To mark International Women's Day, meet Lt Cmdr. Madeleine Barclay. First Officer on HMS Fidelity. To my knowledge, the first woman to officially serve as First Officer on a Royal Navy vessel deployed on combat duty. Achieving this involved a three-way war between Navy, SOE and the WRNS /1 🧵 #IWD

This seems entirely fine on all sides. Would be hilariawful if this is what triggers the AI bubble collapse

Icarus at 300ft

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

I am sorry for starting discourse. I was grumpy.

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

All those conferences I have participated in with top officials with very concerned faces going on and on about soft power and countering Chinese influence, Russian disinformation, it is all terrible, etc… Guys. Fund. The. BBC.

Britishness. @jeevunsandher.bsky.social x

I've seen many of these quotes before, but I do find this stuff genuinely inspirational

Ooh. It's low draw distances outside this morning.

Macbeth: SHIT

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Happy anniversary to all historians who observe.

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 greatest joy in my life as an academic is being asked this type of question

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Top 8 stories on Guardian are on the Epstein files, and Trump is not mentioned on the front page once (though is in pic). This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.

this looks like the headshot you would use if you were trying to do this as an Onion bit

Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.

This was the first post when I opened BlueSky. Well played.

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

About 3 years ago a friend told me that she, and a number of other early-career academics, were invited by HR to a session on "finding academic work/life balance" Started with a senior male academic standing up and "joking": "my first advice to you all is to get a wife!" it did not go down well.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

say what you like about Saruman but at least he was a YIMBY

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

This skeet feels like a good summary of [gestures vaguely…]

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

I just thought everyone should see this

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

hey guys i have this really cool idea for an exploit you know the social contract what if i broke it all those other suckers would still keep following it, right? like absolutely no matter what? even if there was nothing in it for them anymore? can't believe no one's tried this before

Guess I should clarify that all the stock indices are down and all the metals you'd want in the apocalypse are up.

I'm just gonna sit for a moment with "we can just phone call people in space on the ISS, and some guy uses it because he doesn't know where stuff is in his own house."

@annettedittert.bsky.social That video you just shared seems to be unmarked AI slop. Hopefully not something you endorse bsky.app/profile/snel...

not legal advice but if you're going to hack the Supreme Court e-filing system, maybe don't post about it on an Instagram called @ihackedthegovernment bsky.app/profile/anna...

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Perfection.

ㅤ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Dragonfly larva fossil — Brazil ㅤ

Damn. Saw the video before seeing the warnings not to click on the video. So, like, don't click on the video.

I have big plans for spinny CRT

Unrelated to the content of the (very good) thread, but "…just to clarify, I am 100% correct." is a kinda awe inspiring level of confidence

A) Papercut (My worst scar. From a papercut.) B) Jumped into a ceiling

A message for you all to carry through the year