Mayor Mamdani's focus on a helmet paints deadly crashes as the failure of vulnerable road users to protect themselves, rather than as the failure of government to stop completely avoidable carnage. buff.ly/0HIM3RQ

A Helmet Won’t Save Mayor Mamdani From a Crash - Streetsblog New York City

Mamdani’s announcement entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.

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“I write everything using AI now." No you don't. Your little computer girlfriend summarizes the internet's thoughts for you. You went to the word ATM and gave the receipt to the Wall Street Journal.

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI

“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.

notus.org

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

how horrible. Hopefully this loophole will be quickly closed. #housing

Polly Smythe@pollysmythe.bsky.social · 7d ago

For this week's London Centric, we've looked into the new and totally legal tactic that's being used to try to squeeze as much rent as possible from London’s private tenants in the face of the Renters’ Rights Act – the inverse bidding war www.londoncentric.media/i/211878305/...

I can think of a few experiences associated with the term 'AI': - Goggle AI saying that one should use glue for the cheese on pizzas - Trump posting a video of himself dropping shit from a jet; Trump enjoying a rebuilt Gaza with Netanyahu - the extensive use of copyrighted material without

I'd say "contactless payments come to America" has the potential to be about three days of transatlantic bluesky content, possibly taking in US aversion to automatic speed cameras and something about food consumption.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7d ago

WALMART WILL INTRODUCE CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AT SELECT STORES BEGINNING AUGUST 24.

UK transit nerds are next level.

Here is the full chart with labeled axes. It is comparing homework scores to test scores. Below-average and average scorers for homework and exams appear at about the same frequency regardless of AI usage. The high homework scorers using AI, however, are not replicating that success at test time.

Time to make sure that everyone in the world you care about is paying attention because things are going to get really really bad very very soon

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

Hey everybody. I’ve seen the statement by Matt Karch, the CEO of Saber Entertainment, and all of the truly horrendous things he said about me. I think it should be obvious to anyone who reads that statement that he’s lashing out because he did not want people to know there was AI use in the game.

Super excited for this! Next game from the maker of Her Story, Telling Lies and Immortality!

Sam Barlow 🔥@mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!

This is your periodical reminder never to look directly at the sun. Nor at the express, the daily mail, the times or the telegraph.

i loved starfield. there's plenty of memes.

Planets come in a variety of sizes and biomes. Some can be extreme. Make sure you have a good spacesuit! #Starfield #StarbornSaturday #VirtualPhotography

The constant daily stream of positive commentary about Starfield on this app is a big part of my happy place. So the fact that for two days it's been drowned out by people parroting someone's objectively bad take that it doesn't exist kinda makes me not want to participate in the site.

There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.

See recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in surfing competitions for dogs, via The Atlantic Photo: theatln.tc/gzIZZkl2

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

futurism.com

ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat

AI chatbots should not refer to themselves using 'i' (eg "you're right I did make that up") . Similarly, we should not refer to them as 'you' (eg "you told me earlier stuff that was clearly incorrect")

All devs are absolutely NOT using AI www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

gamesradar.com

When I turn the key on the back of my wind-up Tasmanian Devil toy from 1992 it spins around on the spot and then falls over AI researchers: is this consciousness?

It was a kick around. A keepy uppy competition.

"Lads let's give them a four goal lead and see if we can still win".

excellent news! #Starfield

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

Bethesda Isn't Giving Up On Starfield As It Promises New Content In 2027: "Starfield Remains An Important Part Of Our Future"

all these old farts are terrified because they think this is a jump from silent to sound or horses to cars and they don't want to get left behind when it's like pet rocks being touted as a replacement for dogs and also the rocks are uranium

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Casual football watchers at fan parks, over-celebrating goals and throwing beer over everyone, are all perverts.