All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..

My response to Melvin Benn would be (1) nobody thinks you booked Kanye West for three nights because you believe so much in forgiveness and (2) it’s not just the Jewish community that’s offended by celebrating the Nazis. He has a history of promoting anti-Black racism as well

"artificial intelligence" was always an aspirational metaphor and a marketing term, so it's fine if "AI" dies with the grift and we use different and more precise terminology for the various machine learning, deep learning, LLM-based, predictive algorithm, etc etc. techniques and products.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

*pushes glasses up nose* Actually--

@herring1967.bsky.social If you want to know all about the Tooth Fairy, try reading (or listening to) Terry Patchett's Hogfather You might want to check it out yourself before you read it to Ernie - in case you think it would terrify him. There's even a TV show of the Hogfather (rated PG).

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

JD Vance’s forthcoming memoir about becoming a Catholic features a United Methodist church on its cover.

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

Trust @deffinger.bsky.social to always appear in the perfect place in my feed.

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

I wouldn't usually circulate foreign propaganda, but Trump absolutely deserves this...

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

If Trump thinks European countries won't pay Iran a transit fee to get ships through Hormuz... -laughs in Nordstream-

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

This photo.

Well, after last night’s GBNews debate I no longer need to explain to students the risks of using AI to write papers since Matt G has done us all a favour by having a fever dream meltdown trying to justify it. And to think we thought his contributions to academia were over.

Magnificent thread. The fact that he’s now managed to soil himself on *GBeebies*, an entity that only exists to promote bile like his, is like the whole thing landed on a triple word score in Scrabble. Andy Twelves is a legend.

Right, here comes the library soapbox. The work of evaluating and categorizing books belongs to—if not a credentialed librarian—adequately trained staff. Not AI. Not volunteer parents. Not a council. Not a principal or headteacher. Libraries being what they are is because of careful education.

Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed 'Epstein Island.'
 Someone messed with Google's widely cited databases of business listings.

DOCTOR: You have a fatty liver. Do you know what that means? ME: Yes, you're saying it would make a scrumptious foie gras. DOCTOR: No. I mean yes, probably, but that's not the point.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

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Ha ha Couldn't possibly have foreseen this.

Courtney Barnett was great (at the Moth Club last night) I used to think she was "Indie Pop", but her latest work has a much more rock feel and I'm impressed to see (& hear) her virtuoso guitar.

And this guy was supposedly masterminding the UK government...

I finally watched Chernobyl (I'm late to a lot of TV, okay!) and the line, "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." will stick with me for a while, because holy hell is it more relevant now than ever before.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I can't keep publishing fessholes that mention @herring1967.bsky.social - it's like his fans are using my account to talk to him and I'm his secretary

Ending sanctions on a country we are currently at war with

Surely not! Corruption in Trumpland?!

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison.

Matt Goodwin used ChatGPT to "research" his new book, pass it on.

Incredible little blog and it seems to all be true.

Might want to ask for that plane back mate… x.com/bambibristol...

THE SPICE MUST FLOW

Kindleberger trap I can’t walk out I’m not the hegemon, baby Why can’t you see What you’re doing to me My security umbrella’s tearing We can’t go on together Strait of Hormuz is mined Can’t keep the sea lanes open With suspicious mines

Comedy gold

I just heard back from the reporter, and I am genuinely speechless. Is “we don’t care” the business model?

One cannot simply own hot, sexy, dangerous boys, judge rules.

I have never seen a cross-examination go so badly

Let's talk about the "you should have just obeyed the law" response to police violence. A study several years ago found that police are the sixth leading cause of death for Black men in the United States. But it is, if you can imagine, worse than that.

This piece should surely have a disclaimer that its author and interview subjects risk jail time if they write or say that things are bad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...