Forget age, why don't we gate voting on passing a critical reasoning test.

🚨 We've extended the RTC.ON call for speakers! You asked and we listened – CFP is open for 2 more weeks! 🔥 Got a great story to tell? See what we're looking for and apply 👇

Co-op narrowly avoided an even worse cyber attack zurl.co/6bORQ

Co-op narrowly avoided an even worse cyber attack, BBC learns

The revelation - from the criminals responsible - explains why the Co-op is getting back to business faster than M&S.

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Energy Costs of Voice AI www.pickering.org/energy-costs...

Energy Costs of Voice AI

Someone asked me yesterday: Is Voice AI going to burn the planet? Profligate use of AI certainly contributes to emissions, especially if we don't put data centres in the right places, but I've worke...

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100% AI generated. This really isn't hard.

The view from the top deck at "the most scenic bus stop in the UK", but are there any better? #LakeDistrict

Getting out for a walk is an incredible way to leave all the doom behind for a few hours and today was incredibly beautiful.

A cautionary tale about trying to get an AI agent to present a slide deck at FOSDEM this year: www.pickering.org/ai-presentat... Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?

Let's do this...

This looks super interesting. I suppose we could choose the current trajectory of unmanaged decline instead though. youtu.be/RdLEjTowMIs

The LFG Bill: Launch

YouTube video by Looking For Growth

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Coming to the end of another wonderful day.

Another stunning day again today, could get used to the yellow thing in the sky.

This bothers me. It is completely wrong to say that using a neural network is always unethical, any more than using a steam engine, a car or electricity were somehow inherently immoral when they were invented. Just makes no sense.

What a day today. Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...

Joining Bluesky this year, I found a creative and supportive community. Stunning photos and thoughtful conversations make this space special. As 2025 approaches, I wish you all a fantastic, healthy, and Happy New Year. Let’s keep building this together.

First serious post here... What does the AI and the value of knowledge work, what can we expect government to do, and how should we respond individually... www.pickering.org/ai-and-the-p... TL;DR Don't worry about P(doom), P(bad_things) is much more likely, and possibly influenceable.

AI and the value of knowledge work

This tweet was probably pretty controversial back in mid 2021 but, with suitable qualification, the number of informed people that would now argue with it must be pretty small. I've been thinking quit...

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Make a Christmas card using an LLM they said... www.pickering.org/happy-christ...

Happy Christmas!

Make a Christmas Card using an LLM they said... Add a Christmas Tree in place of the radar dome on this boat ChatGPT said: Here's the image of a boat with a festive Christmas tree replacing the ...

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We're Bay Search & Rescue and we're new to Bluesky. Our main base is at Flookburgh in Cumbria and we operate all around Morecambe Bay. We have charity shops in Grange-over-Sands, Milnthorpe and Kendal which are all staffed by our amazing volunteers. Please repost to help us meet new people.

Its alive!

I'm used to views with the tops of hills disappearing into the murk, but it is grim down south today. They've lost the tops of their buildings.

Serious platform. bsky.app/profile/mode...

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

Organisations: you can verify the authenticity of your account here by registering your domain name as your handle. bsky.social/about/blog/4... This applies to everyone who has control of a domain name and wants to verify their identity and associate it with that web presence. It is secure and free.

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky

Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

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Dawn Walker@computingdawn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Variation on a theme, we’ll need to verify accounts that appear too.

So many people sharing their stories about @krisnova.net makes me happy she lives on I made this to remember her and I’m sure some of the stories will resonate with others If you never met her you missed out

Remembering Kris Nóva

YouTube video by Justin Garrison

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This place really does fill me with the same hope and wonder as the early Internet. I've been here 24hrs and blown away that 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives just liked my whimsical skeet about UK telephone boxes.

One of these two has something in common with a mountain, but which one? (and where are they)