Happy #Threads day to all who celebrate

Looks like this is definitely going ahead given the email sent out by Goldsmiths' Interim Vice-Chancellor to ALL staff earlier today. Solidarity to everyone affected.

“The fundamental obligation of a humanities teacher is to try to develop in students an allergy to ideology and certainty. To acknowledge self-doubt.”

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

#Apocalypse Early Warning System, by @kcimc.bsky.social : "In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in real-time." ews.kylemcdonald.net

Loved this (mythic) genealogy of AI apotheosis, written by Benjamin Labatut. A must read

I have no doubts whatsoever about what Dawkins doesn't know

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Which text would you want found in your abdomen?

10 years since Prince's death. It's hard to believe. This isn't anywhere close to my personal Prince top 100, but how many other artists could you even do such a thing with? RIP

reticulating splines

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

Meanwhile...

The Ozempicization of the Economy

That's easy. Hardbacks are for arranging behind you on Zoom calls

Terrifying

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

More of this, please

More of this, please

World’s first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 | NL Times

I've been extremely disappointed with the uses Bluesky's protocols have been put to, so far. This is just more of the same i.e. a visually chunky feed scroller. Yawn

I love this story. Truly a parable for our times

Scientists Say the Inca May Have Invented the World’s First Computer System 600 Years Ago

This is extremely relevant to my interests

Swings and roundabouts

I am going to watch the hell out of this

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom | Well actually | The Guardian

If you want Bluesky to be good you need to be weirder

The Afroman trial result is giving me hope today

I feel like I'm going to dream tonight.

This is fine

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

#CosmicHorror factoid of the day: If the vacuum of space didn't block sound from reaching us, the sun would be as loud as a jackhammer everywhere on Earth. At all times. If the sun were to blink out, it would take 8 minutes for the light to stop but 13 YEARS for the sound to stop.

Huge 'His Masters Voice' vibes #StanisławLem

And so we celebrate in other ways...

Happy Threads day, to all who celebrate it 😭

Fuck

Metaphors of AI indicate that people increasingly perceive AI as warm and human-like

And if war in the Middle East isn't enough distraction...? #aliens

Helluva way to distract attention away from the Epstein files

What's a line of delivery you'll never forget?

The reason iMAX was invented? My body is ready… #Akira blog.alltheanime.com/akira-theatr...

We all know that MPs and Trade Envoys forwarding 'state secrets' to their rich friends in industry happens every single day of the week, and always has done. The Mandelson & Andrew arrests are optics, pure and simple. Arrest them all.