Aaron

@aarontunney.bsky.social

Pronounced “Aaron”, not “Aaron”. Maintainer of the Spurs Bsky feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s2fujexu2t63a55mluw3ui54/feed/aaamda4cdiqrs

Finally got to see My Neighbour Totoro at the theatre today. When the enormous slumbering Totoro was revealed, my 7-year old leaned in and whispered: “That’s you in the morning”. 🫠🫠🫠

Love how everything notoriously stressful turns out to be very stressful indeed. It would be nice if one turned out to be OK actually. (We are currently waist-deep in the secondary schools admission process.)

something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"

Poster of The Bayeux Tapestry with a bunch of 5 star reviews

"Does your process knowledge, all that non-digitized stuff that doesn’t show up in training data that you learned from living as a human being in the messy sticky fuzzy-edged physical world, tell you something different from what the AI “analysis” is telling you?"

So here’s how I would urge you all to celebrate Stanislav Petrov Day this year. Remember the example of the man who disobeyed orders to ignore what the cutting-edge computer system was telling him to do, and saved untold millions of lives in the process. Whatever an AI is telling you, whether it’s a warning of a national security threat or a business “efficiency” recommendation or healthcare “cost-saving” or personal “communication tips,” do not trust it unreservedly. Do not let yourself become a meat-puppet for unthinking software because it’s easier in the short run. Do not take irreversible actions, especially actions putting life at risk, due to AI guidance.

Disobey, always, rather than do something barbarous.
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

The head teacher stood up and announced the school was in quarantine. A couple of kids had tested positive for something contagious and we’d be stuck in the school for at least a week. There were gasps, some kids were in tears. This was pre-mobile phones so we couldn’t contact anyone.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”

god, i was born in the wrong era. imagine being around in the Cambrian period. you could just evolve something simple like shell or legs that nobody had thought of before and coast on that your whole life