Am I the only one bothered by the narrative "7th prime minister una decade"? Two reasons: 1. The count is misleading. Cameron was in office for 6 years and left in 2016.He shouldn't be counted (or we should talk of 16 years, not 10). Liz Truss was PM for what, two weeks?

My husband took 2 months of paid family leave after our baby was born and it was absolutely instrumental for my physical and mental health after birth. I don't have data on it but I'm convinced that fathers taking more parental leave would lower the rate of postpartum depression significantly.

NEW SUBSTACK: Europe's best defence against the next energy crisis is the one nobody talks about. The EU pays 29% less for energy today than it would have without the efficiency gains made since 2000. Energy you don't consume can't be withheld or weaponised. open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

The saddest thing about the AI psychosis is that a pre-requisite for it is to become a climate denier. Not the "climate change is hoax" kind of denier but the "it's not as bad as they say" kind of denier.

We **unlearned** best practices and wisdom we accumulated over **decades**. We threw it all out the window in favor of speed, counted as lines of code per hour. We have books from the 70s and 80s explaining why that is a terrible measure. But we forgot that too.

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

The only important message today is: Fuck the SVP

Please Use AI

When are we hearing from @addielamarr.bsky.social on the Better Offline podcast @edzitron.com? youtu.be/YtdLHrzZyB8?...

I think it's a huge missed opportunity the fact that there isn't a national program to force new buildings to have heat pumps and for old buildings to substitute gas and petrol boilers. It benefits both the environment and the consumer, it just doesn't benefit the big owners who rent!

I didn't know about noai.duckduckgo.com! Why this isn't the default is a mystery to me, but I guess thanks Sam Tucker! youtu.be/X5NSdq2IRSk?...

I think it's wild that we're projected to have a serious crisis this summer due to the Iran War and there is zero discussion going on about that. It's a couple months away!

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

After discovering a recent article about LLMs fabricating analyses from nonexistent data (arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687), I did an experiment with our new lab-sanctioned chatbot. Well, here’s the result (in case that’s not clear, I never actually uploaded any grades-intro-cs.xlsx file).

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

There seem to be quite a lot of people who strongly believe that AI is smarter than they are. They are probably right.

"90% of the job of a software engineer can be done by AI", writes the expert who knows nothing abou t software engineering 🙄

What is AI if not a way to steal content from people, resell it, and blame the machine for it?

A very nice discussion about how AI subtly fails us and makes us lose our critical thinking skills. I quite enjoyed it! By @labmuffin.com youtu.be/xcq5XYkFJfY?...

I just found out that Astral has been acquired by OpenAI, what a sad day 😢 ruff and uv are breath of fresh air in the python tooling space, now waiting for enshittification. I hope a reasonable alternative comes up before the shit hits the fan

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

This is huge and, honestly, a bit unexpected. I wonder what is the political background that lead to this? (Yes, this supreme court is extremely politicized. The fact that they broke rank on this is very significant)

Suggestion: •If you hate writing, don't do it for a job. •If you hate moviemaking, don't do it for a job. I mean... I do what I do because I enjoy the challenge and the outcome? If it was just about money and speed, I'm not sure I'd enjoy life.

When people say AGI is inevitabile, that AI will only get better and better with each versione, it reminds me of self driving cars. People talked that way about that, and yet there's been no progress in years. People paid who knows how much for a "Full Self Driving" feature that never came.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

I need to talk to people who didn't drink the AI kool-aid, for my sanity. I do not understand the world or people anymore. Nobody seems to see the nonsense anymore, nobody cares for authenticity, accuracy, reliability or truth anymore. As long as it's plausible, it's good!

Could anyone tell how this is different than the Germans hiding Jews from the SS almost a hundred years ago? ICE is the American SS

Amazing video about the lies the Tech CEOs tell us daily about AI, in particular in relation to climate change and energy needs by @climateadam.bsky.social Really love this one! youtu.be/py0XpKxAnNU?...

Turns out that Microsoft's BitLocker security for the data stored on your hard drive is just a placebo. Might as well give your password to everyone: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/

One way anyone one of us, can hit back at Trump is at the wallet. Try to use less US goods and services! Here's a database with European alternatives #EUtogether www.goeuropean.org

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

I wonder if you're so disinterested in politics that you don't care about the US plans to militarily invade Europe

Have I missed the mass protests to stop the war and stop the colonialist revival?

I think it's time for us to watch Surrogates again, and make it live a resurgence in popularity. It's the most spot on prediction of our AI craze of 2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surroga...

This is exactly how I feel. "Wait, there's a chatbot that can give me the answers I like? Great! Who cares about integrity!"

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Never have I wanted to change careers as much as right now with the advent of Artificial Dumbness. It's destroying the job I love (programming) and replacing it with an abomination that destroys livelihoods and young people's future. Honestly if I had anything else in mind, I may be switching.

I realized yesterday that the Democrats accepting defeat on the government shutdown was a big political play in view of the Epstein files story. If that was still ongoing, Trump would have a very good tool to shift the attention from him not releasing the files to him ending the shutdown.

Während die Flugbranche mit jährlich über 1 Milliarde subventioniert wird, wird nun eine Nachtzug-Subvention für 9 Mio. zum Politikum aufgebauscht. #Populismus

Let's celebrate those who won't compromise on their values!

I can't watch the exclusive @nebula.tv video from @legaleagle.tv "The Case Against Tish James". It appears that specifically this video is not working, I can watch others... Any clue what's going on?

Let's say that you were a model citizen in the last 10 years, and so were the other people in your town. Through various optimizations, efforts and investments you managed to cut your electricity need by HALF! Impressive! Then comes the AI datacenter and wipes it all out. Why do we allow this?

I'll be honest, AI is killing my fondness of software development. This new way of producing software is not interesting at all. It is good old measuring of productivity by lines of code written. And that's all managers ever cared about.

The Federal Council wants to cut costs in the ERI sector despite widespread objections. Cuts of over 10 percent per year are planned for the SNSF over the next few years. Above all, this plan jeopardises the innovation potential and competitiveness of the Swiss economy. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...

Reposting this, just not to forget. Now I know how Italians and Germans felt at the beginning of the 20th century: screaming in the void, nobody is listening.

Trump administration using its power to chill speech it doesn’t like