Crypto lending — a major factor in the 2022 crypto meltdown — is having a comeback. In fact, one crypto lender just hired the guy accused of bankrupting BlockFi after he extended a huge line of credit to FTX based on a pinky swear.

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842 In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Asteroid 2025 TF flew over Antarctica at 00:47:26 UTC ± 18 s on 1 October, coming as close as 428 ± 7 km to Earth’s surface. This is a similar altitude to the orbit of the International Space Station, and one of the closest approaches ever recorded. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

"Total AI capex is projected to exceed $500 billion in 2026 and 2027—roughly the annual GDP of Singapore. Meanwhile, American consumers spend only $12 billion a year on AI services—roughly the GDP of Somalia." www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-ho...

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

like every upside at this point is some tepid convenience and the downside attached to it is like here have a fascist dictatorship panopticon under a burning sky patrolled by killbots

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

This only happens to you once

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.

This woman will be protected by generations of crows h/t: Autumn Buck / firstdatejunkie

#GoneFishing Series 8 is officially done & dusted and will be entering your eyeballs soon, courtesy of BBC2 and iPlayer! A lovely bunch of varied locations, weather and fish. Plenty of Ted, Paul shouting “don’t wind” & yes, Bob might fall over….

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

In China, they've built a 35-meter plexiglass sphere full of 20,000 tonnes of a strange liquid, 700 meters underground, to measure the entries in a certain 3×3 matrix. It's gonna be great. mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Astronomers have found a truly huge black hole, 36 billion times heavier than the Sun, in a galaxy that has eaten all its neighbors. And that's a peek into our own future. First our galaxy will hit Andromeda.... johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/t...

It makes me happy that Mars has water, like this fog in Vallis Marineris - a canyon 10 times longer, 20 times wider and 5 times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Just a foggy day down there!

Patiently waiting... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky #turtle

That Trivago advert running in the UK right now has some serious uncanny valley shit going on with the AI modified mouths (I guess used when they dubbed the language). Hate it.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

This is from the front page of today’s Sunday Telegraph and suggests that the ol’ UK Online Safety Act’s Age Verification wheeze is turning out to be a big old car crash where Ministers blame tech for the consequences of their own stupid law.

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Why not? Let’s do this. One like, one opinion that’s not on politics.

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

⚡️COMING TO PC TOMORROW⚡️ Get ready to step into 1980’s London and discover a mysterious world of paranormal puzzles, restless spirits and ancient magic, wishlist now! 👻(www.bit.ly/GhostTown_SteamVR) #vr #vrgaming #steam #steamvr #ghosttown #wishlist

We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

Why does this still look kinda fun though 😭

📷 Cracking shot by George Kelsey of the Water of Leith otter he calls "Scarface." 👏 #otter #waterofleith #EdinburghWildlife

'Take the Third Reich'

Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System! ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

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Help us save our Forgotten Forests! 🌳 40% of precious ancient woodland has been converted to plantation forests. 🌲 It's not too late to rescue these irreplaceable woodlands. Can you help? 🌱 Ask Scottish Government to rescue our #ForgottenForests 👉 buff.ly/pFPzNJm

Interesting: All world cities ranked according to the quality of their cycle network cityratings.peopleforbikes.org/ratings

If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.

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Boys, oh boys... I think he's come back for his noon feeding. #Jaws50

I told you we’d be back

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

Fantastic news! The Minister has heeded our plea to hit pause on the controversial "Flamingoland" development at Loch Lomond. 👏 👉 buff.ly/RNwPX54 🧵 1/3