Orwell was pretty clear that the novel writing machines were bad.

It is weird seeing essentially the same headlines I saw as a first year astronomy PhD student in 2007/2008 as STFC first came into being. Does nothing ever change?

Almost _nothing_ is an engineering problem

It's finally the year of Linux on the desktop, and all it took was the end of the rules-based international order

Europe, the continent that perfected bitterly held, centuries-long grudges, is an ideal continent to engender a grudge with.

This absolutely benefits Putin. Once again Trump’s actions weaken European capability against Russia. This is irreparable relationship damage between the US and its allies.

Hey Libby. I love your app. All our family's devices have Libby loaded, and we typically have a dozen or more books borrowed out. This is a terrible statement on AI in Libby. Do better. Take a stance. Choose some values and stand by them. You *don't exist* without authors and their creative works.

If you ever installed Twitter (or X or Grok) on the App Store, you can submit a report of abusive content and ask them to remove the apps from the App Store. Just click the “Report a Problem” link on the app’s page in the App Store.

You have to laugh really. It’s like discovering that the government believes that “pee is stored in the balls”.

The America of today: thanking teachers for their service as they are de facto military veterans, as likely to be shot in the line of duty as any soldier.

Oh look it’s Mr [Redacted]

Every paper that cites a nonexistent source should be retracted immediately. This is a crisis of confidence that needs resolved yesterday.

“I too, am an infant”

I see exasperated Sensible Moderates complaining that this government has no project, no theory of what it’s doing and no good ideas. I suggest this is because we have for a very long time been hugely rewarding politicians whose key skill is telling *lobby journalists* what they wanted to hear.

Looks like I’ll be posting this over and over until the pixels wear out

You don't need evidence to accuse trans people of anything. Just make it up and the Times etc will print it for you

Whenever I see Bessent I think “Gary Oldman is a great actor, but this bit he’s doing is just stupid, not funny”

All those moments - lost, like onions in mustard

Point blank range means “a distance at which one can fire horizontally (i.e. not compensating for gravity) and still hit the desired target.” Willing to bet the sandwich had positive vertical velocity when it was thrown, so this description is bullshit. Along with the rest of the case.

Alan Carr on a wobbly bridge is exactly what I pay my TV licence for.

Remember when that academic journal article crowed about an effective method to find area under curves and “discovered” integration? 🤦‍♂️

I honestly think the Tolkien estate should be suing Palantir, Anduril and this latest company for defamation and brand damage

Wouldn’t be surprised if these were Midjourney renderings

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“You’re not making art, you’re making hotdogs” is a hell of a slogan. You could put that on a t shirt

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Moon-moons

I used to get so many emails. And letters. The letters crammed with absolutely frothing content, in tiny hand on multiple pages, both sides. And then added to in all four margins. And then added to on the envelope in a halo around the address. In green ink.

Grotesque

At last. The fact it takes two weeks of triangulation by a horde of consultants to get to this simple statement is worrying. We need leadership, not a bellwether. Fascism is knocking at the door for God’s sake

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This inner tension of “we are strong and winning” and “we’re just one step from crushing defeat” is an essential psychological component of fascism. You can see it at play repeatedly in Nazi Germany etc

Can Tylenol sue this quack? Because it seems they should sue this quack

Farage is a 100% media creation by a bunch of important people who believe tax avoidance by the wealthy is great. Why would we ever expect this to be different?

Moon-moons

The HBO drama covering this week in politics will be barely comprehensible to anyone

It is damning that not a single person involved in training chatGPT will ever be held responsible for this

I could not more wholeheartedly agree but if the government won’t even say this stuff is wrong, wildly reckless and evil, then why would we expect the world’s most intentionally poisonous media outlets to step in and do it on their behalf

Sigh. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

When (if) I write the next edition of Solving Fermi’s Paradox, I’ll be adding “Poster’s Madness” to the Catastrophic solutions

“One [Avi Loeb’s readers] wrote about their fatalism about the Dark Forest scenario he’s described, and how they’re choosing to spend their remaining time with loved ones, hoarding canned goods.” This is the kinda stuff where I think his claims about a spaceship move from the harmless to dangerous.

[XENOMORPH ALIEN SKITTERS AT FULL SPEED DOWN CORRIDOR CEILING] ME: (sighing) is this about sex or death [XENOMORPH STOPS, UNSURE HOW TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION]

This is verging on dangerous misinformation. For the sake of one man’s ego entire droves of scientists are having their careers mangled, and the public’s trust in science continues to be poisoned. The man needs to be censured

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly: It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System. It’s behaving like a comet. There is no evidence it’s artificial.

First they came for the plums And I said nothing because the gyre was widening Yes YES The tiger is out