“The HTTPS private key is… 4” youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k?...

If he wrote the same number of pages per day in office, Tony Blair's memoirs would be over 7,000 pages long.

Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Extremely funny that Liz Truss's insider account of her time in office is 99 pages long.

In hindsight maybe this was a hint? youtu.be/1G-zvfegoQo?...

Will Sebag-Montefiore@wsebag.bsky.social · last wk.

For those unaware, John Cleese has fully endorsed Restore Britain

Today’s productivity greatly enhanced by this music video. youtu.be/l6umPyHxQio?...

TGV Synthwave: a mix for the most aesthetically 80s train

YouTube video by Alan Fisher

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I am fascinated that people who are evangelical about rapid AI adoption, suddenly get very keen to talk about its inaccuracy, the ethics of using it, and the need to be cautious, when the AI in question you’re talking about adopting is AI detectors.

Thanks Excel, this is definitely what I was aiming for

This looks like the AI slop photos on one of those scam adverts you get on Reach newspaper websites. "Pensioners in SE1 astonished at low cost funeral plans" type thing.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 2w ago

Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

I think I’d have a bit more respect for AI if it just said “oh shit oh fuck”, rather than this pathetic snivelling

Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 4w ago

One day AI will stop talking like this, and I'll dearly miss it when it does

Let’s have an annual flagship science and technology prize for the UK - @nestauk.bsky.social ‘s event at the Labour conference in Liverpool

I agree with this, and I think AI is going to make it a million times worse. ojusher.medium.com/theory-of-mi...

Theory of mind

When LLMs rewrite things for us, we lose something important: empathy

ojusher.medium.com

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 4w ago

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

An opinion I semi-seriously hold is that AI text, by law, should have to be rendered in that 1980s-style robot font. You know which one I mean. I am now extending this to say that you should, by law, have to read it out through a vocoder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmin...

Westminster (typeface) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Archie Hall@archiehall.bsky.social · last mo.

My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

Not gonna lie, I am not tempted to eat one of these AI oysters

What happens in a world in which all text is reprocessed for us by LLMs? ojusher.medium.com/theory-of-mi...

Theory of mind

When LLMs rewrite things for us, we lose something important: empathy

ojusher.medium.com

I do not need to be jumped scared into not buying a disposable BBQ. Fucks sake.

I was never quite able to take the BBC series seriously after my dad said he thought the triffids looked like celery

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The BBC Day of the Triffids scared the crap out of me when I watched it in 1981. It was broad-minded of my parents to let me watch it. It still lives in my imagination.

Delighted to be targeted for ads for, uh, whatever these are. I wouldn't dream of penny-pinching and going for the £4,600 option.

My vibes-based but strongly-held opinion: 🪖 The Soviets, Pinochet, Mobutu and Mussolini would have loved AI. 🎖️ The Khmer Rouge, English Puritans, Nazis and Falangists would have hated it. ojusher.medium.com/chatkgb-what...

ChatKGB: what would the Soviets have made of AI?

And other what-ifs from the history of tyranny

ojusher.medium.com

This excellent question from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has been playing on my mind, so I've had a go at thinking through what various horrible dictatorships would have made of AI. ojusher.medium.com/chatkgb-what...

ChatKGB: what would the Soviets have made of AI?

And other what-ifs from the history of tyranny

ojusher.medium.com

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Weird hypothetical: how do you think the USSR would've responded to the development of LLMs?

It's now over 18 years since there was a government department led by a Welsh MP (Hain, DWP) and over 16 years since there was a Scottish MP (Darling, Treasury; Alexander, DFID). I know there's a lot going on, but I think this is genuinely insane if you care even slightly about the union.

Everyone in science and technology policy world today

The thing with these freaks like Dominic Cummings and all his imitators is that they've never had a real job, so you could stick a Salesforce or Looker Studio dashboard on a big screen and tell them all about the "PhD physicists" who had developed it and they would be impressed.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ANDY BURNHAM PLANS BEEFED-UP CONTROL CENTRE IN DOWNING STREET - FT

This posts your Trophies directly to your National Record of Achievement

Obsolete Sony@obsoletesony.com · 3mo ago

The hardest PS4 ever made

Reviewing dozens of job slopplications today. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

This is ridiculous, but there’s also a ridiculous loophole. Fly to Dublin on your EU passport. You’re then in the common travel area and can continue on to the UK without checks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules

The dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policy

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"As far as the government is concerned, they’ve washed their hands of us. Would they do that to a white person?" For a @prospectmagazine.co.uk feature on Britain's citizenship-stripping boom, I spoke to families of people who have had citizenship revoked www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

Britain’s citizens of nowhere

Hundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime

prospectmagazine.co.uk

This is art.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 3mo ago

looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director

This is a really excellent question, and I think the answer is that they would have loved it, for reasons that are not a great compliment either to Soviet economics or to AI.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Weird hypothetical: how do you think the USSR would've responded to the development of LLMs?

Weird hypothetical: how do you think the USSR would've responded to the development of LLMs?

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

Fred Cowell@fascowell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

My controversial take is that Euston Station really doesn't deserve the hate. With more sympathetic shop frontages inside, the mezzanine removed and some clutter cleaned up, it could actually be a pretty classy space.

Modernism in Metro-Land@modinmetro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ticket Hall, Euston Railway Station 1968 British Rail London Midland Region Architects Dept. buff.ly/uyX9nJv