NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
What I like about Bluesky is that Ukraine's bombing of the Russian Bots has no effect on traffic here, we all blocked those bots long ago
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Star Trek (1966) "The MIT Museum unveiled an extraordinary piece of television and cultural history: the original 33-inch Starship Enterprise model that helped define sci-fi and sparked generations of scientific ambition." It will remain on public display at the Museum through March 28, 2027. 🔽
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
when you’re too dumb to know you’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoWhite House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"
Trump: “It's amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” *someone in the audience claps*
Art by the legendary French artist Philippe ‘Caza’ Cazaumayou
"It may irritate you, Inspector, but sometimes women have superior minds.” MURDER MOST FOUL (1964) The glorious MARGARET RUTHERFORD. #BudTingwell
Whereas I've always considered him kinda a happy, smiling lil axe-guy
Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 4d agoBehold, a 3000 year old Chinese ceremonial bronze axe bearing a human face of which archeologists described as "fearsome and fierce".
Even the headshot was AI, OpenAI says. Its verification tool shows the author photo and content on an "Ervin Hoskins" op-ed in the Port St. Joe Star came from OpenAI tools, part of an Iran-based “influence campaign” that placed about 100 fake articles in at least 20 American outlets.
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.
washingtonpost.com
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
And why is it you believe he is not a Russian asset again?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoTrump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
It would be lovely to think that on discovering an error of this magnitude it would prompt the Tories to stop and ask themselves if maybe we can afford net zero after all. Sadly, there is zero chance of that happening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
theguardian.com
Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
The Hunt for Red October Behind the Green Door
TinkeringTailorTom-Dread is no longer Existential@tinkeringtailortom.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Princess Bride of Chucky
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.