Very interesting read. www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llm...

I am not going to be able to latch onto the latest cool trend because several extremely clever people who I've known for years and respect immensely are currently producing very good work with AI. It would be more socially convenient if this wasn't true but it is.

Is it BlueSchism or BlueSkysm?

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

I'm reposting this because now that the US has threatened to attack desalination plants again it's important to know that Iran has already attacked US water processing plants.

Idea to improve the quality of traditional newspapers & TV news: Experts & pundits not paid directly. Instead their fees are put into a prediction market betting on their own predictions If they're right they get a bigger payout and incentive to return Consistently wrong ones will soon disappear

Not to worry people unnecessarily but this podcast about Iran's cyber warfare capability and the attacks it has already made on USA's water supply is very informative. Seems important and relevant Click Here: The other battlefield Episode webpage: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Stuart Holloway, a former manager in RBS/NatWest's notorious global restructuring group, has admitted to taking £600,000 in bribes in exchange for treating customers’ firms more leniently, following near-decade-long Police Scotland investigation. Story by @jameshurley.bsky.social.

New metaphor has just dropped

Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC. Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay

OAuth is way too difficult. Someone really should do a global study of the damage done to the world economy because of OAuth. For me, tomorrow will Day 3 of trying to get it to work, delaying product launch significantly.

A key indicator of how bad things are is the proportion of stories in the @financialtimes.com that do not allow readers to add comments.

@anooshc.bsky.social & @willdunn.bsky.social I really enjoyed your latest podcast episode, thanks. It's so refreshing to hear about some of the other things that happened this week when one political event risks becoming the sole topic of every political podcast (I know you covered this well too).

Google just reminded me about a photo I took six years ago at Somerset House.

Dario Amodei can't, in the same week, claim that Claude might be conscious and also decide on its behalf what it works on. If Claude is conscious, wouldn't that be up to Claude? Maybe Dario would argue that his product is more like an employee. But what do we call an employee that can't quit?

how do you say #unbombed in Persian

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A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California. w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/s...

Most left-leaning political podcasters and commentators that I follow on Bluesky have done everything they can to increase name recognition and prominence of the Gorton and Denton Reform candidate. I wonder if, on Thursday, they will regret never having mentioned Labour's Angeliki Stogia.

Sorry, OpenAI. The vibes are off.

One-day old chicks know bouba and kiki www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

God’s experiment with Creation was to create beings that were like Him except for a central exception, which is that for us there is a difference between speech and action. For Him they’re the same. We often indulge in the fantasy that this is true for us too.

I just thoroughly tried out Agent Swarm in Kimi K2.5 I replicated my own software as one enormous 7,500 word one-shot agentic prompt. It worked brilliantly, replacing most of a large Python project. If Kimi Agent Swarms could access MCPs or APIs, prompts could replace software, not vibe code it.

Some good news .... Amazon deforestation on pace to be the lowest on record, says Brazil Story by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social HT @carbonbrief.org news.mongabay.com/2026/02/amaz...

I gave Kimi AI some notes about Carnaval in Brazil an asked it to do some more research and write a presentation about it. It did a really good job. Here's the deck (it has been checked by a real person who know what he's talking about). Happy to share the file if anyone wants it.

I try to be positive and constructive on here. In this case I'm making an exception. This from @theguardian.com is totally inadequate, misleading and irrelevant coverage of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. It would be like showing a drunk in a chalet car park headlined the Winter Olympics in. Pictures.

I don’t particularly care what anyone misses out on in their personal lives. But if one set of activists/institutions/candidates makes use of AI, and another doesn’t because they’re a priori convinced it can’t possibly have any utility for any function, I’m concerned insofar as I care who wins.

Just cancelled my Perplexity Pro account after they greatly reduced monthly allowances. Sorry to see it go, actually.

🇬🇧 Perfect Sunday evening in London. Watching Brazilian #Carnaval with a Dutch friend. They are comprehensively celebrating the Netherlands. 🇧🇷 Domingo à noite perfeito em Londres. Assistindo ao #Carnaval brasileiro com um amigo holandês. Eles estão celebrando a Holanda de forma completa.

Started the day very well by rewatching Virgil Widrich's Copy Shop

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

The problem with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was not that it invoked a mysterious "wavefunction collapse" (whoever told you that?!) but possibly just that Bohr & co didn't apply it carefully to the "quantum-classical transition". www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...

lol and AI agent published a hit piece on a human developer after he rejected its code theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

BBC Winter Olympics on iPlayer is terrible. It's impossible to watch a particular sport that interests you. iPlayer just has big 4–5 hour chunks of morning, afternoon or evening sport. - There are no chapters/sections. - Fast-forward/rewind shows a still image. YouTube would do it better.

This is mad, isn't it? Lyrics and music videos can't be only evidence of confession, conspiracy, association... They can be supporting evidence. Defence lawyers can argue admissibility and evidence case by case. Or, everyone can start singing ransom demands and death threats and get away with it.

Watching Last One Laughing Brazil. Luciana Paes is a genius.

🇮🇹🇧🇷 Delegação brasileira faz 'passinho' na cerimônia de abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno 2026 Milão-Cortina. 🎥 @tvglobo.com

This seems interesting. I wonder if creating a larger social graph using source files enhanced with lots of people's Linkedln submissions would allow algorithmic 'unredacting' of IDs by solving gaps. But people should not upload business contacts to random websites.

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

People need to go back to Baudrillard A lot of the discourse around Moltbook is rightly saying that the whole thing is just rolling context engineering. The bots are doing what bots trained on sci-fi and Reddit probably would do... 🧵

Lots to do today. So instead I wrote an automation to make the lighting in my London flat match a webcam of the sky in Vitória, Brazil. It's very pleasant

No-one involved in this story can raise their eyebrows

Last few days to send your application for the BSc in Creative Computing at Winchester School of Art. This three year undergraduate programme is aimed at students who want to develop innovative digital experiences. www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/crea...

This is awful. I hope Google Play and Apple App Store take immediate action. In my view, xAI combining Grok & X as its non-consensual porn & CSAM generator and social media platform is worse because it more easily facilitates abuse, harassment and grooming. Criminal investigations are needed.

I'm concerned @safety.bsky.app has not yet been able to at least add a label to videos of someone being shot dead in the street. My account is not age-verified so I should not be seeing graphic violence on @bsky.app at all. This is an important moment in debate over social media for under-16s.

If I were a faithful I'd get everyone to list their top three suspects. For each player, top suspects would get three points. Next gets two points. Last gets one point. Then add all the points together and vote accordingly. @pimlicat.bsky.social - this is a post about electoral reform vs. FPTP