I'm beginning to think that the window in this image is the Overton Window

This is truly awful prose

EU/Mercosur free trade agreement to be signed Saturday 17 January - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

This headline wasn't on my AI bingo card apnews.com/article/monk...

It's worth having a look at this feed right now, it's all UK MPs. Something's happening.

OK this is fun & very silly. You can give MiniMax the following prompt: Create death metal style music with these lyrics: Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Fernando Happy birthday to you Then, once the song is ready you can ask it to make the music video. 🤘

What's the difference between 'work' and 'occupation'? Work From Home can be very rewarding and productive. Occupation From Home obviously cannot be effective.

Since South America is in the news, can I recommend one of my favourite films? You might find it relevant. Monos One to watch with the best sound system you can find www.imdb.com/title/tt6062...

This is good medical news out of Brazil. Breakthroughs in how to treat spinal injuries

Hey @doriantaylor.com recently I made something you might like I wondered if Coconut (Chain of Continuous Thought) might be better for vibe coding It led me somewhere that may be: - a flight of fancy - token efficient vibe coding - interestingly wrong - an unconventional take on software Enjoy 👇

Gaah! My Portuguese is improving but I sometimes get stuck on the most basic things. Whenever I see a day of the week like 'sexta' (sexta-feira) I literally have to count from scratch every time, all the while questioning why a Catholic country has Sunday as the first day of the week.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Can anyone recommend any informed, reputable and balanced accounts to follow from Venezuela? My own account is providing a lot of USA and European perspectives but I'm not seeing enough from people who are closer to the ground. I can read English and Spanish. Diverse opinions & views welcome.

I'm surprised that @theguardian.com claims that Reddit is where to find 'human generated content' and quotes Jen Wong as saying that Reddit is 'an antidote to AI generated content' I recently deleted the app precisely because it was full of people & bots discussing obvious AI slop.

@pcsunion.bsky.social A social media platform has an AI service with inadequate guardrails Many users generate inappropriate images with the AI. It's impossible to avoid seeing them; seeing them may be illegal Can an employer, government or union require staff to use the platform in their job?

GOOD NEWS! A group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukemia have seen their cancer driven into REMISSION by an innovative immune therapy known as BE-CAR7. 82% of patients reached deep remission and 64% of patients have now been disease-free and OFF therapy for THREE years.

Google's A2UI is the future of the web. Until now, AIs have indexed, searched and scraped web sites and then, mostly, interacted in a 'terminal' like chat interface. 🧵 developers.googleblog.com/introducing-...

Is it weird or unusual that there have been at least four volcano eruptions in the last month? 🌋 - Etna in Italy 🌋 - Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano 🌋- Purace Volcano in Colombia 🌋- Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia

Lily is my marketing friend at work she single-handedly convinced me that the future is in tools like Claude Code the future is going to be disrupted by high agency people who just want to hack, no longer constrained to people who know how to code www.appliedaiformops.com/p/what-i-lea...

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Ten health breakthroughs in 2025.

Latest balanced debate from BBC: They ask, which is worse: The song or the singer?

The 'Die Hard is an Xmas movie' discourse has been done to dearth, and @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social was totally right about it. But I do think we should talk about whether 'Last Christmas' is a suitable song for a primary school Xmas concert.

Health experts here are creating exactly the confusion they claim to warn against. Headline looks like they disagree about face masks. No, they disagree about saying 'must' vs 'should consider'. Office politics. For me, someone with no ability to compel saying 'must' only means 'should consider'.

This is a clever piece of work, but Google's algorithm seems to emulate how the restaurant market has always worked. - Buzz, popularity and awareness has always been make-or-break. - Local concentration has always helped. - Regional cuisines have always clustered together. - Advertising works.

Just got an email from Trello saying that my account will be deleted because I haven't logged in for over two years.

I know a lot of BlueSky people are very negative about AI, but I think this by @kellyboesch.bsky.social is novel, exquisite and compelling. Tools were apparently Midjourney, Veo3 and Suno, but there's no denying Kelly's talent and creativity. youtube.com/watch?v=HPTq...

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Monty Python's People's Front of Judea sketch but for Under 14 Girls' Chess Championships

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Claude Opus “soul document” Opus 4.5 was indeed (confirmed) trained with a “soul document”, a prompt included in both supervised & reinforcement learning that defines and influences certain core aspects More (official) details coming soon www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99...

This is rather brilliant: 1. Word of the year is 'rage bait' 2. Here is some 3. Step back and enjoy

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

These posts from @alanbeattie.bsky.social and @davekeating.substack.com were juxtaposed in my timeline - Pope advocates monogamous heterosexual relationships - Same-sex marriage to be recognised throughout EU I checked. The Vatican is not in the EU. Did not know that before.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

This is interesting parasocial parasitism. Like a lot of comedians Jeff Arcuri has built his reputation and audience by sharing crowd work. Now some audience members are interfering & undermining his performance. They go planning to get clipped onto his YouTube and TokTok, ruining it for others.

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Watching The Black Swan documentary on iPlayer. On Episode 2. It's gripping, but I am really having to reconsider my aversion to exposition in drama. Criminals just describe their current and future crimes in detail along with the structure of criminal enterprises, with past crimes as context.

I just tried @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's excellent SIFT framework fact-checking prompt as a Gemini Gem for Gemini 3. It works very well. Worth considering alongside Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. I cancelled my Claude subscription so very pleased to see it working on other LLMs Thanks Mike!

@samfr.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social May I ask a question? Ministers are responsible for their own policy choices, of course, but is this government being given options by a civil service with views shaped by 14 years of Conservatism? Should Labour have had more of a clear-out ?

Watching Pluribus. My husband, who hates sci-fi and horror, is unimpressed so far. I find myself saying, 'Everyone loves this. Fernando, once you understand how wonderful this is...'

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

If anyone wants it, the official Jamaican Government site to donate in support of disaster relief is this: supportjamaica.gov.jm There are lots of fake sites and videos on social media, so this government site is probably the best option to actually help.

I'm struck by how inessential so many of these services are. People could use this opportunity to review and cancel some subscriptions

What it's like to vibe code with Claude Code

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

Just found out that Episode 2 of Traitors aired this evening. Very happy that BlueSky let's you mute keywords for 24 hours so I can avoid spoilers until I catch up

Five words is excessive. I can do it in two words. If I'm really pressed for time, I can do it in one word with fewer than 5 letters.