Dr John Plus Dr Mary

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Interactive map of Roman amphitheaters by Sebastian heath

Like Roman amphitheaters? There are a lot more than the Colosseum. The closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics was held in the Verona amphitheater last night—& it is a great reason to revisit @sebhth.bsky.social’s interactive map and dataset of known amphitheaters. roman-amphitheaters.org/browser/

The SMS Marienburg out for her maiden voyage. Difficult to ‘alt text’ this really lol It’s a flying Victorian Science Fiction vessel with an angled lower hull showing the liftwood. There are three main turrets (one at the front, one on each side) with sloping armour fire and aft. The bridge is sloped and a few crew are standing on the top deck. There is a large German naval ensign on a flag pole and behind that l, just visible is the funnel and engines. There is an aerofoil on the extreme right and a visible propeller between that and the engines. Painted mainly in light grey and suitably weathered. The deck is wood veneer and the lower hull and turrets are painted in a dark grey.

A rear three quarter view showing the engine and funnel in greater detail. The engine and funnel are painted in a dark grey. Just visible on the right is an iron cross and the rest of the hull is pointing away to the left

Close up side view showing the upper deck details. Steps in the middle lead up to the top deck and there is a reinforced door next to that with plenty of portholes dotted about. There are also some ‘small arms’ on the ship, two on the top deck and two on the main deck towards the front

Rear view showing the props and aerofoils. The props are brass (well, sprayed a brass colour) and the aerofoils are light grey. The engine block, painted wood, and the boiler/funnel, painted dark grey can be seen behind the props.

Haven't posted any commission work in a long while so thought it nice to change that for a while.

28mm German ‘neff for the Space 1889 setting.

Scratch built but uses items from the VSF catalogue + some 3d printed parts.

www.oshiromodels.co.uk/vsfadditions

#oshiromodels
#aeroneff
#wargaming
#vsf

You don't know The Interrupting Cow joke?

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"The Interrupting Cow."

"The Interrup- "

"MOOOO!"

oh, are people mad that we’re having fun without even bothering to Monetize Our Influence or whatever on this website again

2031. I am trying to get into my house. I put my key in the lock. A message flashes across the window: 'To access your house, enter code. Turn key clockwise to receive 6-digit code'. My phone buzzes. There is no keypad on the door. I turn the key again. 'Please enter 6-digit code' flashes up

I'm imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with chat gpt, assigning reading from books that don't exist

But the students don't notice, because they are asking chat gpt to summarize the book or write the essay

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake A Tesla owner uploaded footage of Full Self-Driving nearly plunging the vehicle into a lake, after taking a detour onto a boat ramp.

Frank Landymore @ Futurism: FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk once boasted that the Cybertruck could double as a boat..."

futurism.com/advanced-tra...

AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2 million workers at Stop & Shop and Hannaford have their personal data exposed as the result of a cyberattack on parent company Ahold Delhaize USA. These scenarios, straight from a William Gibson novel, are becoming increasingly common in supply chains across the world. As recently noted by Mohammed Alzuhair, a doctoral candidate in business administration at Durham University, the growing number of grocery store failures isn’t a coincidence, but the result of AI’s pernicious creep into the global food network. In a bygone age, food went from farm and orchard straight to the general store — the only middleman being a clerk whose storefront served as an easy rallying point for consumers. Today, the supply chain is like a spider web of contractors and wholesalers, where every shipment is insured based on risk algorithms and tracked by transportation management systems. Just as AI’s being pushed into every other facet of our lives, it’s coming for each point in the supply chain too, turning an already...

AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
->Futurism | More on "AI disrupting grocery supply chains" at BigEarthData.ai | #AI

It really sucks that greedy, dimwitted tech CEOs have taken what was once an aspirational bit of sci-fi futurism and turned it into an economy-destroying, ethically abhorrent de-skilling tool intended to suppress wages and put people on the streets, I guess.

Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse - Futurism

Amazon's Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at Amazon’s cloud division were allegedly caused by blundering AI agents, according to new reporting from the Financial Times. In one incident in December, engineers at Amazon Web Services allowed its in-house Kiro “agentic” coding tool to make changes that sparked a 13-hour disruption, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The AI, ill-fatedly, had decided to “delete and recreate the environment,” the sources said. Amazon employees claimed that this was not the first service disruption involving an AI tool. “We’ve already seen at least two production outages [in the past few months],” one senior AWS employee told the FT. “The engineers let the AI [agent] resolve an issue without intervention. The outages were small but entirely foreseeable.” AWS launched its in-house coding assistant, Kiro, in July. The company describes the tool as an “autonomous” agent that can help deliver projects “from concept to production.” Another AI coding assistant developed by Amazon, described as an AI assistant, was involved in the earlier outage. The employees...

Amazon's Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages
->Futurism | More on "AI agents causing AWS outages" at BigEarthData.ai | #AI

How the Eastern Roman Empire Outlived Rome’s Fall by a Thousand Years | TheCollector The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE is usually seen as the end of the ancient world. However, the Eastern Roman Empire continued for another millennium.

How the Eastern Roman Empire Outlived Rome’s Fall by a 1000 Years

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476CE is usually seen as the end of the ancient world. However, the Eastern Roman Empire continued for another millennium. www.thecollector.com/eastern-roma... Via @romanhistory1.bsky.social

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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Did you know that being capable of working even one hour a week is enough to disqualify you from the Australian Disability Pension?

Like, imagine trying to find a job that would employ you for one hour a week.
#auspol

AI and creepy surveillance...

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Reza Shah

105 years ago, on the 21st of February 1921, Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) took control of Tehran in a coup backed by the United Kingdom. His dynasty would remain in charge of Iran until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. #otd #history 🗃️

A split screen: on the left is a crested Roman helmet in the foreground with a tunic of scale armour (lorica squamata) in the background. On the right is a close up of the tunic and the scales are practically indistinguishable from the scales of a pangolin (but there again we're on our third coffee).

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.

5 star Google Chrome Web Store review for Proctorio dated January 30, 2026. "The Proctorio extension offers a refreshingly clean interface and seamless integration that makes remote testing feel completely intuitive. It is incredibly easy to use and stays out of the way, allowing you to focus entirely on your exam without any technical distractions. Would you like me to condense this even further into a short "headline" style review?"

This 5 star Proctorio review was written by GenAI.

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Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions found in Egypt’s Valley of Kings About 30 Tamili and Prakrit inscriptions were found in rock-cut tombs in Egypt’s Valley of Kings, dating to the 1st–3rd centuries AD. Scholars say the find underscores India-Roman trade, merchant netw...

"Thirty Tamili and Prakrit inscriptions reveal 2,000-year-old India-Egypt trade."

Such amazing evidence about this cultural contact!

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky
www.deccanherald.com/india/thirty...

I definitely find it tough. In fact, I often don’t go to work events I otherwise would enjoy because it’s horrible being the odd one out

Fast-flowing jetstream air currents have shifted south, dragging rain-bearing weather away from Australia.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/dramati...

Migrainous vertigo is terrible. Some days you can think clearly for a few minutes here and thete but the rest of the day is brain fog, fatigue and sleep.

AI helps archaeologists solve a Roman gaming mystery Researchers used AI-driven virtual players to test more than 100 rule sets, matching gameplay to wear patterns on a Roman limestone board.

📰 Innovative new approach to calculate the ruleset of an ancient Roman board game could help work out the rules of other "lost" games from the past

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @sciencenews.bsky.social

www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-r...

LLM AIs do not think in the normal 1+1=2 computer sense- they are simply predictive text averaging engines, so they will always give a roughly right but rarely the exactly correct answer.

LLM AIs do not think in the normal 1+1=2 computer sense- they are simply predictive text averaging engines, so they will always give a roughly right but rarely the exactly correct answer.