GenAI struggling with language ambiguity. 🤣

Naomi Smith, CEO of Best for Britain: “Firms do need support with energy costs, but the easiest and most effective way to grow the UK economy remains urgently improving Britain’s trade links with our closest and largest market" Britain needs growth. And the EU is the place to find it.

This is an image from an unfortunate claustrophobe who suffered a panic attack mid-CT scan but ... ALBUM COVER!

Don’t threaten me with a good time! (And look up the definitions of “stalinist” in your dictionary before you use the word.) www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

For my TTRPG crews.

The Financial Times is not pulling its punches.

US copyright expiries to look forward to in 2026, courtesy of Duke Law: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f...

Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a fan of complex numbers. “I saw that argument was useless and said no more; there is no use arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus one.” Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pirates of Venus - Final sentence of chapter IV: To the House of the King

Remember those cheesy 1950's and 60's mutant insect horror movies? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In honor of the extremely clever Tom Lehrer, who has died, here is his song about religion that was rather controversial. It is also very funny. youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...

RIP Ozzy Ozbourne. I wasn’t a fan of the music, but I have a soft spot for any artist for whom the question “why the hell haven’t the drugs killed you yet?” leads to the discovery of genetic mutations and variant metabolic pathways. www.discovermagazine.com/health/genes...

Another boost for VPN sales as CivitAI declares it can no longer safely allow access from the UK. How long it will be before HuggingFace goes the same way? Will the UK end up cutting itself off from AI development?

Dragons breathing fire are completely unrealistic. But what about lasers? www.science.org/content/arti...

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE Another historic day with 37.7 in France, 35.5 in Germany and hundreds of stations at record levels for mid June. Widespread tropical nights with even some records for June highest Minimums in Germany 22.5 Gevelsberg 21.8 Waldems 21.2 Lüdenscheid Tbc tomorrow

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

Today’s contestant for the ill-advised St Valentine’s Day branding award is Marks & Spencer.

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- Commonly misattributed to George Orwell Wikipedia prepares its defences: www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures! Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not! Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I never knew they were therapeutic.

An attempt to make GenAI engage with students has caused it to start tossing emojis into its text! It just launched an Undergraduate Maths Assistant persona with “🎓 Welcome to Finite Group Theory! 🎓” I didn’t even know there was a mortar board emoji.

The true cost of Brexit. Get all the stats 👉 bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

Earth from Mars | NASA

I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Am I just a grumpy old man, or do today’s cartoons lack the charm of the ones I grew up on?

"The pioneer of our free trade accord with Brussels [Lord Frost] said: 'Labour’s unnecessary reset negotiation with the EU will achieve nothing useful.'" The five-yearly review of the trade deal is actually written into it, as negotiated by ... <checks notes> Huh! Says here: "Lord Frost". 😶 ~AA

would like to see a venn diagram of those who 1] signed the petition calling for a second 2024 election, and also 2] raged against the very idea of a Brexit second referendum

“We give some Illustrations of the apparatus lately invented by Professor Alexander Graham Bell for the electronic transmission of distinctly articulate sounds to great distances.” It will never catch on. (The Illustrated London News, December 15th, 1877)