Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Here is our story on the huge OpenAI maths result www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

During his golden 1971-1977 period, Stevie recorded a string of truly outstanding LPs. Musically, Innervisions is stunningly good but what's truly impressive here is the breadth of topics covered on the record. Higher Ground. Visions. Livin' 4 the City. All in Love Is Fair. I'd say a flawless album.

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

During the French Revolution, speech could be a matter of life and death. To carry ideas clearly to the masses, inventors created strange devices: giant trumpets, public drums, parabolic screens, and, eventually, the Chappe brothers’ optical telegraph:

New double album from London's finest jazz quartet [Ahmed], turning their attention from Ahmed Abdul-Malik to Thelonius Monk through a lattice of dub, free improv and devotional forms. Breathtaking, obviously. boomkat.com/products/pla...

Topology is the bedrock of modern math. But it doesn’t gel with algebra. A pair of mathematicians have proposed a new framework that eases topology’s limitations. Their work rewrites our understanding of how numbers behave. www.quantamagazine.org/two-research...

This is so full of mind-expanding thoughts. e.g. "For me, Gödel’s theorems do not show that mathematics is limited, but rather that mathematics is much wider and more powerful than Hilbert’s finitistic view." www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-gode...

Everything Must Go 2026 This brings together the four elements of the quadrant print into one definite work. I prefer the quartered version, but this is more recognisable. If you know, you know.

My review of Hope with the best line I ever wrote www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

‘Pushball had been devised in the 1890s by a Massachusetts inventor named Moses G. Crane. He was dissatisfied with American football in part because he found it hard to follow the progress of a tiny brown ball across an often-brown field. “If the ball were only made large”, he thought…’

The Human Condition (La condition humaine) was created in 1935. Artist: René Magritte, a Belgian surrealist painter.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

The growth curve of space debris leveled off for a while. Now it's on a steep upward trajectory: There are 33,269 tracked objects, and counting. It's still a manageable problem. But we need to manage it. 🧪 www.accu.co.uk/p/525-the-sp...

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone

‘Voisin doesn’t fret or frown; his almost handsome face has no expression. He enjoys the world sometimes, hates it mostly, but none of this is to be seen. Well, we see that we don’t see it. This is a movie.’ Michael Wood watches François Ozon’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One of the many album covers designed by Josef Albers for Command Records. Terry Snyder - Persuasive Percussion (1959) youtu.be/mBK2nuAKzlA?...

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

How every film should start:

The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is swiftly unravelling following an election last month ​that abruptly ended his rule... Senior figures at some of the most prominent pro-Orban ‌outlets have been pushed out. www.reuters.com/business/med...

I've been listening to The Necks a bunch lately because they have the kind of patience / allergy to efficiency / willingness to delay gratification that I (in particular) and we (as a society) need much more of. This album is 3 hours long! Hoorah!

‘The biggest factor in the new contest over the Arctic is climate change. In the 127 years since the 𝘠𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘬’s first journey, ice cover in the Baltic has contracted dramatically – in some estimates by almost 50 per cent.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on who owns the Arctic www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Is our attention span shrinking? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Extraordinary male Mandarin Duck, the lighter one is the female is soft colours brown-grey with white and hint of blue at wing. They live in Eurasia. Life span is 3-6 years in the wild, and 10-20 in protected areas.

A fascinating account of the fluidity between classical music, pop & the avant-garde with a side order of post-war history. A detailed guide but @elizabethalker.bsky.social wears her knowledge lightly.

Sound Signatures :: Crafting your electronic music identity — by Nick Feldman (Routledge) igloomag.com/reviews/soun...

Hello, How are you finding Allotment Tapes so far? Do you have a favourite? I’d love to hear your feedback. 😀 Been a busy old year. Have just been putting the finishing touches to tape 6 and 5 goes out for pre release this weeks.. benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/album/allotm...

Foote/Dickow High Cube re-press just landed on this one from Peak Oil boss Brian Foote and Paul Dickow aka Strategy - big tip if yr into Move D/Studio Pankow x Lifted boomkat.com/products/hig...

Your Art, Unlocked is a new podcast from Art UK 📣 In the first episode Ruth Millington explores this soft sculpture at Wolverhampton Art Gallery 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... Listen and follow each week wherever you get your podcasts. © the artist. 📷 Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage

"I had to kickstart my engine again." How David Bowie relaunched his career, and confused the world, with Tin Machine. "He needed to do something which was such a departure it would destroy everything that went before"

Boards of Canada unveil the video for “Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz” from the forthcoming album Inferno (Warp) igloomag.com/newswire/boa...

George Mayerle's "international eye chart" (negative) ca. 1907. Invented by an immigrant living in 20th-century San Fran, the chart was intended to allow anyone to do an eye test regardless of nationality. Buy a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/george-mayerle

"Since written language only emerged about 5,000 years ago — recent in evolutionary terms — our brains haven’t had time to evolve dedicated reading circuits. Instead, we’ve repurposed the neural networks that once kept our ancestors alive in the wild."

Watched Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die last night. It's fun and Sam Rockwell is a laugh. It's got 1980s vibes, with the action and humour and weirdness. Bounces around from the sublime to the ridiculous, and some bits don't work as well as others, but enjoyable overall. #Filmsky #Moviesky #scifi 📽️

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now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Kane Parsons' BACKROOMS is the most deliciously unsettling film I've seen in a theater since WEAPONS. It's creepy as hell, accessible to people who've never heard of 4chan, creepypasta, or Parsons' viral YouTube videos, and full of images that are going to haunt me for a long time. Strong recommend.

Kane Parsons makes a speech at the world premiere of the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie. “The process of going from a decentralized open-source creative project online… it's been strange, exciting and extremely fun!”

Fish Doorbell season isn't quite over--the project runs through later this month. Let us know if you're able to help anyone through the lock!

I had such a great time digging into “Muskism” with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com. It really gives us a lot to ponder about the system we’re living in and how central Elon Musk has been to helping define it for his own benefit. Highly recommend grabbing a copy of the book!

‘Morbidity in modernist art is a necessary condition, and very often horribly lively. Modernism is an art of endings – of art’s ending – and it goes on elaborating its death rattle. De Kooning certainly did.’ T.J. Clark on Willem de Kooning in Cuba. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The 19 maps in Edward Quin's Historical Atlas (1830) show the limits of the "known world" at certain points in history (and from the very specific perspective of the Judeo-Christian West) via swathes of globe glimpsed through a mass of black cloud: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...