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On an unrelated note: dementia patients often lose the ability to keep their inner monologue to themselves, as well as losing the ability to filter private thoughts from public speech

“400 years ago, they would not have [heard of or recognised] introspection.” I think Shakespeare would like a chat with you

"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing

The war is apparently being promulgated by twelve year olds

This is also true for most cultural artifacts - films, tv, music, literature, etc . Fan criticism is usually spot on, but their suggestions for how to fix it are almost always misguided

1: UK employers need and want physicists. @iop.org study found 1 in 20 UK jobs rely on physics-related knowledge. The demand for physics skills and knowledge is growing fast and is becoming ever harder to meet. Conclusion: We need to train more physicists. Source: www.iop.org/sites/defaul...

This should be illegal

If you lose a by-election in a historically safe seat because *George Galloway* endorsed your opponent, then you and your party are in dire straits

Fighting age man attempts to enter British territory illegally on a small boat

How can he be simultaneously ultra-divorced and super-twelve? Defies physics

Is the thesaurus sentient asks person paid by thesaurus publisher to ask questions like that.

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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What a weekend! We’re over the moon for the winning ESFF writers at @bloodyscotland.bsky.social - @davegoodman.bsky.social, Debut Prize for A Reluctant Spy, @tariqashkanani.bsky.social the McIlvanney Prize for The Midnight King, & @marcorinaldi.bsky.social winning Pitch Perfect for Dark Waters 🎉

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

Canonically Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant are time lords, and their TARDIS is bigger on the inside. Top is the outside of their trailer, bottom is a scene immediately after on the inside of the same trailer.

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