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Just to compare and contrast Narayan today with Starmer in early 2025 - whereas last year we were mainlining AI, now we're hardening our defences. A lot can change quite quickly.

A new @londonassembly.bsky.social report on self-driving vehicles in the capital, including evidence from me and a few others www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w... @ucl.ac.uk @stsucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?

The London Assembly Transport Committee has published the report: 'Who’s driving the future of autonomous transport in London?'

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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I imagine the horror on Pinker's face is the realisation that someone's mistaken him for Thomas Kuhn and he doesn't know the answer

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Remember, a leopard can't change its leotard

Just got myself a ticket to see the new Musk documentary

Nice image of the situation in this interview with mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin: "On one of the problems, I felt like I had run a marathon with someone on my back, who would have climbed down in the last 100 meters to cross the finish line before me" (my translation) www.rts.ch/info/science...

IA et maths : Hugo Duminil-Copin face à un "choc monumental"

Après la publication par OpenAI d'un vaste ensemble de démonstrations mathématiques, le médaillé Fields Hugo Duminil-Copin évoque jeudi dans l'émission Forum un "choc monumental". Il appelle toutefois...

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The human mathematicians are not happy with OpenAI. It’s a fascinating argument. Not about capabilities, but about the culture and norms of science. www.ahmath.org/statements

Wikimedia Foundation: "AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause. That burden is falling onto everyone else, including smaller organizations." wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.

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This piece I have written for @prospectmagazine.co.uk says things about the AI narrative being pushed by the industry that I have been wanting to say for some time. I hope it might help to bring about a more critical and discerning position in the media. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

We’re all going to die, but not from AI

That artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It’s time to challenge it

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I kind of also want to say it was probably 100000s, large OU foundation courses at their peak reached 10000 students a year and the course teams Stuart was part of spanned 18 years.

Liz McFall@allartmarkets.bsky.social · 5d ago

Love to see this but man the Story of the Walkman was an Open University textbook written towards the end of Stuart’s 18 year tenure there. He taught 10000s of OU students & that seems kind of airbrushed out of his legacy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sorry to inform to you that Free Thinking has been axed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Can anyone explain what Bengio means when he demands "highly capable AI that is trustworthy by developing systems without any preferences and related objectives." www.ft.com/content/7afa... I don't get what he's getting at

The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks

These are not simply cyber security flaws but problems with the way that models are trained

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Seems like a really odd decision, given how cheap these programmes must be. As an academic, I see Thinking Allowed, Free Thinking and The Artificial Human as vital connections between research and the public.

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Really interesting paper on scientists' views of climate solutions via @pilitaclark.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions

Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions, Dablander, Fabian, Cologna, Viktoria, Sachisthal, Maien, Haslbeck, Jonas

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 5d ago

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

I didn't realise until this that David Robinson (the whisteblower who blew an actual whistle) was the founder of @upturn.org, which I've been appreciating for a while

What This OpenAI Insider Saw That Made Him Quit | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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And if you want a distraction for AI's existential risk, try spending some time with mirror life

Nature@nature.com · 5d ago

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for figuring out how living organisms create molecules that are just one of two possible mirror-image variants go.nature.com/4j4DKUZ

okay okay OKAY i’ll list Rolling Stone’s 500 Worst Albums 500. Moondance -- Van Morrison  499. Young Sheldon -- Radiohead 498. Turd Smokin’ -- The Turd Smoker Band 497. Well Whaddya Know 99 More Luftballoons How About That -- Nena 496. Songs to Fuck To -- Leonard Cohen

That'll be the "rouge AI" we've heard so much about

And he did Bergerac, which is a banger. As though he asked ‘what’s Jersey like?’ And someone said ‘Bit French. But also like the Jamaica of Britain. Maybe some accordion reggae?’

Vaughan Williams Foundation@vwfndn.bsky.social · 6d ago

George Fenton, Oscar-nominated British composer for more than 100 films, has died aged 76. His successes include scores for Gandhi, Groundhog Day and 18 Ken Loach films, plus BBC TV news themes, Blue Planet and more.

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I'm looking for a strong PhD student candidate for applying to EPSRC DLA (Doctoral Landscape Award) studentships (starting Oct 2027) topic: studying software developers' practices with "AI tools" (i.e. LLM-based assistance) and mapping out its implications stuartreeves.mataroa.blog/blog/phd-adv...

Terraforming America for compute, as seen from the sky: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What the Data Center Boom Looks Like From the Sky (Gift Article)

In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.

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Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

“The fact that it was a demonstration image, for publication, should put to rest claims that photo 51 held the magic data unknown, unseen, undreamed-of before,” Comfort says.

Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

Please watch the play, not whatever this is...

Jack Stilgoe@jackstilgoe.bsky.social · last wk.

Loved James Graham's new play, The Standard of Living, with Maynard Keynes as the central character. Played by a very hard-working Rory Kinnear. Not as desperate to communicate its cleverness as Stoppard would have been. The conversations with Hayek are oddly touching and, AFAICT, actually happened.