It was always a risk, having Biggins on the show… Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Nero, tomorrow at 9am on BBC Radio 4. Behind the scenes of I, Claudius and more… Catch up afterwards on BBC Sounds.

This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning

The first really major OpenAI or Anthropic outage is going to be fascinating. It’s going to be like an AWS US-East-1 outage on steroids.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

New Personalised Typewriter T-shirts. What would you type? www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

Under German law, selling or owning recording devices disguised as everyday objects is strictly prohibited. Because Meta Glasses closely resemble regular eyewear, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) is reviewing a nationwide ban with fines already being issued 2/2

A birthday card I made for a poet friend

The Grumpy Cook website has a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme where you can pay for a range of meals for people who may be struggling. These range from a small breakfast through to a family pack lunch and also including a child’s meal. The prices are suggested and start at £2.00. grumpycook.co.uk/shop/

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d ago

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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Top quality dumbassery from Harrison Bader here. Just All Star Asshat worthy.

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d ago

So, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.

Maybe the real containment firewall here is just the one we asked the Computational Magic 8 Ball to honor along the way… JFC. These people are clowns.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 6d ago

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

Actually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.

TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".

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Giving this a shove in your directions. I am completely open to work offers 👍👍

Matt Owen@mjowen174.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote something about why AI is a big old wrong un a while ago - if you’re looking for the real thing, I am that thing. Here’s a link to that piece www.mathew-owen.co.uk/post/ai-ai-no

this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d ago

A routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com

The full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Forget about the Odyssey discourse, this is the only thread you need today.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 7d ago

a ‘character property’ for your morning

Biggest divorced dad energy I’ve seen in a while. @edsbs.bsky.social

Louise Casey makes the point that care is underpaid compared to the NHS - another example of a Cinderella service so painfully laid bare during Covid-19. Care workers get an average annual salary of £23k. NHS healthcare worker starts on £25k. We undervalue care as a society.

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

When she died in 1943, she left 4,000 acres of land and countryside in our care, and 14 farms. Her legacy has helped ensure the survival of the Lakeland landscape. Thank you, Beatrix. 📷Robert Thrift, Paul Harris, Val Corbett

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

LET’S GO METS!!!

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

RIP Bill Oddie. Legend.