Paul Dempsey

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Doctor removes prostate from 35 miles away in first telerobotic surgery in US

The more I think about it, the clearer it is that the main subtext of the Anthropic S-1 is, "To be honest, it would be better for us to be taken into public ownership."

All of this from @paolobernardi.bsky.social, BTW. When one strong underlying message in an S-1 is, 'We know what's good for you', the image of a lunatic wielding an enema comes to mind.

"Anthropic is just a company. It would be fine for everyone, and good for shareholders, if we all treated it like one and expected it to act like one. Thinking that an elaborate corporate structure will protect us from the potentially terrible power of AI or any other technology is a moronic folly."

ChatGPT is sending users with problems such as being locked out of an Instagram account to journalists at publications like 404 Media www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

Oh my god, he just was in Coyote V. Acme as like, half the cast—way, way too soon. Feel awful for his family. 😣

The likes of Mayer used to have people called PAs to do this for them, as well as remember birthdays, and send checks on time to the boarding school. Oh, progress.

In depth match report. Kin el. Where next?

Carrick given proper send off but fans know the inevitable is coming. He was in over his head. After Carrick in tunnel, immediate boos for the players. Spoke volumes. Not sure what manager will make it any better. Nothing changes until the club is sold. #glazersout

The Glazers have taken more than millions from Manchester United; they have systematically destroyed the club from top to bottom and robbed supporters of decades of memories.

*cough*

Manchester United really driving this meme home for the fans

United could easily be two down already without having made a decent chance themselves. The energy level is shocking.

No Fernandes. No difference.

Checks date. No, not April 1.

As the gap between the internal models at the AI labs and the ones they release grow (due to safety concerns & research advantages), it will be increasingly tempting for OpenAI & Anthropic to exploit that advantage directly by entering new markets, especially in finance & biotech.

TLDR on the kimi k3.1 pro benchmarks (just released) is that it looks like they figured out their RL, where the initial release was a very impressive base model with lighter post-training. China is very much keeping pace with capability gains.

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

Your reminder that you are forbidden from getting all bugnutty over Burnham suggesting you have sone emergency supplies if you have a Costco membership.

Education accounts for more than 8% of UK employment and is the country's fourth largest sector by headcount. This is a simply batshit decision.

If you want to solve the problems at United, there is only one surefire way to do it. Empty the ground, boycott the sponsors and be prepared to see the club close in its present form. Blaming manager after manager while the same toxic issues persist beyond each has become tiresome.

This is woeful

Streisand Effect incoming? Because the doco is going to leak online, if HBO doesn't stream it.

Slander and libel tourists love that the UK has one of the most aggressive legal regimes on the planet... but can forget that, wherever they sue, that has bred some of the most aggressive legal professionals and advisors across British media. At home or abroad, they do not fuck about.

R.I.P., Tom Skerritt. He was one of my dream Random Roles interviews for years, but I never had the pleasure of chatting with him at all. Sure did love seeing him turn up in things, though.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

“In science it often happens that scientists say, ’You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds [...] I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” ― Carl Sagan

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Fernandes needs a break.

It’s a farce and all other clubs should feel enraged.

Someone should ask Zuckerberg why not abandon a commercial launch and make them for free but only available through a prescription. There'd still be a trade-off but not one as obviously manipulative and abusive. If you see the visually impaired as a marketing opportunity, you are a piece of shit.

It is so so so so so so unbelievably evil to manufacture an abuse-enabling product, and then intentionally chain that product to the function of a disability aid as a marketing / regulatory delay tactic. It blows my mind how evil that is. Meta is the worst

This is very much a planned, conscious corporate tactic bsky.app/profile/keta...

As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours

Saw Wise's The Haunting at the Byrd in Richmond yesterday. I've seen it many times on a big display but in a theater, the Panavision compositions really pop - formal, tight, and so oppressive. Add on brilliant B&W camerawork, set design and suggestion over explicitness - a masterpiece. #FilmSky

Being a journalist must be glamorous what with all the travel (Current location: press room. They all pretty much look like this)

The worst thing about United caving today wasn't United caving against 10 men, it was that you expected United to cave even against 10 men.

Garbage. Clinging on to defend against 10 men.

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