legitimately amazing

Norsk RiksRagebait.

“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.

Are you passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like? Come do a PhD with us. Closing Date: 10 February 2026 Apply here aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

Sorry, doing research with humans is hard! There isn't going to be a magical technology that makes it easier. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I recently published about the risks of AI Surrogates, and why they are so appealing... See thread on the paper: bsky.app/profile/lmes...

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

The cliche that ‘having an idea’ is the hard part of writing is persistent and pernicious. Realising the idea is the craft of it. That FAQ of…

I’m not a technopessimist but I am very much a tech bro pessimist

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

I have a feeling this will be the most controversial FIFA Peace Prize since 1938 when they awarded it to Adolf Hitler

Calling it now: the weird American tradcaths are going to schism and unite behind a cyberpope powered by Grok

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Presis språkbruk i det minste.

I just opened a proton mail account. Not looking forward to migrating all my personal contacts and subscriptions from the gmail I have used for the last 25 years. But it’s got to be done

It's already so weird that the people obsessed with creating all-purpose AI to be their personal slave are also obsessed with said personal slave being conscious of its enslavement. But explicitly arguing that it'll be conscious but that shouldn't affect how you treat it is actually evil.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Ref. Adams and in what ways New York is the Albania of America. Does NY have a pregnant AI-generated minister yet?

at #mosaicIP and @staceylantagne.bsky.social just said “if we didn’t already have libraries, we could never get them” & everyone in the room went "yeahhhhh" in sad quiet voices

Jeg lanserer bok og synes dere burde komme! FORFØRT - den ufiltrerte historien om hvordan influenserne fikk verden til å klikke lanseres på Folk i Oslo tirsdag 28. oktober. Kom kom og ta med en venn! facebook.com/events/s/bok...

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

The Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum on 6 November will bring together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically. Find out more and register: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

This just activated every research librarian everywhere. Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times! Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word." Reader, the word was CD-ROM.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Look who came with

but yes conservatives who want to spend ten years in grad school to teach a 5:5 load for $45K a year and yes you do have to pay for parking should have the same opportunities as liberals to do so, and largely do.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Watching a Waymo stuck in the middle of a block party, creating a surreal traffic jam because it can’t figure out how to briefly cross the yellow line to get past the crowd. Now the cops are here. They don’t understand the problem and are yelling at everyone but the car. The future is so stupid

Sånn, da er det bare å pakke sammen.

Dette. Gjør helt ærlig at det føles mer meningsfullt å gå på jobb.

Hilfspolizei

hey fellas is it problematic to be born somewhere

Wrote up my main takeaway from the GPT5 debacle. I don't think this punctures the AI bubble. But it seems like the end of naive-AI-futurism. We may start judging these tools on what they actually do, not on Sam Altman's dreams and ambitions. That's a huge change. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

DHKO-konferansen på INN i oktober tar fremdeles i mot forslag til papers (fram til 21. aug). Kom og snakk digital humaniora og kunnskapsorganisasjon med oss! www.inn.no/om-universit...

There is soon going to be an historical primary-source black hole for the past thirty years of human existence... if it doesn't exist already, of course.

Combatting AI 'wokeness' has become official federal policy. What does this mean for AI companies? Perhaps spinning out 'woke' versions of chatbots to land lucrative federal contracts. "The AI industry is deeply concerned about this situation." www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

I would advise: click the link rather than watching the video. Names are meant to be read.

Norsk Folkehjelp har støttet palestinske bønder på Vestbredden med å etablere frøbanken, som har vært avgjørende for å styrke småbønder over hele Vestbredden. Dette er et direkte angrep på palestinsk matsuverenitet, biologisk mangfold og retten til å dyrke egen jord.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/

A dangerous sign of where we’re at now with the spread of ideologically biased AIs: Gab announced a new version 2.0 of its AI chatbot “Arya” that also acts as a reply bot on X. It’s getting use. And is avowedly Christian, pro-American, and un-PC.

Is this cancel culture?

Even my tiny very poor uni is finally switching from Canvas to something that (hopefully) works in the coming year

Tusen! Tusen mennesker. TUSEN MENNESKER! Tusen mennesker som har blitt systematisk utsultet. Så fortalt at de endelig kan få litt mat. Og så skutt i matkøen. Det er et folkemord. Vi må gjøre mer for å få slutt på det. Trekk ut oljefondet NÅ!

A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

Excited for next year when I get to read a law professor’s op-ed about how the court’s 6-3 decision allowing Trump to vacate Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship is in fact consistent with existing article 2 jurisprudence.