‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points’ Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are on.ft.com/4qMMkJd

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

i keep getting served ads like "apps like this that used to take months to build are now possible in hours with no coding experience, using [whatever AI code thing]!" to which I'm thinking ok so if every user is creating dozens of apps every week where are literally any of those, name one people use

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong. "Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

There are some excellent Halloween costumes on the Skyline. Spamming that like button from Australia.

Saturdays are for Schlømo @ Sandbox in Sydney.

Other than this extremely obvious example.

This place has the juice.

Sweaty German Techno Rave is my favourite kind of rave.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition web.archive.org/web/19970501...

"My kids are using TikTok, therefore we need to be more like Tiktok"

Banging hardstyle set from CARV in Sydney.

Wake up babe, new method of employee expense fraud just dropped.

Why is it USB-C though.

That's me in the middle of the back row (upside down)! 👀

This is where I'm posting from.

Surprised this isn't @oysta.au

Adult content.

📢 New research: how Autism charities talk about Autistic people. TLDR: they say we're a problem. Summary in The Conversation: theconversation.com/autism-chari... Full text: https://doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335132 @helenabnett.bsky.social @kat-williams.bsky.social @willowholloway.bsky.social

Clippy is turning in his digital grave right now.

Wait, so the bubble is over?

This Atlantic analysis echoes the long convo I had recently with a European researcher who maintains that social media cannot be fixed because the problem lies in its very infrastructure and human nature cannot deal with it. I increasingly think he is correct. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I made the mistake of reading the replies.

Frilled Neck Lizard is an elite tier coin design.

When open source startups are "worth $1.25 Billion" you know the market is a _bit frothy_

Relevant to your interests @cosmicrami.com

Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics). stations.albertguillaumes.cat

Help, Internet police, this post is slandering me.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

Humanoid robots are just a labor force country minimum wage arbitrage play change my mind.

Oh so that's why Penrith never won a world club challenge.

New RomCom movie plot just dropped.

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

I wonder what the Bored Apes are up to these days.

This is a fun example of what often happens when a cryptographic system can't be broken analytically. You steal what you need--either the plaintext or info that allows or helps you to read the encrypted material. In this case, it wasn't stealing, though. Just straight up archival research. Love it.

Quick everyone, time to do crimez.

Sydney feels like the surface of the sun right now.

I don't know what 6-7 is and that's totally ok. I don't need to know. Have fun kids.

This GPT thing has gone too far.

I made friends with an apple yesterday.

Enjoy some hard trance from Sydney Djs Nik Fish and Amber Savage from ✨ 2005 ✨

Steve Jobs turning in his grave rn.

Saturday morning's gym session is brought to you be this killer hard dance set from Istanbul.

Correction when.