Andy Harbison

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

Oh, the ratio is lower. That makes it OK then.

You realise you’ve just said that killing 10,000 innocents to kill one armed fighter isn’t as bad as killing a single innocent? That’s the argument the IDF uses.

Instead, just say that atrocities are atrocities.

Die Grafik zeigt ein Kreisdiagramm mit vier gleich großen Segmenten, jeweils farblich voneinander abgesetzt. Der Titel lautet: „Konservative Themen“. Die vier Segmente repräsentieren folgende Aussagen: – „Gendern verbieten!“ (orange) – „Klimaaktivismus verbieten!“ (schwarz) – „Cannabis verbieten!“ (hellgrün) – „Warum uns die Grünen alles verbieten wollen“ (beige-braun) Der satirische Witz entsteht durch die Ironie, dass konservative Rhetorik selbst fast ausschließlich aus Verboten besteht, während sie gleichzeitig anderen (insbesondere den Grünen) vorwirft, zu viel verbieten zu wollen. Die Grafik entlarvt die kognitive Dissonanz konservativer Politik in Transformationsphasen: Sie bekämpft Veränderungen mit Verboten – und nennt es Freiheit.🖖

Konservative Politik in #Schwellenzeiten bedeutet …

festhalten, was längst zerbricht und verbieten, was sich wandelt.

Wer an der #SchwelleZurZukunft nur noch mit Verboten reagiert, wird von ihr niemals hindurch-, sondern höchstens zurückgestoßen.

Source:
@katjaberlin.bsky.social 🖖

For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I've been wrestling with the contentious question of whether Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Gaza. I initially rejected the genocide charge, but now I don't. A thread on why I've changed my mind:

Hamas organised the murder of innocents. The behaviour of Israel has been genocidal, but that doesn’t give Hamas a free pass either.

You might talk about conditions in Gaza before Oct 7. That might explain it, but it damn well didn’t justify it.

Both Hamas and Israel can be on the side of evil.

“Follower of Jesus Christ” supporting the starvation of children.

JFC.

Trump’s some combination, more incompetent than Buchanan, more bigoted than Johnson, more cynical than Nixon and much more corrupt than Harding.

Well done America, you picked the worst person for President you possibly could - twice!

An act of national folly which may turn into national suicide.

In Europe all he’ll do is ensure that the US won’t have any role. He’s tying you to the 20th century.

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

Eine absolute Schande.

Es rechtfertigt immer noch nicht, über 15.000 unschuldige Kinder zu töten.

Es rechtfertigt auch nicht, den Mördern dieser Kinder die Bomben zu geben, um es zu tun.

Ein Verbrechen rechtfertigt niemals ein größeres Verbrechen.

Also, don’t get me wrong. Transforming AIs are great at doing what they were invented to do - converting data for one form to another. Eg Speech-text, data to summary data, one language to another.
It’s the Generative stuff that’s iffy. They’re still converters, but it’s what they’re converting…

The article I attached is worth a read - well, the first 4 pages and the appendices anyway, the rest is very mathematical. It’s a serious article, published last week by researchers from Berkeley and Princeton. As a journalist, you’ll find it fascinating.

Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models Bullshit, as conceptualized by philosopher Harry Frankfurt, refers to statements made without regard to their truth value. While previous work has explored large language model (LLM) hallucination and...

I remember the dot-com bubble, and this is considerably more unhinged.

Gen AI is a valuable technology if it is employed in areas it’s suited to. But it is being misemployed and misconfigured widely👇. I see astonishing levels of BS surrounding it. The Eliza Effect run wild.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.07484

Adrian, it’s unequivocally a bubble, or more accurately a fad.

It will be very interesting to see what happens if the US economy sours in the next few months what happens to AI (and crypto) investments. My guess is that if the hammer falls and investors have to get liquid, both will take a beating.

I decided to dip back into Twitter/X to see the reaction to Epstein/Tariff/BLS omnishambles. My old account is long gone so I set up a new temporary one. Picked Obama, Zelenski & news feeds to start with. What tweets did I see?
Nothing but the most extreme hard-right posters. Wall-to-wall fascists🤮

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

"...the Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles."

JBS Haldane.

Looking at the breakdowns, I’d guess we’ll see July marked down heavily too next month.

Worse still, the May and June numbers were revised WAY down, both under 20K.

Worst jobs results in years.

Everything good about the United States is being shut down so a crime syndicate of the world's worst pedophiles, sociopaths, and liars can sell what's left to add to the piles of billions of dollars they already have.

This week brought a slew of important data proving the cracks in the economy are getting both wider and deeper 📊

March 2017 - WSJ ed page: "So Much for Donald Mussolini"
October 2020 - Douthat: "There Will Be No Trump Coup"
August 2025 - building a network of concentration camps; repeatedly defying law/Constitution; and coercing the media, big tech, universities & law firms into submission

When will we learn?

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YouTube video by Larry & Paul UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this.

So would you do us a favour and share?

UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census)
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.

You know, I usually just block brainless mass-murder enthusiasts like you, but in this case I’m going to throw in a “go fuck yourself” while I’m at it.

How many kids did these kids kill?

Wisdom? You’re just a toxic aging pile of vicious reflexes. Another worthless Yank who hates as a hobby.

His Name Is Jesus. He’s a Carpenter. ICE Arrested Him. Seriously.

"We're going to go after the welfare loafers and the criminal aliens" turned into "We're literally arresting a hardworking carpenter named Jesus"

I’m very gruntled to see this word return to use.

👇

Of course, if these turdblossoms didn’t have logical fallacies to rely on they wouldn’t have anything at all…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true...