I know people really want to resist this idea, but there’s an increasing pile of evidence that lots of people in positions of power aren’t trying to do some delicate balancing act to keep the peace, but simply agree with the aims and to an extent the actions of the fascists.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d ago

In contrast, Donna Jones, the Conservative police and crime commissioner for Hampshire, did not condemn the masked crowds in Portsmouth: "Largely they were peaceful. They were they were making their point, but they don’t want Portsmouth to become a destination" [for asylum seekers arriving].

If Ada Lovelace wasn’t the first programmer why does literally every millennial girldad in tech have a daughter named Ada?

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

None of this makes any sense. The Holocaust happened precisely because massive, systematic deportations DID occur. Mass deportation was the primary logistical mechanism used to feed people into Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bełżec…etc.

I don’t know why liberal politicians and media have completely surrendered to this US-based Nazi oligarch even though he’s deeply unpopular in all their countries. It’s a damning indictment of the system.

Trump did well with that same group of apolitical people. These are the sort of voters who then see Trump do exactly what he said he’d do (and what leftists tried to warn people about)…and say “this is terrible, this is not what I voted for” because they thought they were voting for “common sense.”

I’ve seen exit polls from Saxony-Anhalt that suggest the AfD did especially well amongst people who do not regularly vote, getting around 2/3 of such voters.

One key dimension of Musk’s far right propaganda push is his effort to reframe far right extremism as “centrism.” It’s patently absurd to those who follow politics, but it’s effective messaging when aimed at low info voters.

It honestly seemed like this is what was happening but it was impossible to tell what was going on.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The guy obviously thought he 'got' me or something, but never saw my reply coming: Math proofs? Who cares about that? I actually asked him: how does anyone's life here improves from a solution to an Erdos-problem? A whole industry was built, for that?!

This whole math proof narrative is in any case tiresome. A while ago I argued in a keynote that GenAI-development is a gigantic waste of resources. Most people in the audience agreed vehemently. Then came a question: well what about the math proofs that stunned mathematicians?

I'm going to get a t-shirt made: “we burned down the entire planet, and all we got were some plagiarised math proofs”

"“there is the big PR machine that wants to sound as impressive as possible and does not care about being 100 percent accurate,” he says."

"Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap."

The result, he and some of his colleagues found, wasn’t as novel as it first appeared."

Another one. "The discovery stunned Francesco Fournier-Facio, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, who studies group theory—at least until he “engaged with this breakthrough as I would if a human had written it,” he says.

"The LLM-generated proof hinges on a particular mathematical argument that it presented as its own but that actually first appeared in a 2016 paper by Miller and a collaborator."

Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

scientificamerican.com

“that Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our own country at least) could have exerted over it.” (Babbage)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace was born in London on the 10th of December 1815 to a recently married socialite couple. Her father, Lord Byron, who went down in history as one of the greatest Romantic English poets, …

blue-stocking.org.uk

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

AfD-Chef Tino Chrupalla kündigt an, Vereinen das Geld zu streichen, die "indoktrinierte Politik" betreiben. Damit erntet Chrupalla das, was die Union 2025 mit ihren 551 "Fragen" an die Bundesregierung gesät hat. Und Merz wird sich morgen wieder Sorgen um die Demokratie machen.

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social · 6d ago

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down

With ChatGPT down it's time to email your biggest enemy at work and cause a nervous breakdown as they are unable to respond

It’s the teenagers. My village has done nothing about cars speeding and running stop signs for years but suddenly teenagers have ebikes and they’re talking about new laws and enforcement like it’s the greatest crisis ever of the modern age.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Did you guys know that a widely used transportation technology is encouraging Americans to prioritize speed and convenience over physical activity, with grave consequences for public health? It's called an e-scooter and it's time to finally do something about it.

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

I hope this inspires more advocacy around the country. We made noise, we presented the data, we spoke at city hall, we testified before the PEP. We were heard! It’s not perfect but it’s a big step in the right direction. Thank you for listening @mayor.nyc.gov

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d ago

AI is not inevitable. resistance works!

We have a decade of research that says this is a bad idea. Beyond that, we have a decade of research that says this will absolutely fuck over marginalized folks.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.”

If you want to win, don’t abandon trans people for no g-ddamn reason a year before your primary next time, Seth Moron! “Massachusetts Fetterman” isn’t a compliment. Dark Woke stays undefeated!

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last wk.

That's it! Moulton is officially a loser, Markey projected to win!!

update: bsky.app/profile/albe...

Albert Lee@albertl.bsky.social · last wk.

Yeah, it came out in 2019 www.npr.org/sections/cod...