's 'paleo-contact' claims of extraterrestrial influences on early human development, attracted a dedicated following, despite his earlier convictions for theft, fraud and embezzlement (and robust debunking of his theories). Films, soundtracks, and even prog concept albums followed his books.

BZZT.

I signed another short story contract today! This one was for Blood Fiction vol. 4. It should be out in a couple of months. In the meantime, you can treat yourself to stories of mine in Blood Fiction v2 and v3 and also read v1 for all its other contributors!

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

News articles should come with an interface that allows the reader to explain why they noped out at a particular point. BZZT! Dangling modifier! BZZT! Incorrect use of "begs the question." BZZT! Use of exonerative case!

BRB learning 70,000 ICD-10 codes so I can reel them off to my healthcare provider to negotiate for a discount. "I've only got a J10.1." "Sorry, kid, we're billing for an additional J91.8." "That isn't medically necessary!" "Are you an MD? No. Shut up."

Rick, you can't buy your own insurance because an insurance pool of one is definitionally not insurance. You can't negotiate with the hospital coz you don't have the Chargemaster, and if you did you wouldn't understand it, and if you could it's 10,000s of items long and if you tabled all that 1/2

Hopwood Avenue off Corporation Street 1944.

Success stories/wins are great, but you know what I enjoy? Top tier writers talking about the grind. This is Gene Wolfe in a 1973 interview w/Malcolm Edwards (reprint in Shadows of the New Sun ed. Peter Wright) when he was on the upswing after writing Fifth Head. Selling a story on a 38th sub damn 🫠

I found this very interesting-and lavishly illustrated.

Hmm I posted this on tumblr and got like 6 people to make blogs (my powerful influence) so I'm gonna implore you all here as well: go to blogger.com make a blog, post every day. blogspot resurgence 2026. this is real here is my blog: lillyashton.blogspot.com LET'S BLOG NOW

Make 2026 year of the blog! ✨ Mine is at peromyscus.blogspot.com

I was in a taxi, nearing my destination, when the driver said to me, "There's a street parking spot open behind those houses." He must have thought that required explanation because he added, "I know that because I can see around corners."

I'm going to call my Social Media startup Gríma Wormtongue.

✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination. 🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B. 🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.

Spoiler for The War Between the Land and the Sea: It's Waterworld's origin story. Prince Friedrich icesheet melted, leading to destabilization of ice caps and massive sea level rise. Remaining people live on salvaged boats. Inexplicably gilled human floats around and encounters Dennis Hopper...