This is an accessibility issue. If the answer’s no, we need to look into the ergonomics of microwave design.

This, but the opposite way around. I can’t wait for bsky to implement rules against these chocolate chip sickos.

They've got lions and tigers... and traaaaaans rights.

Nobody takes me down to Paradise City anymore and that’s sad

A majority of Americans are skeptical of AI proliferation and would rather it be applied to things like data analysis and menial tasks than creativity, religion, and personal relationships.

How often does the BBC have to fraudulently oversell quantum computing? Shor's algorithm works to a limited degree of reliability to a limited degree of scale. That's it. No amount of further investment will make general purpose computing suddenly available. It's a high stakes bet we keep making.

20? My 12 year-old self is laughing at you so hard.

I always forget that American graft and British graft mean something quite different. Having understood this, though, I agree. I might, however, have different opinions about NASA in previous decades.

Marvelous

“If you read this, you are gay lmao”

Well how did you think USB sockets in seat backs worked?

All I want in life is a cup of tea flavoured like the trifle from Friends

This young blonde skinny young blonde young woman in many ways stands for the way we feel about all Ukranians. Except those who aren't young blonde young skinny young... oh my god, she looked so young. KILL HIM. I support the independence of the judiciary, but DEATH SENTENCE. She looked so young.

Age verification

You said AI companies. BooksCorpus was released in 2015, Google used it to train BERT, released 2017, and OpenAI used it to train GPT, released 2018.

I don't think anything I see the rest of the day is going to beat this.

Haven't read either yet, but I feel connected (for better or worse) having campaigned for Nick and had dinner alongside TimBL.

The horror has very little to do with the glasses, or Meta, and everything to do with Clearview.ai — which should not exist. It's not a Valley company, though; it was founded and is headquarted in New York.

Drôle.

if my entire argument for banning trans women in sports was that cis men are pretending to be trans women to win against cis women and I tried to make a documentary about it but could not find any cis men willing to do the thing i said cis men do i would simply never show my face in public again

Are we doing that? It's a lot easier for me to write off Harry Potter (on a similar personal bias) than Father Ted or In Rainbows.

I saw a lot of authors saying they'd rather oppose a settlement with Anthropic... until they saw the size of it. That doesn't bode well for turning down a large advance and a marketing team.

Masterful gambit, sir.

Coming soon: the ability to guiltlessly stream The Smiths.

"authors might actually get paid" Emphasis on might.

Thanks to @tyleraking.com for pointing this out. Had I work in libgen, I wouldn't be happy with this proposal, being a member of the Society of Authors, not The Authors Guild — on whose policies I therefore have no say.

Someone's got to say it: $3000 is higher than the actual damages any author could prove, especially given the decision that the trained models are transformative (and so could not be included in a claim for damages). Anthropic's hand was forced by the default damages in a punitive system.

Dennis Lushch updated

Cecil's got his new piece...

Counterpoint: saying 'Torment Nexus' over and over, and/or thinking your position can be justified by saying 'model collapse', doesn't make *you* smart.

I've got good news for him on the effect the coronation of Farage in 2016 and the resulting rightward slide of Tory party policy to appease him: I directly contributed to this lowering of the net figure, via emigration, and encourage everyone considering it to do the same.

Remember when it was all about drag queens in libraries? Then they realised that there's limited concern about libraries and turned to sport. (I'm not equating drag and trans folks. They are. And it's working.)

Historical accuracy is woke nonsense

RIP Virginia Woolf, you would have loved Lighthouse Family

How do you like free speech now?

"A handgun, 20 other guns and tactical and smoke grenades were found during a search of his home, police said. "Looked like he may have been a collector of firearms'" A literal arsenal and that's what you're going with? A collector? You can't kill children with stamps or model trains.

Thankfully names were more sensible where I grew up

Somehow Hugo looked less goofy

Antony Head, best known for his role as Tony in the Gold Blend adverts

Huge congratulations to @whyiwrite.bsky.social! It's va shame @rsliterature.bsky.social aren't posting here themselves. rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...

Thursday Murder Club: Pierce Brosnan acting as well as Richard Osman writes. Phoning it in and dropping the handset in the toilet bowl.

These religious types always defend the counter-factuality and self-contradiction in the bible as metaphor, but don't understand metaphor in political discourse. TRUMP IS DEAD! (Morally, commercially and intellectually.)

My bone’s got a little machine

This I didn’t know.

Melania’s not willing to stay married to a body double

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It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Oh God, oh God, oh God!

The trouble with using Victor Frankenstein as a template for today's tech maniacs is that he does pretty immediately regret it. No, what we have is Dr. Moreau, weird colonialists who gets cancelled and then spend their money creating more and more unwanted monstrosities for no particular reason.

Huge if true