"when you design these systems, you're building a pinball machine for words, with different levers interacting to bounce the steel ball of language moving against other levers and mechanisms…you have to be aware of how your levers interact with each other and the people pulling them" Great metaphor

Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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genuinely thought the PM was calling in sick

A pigeon has turned the NATIONAL GALLERY into the NATIONAL GÁLLERY

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

The Sims (2000)

This week’s astonishing artifact is the oldest preserved chair in Europe: it was made of ash wood and otter skin. 🏺🧪

Guldhøj folding chair: The only completely preserved chair from Bronze Age Europe

The remarkably preserved wooden folding chair was likely a status symbol and was found in the grave of a Bronze Age chieftain.

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There's the UK political zeitgeist in one picture

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.

Feels like a dangerous moment in AI, so I wrote a blog www.jimgumbley.com/blog/timing-...

The timing tradeoff: Sam, Dario and Sacks decisions and the Skynet timeline

Sam, Dario and Sacks are making consequential decisions about pace, oversight and whose risks count.

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If 327 years in software development has taught me anything, it's that asking them is a pretty ineffective way of figuring out what users need.

What do we want? Robust activation monitoring When do we want it? Now!

One thing I've noticed in solutioning and proposal as AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT have become more prevalent is the increase in solutions an proposals that make feck all sense

Posez pas de questions

This is getting out of hand

Seen many handwringing interviews of Clinton era boomers bemoan the social impact of allowing China WTO entry to undercut working class jobs in the USA "We didn't see this coming" Stark compared to microdosing millenial billionaires gleefully doing the same thing with AI datacentres

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

August 2026 looks like the month AI hits diminishing returns Every dollar of investment running into disproportionately rising costs of financing Every increment of capability running into disproportionately rising misalignment of models

Speechless

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Feel like there should be an inquiry of some sort but media have dodged any accountability for years

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4w ago

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Both the Times and the Telegraph have been running paid advertising with the coverage of this It was always a minor story about the faculty heads misjudgment that drove clicks as a dogwhistle Feeling disgusted and so sad for his family

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.

Everything I know about project management in one Meme 😆

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nine straight games without a single goal. Instead of staying quiet, fans grabbed a sign and literally pointed the team to the goal post.

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.

1. UK government proposes sweeping new laws to regulate the Internet 2. Experts warn the powers are badly-defined, technologically unfeasible and will be difficult to enforce 3. Government passes them anyway 4. Enforcement turns out to be hard 5. Government proposes more new laws

Trump's unpopularity is one of the most positive developing current affairs headlines right now

Reuters@reuters.com · 3mo ago

Basketball fans greeted Donald Trump with a chorus of loud boos, as the Republican became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the NBA Finals at Game 3 of the championship series between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.

If anybody needs me, I'll be screaming into the void.

Bit of a doomy headline but interesting read about the weather

Futurism@futurism.com · 4mo ago

"While we do occasionally have warm spells in May, what we’re seeing now is unprecedented."