I think at least some of the unpopularity of AI is because Google AI search is *particularly* shit and forced down your throat

Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 9h ago

A propos of the latest swipe from the Times at DSA, I tried to look up the famous Nikita Kruschev-Zhou Enlai exchange and the AI interjected with an *oddly specific* and completely unsolicited denial...

The USA demanded Canada's capitulation as if it had lost a war.

No, Elon: it was because the conquest of Egypt (in particular) suddenly made a few Romans so unprecedentedly rich and powerful that they destroyed the Roman Republic.

Gigatonne · Day 30 Leave today's century alone and warming peaks at +2.20°C, taking 4 of 7 Earth-system thresholds with it, and the public removes you in 2061. Everyone plays the same century today. Do better than nothing.

Gigatonne — a climate strategy game

Run the planet from 2026 to 2100. Thirty-eight policy instruments, four hundred gigatonnes, and a populist backlash that wins elections.

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Guess the mystery movie of the day from its cast. Actor names are revealed one by one with their age at release. Free daily movie trivia with a new puzzle every day.

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This Twitter exchange happened on 23 August 2012, so: happy I BET YOU DO ALMOND YOU DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS day to all who celebrate

L’ABOMIN8TEUR DE POITRINE@c0nquist4d0r.bsky.social · 2y ago

Almond

I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.

Galway is Lib Dem.

cole@cole1.bsky.social · yesterday

someone posted this seriously on linkedin

Well that explains anxiety.

I'm in the pub on a Saturday night.

“Stanford is a tax-exempt investment fund with an attached educational institution.” Folks, @adriandaub.bsky.social has written another absolute banger.

Not being able to speak the same language as someone is no barrier to deciding they’re a complete twat.

"The name's Bond. Bomb Markets Bond. President's having a stronk".

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

21 & lost my first serious girlfriend in uni and decided the best cure was to follow the example of the film Yes Man starring Jim Carrey. I would not recommend this and have 2 tattoos I hate, fear of the sea and a missing tooth from a fight with a Frenchman as a result. 0/10.

I assume AI boosters can't stand the pushback on Bluesky because using the sycophant machine has thinned their skins to the point of nonexistence. And they can't tell themselves it's just random trolls and bots here like they can on X, because it's clearly thoughtful humans telling them they suck.

“We have to reckon with the billionaire threat. There’s no way around it. We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both, bc the billionaires have declared war on democracy. We have to imagine a world w/out billionaires bc the billionaires are imagining a world without us.”

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2d ago

“Any politician who is not speaking about the role of Silicon Valley fascism in the destruction of our democracy is not someone who can be trusted.” Read “Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Innovation,” my interview with @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/silicon-vall...

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A new film quiz every week. A different theme each time, and every answer comes with the reason behind it. Out now on Android.

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What you want out of a menu photo is a good idea of what the thing you're ordering is going to look like, this seems weirdly like lost wisdom now

45 years ago: An American Werewolf in London (GB,US) American tourists David and Jack are savagely attack... 1981-08-21 #Movies #JohnLandis #DavidNaughton #GriffinDunne #JennyAgutter https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/814

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

I’ve been on a real XMen buzz recently and I watched XMen Apocalypse and I love that they gave Professor X’s baldness a backstory. His hair got burned off by apocalypse. They didn’t need to do that. He can just be bald in the normal way.

Raise you. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/banan...

Bananas and Curry on Pizza? That's How the Swedish Do It

Before you turn your nose up at the sweet and spicy combination, consider its roots in the country’s post-World War II food culture

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Ken Childs@thekenchilds.com · 3d ago

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The brutal, existentially painful, irony of being sat in your local while the staff have left the telly on to show Cheers.

once again I will say that the only person I've ever met who's been even worse in person than online was Toby Young

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 3d ago

Basically very, very few people are openly objectionable in person - but you are the totality of what you do and say, not just when you want people to like you and when you're around people you've decided worthy of respect.

You guys, what even happened here?

He buttles.

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Sat at the bar, next to a couple of lads from a well-known post-house. They're happily discussing who they're going to sack.