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Replying to @hern.bsky.social
One thing I didn’t have space to fit here: some people, on both sides of the debate, like to pretend that the only AI risk worth caring about is superintelligence. I think that’s wrong, and misses a huge swathe of ways that improvement in AI capabilities could be really bad for humanity at large.
@jamellebouie.net having just seen your recent short Takes ™️, can I ask where you got your "you can't libel the dead" cap?
cannot get enough @demilardner.bsky.social's show SYWWAPP. it's just insane and so fucking good www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0r...
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I've read this man's name a couple times this morning, after never hearing it, and I can't stop reading it as Andrew Stuart
*Me running through the streets, grabbing random passers-by, shouting in their faces* "Stuart Andrew has stepped down as shadow health secretary! Stuart Andrew has stepped down as shadow health secretary!"
A quick thank you to @maximumfun.org and @jlukeroberts.bsky.social @edmorrish.com for Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts
oh and to @benpartridge.bsky.social for @beefanddairy.bsky.social, the only other thing I currently listen to on Max Fun 😅
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I saw the Paranormal Activity party last night where the jokes about London's bad weather only half landed
It’s been so long since it’s rained that last night when I watched an American film where it was pissing down during a scene in London, I immediately pooh poohed it as a far-fetched Hollywood cliché, like when it’s always foggy. “Well, that’s ridiculous! Obviously special effects!”
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The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
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U.K. Weighs Social Media Ban Of Everyone Except Old Men Who Grow Big Vegetables https://theonion.com/u-k-weighs-social-media-ban-of-everyone-except-old-men-who-grow-big-vegetables/
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I fully appreciate it's foolish and something I/all Brits need to give up but the commitment to doing the thing you planned to do regardless of the weather is pretty core to my life and identity
I spent a lot of my summers in Morocco when I was a kid, before we had aircon there, and I mean yeah the houses were built with Moroccan weather in mind but also the rhythm of life was entirely different, and could change at the last minute because of the heat, which IMO is something Brits resent
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Like a gut punch, this quietly spoken sentence from Lubaina Himid who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale www.ft.com/content/2a58...
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