This isn't meant as a criticism of the guy himself (who I'm sure does his best to cover his brief). I feel a lot of Gell-Mann amnesia with tech journalism these days: I'm sure it's hard to do well but most outlets miss the mark. It's partly to blame for the public's broad tech illiteracy I think.

samthecoy@samthecoy.bsky.social · 2d ago

genuinely baffling - would be like having a middle east correspondent who had never heard of Baghdad, or a football correspondent who'd never heard of Aston Villa

genuinely baffling - would be like having a middle east correspondent who had never heard of Baghdad, or a football correspondent who'd never heard of Aston Villa

John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social · 3d ago

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

always think it's wild that a pineapple was a status symbol for hundreds of years, displayed on tables as an expression of wealth, and now it's illegal to pay someone less than 11 pineapples an hour

OpenAI just blooped hundreds of proofs and counterexamples to open problems: github.com/openai/math/... Boggling.

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burying the lede Claude, an AI model developed by Anthropic, discovered the algorithm that refutes the 3SUM, APSP, and Exact Triangle hypotheses. The authors then worked to understand, simplify, strengthen and extend the algorithm, derive additional consequences and make the presentation accessible

Nicholas Mancuso@nmancuso.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excuuuuse me? arxiv.org/abs/2610.067...

I think "kWh / 1000h" is a very silly unit.

"X is sentient" and "X is capable of reasoning" (however complex and autonomous) are DIFFERENT claims. Sloths and tabloid opinion columnists are the former not the latter; slime moulds and LLMs are the latter not the former (probably).

Would like criticism of AI on this app to emerge from the cryogenic stasis it was placed in in 2024… There are valid concerns about the technology, its use, and its future! But you look like silly geese when you say "stochastic parrot" or "the code it produces is low quality" in Q3 2026!

The fact that there's an open weight LLM with performance equal to state of the art 6 months ago (Opus 4.6) which can run ON A SINGLE 5090 (or two 5060Tis) is absolutely insane. That's probably (nobody knows since Opus is not public) a 100-fold size decrease?

new favourite wikipedia headings just dropped

think I've come down with some RSI today for what is the first time in my life 🙁

learned recently that "puffinus puffinus" is the Latin name for something which is *not* a puffin

England is now the only country to have won the World Cup once.

happy "david baddiel and frank skinner get some royalty cheques for about two weeks" day to those who celebrate youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM

Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) (Official Video)

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Baffled by ITV's choice to play exactly one bar of Rascal Flatts's "Life is a Highway" before and after ad breaks

The 1908 Olympics was wild. Tug of war was an event, and the medal table was: 🥇 City of London Police 🥈 Liverpool City Police 🥉 Metropolitan Police

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This has been bothering me all week. I recently learnt, via a question on The Chase, that Bohemia competed at the 1908 Olympics. Which makes no sense to me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Su...

I realise that this isn't a hill worth dying on but "enshittification", once upon a time, had a very specific and useful meaning, it didn't mean "thing used to be good: now thing bad", I know it's a fight we've all lost but still

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I'm just now reading about the end of @knowledgefight.bsky.social. We 100% would not have been able to get this deep into this journey of taking over InfoWars without their scrupulously deep research about the worst guy in the world Thank you, Dan and Jordan. Excited to hear what's next.

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Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

apparently microtonal art rock is having a moment and I couldn't be more for it youtu.be/t7OIc-DBRXM

Angine de Poitrine - Sarniezz (Live on KEXP)

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"three lions (it's coming home)" was released closer to england's world cup win than to the present day

thrilled for the people of hungary - congrats!

simply impossible to be stressed at work while listening to antônio jobim

writing an AI to optimally play snakes and ladders

This post is apparently likely to be LLM-generated, karma farming slop: ironically, it's a story of AI doing its job very well.

Former Pingu Child Actor (BANISHED)@cursedpingu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

I've just seen the phrase "anti-youth violence charity" in an article and there just has to be a less ambiguous way to punctuate that

unhappy with the way americans pronounce "notre dame"

I think whenever the bake-off host chances there should be a Doctor Who-style regeneration scene www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off

The TV chef says she's

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Had to use OnePlus customer service for the first time today, and it's pretty bad. Have a 16 month-old phone whose battery has just completely died, and the only option on offer is to not have a phone for about 2 weeks while it's sorted 😦