👀 In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

Could it be that S Korean military are braver than 🇺🇸 military?

Tediously often Wales is treated as some sort of odd cousin of little import while specifically English stuff is presented as "The News" in many big media contexts, and the upshot of that attitude laid bare here, as something of grave seriousness to all of Britain is sidelined/ignored

No, no, no. It is not the BBC’s job to ask these questions www.bbc.com/news/article...

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

RIP Tony Harrison. Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain. Highly relevant today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...

Now do it up Everest, coward!

I don't have an issue with identity cards as a category. Some of my concerns about this particular announcement here www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

Tony Harrison RIP I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades. Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

This great

My soul requires higher moral integrity than Labour’s offer

Might as well put this up again as Duolingo is in the news.

Feed: "Quanta Magazine" By: Hannah Waters, Samir Patel, Natalie Wolchover, Jordana Cepelewicz, Yasemin Saplakoglu, Joseph Howlett, Mark Belan, Zack Savitsky, Peter Brannen, Katherine Bourzac, Gregory Barber, Robin George Andrews and Gaia Vince on Monday, September 15, 2025

Concerning reminder: nuclear power is not safe in a war zone. Which means it is not safe anywhere. #NoNewNuclear www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is a great piece, but am struck yet again that a government is so widely perceived to have no vision or economic strategy when it’s committed to the fastest planned transformation of an economy in history to deliver net zero and avert climate catastrophe. www.thetimes.com/article/7177...

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🏺 Rachel and Anne have tirelessly (and often thanklessly and entirely without financial support) produced yet more vital work on the state of professional experience for #trowelblazers

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Finally a way to end the scourge of pothole reporting fraud

Starmer’s “progressive fight back” is not what I’d hoped…

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Rosie has been on a Lee Anderson journey!

More on #NomadCentury …. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLl...

An essay puts forward humanity as an extraordinary new kind of evolution: Earth’s first species capable of deliberately manipulating the biosphere, suggesting new obligations to our evolved species. By Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/how-humanity...

Ah this is a sad loss

Hii! Last week Quanta published a project I've been working on all year — a special issue about climate science, or what research into climate change is revealing about how our planet works www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Who has a big enough oven for swan?

I saw more gecko diversity in Madagascar than anywhere else, and it’s utterly tragic how little of their habitat remains intact. So many precious endemic species at critical risk there

Other democracies versus the US

Very poorly child, impossible to get a gp appointment… But, took him to pharmacist and got antibiotics!! Hallelujah a great system!

Isn’t it illegal to record calls without gaining permission?

🌊 World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

NEW: At his lecture series, Peter Thiel is suggesting anyone who opposes unchecked advancement of technologies such as AI is the Antichrist, or is perhaps under the Antichrist's spell. www.inc.com/sam-blum/pet...

This is nice!

History was made in Germany yesterday when for the first time, a member of the Bundestag, Hanna Steinmüller, carried her baby while addressing parliament from the lectern.

Good news given the cancellation of USAID

Fantastic news!

Remember @andrewmale.bsky.social explaining the star system they used at Mojo. * Awful for everyone ** Disappointing for fans *** Fans will like it **** Non fans will like this one ***** Career-best work, remarkable Most things will therefore get three stars in a sane world.

Trump just admitted what we all knew and what his supporters have been denying: that it was him and the FCC who pressured ABC to cancel Kimmel

Look real hard at the folks pushing the “AI is inevitable” narrative. Either they’re generally unsmart or they’ve financially invested in it. *coughreesewitherspooncough*

Oh no, I really need this to be brilliant, given… everything else

Bring it on

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.