Anthropic's newest model is straight up saying that the AI labs effectively no path to profitability outside of an economic miracle that arrives in time with their debts. Incredible stuff. Congratulations on Anthropic for creating a model powerful enough to realize it's a shitty business. lol

"The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night."

NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump admin's effort to move 14 trans women to men's prisons. "[I]t is fundamentally unreasonable for prison officials to respond to serious risks ... by intentionally creating those risks and offering to treat them after they predictably occur." Today, at Law Dork:

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Another example of people running a business surprised that running a business requires complying with rules. #sigh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

worst superpowers: Albert Heijn-vision. a small arrow in the corner of your eye directs you to the nearest Albert Heijn supermarket at all times. You do not live in the Netherlands.

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Sony PlayStation's age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."

Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself

It is just SO deeply depressing how easy it is for companies selling fossil-fuelled software slop to get media outlets to do free marketing and PR for them.

This is great. "If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" is spot on.

I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?". I don't really care about their answer, but the speed at which they ask ChatGPT allows me to assess how much I care about their thoughts and opinions on other matters.

This is fantastic news.

Trump is now sitting back in his chair and dozing off

Folks, there is something gravely wrong with the president’s health and the White House is covering it up. This man is obviously not well.

the cool thing about Bluesky is that a disproportionate number of your followers are living people who actually log onto the app

I said "je m'excuse, mais je vais ecorcher votre langue..." Excuse me, but I'm about to butcher your language" and the dude laughed so hard, it was a highlight of the trip

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

Like I was saying

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

*taps Greater Manchester Spatial Framework sign* as.ft.com/r/38396f0e-a...

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

Narrator: Dana White has spoken at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Republican National Conventions.

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

If "Prime Hoisery UK", what if "Sub-prime Hoisery UK"?

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

Farage is taking political donations into new territory and to new levels. The influence of big money in UK politics can no longer be ignored. Wealthy people, big business, and foreign-linked money are finding new ways into the system - from companies to cryptocurrency. t.co/im7ZaEvQur

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

It is very weird that a lot of men genuinely seem to *struggle to understand the concept that if you want people to like you and to be around you then you should try being nice to them

let's give it a try though

Had me in the first half…

I don't understand why tech companies keep adding features no one asks for. Like isn't the entire purpose of a product team to test ideas with users and see what they think, and if they hate it, it's probably a bad idea??

Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult.

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

SUBURBS ARE WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN CITIES BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. AAAAAAA

It’s not whether it’s “real”. It’s whether the full cost (actual ROI, ethical, energy, & more) is exceeded by the true benefit realized. In most cases, the entire cost of AI is not quantifiable (largely because it’s based on fudge) and the proponents absolutely downplay most/all negative effects.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

A bold strategy would have been to ease up on free movement as of now, thus allowing for deeper integration into the single market in ways acceptable to the EU. And, going forward, announce a fundamental evidence-based reassessment of EU policy ahead of the next manifesto. Instead: Youth mobility.

Without wishing to baffle everybody with technical, statistical and demographic terms this is, compared to other factors such as emigration numbers and deaths due to old age, a number that is commonly termed as being 'Fuck All'.

when u tax the rich

Reading the media the last few days, you’d have thought that Reform had swept to power across the country. The reality is they have less than 1,000 out of 18,645 seats and control just 12 of 369 councils. More or less the same as The Greens. Everyone needs to take a breath.

And transit service directly benefits drivers by helping other people replace car trips. As @theonion.com put it...

This is who was just got elected to Sunderland council. Reform councillor David Barker beat his girlfriend black and blue and neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar..."