Just perfect

You: "AI lies all the time! It is a lying machine! How about using your own brain???" Edward Witten, the only physicist awarded a Fields medal:

At least it wasn’t raining

I wonder if there are any other reasons Lowe is bad

People sometimes think I'm being hyperbolic about this, and I'm like no, this is official social and fiscal policy. www.gov.uk/government/p...

How well do you know the UK? What's minimum wage? How much was £10 in 2000 in today's money? How many houses do we build the year? 50 facts to help it all make sense. www.edrith.co.uk/p/50-facts-w...

I won't put stickers in my laptop for the same reason I won't put tattoos on my body: any amount of commitment towards aesthetics fills me with anxiety

Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍

Anthropic are surely at least a bit pissed off they couldn't make it over the $1tn line in this round

(at my absolute political and personal nadir) Ah, a delegation of my most loyal ministers request an audience? Delightful - certainly, they would bring only good news

Wtf is this framing? Why isn’t the headline “Britain more vulnerable to Putin and climate change, thanks to campaigners”? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No good argument for half the central business district of the best city in the world to be run for the benefit of a handful of extremely wealthy residents who hate living in the central business district of the best city in the world

I made a contraption www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLO...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Bureaucracy.

Why did it have to be the baddies sketch. Why couldn't the defining aphorism of our age be "we're back, the horrible and twisted people who are still unaccountably vicars"

Aaargh! I thought the Met had binary search explained to them but they are STILL using this excuse!!! onodi.co/bisect/

It feels like ai-2027.com has a really remarkably good record so far for predicting how AI will progress.

www.anthropic.com/glasswing not now, AGI

feel like as millennials we kept being told that sure, the economy was bad but at least we'd never had to spend any time in a world where it felt like major, global, maybe even nuclear conflict could erupt at any moment and well well well: who's laughing now

New blog post: Book Review: Superintelligence - Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom ★★★★⯪ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/book-review-superintelligence-paths-dangers-strategies-by-nick-bostrom/ When I finally invent time-travel, the first thing I'll do is go back in time and give …

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

Like the bat in Wuhan

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Release greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere to melt the poles and raise sea levels until a new strait opens up somewhere

It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".

Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

2,100kW charging is ~2,800hp, or roughly the power output of 2.8 Formula 1 cars running at full tilt going through the charging cable (or in this case two charging cables)

It's probably this and everyone should read it. jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

What exactly does it say about us in the EU that not only is Anthropic not moving its operations here to avoid this kind of government harassment but also the idea that it could even think about doing so is preposterous?

Congratulations to the UPF people for promoting a largely made up (or at least poorly defined) thing, so that more animals can live short, tortured lives.

"But what if we did it to *our* voters?"

the pre-LLM projects on my GitHub profile are like low-background steel

Today is a good reminder of one of tech's golden rules: never anthropomorphise Jeff Bezos

In the past few months it's really started to feel like AI has begun to swallow conventional software development whole. When I meet up with dev friends it's (regrettably) all we talk about. Even if you don't care about developers, it's surely a harbinger for other industries.

At some point I think someone will get themselves in legal trouble for vibe coding a successful app with their work's tokens. I shall forget about this bleat if that doesn't happen.

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

Internal disagreement among Uruk-hai over Saruman's new alliance

We’re all gonna get a kick out of telling younger generations we grew up without air conditioning

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

Mortifying.

We had a good run

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

Wonder if a century ago people welcomed Q2, thinking it couldn’t be any worse than Q1…

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Then: CoD 4 Now: Portal But what a year…