"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If the bar for harassment is so high that glinner can't get over it it must have been launched into orbit

i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting

how it feels to run this account

I hate AI as much as the next sceptic, but I think we need to acknowledge that the Google AI overview (and crucially the accompanying links) and the only half-functional part of Google search results at the moment.

Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy. Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference. Or both.

Noah Smith continues to be on The Trajectory™

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don't know if Streeting is just a cynical opportunist, or if he's genuinely been radicalised into the TERF cult. I also don't really care: the end result is the same. This is really shitty behaviour.

All the signs are in the same font, same spacing and on the same cardboard type. Totes a grassroots protest drawing on actual local concerns there then.

I lost 11 seconds over 100m freestyle in the first year, the gender gap is 5 seconds, & I am 🌍 champion. Our haemoglobin levels reduce to F norms in 3 months meaning we have less delivery of oxygen to our working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites & muscle fatigue,

But who cares about facts if a TERF might get upset because they saw a trans woman? #IOC /s

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

“…that's a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.” But whoever this is in the Royal Canadian Air Force is not being paid enough. 👏👏👏🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

This is a fascinating bit of chart pr0n 🧵

It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n

Judith Butler in 2021

Next time some right winger moans about being "cancelled" in their national newspaper column, remember this

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

em dashes have no valid use in British English, so this is a better test on the east of the Atlantic

This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".

Paul Brown's succinct summary of the past 30 years of climate diplomacy. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Fucking hell, indeed. The world would be a better place if more people would admit how insane everything has got. In the meantime, read this essay and see how much it resonates.

I don't have the French edition to hand to compare, but from the nature of the joke I'm fairly sure this is another example of the genius of Anthea Bell www.theguardian.com/books/2018/o...

When I first read Asterix in French (early high school) I thought I just wasn't good enough at cultural references to get the weird jokes - it was only much later that I realised the weirdness was made up by Bell, with the originals being a fun but basically standard kids comic

I have two questions, the second of which is also "what the fuck?"

The "Gender Critical" to far right pipeline is real

Again -- DHS doing a well-worn template. Cf. this 1938 postage stamp from the German Reich with its simple, straightforward message ("The housing shortage is the Jews' fault")

I thought it was obvious. Not for everyone, I guess. #UkrainianView

This is a good letter.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers

Reminder transphobia affects more than just trans people

Predator: yah I went to Earth and it was *so* authentic, our guide provided us with traditional weaponry and everything. facing humans armed with nothing but a shoulder cannon and a wristblade was a really spiritual experience.

"Remember this: try. "

is there literally anything an elite journalist can do to get blackballed other than MeToo a powerful colleague

Question: the former political editor of the Times thinks that the BBC is pro-trans. 70% of trans people not only disagree, but think it's hostile to trans people. Who to believe? 🤔

New Video Out on Nebula now nebula.tv/videos/miamu...

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

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If you want to see how badly Maitlis behaved, read this 🧵. She effectively manufactured a story to harm trans kids from nothing, then used her influence to mainstream it.

I presume an impact assessment would basically say "we know it's going to be harmful, that's the point." It's not that they haven't considered it it's that they already know and don't care. They probably don't care about FOIs either: GC have dominated the public narrative.

a “Space Force”, if you will

"The “liberal media bias” claim was never about accuracy. It was about working the refs. And it worked. Traditional outlets moved right, hired conservatives, softened coverage, and paid settlements — all to prove they weren’t biased." BBC take note.

This is as stupid as the Tories kneecapping solar. That subsidy is needed while we build the industry, we're not there yet but this will lead to job losses - even if you don't care about decarbonising home heat. Sincerely hope this doesn't happen.

How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?