Enrico Fermi on December 2nd, 1942:

John@localcelebrity.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yo, it’s a perfect night in Chicago for critical mass, y’all

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 4w ago

Slow down frontier model development. Bring open weights to current frontier. Build out local inference providers, stabilize hardware prices, focus on cost and token throughput for a bit. Get our software updated to handle what's being thrown at us. I would not mind spending a beat on distribution.

youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?... is an incredible introduction to things you may take for granted, including the job queue being a literal queue. Maurice Wilkes was still turning up to Computer Lab happy hours on Friday afternoons to have a beer well into his 90s. Fucking legend.

The EDSAC Film

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If you work in tech and have ever thought you’d rather be working with your hands… now’s your chance to support someone with the same dream. Help my friend and ex-colleague retrain as a luthier! www.paypal.com/pools/c/9sqp...

Help A Queer Woman Stay in Europe and Retrain for a New Career

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Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

What is income? I tried to summarise one of the hardest and most important questions in economics on one page because we have got the answer horribly wrong, and climate change proves it. I wrote the infographic. AI drew it.

OH: “Does anyone know what ‘AWS Bartholomew and the Oobleck; formerly OpenOobleck’ is and are we using it? It’s costing us $500K a month.”

I know these roles can be hard to find so just putting it out there: we have a bunch of Staff and one Principal role open at astronomer.io/careers/ and you'd be joining some pretty good humans here.

Astronomer: The Best Place to Run Apache Airflow®

Apache Airflow® orchestrates the world’s data, ML, and AI pipelines. Astro is the best way to build, run, and observe them at scale.

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rare books are destroyed in the process but at least we have a technology that instructs teens how to commit suicide

404 Media@404media.co · 2mo ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Hugops as always to the folks dealing with today's (scheduled??) GitHub outage, but big yikes for continuing to post inane status updates like moving "Pull Requests" from "degraded performance" to "degraded availability" after the entire goddamn service has been hard down for an hour.

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

I’d recommend everyone watch this - it’s rather cheering to watch our media discover that an incompetent crank runs our national equality regulator

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

In ancient R’lyeh she slumbers. Each minute, a grain falls, and when her prison fills, the salt girl awakens. When it rains, it pours.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

holy shit I can actually see the flatiron building… without scaffolding!

oh maaate i’m so sorry i missed little alfie’s christening this morning… me and the lads went out last night and had an absolute

did you know? you can make your organization more structurally complex in order to make it work more simply! it might be a good thing!

seriously how are we still having the datacenters in space conversation?

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

this is, for reference, less than 1 percent of the water used in the United States in a single *day*

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4mo ago

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.

wait until you hear how many teaspoons of water they used!!

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4mo ago

Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.

Racist men have always been most afraid of the possibility that *someone else* might abuse their wives and daughters.

Weird Alex@jackalpants.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Called it

Every once in a a while I look at UK news and reflect on the fact that the current PM won the second-largest labour majority ever and used it to… [checks notes]… become the Tory Party?