A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month.
Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Night all.
Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.
Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.
Fuck off, hype machine.
A scene from one of the Iranian LEGO propaganda videos showing Trump, Netanyahu and the devil.
Surely it’s time…
‘An involuntary psychiatric hold (often known as an emergency hold, 72-hour hold, or temporary detention) can generally be initiated by police officers, licensed physicians, nurses, and mental health professionals…’
#LEGOTrump
Night all…
I mean, is she wearing an apron with those bunny ears?
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m interviewing the wonderful Rose Biggin about her new short story collection fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/03/inte...
Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m interviewing the wonderful @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social about her brilliant debut novel The Forest On The Edge Of Time fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/04/inte...
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
let's hope none of these astronauts had a part time lecturing gig at another university 10 years ago, or this is going to be beyond even NASA's ability to untangle
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
"I asked ChatGPt-"
"Oh yeah? Well I went into the woods and screamed at squirrels for similar results, shut the fuck up."
The Cover of The Destructives by Matthew De Abaitua featuring a hollow man in a spacesuit. Syrapline, Be the Anger you want to see in them.
The final part of the trilogy by Matthew De Abaitua @mdeabaitua.bsky.social is going straight into my thesis. I love getting to read such cool stuff. What vicious imaginary future, and what a finale!
Our March installment of the #crsf2026 Book Club is Tender by Lauren Du Plessis 🥀
Read @jonathanthornton.bsky.social's full review via the link in our bio!
On a very busy and loud train, listening to a man being interviewed for a job. He handled it well, so the carriage gave him a round of applause once he’d finished… fingers crossed he gets onto round two…
You can have it fast and cheap or good and fast but you can’t have all three.
Finally someone else says it! If your job is any corporate writing/reporting, most of the time is spent Gathering the Information. Actually writing it up takes a fraction of that. Bosses who don’t write for a living have always demanded you do it faster. They expect an LLM to fact-gather. It can’t.
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
📢 Anthropic class action - an update
The settlement website is now live + includes comprehensive information about the case + settlement, including a searchable tool to see if your books are included in the settlement + a claim form
Find out more 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/anthropic-se...
Spain, tackling big tech. Every nation on the planet should be taking notes and implementing the identical combat strategies. Improve them, even.
We have to do something.
Tech shoved down our throats and harm caused by it, must be met head on, @mark-carney.bsky.social
Why would we not take action?
Oh, this is thrilling news.
Call for Papers deadline reminder for Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference Monday 23 March.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2026 CFP deadline this Monday…
Free public launch in Liverpool - new paperback edition - you just need to register to attend. Email downham@liverpool.ac.uk to sign up for the lectures that precede it including a plenary by Prof Howard Williams #medievalsky @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-emb...
I would be prepared to accept fuel rationing, tinned veg and even electricity rationing if it means we don’t have to take part in another Gulf war. The bombing is not effecting regime change and frankly, we should be doing more to assist Ukraine rather than the US.
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A reminder to authors: If your book was among the many titles pirated by Anthropic to train their AI, make sure to file your claim by March 30th. Your publisher will be filing, but my publishers tell me that the only way to *ensure* payment is by submitting your own valid claim. #AcademicSky 🧵1/n
COMMENT 02 February 2026 Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
Nature published another pile of trash
i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields
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