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truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

NEW | Solar power surge in 2025 stalls rise in fossil electricity worldwide ⚡📈 Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️ ember-energy.org/lat...

Call for papers 📢 We are co-editing a special edition of Climatic Change on how #NLP & AI are being used to drive real #ClimateAction. Edited by researchers working at this intersection inc CPR's Anne Sietsma @franticpedantic.bsky.social. Submit by 30 June: link.springer.com/collections/igbiebchhh

This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.

Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel He also seems very worried about “the next few months” m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

absolutely baffled by the fact that there seems to be no way of staging individual line changes (rather than whole files) in git without going through an interactive/GUI mode 🥴 why why why can i not `git add my_file.txt --lines=5-10` ???

what are we even doing here man

the longer your look at this the worse it gets

absolutely buzzzzzzing about the doc-to-lora stuff here. sakana use a hypernetwork to adapt an LLM to doc-specific knowledge in a single forward pass 🤯

Another brilliant explainer on the on different arcs that countries have taken towards decarbonisation from @simonoxfphys.com, using data from @carbonbrief.org and @ember-energy.org 😍

Amazing offer. Free Claude Max 20x for maintainers of large OSS projects

Sunflowers, by Joan Mitchell, 1990-91, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.) We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.

16,000 tokens per second is CRAZY. well worth trying the demo linked in the post

FARTS and SCIENCES

33 minutes of big danny's wet computer

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx

Huge water consumer, destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, mostly a negative for their consumers. Something must be done. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to do something about cows.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️

excellent, excellent round up of all things energy/decarbonisation in 2025. there are a couple of really exciting narratives in here!

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Lol, and furthermore, lmao

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...

Sara Hooker continues to be my fav person pondering the landscape of work in ML. This essay is just as perceptive and provocative as the original hardware lottery paper which it builds upon - i love it

Learned a lot from this piece by @hannahritchie.bsky.social

So we already have the first major paper of 2026, DeepSeek mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24880 Short thread: this is actually an engineering paper, taking as a starting points ideas already exposed in an original Hyper-Connections (HC) paper from ByteDance.

hell yeah

This is so simple, I can’t believe that it works. tl;dr they trained a model to answer questions about another model’s thoughts alignment.anthropic.com/2025/activat...

EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop

this is probably the most thoughtful, well reasoned take i’ve read on The Big Bad Bubble so far www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...

OpenAI leadership are promoting a paper in Physics Letters B where GPT-5 proposed the main idea — possibly the first peer-reviewed paper where an LLM generated the core contribution. One small problem: GPT-5's idea tests the wrong thing. My technical comment: scirate.com/arxiv/2512.0... 1/

JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...

So great to see openrouter publishing reports on LLM usage patterns, akin to the annual stackoverflow developer survey openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

brilliant news, obviously 🙌 though when compared to what's being done elsewhere, these numbers feel quite disappointing... other countries with similar solar potential have been adding capacity more than 5x faster than we have in the UK!

'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration' Feels like this should have been bigger news... www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...

Four new models from Mistral today - all Apache 2 licensed, all vision-capable, and one of them is a 3GB model that can run in a web browser and answer questions about things it can see through the webcam! simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/i...

wild. not what anyone would have predicted as the endgame for a JS runtime

when are we getting the funk document

I showed you my Soul Document pls respond

for all talks of local-first AI, given controversies over datacenters, I don't think people are willing to hear that local LLM inference is *probably* less environmentally friendly than cloud inference the majority of the time.