So, with the US now a pirate state, perhaps the Gulf of Mexico could be renamed The Pirate Bay?

"[...] svenska myndigheter och folkvalda politiker borde lämna X, eftersom att han [Carl Heath] anser att miljön på plattformen inte är gynnsam vare sig för svenska intressen, svensk demokrati eller opinionsbildning." www.svd.se/a/16kjgG/elo...

“We are at war with Europe, not with Ukraine. This war will not end until we defeat Europe.” If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia. They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.

"Att tala om Palantir som vilken it-tjänst som helst för polisen att upphandla på eget initiativ är antingen mer än lovligt naivt – eller medvetet vilseledande." www.dn.se/ledare/gina-...

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

#ukraine #russia #zelensky #trump #putin

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"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."

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Here is a formal impossibility result for XAI: Informative Post-Hoc Explanations Only Exist for Simple Functions. I'll give an online presentation about this work next tuesday in @timvanerven.nl 's Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar: arxiv.org/abs/2508.11441 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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In actuality, the hype was always unglued from reality. *pop* www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Wait!, one can turn off autocorrect!?! 🤯 www.macworld.com/article/2952...

"INTENSE IRRITATION!", is why Emma Thompson is my new spirit animal. Also, a PSA: There are open and free alternatives to the abysmal horsesh*t AI slop workshop that has become of Word and its siblings.

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

Idag skriver jag om klassåterträffar, Ulf Kristerssons och hans frus fest på Sagerska palatset, om hur klägg fungerar och varför inget görs åt vår trasiga skola när alla bara råkar känna varandra. Det är en text ni väldigt gärna får läsa! www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

Ingen borde vara förvånad... förutom framåtlutade skolutvecklare, då. "Påhittade citat, felaktiga sammanfattningar och länkar till källor som inte existerar. När AI-tjänster sammanfattar nyheter är bristerna stora, visar en ny internationell studie..." omoss.svt.se/arkiv/blogga...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Jag undrar hur mycket av svenskarnas pensioner som är uppbundna i "AI"-företag? Hur mycket förlorar du när "AI"-bubblan spricker? www.dagensps.se/bors-finans/...

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

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Interesting work on science discussions on Bluesky vs. X. Bluesky post about science receives up to an order of magnitude (!) more interactions here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jag skrev om SVT:s illa tänkta och illa genomförda intervju med Rysslands ambassadör. (Ingen betalvägg.)

#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts. Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork

Viktig inlaga av @erikangner.com i Svensk filosofi i debatten om universitetens frihet. För den som tycker att en fri akademi är värd att bevara är tiden att reagera på detta övertramp nu, inte "sen", för då tillåts denna förflyttning i auktoritär riktning.

Veckans www.gp.se/kultur/kultu...

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

🔴 Russian propagandists put out a video showing Russian troops driving with both Russian and U.S. flags.

EurIPS includes a call for both Workshops and Affinity Workshops! We look forward to making #EurIPS a diverse and inclusive event with you. The submission deadlines are August 22nd, AoE. More information at: eurips.cc/call-for-wor... eurips.cc/call-for-aff...

A good summary expressing something similar to how I feel about the current hype around "AI". It just wish the hype would be over, that the grifters would turn their attention somewhere else, and that we all could move on to do purposeful "AI" again.

Otroligt viktiga poänger som inte verkar ha gått hem i Europa, och än mindre så i USA: www.expressen.se/debatt/debat...

EdTech consultant: "it will save you so much time." Meanwhile educators are told to design at-home assignments encouraging AI use and class time to discuss how the chatbot failed. This is the new model of education, the point of which IS to make it a big waste of time.

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...

Regardless of whether you plan to use them in applications, everyone should learn about Gaussian processes, and Bayesian methods. They provide a foundation for reasoning about model construction and all sorts of deep learning behaviour that would otherwise appear mysterious.

As things stand, Ukraine and Europe are on the verge of being confronted with exactly the kind of Faustian deal they feared would emerge back in February. The fact that Europe hasn’t moved to block such a deal in the past six months is a failure of leadership and diplomacy. /1

Dear EU-Europeans, keep in mind that Trump and Putin would also negotiate like this over your country’s territory and security. Trump doesn’t care about us and Putin thinks we are weak (and he’s right) and thus easy targets.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Det talades så mycket om taget föräldraansvar efter att Johan Forssells son visat sig vara organiserad nynazist. Hur går det ihop med att 4 av 6 inlägg ministern gjort på Instagram sedan dess handlar om att racka ned på invandrare? Inte alls. Läs gärna! www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified. UK: “lol, no”

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

This! I’ve been wondering how all this ”AI” in all software nowadays is going to eventually be payed for, and this is it. It will be increasingly difficult to opt out, and higher prices because of the ”fancy new AI features”. Expect more of this.

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…