"We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy..." www.space.com/space-explor...

An autistic billionaire’s neurotype is not the reason he’s an absolute piece of shit, it has been revealed.

Good stuff from Olga Ravn granta.com/the-high-pri...

They made a film of The Backrooms? My 14-yr-old already beat them to it - when he was 13 youtu.be/XHN1kD0HHrQ

When I messaged friends about there being no twitter in Russia they replied 'welcome to the free world'

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

People say a lot stupid stuff about everything don’t they?

You have to understand, foldable laptops and touchscreens and projection-based desktops weren't selling, wearables sputtered, VR/AR is aight, but not close to being where anyone wants. Tech is painted in a corner and GenAi was all they had. It's dying and desperate. Quantum save us?

I am once again proposing this. If it works well, we can lower the threshold to $500 million.

The UK Labour debates are basically "your strategy for tricking the people hasn't worked! Let's try my way of tricking the people!" Politics is so lost in spin few actually have belief-systems anymore (Even as I type I know someone is thinking: "Hey! Having a 'belief system' could be MY strategy!")

Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

As I have said for a very long time, AI usually means Arseholes Involved. I won’t name and shame, but have discovered an author I previously respected bragging about ‘mastering AI’ for research and plot-bridging. Chump, research is one of the joys of writing and those bridges will fecking fall down.

Trapdoor Abducted by clowns Strapped to a rocket John Wick

Get this man some coffee and cake RIGHT NOW. #lufc

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Appointments coming thick and fast as the Number 10 reset continues

AI is that friend, you know, the one whose ‘ears are painted on’ (as we say in Scotland) and cannot ever admit to not knowing everything about any subject. And like that friend, it is exhausting being in their company

Among so many other issues here… telling an LLM (or anyone) to act *as if* they were really smart doesn’t actually *make them smart*

And the “they need to get used to being uncomfortable” argument is so often put forward by the same folk who complain loudly about being made to feel “uncomfortable” by the presence (or even just the visibility) of people from different cultures, or with different lifestyles, or with disabilities…

Yes, yes, AI writes terrible prose - but in fairness so do a whole load of incredibly successful authors

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

Much later he will say he knew nothing about it.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Researchers May Have Found the Antidote to Social Media Brain Rot: Experimental Film

This is going to keep me up

A short story I put out into the world a while back just keeps on going and going, cropping up in the strangest of places and living its best life…

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IF FAMOUS PEOPLE LIKED IT IT MUST BE GOOD

Yeah, you *look* like someone who would have a podcast

One part of this maneuver is the subjective/objective switcheroo: going from recognizing your own inner life (I feel sad) to pretending to have a handle on everyone's life (we are doomed). From vulnerability to authority, on a journey that's also from insight to bullshit.

Still great. You should read this.

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

This is great!

We should all be as relaxed as the bloke who always takes a break from walking his dog on a Sunday morning to smoke a fag next to the petrol pumps at the Texaco garage on Seven Sisters Road

How can we get people to watch ads in their sleep? We currently waste a third of our lives not consuming ads. That’s 8 hours of lost opportunities EVERY DAY. But what if people could watch ads *in their dreams*? And maybe buy the products they’d seen *without even waking up*? Subscribe for more

As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.

You too will be this old and broken one day. With a bit of luck.

More superb reporting in London Centric on the Aziz family, this time evicting hundreds of tenants from residential properties, which comes on top of dodgy tax evading gift shops, trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema etc – absolutely depressing that politicians can't do anything about this lot.

Heartening to see members of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family still managing to get work in these straitened times.

Every word of this by @hayleythough.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...

What the fuck does “failed to load blob” mean?

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Classic ginnel

Yes! An utterly amazing piece of work that I’ve been going back to every few years since I was a teenager (and think about a lot more often than that). One of my absolute favourite books. If you haven’t read it READ IT.

“Models”. That’s me done for then.