Kate Bevan
@katebevan.com
Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines.
As ever, this is very clear from Ciaran on the latest "AI going rogue" incident (as Ciaran says, the AI didn't "go rogue, just be very clear), and some thoughts on what these incidents mean for how we test these tools.
Ciaran Martin@ciaranm.bsky.social · 8h agoSome thoughts from me on the latest AI security testing farrago substack.com/@ciaranmarti...
I keep seeing this take and I can't understand why so many people want to infantilise this man and deny him agency. He's not a toddler or a vulnerable grad student. Why are we granting him the status of moron who needed to be spoonfed the concept of not making shit up.
Absolutely amazing. No apology or explanation for the mounting pile of, to say the least, improbable claims, and on top of that, it's published by the GLP, which is clearly doubling down.
Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · 11h ago#ExtraordinaryExtensions on Channel4 is even more brilliant than Grand Designs for those of us who enjoy schadenfreude as the massive hubris involved in some of these builds easily outstrips anything Our Kev has seen. And Tinie Tempah is a great presenter.
Great, and also by definition anyone who had these ads served to them is committing a crime - it is illegal to create, view and share all sexual images of children under-18 produced using AI.
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h agoAfter WIRED contacted Meta about the ads, they were removed for violating policies on child sexual exploitation. However, the researchers kept finding more of the ads—including duplicates of those reported. Hours before we published, they found another 30, including multiple that were 'live' ads
these two absolute clowns look like a weak Thursday evening cop drama on ITV1. She's the chippy boss who everyone mistakes for the rookie copper; he's the dim, posh sidekick and between them they never actually solve any crime.
Dan is gathering important data on spicy fruit, people. Please do this quiz thing.
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 12h ago"I" built an is-it-spicy-or-is-it-a-food-allergy toy, you're welcome and also I'm sorry, tell your friends spicy.sgc.rayandhon.com
I haven't seen anything from this man nor from Badenoch acknowledging, never mind apologising to, Luciana Berger. And the Board of Deputies has declined to meet him, which should tell you everything about how victims of his pure evil feel about his "rehabilitation". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
bbc.co.uk
I haven't seen Bad Cat for a couple of weeks, but this lad seems to have taken his place. I'm calling him Stumpy, for obvious reasons
discovering via emails just how many charities I have interacted with have been affected by the Beacon breach 😑😑 www.theregister.com/security/202...
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack
Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details
theregister.com
Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.
Side note: my GP recently asked if I minded their AI notetaker recording the meeting. I said I did mind. Then I was bothered afterwards that the GP might be less well-disposed towards me because I said no. What are your thoughts/experiences in this area? #AI #notetakers #transcripting
what the what now??? Arday had a brain tumor on top of everything else???
London friends, this gorgeous foster kitten and her adorable sister are looking for a home to establish their feline overlords lair. Contact @soapachu.bsky.social for details. And pls share prolifically!! @richd028.bsky.social @snig.bsky.social @katebevan.com @garius.bsky.social
badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 17h agoAnd...snooze
Marvellous work, she’s allowed Zack Polanski to sound magnanimous and given him cover for the next time one of his guys is revealed to be a Holocaust denier or whatevs
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 18h agoHello I'm an idiot
"So if we put the sofa here, there's still room for an armchair, and we also get the nice light though the window."
Also works if you sing it to the tune of Wouldn't It Be Good www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLT...
Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage.bsky.social · 2y ago[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys] 🎵Wouldn't it be nice 🎵To eat a Minion 🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god 🎵And wouldn't it be nice 🎵Though quite forbidden 🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob
Someone I know recently had two people to select between for a job, and had been given total discretion to choose however they wanted. One had said they listened to Diary of a CEO. That was the decision made and the other applicant was recruited
If Frankenstein had downloaded all of LinkedIn to his monster's brain, he'd have created Bartlett
I would prefer to spend an entire week at the dentist with no anaesthetic than work for Steven Bartlett. Great piece.
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 21h agoI wrote about the weird and vaguely-psychotic test you're asked to take when being recruited by Steven Bartlett - this is quite fun, even if I do say so myself: www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-ap...
Just felt a single drop of rain, hope you'll all read my Experience column in the Guardian this weekend
The Financial Times has been owned for more than a decade by Japan’s Nikkei. It’s proved a better owner than the U.K.’s Pearson.
Dr Rebecca Warren@drrjwarren.bsky.social · 23h agoPlease sign. None of us benefit from having foreign-owned press.
