The New Bond is obvious

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Finally got my copy of @historyasif.bsky.social book, Cosmic Fragments. Now time to ruin it with notes and highlights!

A shame she left of her own accord rather than through being toppled. An absolute disaster for progressive politics. Maybe her replacement will actually fight to make people’s lives better rather than line her own pockets

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.

2025 me: So that lumberjack on the Real World? He's now the head of NASA and is publicly fighting with OJ Simpson's lawyer's daughter—who's super rich and influential—over the moon landing not being faked. 2000 me: What? 2025 me: Oh and Donald Trump is president… 2000 me: WHAT? 2025 me: …again.

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

Bought some flowers for my 6 year old daughter. Just because 🥰

Should humans colonise space? We asked five experts – four of whom said no. It’s not just a question of whether humans try to live in space, but also about how we do it. Here are their detailed answers. via @aunz.theconversation.com 🧪 🔭

Thank you, Chicago.

On October 24, 1946, soldiers and scientists at White Sands Missile Range launched a V-2 missile carrying a 35 mm motion picture camera which took the first shots of Earth from space. Images were taken at an altitude of 65 miles, just above the accepted beginning of outer space

I have a cold. So instead of doing a full day and nights work I will instead be lying in the couch watching tv and wishing someone would make me warm soup 😆

"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

If you're horrified by this, complete the survey. cc @niais.bsky.social Thanks @dotsandlines.bsky.social for the HT 🧪 🔭

This lady has pancreatic cancer and is about to be evicted unless she can raise a few hundred more :( gofund.me/f2ccaebad

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

This one fully woke me up as I was dozily browsing this morning. The level of stupidity and callousness is off the charts.

Whenever a businessperson says they want to “revolutionise” an industry what they mean is they want to reduce their labour costs. They don’t give a shit about quality or art or the consumer.

Some democrats only display their humanity when it is politically convenient. For Newsom, the targets of ICE raids are (deservedly) people to fight for, but the homeless are not people they are animals whose meagre possessions are to be discarded like trash. Vile man.

Just utterly vile. What a terrible human being. Homeless people deserve our compassion and help not our derision and brutality. I hope decent people in LA see this and punish Newsom at the polls next election. Any society with one homeless person is a failed society.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Why would Elon “turn things around” when the site is exactly the cesspool of stupidity, lies and hate he wants?

Teaching all morning, Lego Serious Play, on the urban planning masters program at @liu.se Fun times!

Literally an elderly man who watches too much Fox News and has lost his grip on reality. There are many people like him, but only one controls the most powerful military on earth.

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

They keep saying this even though it is has never has been true. The academy has spent most of its history and power creating and promoting and teaching conservative views. When diversity entered the picture, in the smallest way, the right-wing backlash started. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Tesla

We've had an incredibly anxious night with wobbly baby Squiggle, but she's still with us & tentatively a bit better -- vet described her as "one hell of a fighter." Please help us keep her fighting ❤️ gofund.me/662b94d7e

Lovely 😆

Don’t try to save the fascist women who prop it up, either. They made their bed.

An important read. The oppression of women goes hand in hand with fascist removal of safety nets. Men who don’t support the freedom and equality of women should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

Everyone keeps quoting Andor, which is great. Andor shows we'll never stop fascism with speeches and votes in the imperial senate. Real resistance requires sabotage, rallying allies of the rebellion at a secret base, and destroying the empire's genocidal weapons.

This really is worth your time. Well done, @thedailyshow.com

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

1. A decaf latte in the morning. 2. The sound of my daughter laughing at her own farts. 3. Liverpool winning 😀 4. Reading a good sci-fi book. 5. A long walk through the city.

"And props to Australia for selling Israel weap.... I mean, *parts* of weapons". 💥👏👏👏 Juice Media. #GazaGenocide #GlobalSumudFlotilla

I mean, I don’t think it’s hard to make that leap tbh. I think my tweet makes perfect sense so don’t need to explain it further. You might see it differently but it’s uncharitable not to allow others their own interpretation. Agree or not that’s fine but keep it civil.