Stephen Cox

It's not even that. It's trying to work out how to tell your mom you're letting people with Nazi tattoos loose on the streets with machine guns. You're the soulless apparatchik. Not even the allegedly cool end of fascism.

Mindless Egotism Never Solved Anything

You believe that Australia exists?

Bluesky, robots bots and so-called AIs are clankers.
Make it so.

That's another tick in the fascist box. (Ukraine didn't let its kids serve)

American journalist found after going missing on hike in Norwegian national park | CNN American journalist Alec Luhn, who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park, has been found alive, according to the Norwegian Red Cross.

American journalist Alec Luhn has been found alive, after he went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park.

We get someone who has sadly lost their taste and smell, blindfolded, to throw the most popular dishes we sell into a pot and stir. It's new and edgy

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

side view of a British destroyer, with two funnels, at sea.

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts.

Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

And Reform voters by and large would love a crackdown on the utilities and some other 'leftish' policies you've scrapped.

Keir Starmer: you are actually the leader of the Labour Party, so stop letting your every utterance and decision to be influenced by what Reform voters think. I don't give a fuck what Reform voters think. Deliver Labour policies, you fanny.

Flowers, mostly tulips & roses. And butterflies, And a dragonfly. By Jacob van Hulsdonck, whose day was today.

And my domestic bills are linked to the gas price. And many green tariffs are higher.

Over 90% of global renewable power projects are now cheaper than fossil fuels Solar is 40% cheaper, and onshore wind is under half the price.

Over 90% of global renewable power projects are now cheaper than fossil fuels

Solar is 40% cheaper, and onshore wind is under half the price.

www.zmescience.com/ecology/rene...

who called it “Age Gap Romance” instead of “Generation Ship”?

I think calling techbro bullshit 'Genius Club' ks very on the nose.

Skipping the poison spider for Tom Holland brought a sigh of relief

Enjoyed Superman a lot. Among other things demonstration of why sometimes you tell not show (4 short sentences to set up the world rather than the first 40 mins of the film) and also

If one had a magic wand to make every citizen understand ten things, one might be 'marginal tax rates"

Do not expect me to try to get along with people who want me and my kind dead.

That's just not going to work out. I like being alive.

A C.17th century satire called Costume for Printers where basically a man in a curly wig and breeches is walking around wearing a desk various bizarre printers instruments,

#TheCrookedMedium
The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder

Update on cover reveal (now coming this week) some early reviews (positive) and free eBook offer...

Cover reveal is also preorder links reveal!

Pioneering self publisher below,

stephencox.co.uk/update-cover...

Old naval signals joke
"Urgent: Any news Duchess of Portsmouth?"
"Query: legs or propellors?"

Fair point. Although, we're arguing against people who say they believe LLMs think and will invent a Mars colony by 2030. But yeah, we should be accurate.

Harlan Ellison wrote a famous story about an AI punishing five humans forever for creating it.

Basilisk which punishes anyone who doesn't do everything in their power to bring about luxury queer space communism.

I'm not surprised LLMs can identify cancer cells with a higher accuracy than humans. We trained pigeons to do that. So another one is, "could you credibly train a pigeon to do that?"

The disappearance of a detective novelist ... and an August (reading) break

The final instalment in my series about crime writer Dorothy L. Sayers and how in 1937 a Cambridge scholar called Q.D. Leavis tried to cut her down to size in her withering review, 'The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers'.

Believers in Roko's Basilisk literally believe that we will be punished if we don't bring about a single Godlike AI. The techbro cult is for all intents and purposes, at its worst, a literal cult.

In Venezuelan Spanish, a place in the middle of nowhere can be described as donde el Diablo perdió los calzoncillos. It means “where the Devil lost his underpants.”

Man who discovered SRY gene not permitted to criticise use of it to screen athletes.

The inventor of the lie detector realised it didn't work. The person who coined the term 'alpha wolf' realised captive, non related wolves utterly misrepresent wild wolves. (Packs are run by mum + dad. Simples)