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Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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My dream scenario is that the lickspittle cunt resigns along with Mamood and every other careerist cunt among them, but then none of them get the 81 votes required so they're just yeeted into the sun or whatever happens in that event and meanwhile we all carry Starmer off to the giant wicker man

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💥 We're also hearing that Wes Streeting is preparing to quit as health secretary and could mount formal challenge for leadership as early as tomorrow - as per @breeallegretti.bsky.social & @patrickmaguire.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good. Fuck off. Fuck off into the sun. And take anyone who thinks you're a serious candidate for the next PM with you.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 3mo ago

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is preparing to resign after his 16-minute meeting with Sir Keir Starmer, according to reports Follow live updates: trib.al/7LT3ndY

Wes Streeting is an extremist. This is like the Home Secretary meeting with the BNP, Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, Eugenicists for a White Christ, and whatever else “to discuss citizenship issues” He should be nowhere near power.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 12mo ago

Wes Streeting held a meeting with: • Genspect • Bayswater Support Group • CAN-SG • Integrated Psychology Clinic • LGB Alliance • Transgender Trend "To discuss gender policy issues"

it's the mind as a little ghosty goblin homunculus made of spirity soulstuff called "thoughts" or "intellect" sat up there in the noggin of the meatmech it's piloting. he sees Claude as "competent" because it can simulate intellect and he thinks of intellect as a magical substance animating us, lol.

"did you wind up your little robot toy, Richard?" "yes" "has it just walked off the table, Richard?" "yes" "is it lying on the floor with its legs still going BZZZT-WHRRR! BZZZT-WHRRR!?" "yes" "and you think this is a searingly insightful demonstration of the possibility of competent zombies?" "yes"

even funnier than Dawkins getting romance scammed by autocorrect is that he, an *evolutionary biologist* tries to defend it as a thought experiment in which something with no body, no sensory organs, no reproductive cycle & no evolutionary pressures is a valid model for how/why sentience evolves

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WE CAN ALL JUST BELIEVE THINGS PEOPLE WHO TOLD THEIR COMPUTER PROGRAM TO SAY "IM ALIVE" AND ARE SURPRISED AND AWED AND TBH WORSHIPFUL WHEN IT DOES *ARE NOT SPECIAL*

Sigourney Weaver trying out a flamethrower for ‘Alien’ on the lawns at Shepperton Studios in 1978.

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month. Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

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Kavari DJ set @ Ormside Project

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The neighbors are having one of their all night loud bad doof doof music parties again. It's like my bedroom is cosplaying my tent at hacker camp with Gerafel too nearby, but without the fun and camaraderie of camp.

🎶 we don't want him, you can have him, he's too fash for me 🎶

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Keep him! “Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“

Some people really are determined to double down on being wrong on the internet. Sigh. See example below, wrong in more way than one...

Catturds of TrootSochul@jorge-s.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have been working with Acrobat for longer than you have most likely been alive and I have yet to come across a malicious PDF. Not saying they can't exist, only that you'd have to go out of your way to make one. Not worth the effort for books.

Cats mortally offended to learn that the people food they are begging for is an orange.

I like that apparently we're all not just normal posters dreaming of returning to the homes we fled to escape fascism but some kind of shadow posting government in exile dreaming of our return *to power*

Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university Human / Animal Relationships: Biological and Philosophical Issues Plants and Man One I can't remember the official name of that I dubbed Insects and Man The Hero and the Trickster Kendo

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf · 6mo ago

never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university disease in antiquity writings of medieval women religions of sub-saharan africa william blake scuba diving

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 6mo ago

“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors. It’s vibe coding, but for science.”

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Oh, her? That’s Bastet, just keeping an eye on everything.

danniemcq@danniemcq.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Slightly diminish a band Ziggy Stardust and the Dust Mites from Mars

"Augeas"@augeas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Slightly diminish a band Bauhütte Swards of the Nephilim Red Van Yellow Van Zweimal Deutschland Maiming Joke

Confuse a cat

In the long night that follows the shortest day we consume the dark.

The Solstice Sun cornbread is baked in the dark of the night to ensure the sun returns.

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Jimmy Martin@jimmygila.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: - hedgehog - red fox - turkey vulture - whitetail deer - muntjac

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf · 8mo ago

introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: - red fox - wapiti (north american elk) - sea lion - musk ox - european hedgehog