The second International AI Safety Report. Led by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and authored by over 100 AI experts. internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...

Merry Christmas to every Wimbledon fan celebrating around the world! 🎄💛💙 #AFCW 🟡🔵

Liz Truss, Rupert Lowe and assorted others on the right hope the BBC has to pay $10 Billion to a man who tells 50 lies in 18 minutes www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed

Signed

Russian grey zone operations fuelling crime on British streets and funding Russian military attacks on Ukraine and cyber attacks on the UK youtu.be/N1vqxaTrl8M?...

Liz Truss, Nigel Farage and a sizable section of UK media are backing this man against the BBC - but they will probably also claim to value freedom of the press.

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

I've had a look on X to see the reaction there... nothing. If the X algorithm is boosting right wing posts, what is it suppressing?

A gold crown was a coin introduced by King Henry VIII in 1526. 1 gold crown = 20 pieces of silver

Absolute bargain. By the way, if you rather not make Bezos even richer Kobo offers a perfectly usable alternative. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Thing with the piggies with their snouts in the trough - they see all the other piggies slaking their greed, and this one is squealing

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Is it just me, or is the BBC very GB News-ish lately? Can't think why...

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Hmm, will they follow through though? Or will the tech companies make the right donations and the program somehow never gets implemented 🤔

Cats with dementia show brain changes similar to Alzheimer's in humans ->News-Medical | More info from EcoSearch

Brilliant

🚨PSA: Do NOT use SciDB — a database of 92M+ research papers freely available (including those published after 2021 when Sci-Hub stopped). SciDB makes latest research freely accessible and keeps billion-dollar publishers from profiting off of academics' work. It's truly insane.

I totally missed the wider consequences of the court's decision that Anthropic's use of copyright material to train AI is legal under the American fair use provision

You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas. www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood...

Too good not to repost. Henning Wehn, Wehn Diagram

Magic from Neufville

Tints in silent films could be literal (red for fire) or symbolic (rose for romance). Thanks to some rather overbuttered Kodak marketing materials for pre-tinted films, here are the tints and what they could mean! Rose was nearly always symbolic, used for romance and romantic settings.

Jatta played the ball with his right foot but catches him with his left. Shudder to think what would have happened to Smith if he hadn't jumped.

Who is this American pope I'm hearing about? Was it this guy? ... or did they choose a Christian?

Megalomania

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social this will interest you.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

ISSUE 24: CRAIG’S COMMITMENT TO THE CAUSE 🗞️ Craig Cope tells all about a career which has spanned 15 years and six clubs - with his sights set on helping the Dons to promotion. 📈 #AFCW 🟡🔵 www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/ap...

Putin

Unless you're in Clacton...

A play in two acts.

Has Trump made America great again yet?

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

Amazing day of protests across America as millions showed up in over 1,300 cities and towns. So many amazing signs it was hard to choose, but these were my favorite 15. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

Trump's foolishness has presented the perfect opportunity for cats and penguins to sign a trade deal - the fish will be ours!

I think instead of Liberation Day should be referred to as TRUMP:Trade War And Tarriffs day. I'm sure someone could workout a catchy acronym for it.

People are taking things into their own hands

This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.