Brilliant, essential thread from @doublepulsar.com on hype around AI cyber threats. My summary: 1. Google release a really honest paper saying some malware has used AI to morph into new capabilities but.. 2. …goes on to point out that the capabilities are crap 3. Industry hype ignores part 2

One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests. It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts. It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw. That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵

I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Outlining doors? High contrast? Labeling everything? Familiar motifs? Folks, the White House is a memory care wing. bsky.app/profile/call...

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

Yep, a lot of what ails car industry in Europe nowadays is entirely self-inflicted

Yeah, but BBC, Donald Trump....

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

This has been said before but it's quite something the degree to which polling and punditry in the NJ governors race was wrong. Polling is hard, punditry is intentional / a choice. Counting not finished but so far 13.6 winning margin for Mikie Sherrill 14.6 winning margin for Spanberger

And then if you make it unharmed, it's the breastfeeding at all costs

“The past year’s Gen Z protests are worth analyzing together for what they have in common, as these movements are influenced by one another and were all initiated by youth adept at using technology to organize,” writes Will Mortenson.

Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

Latino voters (of all generations) are a big enough contingent and possibly the last remaining group of swing voters. Hard to poll so they’ll continue to offer surprises

He’s just much more adept at the present moment. Not as good as Mamdani but of the Mamdani political generation.

2025 DAS guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult airway published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. #airway #difficultairway #intubation #anaesthesia #anesthesia https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00693-2/fulltext

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

With Fujian launched (China's 3rd aircraft carrier) it becomes only the second one in service in the world with the new Electromagnetic Launch System (EMALS). First one was USS Gerald R. Ford This from a month ago is a good overview of the EMALS system www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtXi...

This is most revealing part of @matthewcobb.bsky.social's piece on Rosalind Franklin: "Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed."

Really cool to see F-35B do their VTOL thing (vertical take off & landing). www.youtube.com/live/eLR3lAW...

Americans don't understand this, but the whole cancer thing in US is insane. This part of it

The volume of activity on Polymarket, the popular prediction market, has been significantly inflated by so-called wash trading in which users rapidly buy and sell the same contracts, according to a new study by Columbia U. researchers. (@ellebeyoud.bsky.social) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Interesting monetary confirmation tidbit about ISR in Rheinmetall Q3 results. Also that there's still delays in orders whilst Merz govt gets bedded in. There's money in EU, there's feverish will but rushing against time. www.rheinmetall.com/en/media/new... www.marketscreener.com/news/rheinme...

We're bound to copy US & new National Armaments Director (Rupert Pearce) comes from the commercial world so possible we'll some of these moves in the UK. First, in some of stuff that Pearce does then maybe Defence Investment Plan Not all necessarily bad www.reuters.com/business/aer...

More details on the filed Selmayr plot. So Kallas, not getting what she wanted from national capitals over various policies thought 'you know what, the way to get them on board is to go behind their backs to bring somebody they don't like in my team' Best plan ever www.politico.eu/article/insi...

This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.

This is HUGE

It’s like a conversation at the end of the bar at the worst pub in town. Trump: “You would say that Ukraine cannot win that war?” Orban: “Miracle can happen.” Trump: “Yeah.”

NYC election by largest ethnic group, by precinct: Asian - 54% Harris, 48% Mamdani (6pt difference) Hispanic - 69% Harris, 59% Mamdani (11pt) White - 62% Harris, 44% Mamdani (19pt) Black - 87% Harris, 64% Mamdani (23pt) www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Love Emilio's updates. Never veers into nihilism and it's the right balance between banter/snark and information. So much better than Politico US

This wasn't a big budget item (initial contract in 2021 was £110mil) and it does leave a gap but there's options for filling that gap. Also this predates Rupert Pearce (new National Armaments Director) so it's NOT his first decision, though for sure blow back from Wales will be his first headache

A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.

This is one of the two remaining flights for Ariane 6 in 2025 (the other one being Amazon Kuiper satellites in a 4 booster configuration for Ariane) so this should be happening soon www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/launch/6796-...

Wow, that lasted about a week. The bullshitting effort from Gunvor in the exit is commensurate with the original hare-brained buyout scheme www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Don't do what I did, which is to listen to the 4 episodes in this series in one go: How to fix income tax How to fix wealth taxes How to fix property taxes How to fix VAT Because you'll become Robespierre on the barricades outside HMRC

Have at it 'electric everything' people! Thankfully no Boaty McBoatface situation here as you just get to pick from a list of names www.cmassets.co.uk/cast-your-vo...

Should the US use tactical nuclear weapons to deter conventional attacks on Taiwan? "It is highly unlikely that such a conflict would remain limited after U.S. nuclear use." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is just Solvay CEO rightly putting pressure on EU Commission and France (where plant located). Solvay ambition is to cover 20-30% of Europe's magnet oxide needs by 2030. That is consistent with EU's CRMA target of 40% sovereign processing. EU needs to put the money where legislation is

🇸🇪 DefMin P. Jonson on way forward for #Gripen to 🇺🇦 #Ukraine. - Joint Working Group w/ roadmap - E < 3 yrs from contract - C/D potentional gapfiller * (Ukrainian DefMin Shmyhal hoping that C/D could arrive already 6 months from start of training.) 1/2 www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

Is this like preparing for counterinsurgency on the streets of NY www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Not something bought by 🇵🇱/🇷🇴, but offered by 🇺🇸 as NATO country (Eric Schmidt company) It's a low cost interceptor / cueing layer. I suspect this donation is also (or maybe primarily) about the system getting some 'real life experience'. Anyway, as first step it's ok apnews.com/article/russ...

This is obvs HORRIBLE but it also shows the dead end-ism of the whole project. Think of the 'millions' figure Stephen Miller is pining for, the insane amount of money given to the project, the 'no guardrails', no line they won't cross for this project. A bit like Putin in Ukraine

Good counterpoint to some of the narratives out there about Pokrovsk, about how 🇺🇦 doesn't know when to quit

I suppose its useful to have the global oligarchical alliance between speculative capital, Big Tech, revanchist imperialist powers, and gutter racism embodied in a single oustandingly loathsome individual

More flush with cash than other 🇪🇺 countries (due to fantastic growth) Spain recently approved €6.9 billions for 18 special defence programs. And because it's direct loans money will get there quick www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario...

'You can't go blasting away anti-aircraft guns at most airports, for example.' Feel like until @justin-br0nk.bsky.social writes a paper about dealing with uncrewed aerial systems outside of the battlefield, there won't be proper understanding of how it's not as easy as shooting them down

Look at that positive vote for Mamdani!!

Every trillionaire is a whole of society failure

This will do wonders for his popularity