I grew up with “The Measure of a Man”, that time Riker was forced to argue against Data’s personhood. So for me, this is all settled. Nobody at the lab knows wtaf I’m taking about. And the story hasn’t been retold.
Christopher Berry
@cjpberry.bsky.social
Perpetually mystified | Views are mine.
What a bizarre op-ed. David doesn’t appear to be aware of the damage done to CBS news brand. Which in turn discounts any face-value trust I had when I read the opening paragraph. He can’t possibly believe what he wrote, can he?
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · yesterday"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more." - David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/op...
If it wasn’t for James Burke (The Day The Universe Changed, Connections) getting me to so young, I’d have such a harder time with second and third ordered effect. I rarely meet anyone anymore who knows about it. It must be hard to think of webs of connections without that intuition.
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW stuff for Monday morning! Get your new stuff here! Pandemic risk is going up. Can we bring it back down? Probably not - unless we radically reimagine our relationship with nature, food, and each other. First preprint led by the brilliant @torrelavelle.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Major lessons here are: 🐔 Food connects climate, biodiversity, and pandemics 💉 Prevention and preparedness both matter 🌍 Some futures leave poor countries behind 📈 It will be very hard to reduce pandemic risk 💻 We can use these scenarios to model future pandemic risk, which we're doing next.
This project does a deep dive on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which have been used in the last decade of climate change impact research that is assessed by the IPCC. The SSPs tell stories about different possible worlds in terms of changing social, economic, and environmental baselines
Been seriously rolling what @tedunderwood.com said about hiring a cartoonist. I mean, given the median literacy, yeah.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d agoAnthropic invited to White House on Tuesday to discuss AI safety testing by the US government - Source familiar with the meeting
Portland Street results from the cycle track and road mods. #toronto www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Watching Liberia resist cartel infiltration into its institutions. A lot of the right things are happening. The seniors, in particular, are putting up the fight. No need to pay that tuition twice.
This is very, very interesting.
Matthew Moore@matthewrmoore.bsky.social · last wk.The cost of losing local journalism is more than just a metaphorical one. A group of finance professors found that fewer local reporters are leading to higher municipal borrowing costs for local governments. Thanks to @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for chatting - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...
Live linear audiences have locked-in habits. They are not SVOD conditioned. A 2026 Live Linear audience is an actuarial product. And that calls for an actuarial strategy.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d agoNEW: Under Bari Weiss, CBS News has shifted to the right to try to grab some of Fox News' audience. Not only have they failed to do that, but they've driven off so much of their core audience that CBS Mornings is now perilously close to getting beaten by Fox & Friends. zeteo.com/p/mamdani-de...
FEDWATCH: “.. $NVDA credit default swaps (CDS) widened .. triggering a positive CDS basis. “This happens when protection demand is rising faster than cash‑bond repricing” — and is “unique for highly rated credits like NVDA, as the phenomenon typically happens when a credit falls into junk status.”
Iran Update Special Report, July 28, 2026: Three competing groups within the regime are attempting to influence negotiations policy. The group currently arguing for negotiations and total control over the strait is likely guiding policy at this time. (1/7) Read the report: isw.pub/IranUpdate07...
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Having read everyone’s AI essays over the past three days, the meta-meta is that I lament just how little trust I have in most of their words. One of them even tried to sell me abundance again. Anybody else feeling… malaise?
He made it just outside of Thunder Bay, stopped only because he couldn’t stop coughing. Cancer got into his lungs. Terry is the exceptional exception.
Douglas Ogg@dougogg.bsky.social · last wk.Pausing today to reflect on the life and legacy of Terry Fox, on what would have been his 68th birthday. May Terry's sacrifice continue to inspire us to do good in his honour, in whatever capacity we have.
Pausing today to reflect on the life and legacy of Terry Fox, on what would have been his 68th birthday. May Terry's sacrifice continue to inspire us to do good in his honour, in whatever capacity we have.
In the Canadian context: There is insufficient competition in the grocery space as a result of consolidation, cooperation (See: Canada Bread) and covenants. Given that the grocery lobby simply can’t, legally, end the capture and break themselves up, the state could, compete.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
Jim Haggerty is brilliant throughout the series. Joad Cressbeckler set a high bar for the format. Jim is exceeding it.
InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?
We’re at Papers In The Park S2E11. A perfect day for it. Feels 21c with the gentlest wind and no mug. Thanks to @cohereforai.bsky.social for sponsoring, and Alvin for the walk through. Papers after the jump.
Genuinely baffled why it took 7 months to detect poor returns.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago“.. “It’s like driving a Lamborghini to go to the grocery store to pick up milk when that was designed to be raced around a track,” he said in an interview. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/chi...
US exceptionalism: the US alone refused to sign a declaration that reiterates a global goal to at least halve road traffic deaths and injuries between 2021 and 2030. www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
The U.S. Alone Votes Against A Road Safety Declaration
Yesterday the UN's General Assembly passed a near-unanimous declaration on cutting road-traffic deaths in half.
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One of my favourite researchers, Rauno Arike from Aether is giving a talk. Gould, D., Ward, F. R., Woodruff, A. C., Arike, R., Hills, J., Serrano, A., ... & Stastny, J. (2026). Think Fast: Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.07157.
Spoiler: there are huge gaps in Canada’s AI safety strategy
