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I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

This is, frankly, genius Every episode of Who since 2005 as Simpsons clips youtu.be/TG6hsnR0Y38?...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

TIL about the three early Asterix books given UK printings in the 60s with off-brand English translations... mind blown!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

HAPPY BIRTHDAY APOD! This was a brilliant idea early on in the days of the internet: a daily cool astronomy/space pic with a brief description and links. It brought science to millions of people.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The proposed closure of one of the two @ligo.org detectors would "largely eliminate the field" of gravitational wave astrophysics, reports Adrian Cho in @science.org. Multiple detectors are required to verify signals and determine where they come from. 🔭⚛️🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

it is really weird that publishing decided that instead of having a marketing budget, writers should just become cult leaders

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

I know there's a lot happening in the world right now, but I can't find any news reporting at all of this major new study published in Science. Where's the #climate coverage?! "We therefore need to cut GHG emissions even further to have a chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees"

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Confused historians of early modern medicine wake up to find themselves experts on current affairs

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

This week's episode of Budgie on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is subskeeting half of my feed, most notably @trenowden.bsky.social (and no, I don't know why my phone's done that to Garron! )

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is journalism malpractice 101, and it should be taught in J-schools as such. What in bloody hell does "widely accepted mean"? It's not "widely accepted". It's true. The other alternative is false. Full stop.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 3 days ago • 1097 comments

Part of the reason this sort of baffles people is that we still don't widely understand just how intensely silly it is to get energy from old dead compressed plants Made this a few years ago but it's the same today: ~2/3rds of climate impacts relate to energy that was never 'used'

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Damn, that's crazy, I wonder if anyone has a recording of the event to figure out who was telling the truth. If only there were journalists who worked for this organization who could find out what happened!

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Huge if true.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It is quite fashionable in the UK for guys who are good at the Internet but don't work in tech to roll their eyes to the top of their heads whenever anyone says joining up all the data across govt using 3rd party technology created by, say, a defence company might not be a great idea.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Really wild stats here. What the hell are we killing people for? What's the societal or even individual benefit of cars with deadlier designs like this? No one asked for this shit, companies just did it and then induced demand for it Wonder why Norway has seen declining bonnet heights?

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 5 days ago • 1597 comments

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 6 days ago • 232 comments

"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

As a lawyer, my primary thought here is that outsourcing human-consequential decision-making to AI is going to get the government sued straight into zero money savings.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers' telescopes

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

Great thread from Aaron that ties together a lot of critical issues.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Every so often I remember that interest rates were below 1% for 12 years. I realise this is not "news". Nor is it news that, during that decade-plus, we failed to use the potential of dirt-cheap borrowing to invest in infrastructure projects that we belatedly realised we desperately needed. Hmph.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

“Your brain” is not on this list.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is good www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Good grief. Adult Social Care in Leicestershire now being run by a 22-year-old who doesn't believe depression is real... And a 19-year-old student is in charge of the £200M children's services budget. new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

What a time to be alive. No, not that time, 12 minutes ahead of that time

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Not very impressive that @lbc.co.uk would frame an illegal act of hostage-taking through the propaganda terms of the perpetrators.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

Keir Starmer has made his decision: Down with journalism and up with AI generated bullshit.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok are falsely claiming that two photos shared by Gavin Newsom, which he claimed to show National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in LA, were from 2021 in Afghanistan. In fact, both photos were published in an exclusive report by the San Francisco Chronicle today.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments