Adding an LLM to a product like a browser is a strange decision. The thought process that leads to "Our product could be improved if we added the ability to be confidently wrong about a wide variety of topics" is hard to understand.

#PrivateEye #Satire #USPol #Venezuela New cover ...

Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA

Watching the unreal looking snow storm rolling in last night over Manchester from the pennies and over the Ethiad football stadium

The UK is woefully slow on the #digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115838147626103231 Really comprehensive. I hadn't even realised some of these were non-US. First task for me is probably to get off Gmail, and work out whether moving off MS Word is feasible given what I use it for

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A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1542232/a-decade-of-bbc-question-time-data-reveals-imbalance-in-journalist-guests A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate […]

Tesla is no longer the world's biggest electric vehicle maker, with fourth-quarter sales falling short of even the reduced target analysts set. Chinese rival BYD is now No. 1, selling 2.26M vehicles last year vs. Tesla's 1.64M. Here's more from @AssociatedPress. https://flip.it/SYwXO1 #cars […]

But that of course requires knowing the name in at least one language to be able to find a picture to show the old man in the tool shop. And so, knowing I wanted a specific type of fixings, I spent time trying to work out the English term. And finally I did. I goto the tool shop, I present the […]

Imagine being a member of the group opposing this. What are you scared of?! BBC News - New archbishop urged to scrap £100m fund over slavery links https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2e7w03067o

This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify: • Making fascists rich. • Displacing labor rights. • Fucking over the environment. • Enclosing culture […]

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹. All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories: I. Bad use case. II. Good use case, but not something AI can do. III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI. IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]

... i mean... 🐶 🐶 🐶 📷 :https://thunderdungeon.com/2024/10/31/greek-mythology-memes/ #greekmythology #Humor #meme #dog #cerberus #mythology #myths #greekmyths #Dogs #silly

How would you make the case for not calling an LLM "he" or "him" like it is a particular person without sounding like the Bene Gesserit? For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about? Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the […]

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!? Anyway, the 2025 results are in: Bounty x5 Galaxy x5 Galaxy Caramel x5 Maltesers x5 Mars x9 Milky Way x9 Snickers […] [Original post on mas.to]

Honestly sick of people telling me they "have to" stay on X "for the reach." "It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here. "The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too. Lots of other people have. You can too.

I know it's Substack but this article articulates *everything* https://open.substack.com/pub/youngvulgarian/p/arent-you-tired-of-feeling-insane And I wish @youngvulgarian.bsky.social would follow bridgy so I could follow her on here. Ironically even bluesky has become too stress inducing for me now.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115741101886219666 This article crystallises a lot of the thoughts I have had about the financial markets since I graduated during the crash. I distinctly remember, a few months before it became clear what was happening, going to an interview in Canary Wharf […]

RE: https://piaille.fr/@politipet/115736123931706759 The update so far: - Elon Musk is richer and more influential than ever - Millions are still using his platform as a disinformation tool - So far, we’ve been ignored by every politician we contacted - German civil society organizations have […]

Read this upsetting story at the BBC today about scam groups that are using terminally ill children to raise money then stiffing the parents of the funds. The story says the scam was tied to an org called Chance Letikva (chanceletikva.org) but stops short of figuring out who's responsible […]

Good news!🎉 The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports. Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus

Was that perfect from Kaz? No. Did I absolutely fucking love it because she seems like such a lovely person, she's so grounded, so genuinely supportive of the other contestants, and great representation for the non-femme women out there. #strictly

"Farage's savage attack on Emma Barnett and the BBC is a tawdry echo of the tactics his friend in the White House deploys against any reporter—particularly, but not only, female reporters—who dare to ask robust questions." https://bit.ly/4oJD3j1

The most exciting and pivotal moments in research are those times when the results do not meet your expectations. We live for those moments. If an LLM is not reliable enough for you to trust unexpected results then it is not reliable enough to tell you anything new: it’s incapable of telling […]

24 of the 27 European Commissioners are still posting on X Leaving ought to be a moral imperative, especially after what has happened in the past week A little overview on my blog: https://euroblog.jonworth.eu/musk-wants-to-abolish-the-eu-while-european-commissioners-keep-posting-on-x/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/115680088694071380 What they said.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/115677504091256933 #TIL the term "beaver bombing"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115673826414965291 I call for the abolishment of billionaires like Musk Forever.

Good points, well made https://youtu.be/W8Z3MfNpJpE

As a teacher I do not say the line "there are no stupid questions" in part because I try to avoid using the word "stupid" but also because it's a lie and everyone knows it. Some questions are better than others. But here is something I didn't understand until far too late in life: People ask […]

Spot on! @bjennings90.bsky.social

one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees

People (left leaning media figures) stop calling "grok" responding to something on X "fact checking" just because the LLM happened to be right one time *challenge* Difficulty? Impossible?? Even if it's funny. eg. "Elon go FACT CHECKED by his own bot" yes that's funny but no facts were checked […]

The whole "hey grok?" thing is so embarrassing. For everyone involved. And it teaches people to forget what real fact checking might involve. Don't give grok the keys.

Swedish Foreign Minister provides a clear message to Russia about the US 'peace proposal' between Ukraine and Russia: "To achieve a just and lasting peace, borders cannot be changed by force." Let's hope that the European Union and NATO react with equivalent […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Mildly entertained that the @OhGodWhatNowPod about #enshittification with @pluralistic that I'm listening to got injected with an AWS ad just as they were discussing Amazon

Oh cool. So Palantir has my medical history and OpenAI has all civil service's data.

OMG the stupid Tesla diner is doing really badly. Quelle surprise... https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/post/3m5ws5diqbc2b I still don't understand why "what if a restaurant had car chargers in the car park" is *SOOOO INNOVATIVE* ... Is that not, like […]

@pimlicat.bsky.social: "Multiple studies show that ramping up ever-harsher rhetoric on immigration and asylum never wins over Reform-curious voters. The government would be wiser to make the case for the international institutions and protections we all depend on.” https://bit.ly/49YBJVD

Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...

FWIW I read this as a not-very-coded warning to governments that they need to get their wallets out. They learned from the banks that as long as they got "too big to fail" they could knowingly inflate this bubble without personal consequences. #AI #Google #USpol #ukpol #TechNews […]

Mahmood understandably attracting flak for hypocrisy, I think it also demonstrates the toxic culture of the Home Office. Minister after Minister goes into that job and in short order becomes radicalised. They are clearly quickly infected by HO anti-immigrant groupthink. Dismantle the Home Office.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@robinince/115556063801096220 Welcome to the monkey cage...!

A rule a lot of people should follow “You’re not a political strategist, and you don’t need to tweet like one.” It’s okay to just have preferences and argue for them rather than to hallucinate a strategy where there isn’t one. (Particularly a strategy that is as clapped out as this one would be)

Everything gets easier if the UK is running a proper surplus sooner, and frankly if the forecasts did improve between major measures, that is a reason to go for the simple and easy tax rises that raise lot, not a reason to avoid doing so.

Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!

Fascinating/frustrating discussion at the beginning of this week's Strong Message Here where Armando Ianucci, Ria Lina and Sophy Ridge discuss leaving X, as Armando has just done (hooray!). Ria and Sophy *both* talk about follower counts. Neither of them seem at all bothered about giving a […]

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/115533522205096469 You can quote from the Mastodon app! No luck on Tusky yet but I'll keep checking.