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mcenkidu.bsky.social
Glaswegian Londoner, Statistician, Immunologist, Virologist, Data Scientist, Celtic Fan.
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The United States wants the unilateral authority to decide who should be able to use certain technologies. In a new piece, I talk about everything from Iran to Andor to discuss how US tech supremacy gives it power over others that it’s working hard to maintain — to all of our detriment.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I wouldn't have chosen this hill to die on. RFK has lots of stupider ideas: bsky.app/profile/wash...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

submitted 46 days ago • 49 comments

Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

We're so not ready for the AI slop deluge. $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ – Pivot to AI

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Star Wars Day. Here’s an ANDOR inspired place name change special because we absolutely andor this series and think it's a masterpiece. 🙌 Any suggestions from the series? #StarWars #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou #Andor

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

submitted 59 days ago • 236 comments

“One should call this phenomenon by name: This is incitement to genocide.” ~Gideon Levy Haaretz ☕️

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

#Andor Day!

submitted 66 days ago • 12 comments

My work in making artificial intelligence fair has been noticed by US officials intent on ending ‘class warfare propaganda’ https://go.nature.com/431DygD

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

so good.. youtu.be/Ugt3j4zdHhc?...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

submitted 67 days ago • 26 comments