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Mondrian’s Grey Tree, 1912 www.piet-mondrian.org/the-gray-tre...

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I'm a little obsessed that this was one of the options San Marino had to choose from for Eurovision. Just imagine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQ9...

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Sandy Toksvig being great - Eve's Byte of the Apple, a lecture she gave at Darwin College, Cambridge. Ironically it can't be embedded here because 'Playback on other websites has been disabled by the owner' www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG6I...

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I'd prob find International Women's Day less irritating if it wasn't a day in which women were expected to do more things. International Women's Day should be a day on which men do things like actively commit to reducing their entrenched intellectual biases and go and buy 10 books written by women

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Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.

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Rachel Reeves caved to the demands of US Blackstone to not tax them properly despite her party’s manifesto promise to abolish the non-dom tax regime, this came after concerns from the ‘non-dom community’ www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

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Apparently in 2018 he got planning permission to install a TV studio, recording studio, gun room and a wine room in a basement complex of his (then) £5 million, 10 bedroomed mansion set in 26 acres in Bledington in Oxfordshire But, sure, VAT on school fees. Spoiled brat.

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Horkheimer’s pseudonym: “Heinrich Regius,” & Adorno’s: “Charles de Klöes” & “Hektor Rottweiler,” & many others in the ISR circles published even in the ZfS under pseudonyms—but Walter Benjamin was the only one to make one afaik by anagramming his last name: “J.E. Mabinn” lmfao

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By far and away the speech of the year. Possibly of this decade. youtu.be/wmDVrV7QRrU?...

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JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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My proudest moment of my philosophical career was when @sleafordmods.bsky.social followed me on Twitter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYY...

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Stonehenge and certain other sites have grandly distorted our sense of the sacred Neolithic. Beyond an industry of lazy cultural representation, within lithic shadows there is a lingering, intimate awareness of hallowed space. – Dr. K. Brophy, 1983 #StandingStoneSunday

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When chatting, does anyone have a preferred way of addressing an llm? I've started using vo as a replacement for the 2nd pp 'you'. I find it helps avoid some of the pitfalls, and it is a word with not much prior usage/history; and what usage there is enriches the meaning. #ai #llm #chatgpt

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Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:

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Reupping last week's newsletter: do we need a union for hopeful technologists? https://buttondown.com/justenoughinternet/archive/a-union-for-hopeful-technologists/ This is from a UK perspective, where policy and influence is dominated - if not overwhelmed - by US tech thinking

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The National Film Archive of Japan uploaded 29 films shot by the Lumière company. Scenes of Japanese life from the late 1800's meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/

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Weirdly, I wrote about yesterday's events in the Oval Office ONE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAPPENED. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Keir Starmer: AI will save the economy AI:

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It can’t hurt to go to your doc right now and check your titers (antibodies) for all your childhood vaccines. A quick blood draw and they can see if your body still has the necessary antibodies to fight. And if not you can get your vaccines updated. I did it recently, it was super easy.

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Sounds like Govt recognises it can’t hold the line on its original proposals for AI / copyright but isn’t really sure what to do instead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Put up a page for a virtual reading group for hopeful technologists on Sunday and now 130 people are signed up. Can only take a handful more but feels like a nice thing in the waves arms at encroachment of fascism and failure of democracy lu.ma/qc1yc31f

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As far as I know, this is the only interview Chuck Ezell has done since becoming acting director of OPM (the office sending out most of the deranged emails to all federal workers.) It’s…something. byfaithonline.com/chuck-ezell-...

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Soooooo yeah. This has been actively in development across teams for a while… www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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same energy

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"This paper provides theoretical results that indicate limits on what machine learning methods can achieve, even with all the data and computing power in the world"  - - post by Ronald de Haan on CertAIn (Center for Explainable, Responsible & Theory-Driven AI)  certain-ai.nl/papers/recla...

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Really good overview of what it is, where we're at, and some possible consequences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=81p2...

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“Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only”

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There's never been a better time to (re)read GNOMON from @harkaway.bsky.social

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📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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AP finds that the Israeli military stored 13.6 petabytes of data on Microsoft servers, and usage of OpenAI/Microsoft tools was 200x higher than the week before Oct. 7. If there was any doubt of US tech companies and complicity in Israeli apartheid. apnews.com/article/isra...

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1/8 Fun update on that GenAi Christies show. They lie quite a bit about their own show. Here’s a few: Lie #1 Christies says work on the show comes from data which was trained on participants own inputs in this article below: techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/c... This just isn’t the case.

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That, remarkably, would be the Government that calls itself the Labour Government. on.ft.com/3EBPewO

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DOGE appears to have skipped a few security steps that are expected of government websites.

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A German researcher captured the contents of the White House’s “DEI.gov” during a brief period when it was not password protected. 🔗 www.404media.co/dei-waste-go...

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How corporations can sue Governments. (ISDS and LCIA) I recently went on a live chat with a UK Government representative as part of a FOI request, my question was do UK SEZs and Freeports licenses contain ISDS clauses within them? He couldn't answer my question.