Interesting editor's note in News from Science: an article has been deleted after "determining the author was impersonating the identity of an established science journalist." Ai agent?

The Bad Ancient team's interview with @iflscience.com is live! Inspired by the Odyssey film, it focuses on the question of the Sea Peoples and 'collapsing civilisations'. Also, it is the first time we have ever been called a 'ragtag team' and I like it. We should put that in a bio somewhere!

Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster.

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this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux

great to see the left and the right coming together like this

Pivot to video, but this time it will work out, promise.

it didn't need to go this hard

South Korea won, Mexico peso

Are these "hydration breaks" so they can squeeze in 3 minutes of pharmaceutical ads in the US?

The system eats itself: AI trained on AI-generated content, produced by models that were themselves trained on AI-generated content, until the original signal of real human data is lost entirely arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such langua...

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A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Zoom in at your own peril #FoxOfTheDay

Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts

Invaluable insight in this ai overview

All dystopian visions of the future failed to predict the emergence of biography-slop about Glenys Kinnock written by AI, available in paperback.

Biography Of Glenys kinnock:: The Comprehensive Story Of The Life Behind The Political Legend. (The Cory Miller Biography and Memoir Series.)

Biography Of Glenys kinnock: The Comprehensive Story Of The Life Behind The Political Legend. (The Cory Miller Biography and Memoir Series.) eBook : Miller, Cory: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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This is the strange afterlife of a whale in the icy Southern Ocean. www.iflscience.com/scientists-f...

Watching the Anthony Bourdain episode where he meets Asia Argento

Matching daddy-daughter leather trenchcoats - an interesting addition to the Authoritarian Chic lookbook. Photo released by the state North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

The Yankification of British culture continues www.newsbeep.com/384362/

ITV to show adverts during Six Nations scrum breaks - News Beep

ITV will show adverts during play in its Six Nations coverage, in a landmark moment for television broadcasts of sport in the UK.

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"Topographische Anatomie des Menschen" (1937, 1941) is the most beautiful and unethical medical book ever made. Created by Eduard Pernkopf, an ardent Nazi, many of its detailed illustrations were modeled on the bodies of executed political prisoners.

Interesting one from the Epstein Files: "some random photos of scientists on JE's island" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Someone get Adam Curtis on the phone

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WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil

Lil ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island, dating to the 1st-6th century CE. It was made by the Dorset Culture, who disappeared ~500 years ago, around the time the Thule people (ancestors of the modern Inuit) arrived from the west.

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

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Guy who has the coriander soap gene but enjoys the taste

Many thanks to @tommyhale.bsky.social for a nice story about my Voynich Manuscript paper in @iflscience.com: www.iflscience.com/is-this-how-... The open-access paper can be read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is This How The Voynich Manuscript Was Made? A New Cipher Offers Fascinating Clues

It remains the “most mysterious manuscript in the world.”

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

I think Alex Karp is dangerous and a walking pile of Dark Triad personality traits, but I have to admit he is my favourite evil techbro overlord.

Tim Fernholz@timfernholz.com · 10mo ago

Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

Invisible hand of the free market update

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

"Mansion tax bad," says man clearly sitting in big mansion