There’s a guy very early on being effectively held hostage by an IoT door that has really stuck with me. I mean, it’s PKD, so you do just kind of have to roll with it 😄

Apropos of nothing, Ubik by Philip K Dick is still probably my favourite novel. I think about it more than any other book I’ve read. #booksky

Should more people travel by train*? Yes. Do I still enjoy having nobody sitting next to me? Also yes.

(*tbf it is a matinée train, rather than peak time)

Empty train seats around me

Love it.

Anthropic investigates report of rogue access to hack-enabling Mythos AI ‘Handful’ of people allegedly gain unauthorised access to model adept at detecting cybersecurity vulnerabilities

"Rogue actors have breached the Mythos protocols, potentially giving them access to all the world's software vulnerabilities" is the kind of problem that by all rights should be solved by Tom Cruise sprinting through an airport

Illustration of two tunacorns swimming in the sea

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

One of them had the chocolate peeled off the top and honestly this feels like some kind of obscenity. If you’re going to eat eclairs for breakfast, you have to commit to the bit.

Someone on the same train as me has polished off two chocolate eclairs and I feel this is a bold choice for an early morning breakfast.

Wilton is hardly the same area as Chippenham, they’re about 35 miles apart!

The long goodnight: what happens when a supercomputer becomes obsolete? With the number of supercomputer and AI data centers mushrooming around the world, what happens when these behemoths reach the end of their lives

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I feel that the supervillain comparison gives Karp too much credit. RoboCop-esque with a side order of Starship Troopers is more appropriate.

More plainly, there is a whiff of fascism with harking back to the draft, disempowering women, and whatever the “post-war neutering” bit is about.

“We need the draft, even though the future of war is autonomous robots. Also, we must to disenfranchise uppity women — the future depends on it.”

And, as always, the alt text. 😍

Woman next to me in a cafe lamenting that when speaking French in France people hear her accent and immediately start talking to her in English. This is the diametric opposite of my experience in France, even when my French was really quite bad.

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My experience also is that check in and security and getting from one place to another in the airport takes longer than you would think. I’m always early, but I’m rarely milling around with nothing to do.

Computer vision I find very exciting in even the most mundane scenarios, there are places where gen AI is more useful than normal search, and this sounds cool too. We don't need to try to convince ourselves that it should be in everything or can do everything, though.

This is where it's at. I am a self-avowed AI-skeptic despite (or perhaps because of) my job, but I can recognise there are some good uses.

Given I just started The Female Man and have The Dictionary of Lost Words to read for book club before the end of May, though, it might be a while before I get round to reading this...

(Tbh for £4 in Oxfam you can hardly say no)

Front cover of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

There has been another book-based incident #booksky

Please don't tell me this was an attempt to save money by avoiding updating/patching?

Institutional memory is misunderstood and undervalued in a lot of places!

Interesting thread.

If AI removes the grunt work for junior lawyers (eg, due diligence for corporate lawyers and discovery for litigators) then it will affect social mobility, as well as other things.

It is how you learn to be a lawyer in those areas.

wat

Bowelrogs, surely

“Book club is in two days, you can make it til then!” I tell myself, as I inch towards the bookshelf to pick up another unread book #booksky

CHARLES MOORE NOTEBOOK You often hear of people being "trapped in poverty", but it is also possible to be trapped in wealth. This is David Cameron's fate.

Happy tenth anniversary to this absolute masterpiece of an opening paragraph in the Daily Telegraph.

"We tried trickle-down economics and it just didn't work!" they wailed, "Why must we have so much money?"

Tâf showing good doggy mum behaviour, but 🤮