Simon Scott

They've created a product that's too expensive to use on trivial things, but not good enough to use on important things. Oh no.

A Halloween sale! Buy my roll table of 100 Haunted Trinkets for £2! That's 99p less than usual! Because ghosts! I mean, technically it's pay what you like, so you can use the sale to pay more if you're a contrarian. I ain't stopping you. itch.io/s/213174/hal...

If what we're told is true, and that China's frontier models are all vampire-trained off of US frontier models (much more cheaply) then was this a response to Anthropic's S1? (story from 26/10)

"I am in love with Pandora Breitelichtung"

Got nervous about how much one of my pension pots had grown over the last twelve months despite it not being paid into. Assumption was that it was somehow AI money, and that the fund is massively exposed to risk.

I love Swift.

The errors caused by AI in processing asylum claims have been shown to be far higher than the Home Office's claims, somewhere around a quarter. For many people that can be a life of death decision. AI has no place determining that for people. www.wired.com/story/uk-hom...

Saying that Sex Matters have “taken an interest on issues around trans identities” and so that means they have “expertise on this area” is genuinely one of the stupidest, and most dangerous, takes you could make. Bigots obsessing over their bigotries does not make them experts. They hold no value.

People occasionally ask for behind-the-scenes info about my videos so... it wasn't even a real candle. It's just paper.

AI Bros be like "Oh yeah? Well Silly Putty could copy existing works. Are you going to ban Silly Putty?"

Of all the Idaho accents, Boise is the one best known for its distinctive laugh. #JLJ

Watching Microsoft and Google products and services getting worse and worse, while also being aware that they're employing AI-first code more and more, and drawing a natural conclusion.

NF delivering car crash interview after car crash interview. I can't see how he can continue as party leader. He'd have to own the bloody thing to stay. Oh.

Imagining Amazon workers like the prisoners in Andor as they endlessly build racks for data centres, except that at least in Star Wars they did eventually switch the Death Star on.

The curse of over-granularized data.

Delighted to say that Toby Jones, Bill Paterson, Phyllis King and many more will be celebrating the life of #IvorCutler at Foyles Charing Cross on Wed 25 November. We'll be launching the new Selected Poems edited by W.N. Herbert. Join us! Tickets have gone live www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creamy-pum...

Lot's of "don't engage with your enemies on socials" talk today which has made me realise that I don't. Not sure if that's just because I'm not on the other place. Definitely quicker to block numpties.

RFK Jr looks and sounds like Jordan Peterson in anaphylactic shock.

SNLUK very strong this week.

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

The Castle was quite good on this, specifically Skeptics in the Pub. Started out as a kind of weird science bit of flag waving, and spilled into reactionary (and often unscientific) BS.

Reminds me of Dana Gould pointing out how all the manosphere podcasters seem to be sponsored by boner pills. "I still get my own boners... like some kind of pussy."

A reminder that the “trans lobby” is just trans people going about their lives, and the “fight” being referred to is JK Rowling using her money, power and influence to endorse policy that is killing trans people. I’m amazed she could move to type a new essay with the layers of blood on her hands.

This shouldn't even be legal. And everyone has a camera in their pocket, so you go img2img, not prompt to image, as a bare minimum. But that shouldn't be legal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just learn to write better search prompts.

Trans people outlived BBC Scotlland

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

I do find it fascinating that it's turned out Anthropic, after all, is actually worse than OpenAI. I mean, they're both horrendously terrible money bonfires, but Anthropic's managed to maintain a much better veneer of offering sensible, working products than OpenAI have.

For Anthropic’s IPO they released an ARR which usually means “annual recurring revenue” where a company adds up all the income they’ll get every year as a baseline for profitability. Only, the small print showed it was a Annualised Run Rate where they’d taken their most profitable day times 365.

If you're thinking about how much blood is on Elon Musk's hands by now, you have to use his own metrics, and take into account all of the descendants of his more direct victims that he has also snuffed out of existence.

Feel these companies had assumed they would become too big to fail and that the government would bail them out, then realised too late that they're not banks, so are doing whatever they can to make not bailing them out seem bad.

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

Happy 97th birthday to that splendid actor Colin Jeavons. I was delighted to meet him just under a year ago (something I thought would never happen) and he was an absolute delight! So many terrific performances - Blue Remembered Hills, House of Cards, Kinvig, Sherlock Holmes, Blackeyes, etc etc

Tried to talk on stream about when films and TV shows really signal forthcoming plot twists, and why they would do that, and it was pretty much impossible because spoilers.

I am, would you believe, shockingly busy at work at the moment

Is that good?