Jon Horne

Hmm. I have an ever escalating cyber warfare arms race with my children. I apply settings, they innovate to avoid, manipulate, hack, etc. them. I change settings, employ more thorough counter-espionage techniques, add layers - they then up their game further. And on it goes. Sometimes it’s even fun!

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

The first big brand I remember doing it was actually easyJet…

I’d raise you Swanage in Dorset, Brockenhurst in the New Forest, and I remember an amazing fish and chips on Santa Barbara sea front (maybe in a lighthouse?) if you want the same authenticity but in the states.

‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter

The horrifying reality of Israeli-back food distribution points. Devastating reporting by Malak A Tantesh and Emma Graham-Harrison
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Harley Davidson(!) used to sell sunglasses with a discrete porous foam surround to keep dust out of your eyes while biking - didn’t look like goggles, & had some sort of impact resistance rating, and you looked like a Terminator. Always used them for summer cycling in London. Sure others do similar.

Boris johnson looking surprised

The moment Boris Johnson is told the name of the idiot who actually agreed the Brexit deal.

Yeah but they’ve already got flexible alignment with the relevant EU position.

Proving that you can’t, in fact, lick a badger twice, after all…

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

Halfway through and loving it. Where are they hiding away the characters like these nowadays??

We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.

We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All

Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"

But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways

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www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

The kids use free chatgpt to write the work and then the staff use free studiosity to mark the work absolutely no one gets anything out of it including the companies. I think I'm having an existential breakdown

On balance, this an in situ outcrop of the bedrock, so technically folded and pushed up a very long time ago. (It’s aligned with the outcrop behind.) Where is it

Anybody complacent enough to think that the shitshow in the US could not happen here should take a glance at how quickly elements of the media have rushed to excuse proven lawbreaking by a far-right populist and undermine due process.

Am not currently persuaded that fairly enforcing the law against corrupt politicians heralds the end of democracy, but am impressed by the reaching on display. Solid effort, 9/10 all round.

Ukraine already produces 55% of its own military equipment, and that's while fighting an invasion.

It's racing towards producing ballistic missiles. It makes 200k+ drones monthly & has the West's most experienced army.

Give Ukraine a few years to fully arm & it will be Europe's security guarantee.

Decent people thank Ukraine.

Debbie

Graph showing that while the numbers of female, black, and black female pilots went up, the number of Air Carrier fatalities went down.

So @jennybeatty.bsky.social did some great work pulling together data from multiple sources to answer the question "Does diversity in pilot ranks negatively impact safety". While any partly sane person already knew the answer, her work proves the answer is no.

www.jennybeatty.com/airline-safe...

Two figures walk along a corridor lined with complex machinery. The worker says "Congratulations, sir! The most intelligent machine ever created is ready to change the world. Ten billion dollars well spent... What shall we ask it to do? " The billionaire replies "That's my business, not yours. Close the door on your way out." Now alone with the machine, the billionaire asteps closer and asks quietly "Can you Make people like me?" it says "No"

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

There’s quite a few you might find you like in this vain… how about 376, the one requiring your (late) airline to have a secure & confidential safety reporting system? Literally ensuring you’ll be ‘better late than never’, and thus able to use 261 in the first place… “But our sovereignty!” Etc. FFS.

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

Have you been to Funchal? With the approaches there it’s wild viewing on the roof terrace!

That’s more a hope than an expectation, bankers.

Unless it’s sold to someone competent surely it’s a one way ticket down, *starting* from break even… you’d be doing well to get 50 cents on the dollar, basically betting it’ll get traded on and fixed before it dies.

I think this second comment probably undermines how reliable the first reply can be taken to be, unfortunately.

How the Ivy League Broke America The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Somewhere in the article below it explains why Reform et al are attractive, but surely the answer to ‘who do they intend to be the management?’ is ‘the asset-strippers, oligarchs and leaches’. The whole project is about parasitising, or just mugging, society while we cheer them on, no?

My final year geology lit review 25yrs ago was ‘Climate volatility in the Holocene’. Still recount to friends an ‘irregular alternating sawtooth’ temp record, & every so often some tipping point is triggered & temp jumps wildly, in <10-30 years. Think critically under factored in current bestimates.

Have theory for this. The mystery of stagnant productivity and low/slow growth?

Answer is: advent of smartphones!

All that screen time on your phone used to be time you did other stuff. At work, you did work & collaboration. In not-work you did activities & used things that drove economy.