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Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash The company's self-driving technology failed to prevent a 2019 crash which killed a 22-year-old woman and severely injured her boyfriend in Florida.

#Tesla fined $243m for fatal accident that killed one pedestrian and severely injured another. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Margaret Boden obituary Cognitive scientist who explored how consciousness arises from biochemical interactions within the brain

The grande dame of the philosophy of cognitive science has died: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Mark Zuckerberg Just Declared War on the iPhone — The Wall Street Journal Meta’s CEO painted a vision for how AI creates an opening for new ‘primary computing devices’

“‘Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices,’ he wrote Wednesday in an online post detailing how Meta will bring AI to users.”

No, they won’t.

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

“If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that #Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yeah, it’s grim. Everyone seems to accept that’s what it’s like in Dublin, but other cities do a lot better.

Was interviewed today by a reporter from the #Dublin Inquirer about the unreliability of the local bus service, and the phenomenon of ‘ghost buses’ which appear in the live information displays, but don’t actually show up. It’s a particular problem for students trying to get to classes on time. 😟

Your chefs were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

But seriously these look delicious.

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Exactly!

Mind you, if you ask any question, no matter how ridiculous, you’ll find around 20% go against the mainstream. 16% of Britons disbelieve that the moon landings happened, for example. Considerably more than that believe astrology is factual. People are strange. 🤪

Racists and anti-EU zealots I guess.

“Only” 29%? Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for Britain. How is support for it even that high?

Does Anyone Still Care About NFTs? (Yuga Labs, LLC v. Ripps) — Guest Blog Post - Technology & Marketing Law Blog By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Four years ago, NFTs were the hottest collectibles on the market and were being touted as the NBT (Next Big Thing). People were paying tens of thousands, or in some cases ...

"The ruling that NFTs are 'goods' for purposes of #trademark #law establishes a precedent, but it is hard to know whether anyone still cares": blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202... #ethics #internet #art #copyright #business

In all seriousness some of the flying was absolutely extraordinary. Aerial acrobatics that at times seemed to defy the laws of physics, and push the limits of human endurance. Absolutely stunning! ✈️ #BrayAirDisplay

Four parachutists landing near the beach. A crowd of people and a woman in a pink top are in the foreground.

Small plane at the top of a large spiral of smoke

A formation six planes completing a loop with smoke against a blue sky. A few clouds in the background

Six planes ascending vertically with smoke trails

Had a fun time with #LittleHuman at #BrayAirDisplay yesterday. The most striking contributor was the huge glowing orb that hovered over the beach all day giving me radiation burns. 🥵 ☢️ #Ireland

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Yes, we had a teacher like that, though he was a bit younger (30s probably). Also played a lot of Dylan. It was my first real experience of music making, and in retrospect made quite an impression on me.

Plato's original adaptation of Watership Down.

There's a secret realm hidden at Earth's core – and scientists are seriously puzzled — BBC Science Focus Magazine At the border between Earth's core and the mantle above, scientists are discovering a hidden world August 02, 2025 When we learn about Earth's core at school, it looks like a calm sphere. One that's s...

There’s a vast ‘mountain’ under the South Atlantic near the Earth’s core called Jason? Who knew? 😳 apple.news/AJmJJqKMjQ1W...

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

Apple Watch Series 1 Now Obsolete Apple now considers second-generation Apple Watch Series 1 models released in 2016 to be obsolete, according to the company's vintage and...

What about Series 0? 🥹 #AppleWatch www.macrumors.com/2025/08/01/a...

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

#Trumpland #USFascism

Why the US is letting China win on energy innovation China is roaring forward in the race to be the world’s clean energy powerhouse.

China is roaring forward in the race to be the world’s clean energy powerhouse.

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We’re going full-steam back to rented computing like in the 1960s and 1970s; with a product that doesn’t work or provides significantly worse quality than what was there before, overseen by landlords with delusions of grandeur, ruining the environment, education and the economy in the process.

August 1st....the saddest day of the year in academia.

Time to look at my summer to-do list and start jettisoning my summer dreams.😥

#academicsky

Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Turns out that #Google was publicly logging ChatGPT conversations that people had shared (privately, or so they thought) with friends. There are conversations about mental health, sex, etc. Do you still think #OpenAI take #privacy seriously? By @stokel.bsky.social

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