Korny

For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible…

…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I forgot to post this to bluesky! Life has been busy...

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

Environment secretary ‘furious’ about England and Wales water bills Steve Reed says he is unable to rule out further above-inflation rises and any decision would be up to regulators

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

By any metric of fascism, when they come for the comedians, it's here.

First Nations calendars boost solar forecasting accuracy by up to 26 pct, study finds Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.

Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.

Everyone seems to be re-posting the METR paper on my feeds with "this proves the tools slow developers down" - nice to see a bit more nuanced discussion.

The more interviews with billionaires I hear, the more I believe they’re billionaires because of luck followed by the compounding benefits of capital.

Their world views are simultaneously simplistic, confused, and deluded.

Tax them out of existence

BBC Two currently showing Live Aid on a 40 year delay in order to meet Lisa Nandy's new demands for all music performances to be vetted before broadcast

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

My son, in the midst of a typical 8yo conversation asked me "what is the Tri-State area?"
I didn't know, and I was tired, so I made up an answer which seemed plausible.

And if he finds out I'm wrong, I'll say "you are correct! I was mistaken"

...

Are LLMs just treating us like tired parents?

The Shock of the New en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... - an amazing introduction to modern art for a 16-year-old, so good to get some breadth outside my STEM world

People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …

Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on.

The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...

#EduSKY #EduSKYAU

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.

tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

26 MPs - only 26 - voted against proscribing Palestine Action.

It will now be a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison not only to be a member of but merely to express support for Palestine Action.

We live in a fascist state.

I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.

You deserve better brain research - Change, Technically SHOW NOTES:For an example of a consideration of learning with information searching, a paper by Saskia Giebl and co-authors explored students learning basic programming concepts aided with a search en...

I recommend people listen to the Change Technically podcast episode on this paper (or read the transcript) www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis... - they have some major criticisms. There's enough terrible pro-AI pseudoscience, do we really need to balance it with terrible anti-AI pseudoscience?

Times Main heading: Keir Starmer says trans ruling must be enacted ‘as soon as possible’ Times Sub heading: Public bodies have continued to defy the law after the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex

Much of the reporting of Starmer's weak and evasive intervention on FWS is dishonest.

He has said (main head) "all guidance needs to be consistent with the ruling and we need to get to that position as soon as possible." He hasn't said (sub head) that anyone is defying the law or what the law is.

BBC news headlines right now.
It's utterly depressing.

This was a fun excursion - getting an LLM to analyse the characters and interactions in the book Stonemouth by Iain M banks: blog.korny.info/2025/06/27/a...

Donate Less We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum. That's c...

it's been a very difficult year or two for @gnomefoundation.bsky.social and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you.

however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/...

#gnome

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

"deleting errors" sounds more sinister to me - I bet in Elon's "fixed" history, the last 40 years of South Africa history would read quite differently

why I don't have a country any more by Kit Barry A procedural/interactive art game about living through a moral panic

This is "fun" - "Why I don't have a country any more", a brick-out game where an annoying white block appears for every day the Telegraph newspaper posted a transphobic article.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out

A path through the fields surrounded by stinging nettles

Walking around the local canal-side fields and I really understand Day of the Triffids now.

The false narratives on both sides are so far from center that they're not providing balance. They are so misleading that those not experiencing #GenAI for themselves can't possibly know the facts.

LLMs are not messianic and LLMs are not the devil incarnate, and sure aren't human.