Signe Johansen
@signesjohansen.bsky.social
Food + drink, mostly but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
Gosh, its almost as if YouTube is a broadcaster that should be regulated
QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 3h agoit’s kind of crazy that YouTube, which might as well be the biggest television station in the world, is just nonstop scammy ads—and it’s gotten worse since the advent of generative AI
New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.
You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Thought this was an interesting piece. There is so much pressure on companies do something on AI, it is going to end with a lot of slop, bad decisions. One report cited also claimed a 1/3 of workers in a poll admitted to actively sabotaging their firm's AI rollout. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
nytimes.com
I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 17h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
"And there she was. Not in a photograph or a framed keepsake, but in the margin of a cookbook, having preserved what mattered to her: the homeliness of dinner being on." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
There are more than recipes in my beloved cookbooks
I set out to organize my cookbooks, writes Billie Munro. Instead, I found, in the margins, a chorus of family voices.
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Was just saying to my other half how many of us are looking forward to the day we never have to hear from or about the demented coot again.…
Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social · yesterday
Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl
Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.
What a treat to see a kingfisher zoom past while I was swimming with a friend at the Kenwood Ladies Pond this morning! ✨
Stunning Kingfisher Levitation
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NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
This heron has been stalking newly hatched cygnets and goslings on one of the protected wildlife sanctuaries on Hampstead Heath all summer. Thankfully (so far) unsuccessful…
Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924
“If you want to spot AI writing, look for bland, pretentious prose lavished with Latinate words—at least for now. With every update, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.” economist.com/culture/2026...
How to spot AI writing
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
economist.com
Let’s hope this is the end of Infantino’s shabby, corrupt and power-mad era at FIFA
In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends
If you don’t all buy my books instantly, my head will fall off AND THEN YOU’LL BE SORRY
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Just ate some plums. Cold, they were. Sweet, too. Hope nobody else wanted them.
Just want to remind folks that this keeps happening. Burials of assumed-important ancients discovered to be women via genetic testing, after decades of them simply being assumed to be male. The patriarchy is incompatible with reality.
Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 5d agoThe #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman's burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."
imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
