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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d ago

As we look about ourselves at an even nastier, much more cruel, stupid, malicious and bleak version of Britain even than we had ten years ago, I’d urge you to understand: this was deliberate. It was done *to* us, by identifiable people who thought it would be good because it helped their projects.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

"And unlike other non-living things, AI systems can form relationships with humans." Unlike other non-living things, AI systems are designed by coprorate interests to deceive people and make them feel that the relationships they formed are actually reciprocated. (There, fixed it for you.) >>

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w ago

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

Securing more than 4,000 new jobs for London. In Tokyo, I met with Mitsubishi Estate to discuss their major new development on London's South Bank - a massive boost for our world-leading creative and economic sectors.

Scale model of central LondonMayor Sadiq Khan shakes hands with a manMayor Sadiq Khan, Deputy Mayor Howard Dawber and two other men stand speaking next to a scale model of central London
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

history is hilarious sometimes I just read a line from this prominent British essayist during the American Revolution, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" dude looked at these enslavers demanding freedom and said I know that ain't who I think it is

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

Express Headline: Twenty-seven young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis. Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s, according to a shocking new study.
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல்@kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Later, when we were alone, Kumar told me that she would probably just end up in the toilet or the front room a few days later, her mouth stuffed with fish bones and pneumonia.' from Things That Happened While We Waited For Our Magical Grandmother to Die—No. 39 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Things That Happened While We Waited For Our Magical Grandmother to Die—No. 39

When we were young, we would always get lost in the house. Quietly but suddenly, we would find ourselves in rooms or corridors that had not been there before. Unfamiliar clothing hung on chairs or …

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Blaft Publications@blaft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

I saw somebody quote post the OP saying "but even when we look inside the ANN, we don't understand what is in the black box" and I hate to break it to them but yeah, that's what the paper is about! Leibniz Mill is literally this point... he beat them by 3 centuries 🙃

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

OK, let's talk about 3 important concepts: ANNs, LLMs, & AI: "Definitions of AI and LLM are hard to pin down [&] ANN is an umbrella term for models" Black box: Really not what people think because actually you can open it (read on in the PDF to find out) by design! doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 5/

Box 1: Terminology for unpicking labels and conceptual pre- cursors to the reasoning behind ‘ANNs are a black box or un- knowable, even if opened’ depicted in Figure 1. ANNs, LLMs, & AI In modern parlance, in both scholarly and popu- lar science and technology discussions, these three acronyms are often used interchangeably. Defini- tions of AI and LLM are hard to pin down — as AI is a marketing term for making research sound flashy, neither ‘intelligence’ nor ‘artificial’ are coherent sci- entific concepts, and the ‘large’ in LLM is not used with any given cut-off (Guest 2026; Guest, Suarez, et al. 2025). ANN is an umbrella term for models of the data or of cognition that involve matrix multi- plications followed by squashing functions (Guest and Martin 2025b, 2023). Black Box A phrase from cybernetics, used inter alia in en- gineering and computer science, that denotes a system or sub-system that we (aim to) understand only through examining its input-output mappings (Ashby 1956; Glanville 2009). This pure functional- ist view on engineered systems does not preclude peeking inside for the ground truth after perform- ing the black box analysis. On the contrary, for non-engineered systems there is no peeking inside — such a manoeuvre is not possible — as no speci- fications or latent human-designed methods were used to create the system (Guest, Scharfenberg, et al. 2025). Leibniz’ Mill The Mill Argument, Leibniz’ Mill, or Leibniz’ Gap, is an argument against the idea that mechanical components suffice to understand cognition. Leib- niz (1714/1989) asks us to imagine stepping inside a machine that produces cognition in the same way we can a mill, an exemplary machine. In so do- ing we observe the interactions of the mill’s cog- wheels, levers, and other components. By look- ing at the mechanical constituents of the machine, Leibniz explains, there will never be anything we will come across that explains cognition (Cummins 2000, 2010; Duncan 2012; Hattab 2011; Kulstad…
Shawn "Smith" Peirce@silversmith1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Long thread: I've done interviews on Labour's latest anti-asylum policy today, but, unfortunately, had to turn down some for this evening. So, in addition to the clip from earlier, let me just set out why and how this latest Labour piece of cruelty won't work, but will cause far more harm. 1/38

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Spoke to LBC News about Shabana Mahmood's supposed "landmark deal" with France to prevent people seeking asylum in the UK and how it is just a continuation of the same failed hostile policies of the last government.

RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
Adrian Bott@cavalorn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

do I really have the energy for another round of 'why the Easter elements you think are pagan aren't, and why a load of Easter elements most people haven't even heard of probably are'