Also lots of software is going to suck even more than it already does.
I'm compiling a handy thread of things that you really, REALLY should not say in response to this tweet.
1) "Has Matt Lucas said anything on Israel?"
No, as it happens. But what if he had? Does that give you the right to try and goad a Jewish celeb in public & then upload your video to socials?
Nothing more savage than a group of green party members. Absolutely terrifying
It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
This is a pretty good summary of the issues with this kind of legislation
Around 4% of particulate matter consists of plastic, TWO-THIRDS comes from tire abrasion.
"...people in a city like Leipzig inhale approximately 2.1 micrograms of plastic per day through the air, which increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 9% and from lung cancer by 13%."
You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:
YOU ARE ELON MUSK
200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY
direkris.itch.io/elon
Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.
To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.
It's easy to condescend, but when the media is amplifying the marketing, organizations are blaming layoffs on AI being able to fully replace professional workers, and the system sounds so confident, users will assume it does the thing.
Blaming users deflects responsibility from the product makers.
A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/
Maybe there's a happy outcome where the AI bubble implodes finally and all this grid upgrading somehow enables more renewables connecting to the grid somehow?
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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The problem of predicting protein structure from sequence has been definitively solved by the AI programme AlphaFold, winning a well-deserved Nobel prize for its developers.
But structure prediction is just one of at least four different problems of protein folding...
John Reed immediately came to mind when I thought about this tradition in home secretaries.
if anyone has friends with huge followings who might be willing to flog this one, that would be amazing. it's going to take a lot to keep these kids in their homes.
"Should one not ask of any public project … whether it (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; … (4) favours people over machines; (5) maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) favours conservation over waste; (7) is reversible or irreversible?
Franklin, The Real World of Technology, 1990
I find this topic very triggering! Every time I hear he's been appointed somewhere basically. That someone so unqualified had so much influence and failed so badly but then basically got away with it will never not be maddening.
cant.stop.laughing
No, you're forgetting how much shorter people were back then, due to rationing
Sure, a very similar pair of anecdotes and not at all a false equivalence
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It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...
I'm gonna repeat my comment.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
"Marine-based sectors in East Antarctica, representing ~5 m of potential sea-level rise, are at risk of losing stability at 2–5 °C."
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
On AI and reciprocation acuity.design/building-a-b... - how much we all lend AI for it to appear so clever (yet this labour is unacknowledged by the techbros)
Ah yes - having actually read the thing I can see he does reference it towards the end. I think my assessment still holds. Also what is this imaginary world he lives in? This government is OBSESSED with AI and most depts have programs for embedding AI in systems, staff work practices, you name it.
Does it mention anywhere in the piece that he's an 'advisor' to two of the biggest AI vendors? It's just really obvious FOMO pressure sales tactics, which I really wish the government was better at resisting.
Currently pondering where exactly a magical CSAM generator/scambot sits on the kardshev tech tree.
