Nick Stenning

A screenshot of an “AI Overview” from a Google search for a term from curling (the sport), which shows an embedded YouTube video. The video is quite clearly about how to curl the hair on one’s head, and yet the “AI” has captioned the video “This video shows a player in a curling match requesting more ice.”

Simply don’t understand why we’ve accepted this.

Uh huh. And what if it’s a fart in a jar?

I don’t mean to alarm you, but you appear to have put jam on your eggs. (How was it!?)

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned.

(Yes it’s good character detail.)

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

BBC World Service faces funding cliff edge in seven weeks, says Tim Davie As trust in Russia and China’s state broadcasters grows, director general warns of the dangers of cutting back the service

Seems we’ve still not got our heads round the fundamental role information plays in today’s security and geopolitics
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Gisèle Pelicot calls on victims to ‘never have shame’ in her first TV interview Pelicot says shame is ‘a double sentence’ and describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in police footage

What an amazing woman.

Pelicot said: “Shame sticks to you, it sticks to your skin. And that shame is a double sentence, it’s a suffering you inflict on yourself.”

honestly i’m just embarrassed for everyone involved here. “philosopher” my foot.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

When people look back on this period in 50+ (perhaps less) years time they will be aghast at how we wasted and used so much energy in a time of climate crisis.

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Week 1 - Black History Month 2026
1. You may have seen this image of Black men voting during Reconstruction, and assumed it is a depiction of voting after the passage of the 15th Amendment (which outlaws denying the right to vote based on race).

i can’t believe the lead nazi is antisemitic

Because they are Fucking Nazis!!!!

Agreed, although I will say one thing I’ve seen a bunch of recently is LLM-written tests that say “// Test that BleepBloop bloops bleeps” and then do nothing of the sort — on two occasions not even exercising the code under test. (Not suggesting for a minute that you’d be guilty of that!)

Lots of nuance here. Definitely less effective than working through problems with someone with substantial experience in the area. Probably more effective than doing so with many. Working with another human costs another human, but also there are twice as many opportunities for humans to level up!

They’ll survive in some form. But yes, hopefully we can get beyond the “this is transformative and you should be using them for everything” phase, as it’s getting tiresome.

You could house everyone in need of a home with the money being given to ICE. A society that chooses the latter over the former is truly evil and there's no way to spin that.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

This lines up with my experience: those who use language models as unstructured conceptual search engines and intellectual foils do well and learn. Those who use them to do the work without judging their output produce rubbish and atrophy their own skills. www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

“the U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939”

Into the abyss The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

I mean this is a start, but can we please start talking to these people with the level of respect they deserve? “You’re either a toady, an idiot, or a liar. Which is it?”

If these arseholes get anywhere close to power when we’re seeing high fidelity previews from the US of what will happen if they do (8-year-olds dying in custody, citizens shot in the street, …) we’re idiots.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

A ginger and white dog with a fluffy tail curled up like a croissant on green and white striped bedding.

In case anyone needs it, here is One Cosy Boy refusing to get up on a cold morning.

Good morning. Fuck ICE. Impeach Noem. Love to Minnesota from Berlin.

Reposting with Alt Text.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position