Three NHS trusts still use fax machines.

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

Being in tech and seeing loads of people asking "how will we deal with the challenge of Mythos" feels like a sick joke crossed with a fever dream.

actually I think I've brought myself round on this one. I'm pro dog code. show us the dog

i would be asking for pictures of the dog at their little desk though so that'd still be infinitely better than AI

"bsky users blame every problem on vibe coding" yeah, dude. if you got a dog to code this website i wouldn't be wasting time asking which of you was the source of each new bug

This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety. You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

I do outright block ppl who don't know me who link me in long chains for fundraisers I have no means of verifying and I think most people should too. Fundraising for good causes is a decent enough thing to do, but cash fundraising without the networks of human trust to build it on isn't sustainable

Hans Zimmer is composing music for Harry Potter. No applause for him.

Dear lord thank you for autism and consequently a world full of audio engineers with sensory sensitivities capable of noticing and eliminating that nasty hum from the background of podcast recordings. Truly your strongest soldiers.

The luddites worked at home, with their families, where they had the freedom to set their own schedules, or in small shops with their peers. One of the main things luddites were fighting against was the *creation* of sweatshop conditions, which was only enabled by mass mechanization + factorization!

People making jokes that women can't throw as well as men, due to the trans ban in darts, and I'm here to tell you that is exactly what they believe and the reasons they believe it are as stupid as you'd expect

The hospital having a poster up about how they're investigating better pain control for my specific procedure and using the current option because they don't have the legally required storage for better pain control is sure a bit anxiety inducing jfc.

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

A reminder that as a matter of international law, per the Genocide Convention, the UK is obliged to act to prevent genocide.

funnily enough this with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social is relevant to where you talk about approximation Guest, O., Blokpoel, M., & van Rooij, I. (2026). What the func? Multiple Realizability need not be Vague. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... esp here bsky.app/profile/iris...

It strikes me that probably the foremost viable use case for AI/ML is, as we knew in the 60s, bounded to solving problems where: - the problem is inherently fuzzy, with imperfect information - the problem or solution space is too vast and needs iteration through far too many attempts for humans.

There's a lot of AI debate that amounts to "this thing is dumb and does a bad job contradicting with "no it's good and you're against progress for sentimental reasons to do with your fetish for what will be seen as the luxury of hand made thought"

The first woman excluded by chromosome testing later turned out to have mosaicism (1/2 of cells had XY 1/2 XX) and had to be apologised to decades on. The last had androgen insensitivity and couldn't develop male sex characteristics even if you injected her with enough T to kill an elephant.

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

My fatigue is the human experience that makes tireless labouring machines desirable. My fatigue gives me desire for the task of self maintenance to be reduced in difficulty so that I can have more of my limited capacity for thought allocated to personal and shared intellectual enrichment.

School made me read Sarte's Existentialism and Humanism at an influencible age and one position that has stuck with me for the last 20 years is humans as beings for themselves, who have to define their own purpose, as opposed to beings in themselves created with a purpose.

I joke but interacting with LLMs really fucks with my head and I hate every bit of the expectation that the one useful thing that people working with computers can do is plug loads of energy into talking to a chat bot about their job instead of doing their job.

half this industry is just people who discovered a chatbot six months ago explaining consciousness to you

The Toasters got me and all I got was this shitty robot god

Not as many brilliant April Fools paper on the ArXiv this year, but I think @ianbetteridge.com will appreciate this one: "Do Papers with Titles Ending in a Question Mark Usually Have the Answer “No”?" arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29936

New toaster grift - building AI tools powered tools that are extremely powerful if you understand exactly the correct parameters to make them run efficiently but in any other circumstance drive the toaster off a cliff trying to fix bugs it doesn't have the semantic depth to figure out

she's right. *pats belly* I can fit so many kitkats in this thing.

Remembering going to the swimming pool after playing roller derby with team Ragnarok (most of team Iceland) and mostly the only problem I had was I wouldn't get naked in the showers like ppl expect you to. It's a pretty chill place. There were lots of trans rights posters up around Reykjavik.

"A 10-year old who identifies as a transgender girl" This is supposed to be a 'left' publication. This is not an outlet that usually targets trans people. This is just how UK journalists talk about trans people now.

Palm Sunday gospel readings sure do spend a long time explaining how evil the Jews were eh. Like an uncomfortable amount in this day and age in a faith that tries to represent itself as reformed after the Holocaust

I keep bitching about AI, and I'm seeing instances more recently of relatively credible engineers using it very successfully, but I'm also seeing numerous instances of seeing people who don't understand where the limitations are mandate using it in ways which are technically stupid also.

Toasters getting better at coding because they've been agentified and under the hood when you ask for a new app, the toaster calls "cargo new --bin [yourproject]" to avoid hallucinating what a main[.]rs should look like is bad actually. I can call cargo new myself. I can generate boilerplate fine.

Heads up that the trailer for the new hbo Harry potter series cinematically evokes conversion therapy targeting trans girls from the very first moments (a woman viciously cutting Harry potters hair while reminding him that he's just a normal boy and nothing special while he winces in pain)

There’s an open letter you can sign here that will be sent to the Trade Unions Council to demand action. Please sign and share with your comrades if you’re a trade union member! www.tuff.network/sign-the-ope...

Are you tired of attending counter-demos miles away from the fash? Founding TUFF members were at Honor Oak, defended Trafalgar Square from the fash, and mobilised to defend migrant hotels, staying long after external orgs took their photos and left www.tuff.network/getinvolved

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Humanitarian systems are designed to protect the most vulnerable. But what happens when some people remain invisible within those systems? If you work in humanitarian, human rights, policy, or have lived experience, your voice can help shape what comes next: 👇 🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

LGB Alliance had open support from far right groups at their most recent Manchester demonstration, theyve had solid connections to the far right American heritage Foundation.

I have seen plenty of evidence that “gender-criticals” are also misogynistic, antisemitic, racist, homophobic, ableist, classist and fascistic. Transphobia is a gateway bigotry.

Save Bethnal Green gardens from being gentrified into Padel courts you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

This👇is how you stamp down on GC intolerance in the workplace, with proper company policies. Transphobes need to feel the consequences of their “I’m protected by law to express my beliefs” nonsense. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/16/a...

The Gender-Conservative movement cloaked itself in the language and thinnest veneer of feminism to legitimise transphobic politics. Now the institutions vilifying and marginalising trans people in the name of "protecting women" are shamelessly targeting reproductive autonomy as well (as expected.)

New @aabria.bsky.social actual play sci fi game just dropped worlds-beyond-number.simplecast.com/episodes/sol...

Anti-trans extremists, Baroness Falkner (former EHRC chair) and Baroness Davies, are now using the influence granted to them by the warmongering zealot Tony Blair and the bumbling Kemi Badenoch - to push policies that will strip cisgender women and girls of their bodily autonomy Utterly ghoulish

The pope being currently on a jag of saying "I don't know guys you can't serve wealth and Jesus. The death penalty is in conflict with pro life values. Nationalism is idolatry maybe stop putting migrants in concentration camps" Is making the "submit to Rome" bots look kinda funny tbh.

We've created hyperlexic machines that can make stupid assholes look like they're well read the way that stupid assholes used to bluff their way through dinner parties but even more extensively. This allows them to weave mazes of symbolism for people to pore over while they grab your wallet.

Whatever this is requires new methods (which is also why I think his ”techno-optimist manifesto” was LLM-generated) bsky.app/profile/more...