Stuart Gray

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the in...

Researchers claim their tool can use generated text to discover the prompt that generated it: “language models operate as maps on the *sequence* space rather than the embedding space … all information about the input sequence is almost surely preserved end-to-end.” arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

So if the survival of Europe's industrial base wasn't enough of a motivation not to go for a Chinese EV, not having your car weaponized against you sounds like another solid one.

Definitely.

Also, a notification if someone you’re following is added to a blocklist *after* you’ve subscribed to it + which blocklist it is, so you can choose to either ignore, report the inclusion, or unsubscribe from the blocklist.

a way that everyone can see I.e. if you’re thinking of using a given blocklist, but it contains dozens or hundreds of accounts that have been reported by other users + a count of reports, then maybe people would have a trust signal & wouldn’t be so quick to subscribe.

wouldn’t solve this unless it was overly broad & sensitive, based on wether you’d ever made a single slightly positive post on a topic.

It seems like blocklists need at least some degree of authority, together with a way to see who’s been added, and importantly challenge/appeal/report blocks in

I don’t know that there’s a good way to “fix” blocklists.

At fist glance they seem like the opposite of starter packs BUT blocklists tend to mostly sweep up people who like/dislike a thing, even if they rarely post on it.

They’re a form of mass moralising/virtue signalling.

Topic filtering

The issue isn’t the people subscribing to blocklists, it’s the people operating the blocklists.

It’s a degree of power with no clear accountability, process, or transparency - owners are free to add whomever they like a list, for any reason, regardless of the list name & subscribers are oblivious.

The Product Picnic Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Another casualty in the eternal war between LinkedIn and people who use LinkedIn: when people reply to their own post with a link (because links in the post are deboosted), the reply is hidden from the default comment view.

Meanwhile on Bluesky I can link to my silly little newsletter all day long.

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

Affinity just made pro editing and design free forever, and I think Adobe should be worried | Stuff Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher are now a single app that is free for everyone

If you’ve been following the Affinity saga, here’s what’s happening. No, it’s not getting a sub. No, it’s not getting mashed into Canva. Instead, it’s going entirely free. Blimey. www.stuff.tv/news/affinit...

I very much doubt QT producers used Grokipedia to source this, but my guess would be that if, as many suspect, they move in right wing circles/groups, it’s probably the kind of thing they monitor and/or discuss.

Grokipedia Grokipedia is an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge.

I hate to give it any coverage, but Grokipedia’s entry for Shaheen is interesting in comparison to Wikipedia’s, where it also describes her as an activist.

The likely relevant thing is the source stating that says she was recently appointed exec dir. of Tax Justice

grokipedia.com/page/Faiza_S...

Exactly right. Voters can only hold MPs to account if they understand what they're doing.

Yesterday's ECHR vote was a "ten-minute bill": a way of raising an issue in a short speech with almost zero chance of becoming law.

That even many journalists misunderstood this is bad for trust in politics.

So anyone named Al will be thought be AI, e.g. Al Gore?

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Generally agree - as long as companies are both upfront about it and open about the risks to consumers of doing it.

Because in this case, it’s almost identical to allowing a company to send a stranger into your house on an hourly/daily basis with just a “trust me bro” 👊

Senators propose banning teens from using AI chatbots Another bill promises to regulate AI.

Getting nervous the backlash against chatbots will put more wind in the age verification push's sails, because I cannot see a way you'd implement this without requiring age verification on Google, Microsoft, and any other major tech company experimenting with AI

That’s part of it, for sure, but not the complete picture .

It’s also part of a long held common desire but loosely coordinated effort to offer alternative right-wing info sources to anything prominent they consider left wing or otherwise biased, to create a network of “trusted” citations sources.

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human. 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

However bad you think the police surveillance state has become, it’s worse. Here a tiny police force has blanketed a tiny town in a network of cameras to track every person and vehicle that goes through. Which leads a cop to this woman’s house to lie to her to coax a false confession.

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

Grokipedia literally copies entire Wikipedia entries verbatim where there’s no right wing politics involved 🤷‍♂️😂

Lol at Musk, again, 😂

His plan to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”

Turned out to be “rewrite Wikipedia to be right wing using Grok AI”

Except… it actually turned out to be “rewrite just the bits of Wikipedia he dislikes or disagrees with”

🤡

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Goodwin et al. misrepresenting C4 study leading their audiences to believe 51% of adverts are non-white (when in reality they featured a non-white person). They claim to want better integration but don’t like seeing it modelled in adverts.

Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account

We will fight them on the quiches

This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters.

I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.

"Meanwhile, the regulations to bring in a requirement on providers to report CSAM content to the National Crime Agency have been revoked; they were due to come into force on 3 November and, at the time of writing, there are no further details available as to why they have been reversed." > Curious.

Keir Starmer’s digital ID plan at odds with Irish jobs arrangement PM’s proposal would require Irish citizens to have a UK digital ID instead of just a passport as required under the common travel area agreement

The currently unrestricted right of Irish citizens to work in the UK is a sticking point in proposals for compulsory digital ID, Times report www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/