Jack Stilgoe

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Whoah! When did Benjamin Bratton stop thinking?

Amusing levels of narcissism to think that a future administration would spend its time hunting you down because you're so strong and dangerous

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

Just watched this 18 times

He also enabled this nugget of comedy gold in the abandoned Blobbyland/Crinkley Bottom

YouTube video by Jimmy Carr Who Remembers That Time Mr Blobby Destroyed The Big Fat Quiz Set? | Jimmy Carr

BTW, if you don't know this, it's part of the finest piece of physical comedy in showbiz history www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksdb...

Also I want to know ‘sponsored’ by whom?

Maybe the sense of entitlement could be an impediment?

It's quite something. I think it's the knowledge that there are no alternative bubbles in town. Here are the All-In lads owning the hype cycle. (Hype cycle has actually always been an insiders' tool).

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

Accountancy and consultancy firms are starting to AI - that can lead to problems www.ft.com/content/934c...

'Life-changing' £26m EuroMillions win claimed by UK ticket-holder However, the winner of Saturday's £10.6m Lotto jackpot has yet to come forward.

The UK's EU rebate alive and well post-Brexit

Cartoon showing two hills. First scene: "hey Frank" (hill 1 to hill 2, while hill 2 has a castle on top of it) Second scene: "what?" (hill 2 to hill 1, while hill 2 has a full-blown modern city on top of it). Third scene: "nevermind, you had something on your head, but it's gone now" (hill 1 to hill 2, while hill 2 only has a bunch of rubble on top of it).

Geological timescales FTW

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

I think we should ask Waymo what regulatory roadblocks they feel are preventing them from rolling out in Europe. My guess? The actual answer would be that they don't see their tech working well enough and they don't see a market.

Also, is Euan Blair still rhyming slang for Leicester Square?

Karl Marx would have been a menace on social media 🤣

Marx would have been chronically online and leading the worst pile-ons.

#marx #karlmarx #funny #originstory

BBC Two - Rye Lane Two youngsters, reeling from bad breakups, connect over an eventful day in south London.

Rye Lane is on BBC2 tonight 9pm. The lovely escape you need from real life
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test | Royal Society An event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, held at the Royal Society on 2 October 2025.

You might imagine that an event celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test would be all "Wasn't he prescient, and look, now we really do have machines that think!" Mercifully, this event yesterday was close to the opposite. /1
royalsociety.org/science-even...

The lack of care about watermarks should be an(other) AI outrage

Not the worst thing about it, but the cowbell being out of time is itself impeachable

Nigel Shadbolt mentions the Royal Society's slogan - Nullius in Verba. I liked the version of the slogan from Pirates, an adventure with scientists - "Playing God since 1687"

This is what I think about the Turing test, and the urgent needs for new measures www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The conversation with Gemini has got weirder

CoPilot is uglier but more accurate

Gemini also producted this explanation "this is a stylized, fantasy-style map, and many of the country names are altered or misspelled (for example, "Spana" instead of Spain, "Finlit" instead of Finland, and "United Kingfom" instead of United Kingdom)."

During AI talks, I'm reminded to run some prompts to see how things are coming along. The labelled map challenge still doesn't seem to be going well... I didn't ask for the tea-stained treasure map vibe.

Strangely absent