I’ve had a few exciting days thinking about this and rain.ngo but I’m afraid keeping up-to-date on the new John Wick game will require all my attention in the near future.

From 2021 in the bad place. A tweet I was quite proud of #PhilSky

I saw a description of this show, “Eleventh hour,” saying Patrick Stewart’s character investigates “science crimes,” and I thought, “cool! Like p-hacking and gift authorship? 😏” And then his first scene is literally detecting image duplication à la @elisabethbik.bsky.social.

So, what is this? All of the US shares cereals from one gigantic bowl for a day? Is today their one day to eat from bowls? Is this something invented by Big Bowl to make more money?

Sunset at Sent Charlez. Eragny https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16467

I just learned of Ian Madrigal’s marvellous work www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscom...

I sometimes wonder if I’m missing out on something, so I try an LLM-based tool only to remember just how little they help. Today, it was for building a very basic website.

I seem to have written it in the most statistically optimal way (The suggestion is in response to what I'd already written)

AI is being grounded open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

Spent some time looking at the list of the UN's Scientific Panel on AI. There are 40 members from 37 countries: China, Germany and the US get 2 each. But when you look at where they are actually based, the US goes up to 9 and Germany down to 1, whilst the UK jumps to 4, and Canada and Austria to 2.

"Students must learn to critically evaluate AI output" Have you seen common arguments for AI usage in schools? We collected some of the ones we see most often, and counter-points to them. Did we miss any? www.aicaution.ca/common-argum...

AI is being grounded open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

"Doctors will be told how to limit engagement with the NHS Federated Data Platform because of its links with the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the British Medical Association says." doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Thinking about how utterances crystallise a thought forevermore in a way that LLM outputs don’t.

Anthropic: Broadly Safe, Broadly Ethical, Mostly Wrong

Well, Lisa and I are so delighted enough to share that The Philosopher Queens is now being published with Hackett, with FIVE NEW CHAPTERS. The book will out in 2027 with new illustrations, a new introduction, and a new foreword as well.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“The government's plans to offer AI skills training to the public depends almost entirely on US big tech companies - how is this meant to help in supporting homegrown AI firms and enhancing sovereignty?” Read @taniaduarte.bsky.social et al.’s latest. www.computerweekly.com/opinion/The-...

Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures... I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.

Okay but this is not surprising to anybody who knows about the Nietzche-Marx-Deleuze-Guattari-Rees-Mogg-Land-Yarvin-Thiel axis of intellectual degradation.

Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures... I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.

2026 will see FIFA’s inaugural Oscar Prize go to Melania

If I sue my own company, and agree on a settlement with myself out of court, is that tax-free money? Asking for a friend.

Big Tech claiming their chatbots operate at a PhD level, and their fixation with entering the education sector seem like evidence of an anti-science movement, where “science” involves rigorous research and analysis in any field.

Good take on the "Moltbook" story from @benjedwards.com arstechnica.com/information-... Another good take I saw on the other site: "more of a fanfic for AGI than actual AGI". This could describe a whole lot of AI misalignment red-teaming....

Nova Scotia be like “translate it to French yourself because we sure don’t know” (Source: www.legalinfo.org/index.php?op...)

If it works, it will next look for an affordable 3-bedroom duplex in Vancouver.

@dairinstitute.bsky.social oh... you have zines! ❤️ I'm seriously falling in community-love for you people zines.dair-institute.org

His apparent take away from the 3rd batch of interviews is that all of the power sits with the AI company CEOs, so he talks to them. Variety notes that the PR teams OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind were impressed, which in turn speaks volumes about the lack of credibility of this film. >>

Major Alex Louis Armstrong wears ✨ better than any AI product

And this is the benchmark for you to get a UK government-issued "Foundations AI Skills Boost" badge... www.gov.uk/government/p... ✅ Did a prompt ✅ Did another prompt ✅ Checked the output 🚀 Ready for the AI-powered workforce of tomorrow, today!

Here are the 14 courses UK government announced today (28/1) are good enough to get a badge from Skills England, which is very different from them being of any use to a well-informed public (only linking to them because you don't need an "AI Skills Hub" account to access them, which is very unclear:

Much of what Carney said is obvious to the more learn’d (and maybe the more disenchanted) of the political left but I am unsure the speech from a Prime Minister on an international stage does much for the cause of that same collective.

In what many are calling the most CV efficient strategy ever, I have my 2026 paper out already (relax for the rest of the year comrades!) and it's actually a bit of a joke one. Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and abstract attached. But I'll just tell the story of how it came to be....

Now on YouTube! See Matthew J. Brown’s lunchtime talk, “What is Pragmatist About the New ‘Pragmatist’ Philosophy of Science?” Link to Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_KQ... Link to Center for Dewey Studies YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@DeweyCenter

It’s so important to understand that big tech today is anti-science.

“The fact that W comes before X in the alphabet is certainly also a welcome coincidence,” Zeiter said, vivaciously.

The institute continues in its efforts “Supporting community-based resistance, Building critical AI literacy, Maintaining documentation.”

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture Why 2026 marks the end of “business as usual” for AI ethics open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

From the archive: "Adorno on Ideology: “Minima Moralia,” §71" #Philosophy #Philsky

Just discovered this old gem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzd... *I do not condone spider-on-spider violence.

Technologists opining on AI: sophists Political commentators: sophists (Many) think tank researchers: sophists

This book has almost as many deeply satisfying passages as confusing ones. Here’s one of the good ones from the conclusion that I especially enjoyed. www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics

MLCommons but it’s a benchmark for the creepiness of AI applications

Is everyone slowly getting off the AI bandwagon and joining the quantum one yet?

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles. That is after all a very proper attitude to take." William Bragg, 1921, Electrons and Ether Waves catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00655...

In addition to sending data centres to space to cool them ad infinitum, I would like to propose putting solar panels directly on the sun

Necrotechnologies

I like em dashes and am upset that LLM enthusiasts have taken them away from us, lest someone think the text is AI-generated

It sucks when a decent, nuanced article gets a title slapped on it that completely obliterates its content. Anyway, check this out!