Who is liable when artificial intelligence makes mistakes? Insurers are seeking to exclude AI-related harms from their corporate liability cover

Interesting FT article by @leeharris.ft.com on changes to insurance coverage for AI issues

www.ft.com/content/51b5...

The Iran crisis has not yet peaked The war is currently more likely to escalate than to be resolved by negotiation

Depressing but I suspect to be proven correct @gideonrachman.bsky.social article (£) on Iran war

www.ft.com/content/8456...

I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks

I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can now get usable text, slides, academic papers

Look at what it does with my "otter test"! (Zoom in)

Screenshot of news of organic molecules found on Mars. Comment underneath : very cool. Hope humans don't end up as organic molecules fossilised on a barren planet.

Never change, Bluesky, never change.

On a similar page. NGOs and consumer orgs like NOYB serve an important role advocating for consumers / data subject rights (even if I don't always agree with methods and priorities).

This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA) Go here to learn more about Hubble 3D: www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premier... or www.imax.com/hubble/ Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the a...

NASA's Hubble Universe in 3-D - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7LM7YP

Over 100 "digital employees" work at this Wall Street bank BNY Mellon has an AI strategy aimed at increasing productivity and enhancing profits.

Not sure if powered by Anthropic, but does this count? www.axios.com/2025/10/17/a...

Account to follow to get this gem regularly injected in your Timeline bsky.app/profile/weju...

Oh god, my scepticism is that predictable, isn't it? 😅 Need to be sceptical about my own scepticism, I guess.

Hmm. Wouldn't be surprised if the picture isn't all that rosy when it comes to data protection requests, but rather sceptical about NOYB marking their own homework by assessing what is considered "fulfilled" and "incomplete" regarding their own complaints.

Closer - Nine Inch Noize Version

The Nine Inch Noize version of Closer rocks #music

open.spotify.com/track/32ZmFc...

The Artemis II Orion capsule heat shield, seen from below as photographed by US Navy divers immediately after splashdown in the Eastern Pacific on 10 April 2026.

Scary-ass photo of the Artemis II Orion capsule from below, immediately after its water landing.

The heat shield shows signs of thermal ablation, but very little of the char and material loss that characterised the Artemis I heat shield.

Credit: US Navy

Painting featuring tall trees in a landscape as if being blown by the wind against a blue sky

Canadian painter Emily Carr, Arbutus Trees, c.1933 #WomensArt

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. FEW OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL PEOPLE: THEY ARE MOSTLY POLITICIANS.

From 1932:

sidewalk chalk drawing drawn on a garden stone depicting a squirrel standing befuddled with his hands on his hips

Of the 3,627 nuts he buried last fall, Kevin has found four. #scatterhoarding

Easter by Walter Caterina https://www.artlimit
#landscape #beach #colour #color #nature #shotwithlove #landscapephotography #digital #fineartphotography #colors #photography #splendid_earth

Federal Agency Unveils Three Potential Osteoarthritis Treatments

😮Three teams have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in mice, rats, and rabbits.

🦵Large animal trials, followed by human ones, are next.

👏The eventual goal is a cure for osteoarthritis.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/h...

Object #15 Vega does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear throughout.

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE TRIFID NEBULA TO START OFF ITS BIRTHDAY WEEK!!! 🌌

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

A new picture of NGC 3147 from Hubble, comprised of data collected very recently, some of which was taken just a couple of weeks ago. This is in near-infrared and visible light, so the dust lanes look extra reddish. There's a certain transparency to the disk showing reddish background galaxies that I quite like, thanks to the near-infrared wavelengths in the red channel. It's one of those galaxies that fits nicely within the Hubble footprint, so this is a nearly complete picture of the brighter parts of the whole object. I enhanced the saturation and clarity of the whole galaxy, and the center dust lanes have been greatly sharpened. The small hole left where the chip gaps intersected near the nucleus was filled with data cloned 180° from the other side of the nucleus. This image was creating using data from the Proposal That Just Keeps Giving. The Hubble Constant to 1%: Physics beyond LambdaCDM Red: WFC3/IR F160W Green: WFC3/UVIS F814W Blue: WFC3/UVIS F555W North is NOT up. It is 42.64° clockwise from up.

NGC 3147 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/ETMTxh

Great article on MPC and on the related risks for lawyers

On the same page, prefer Hyperion Cantos.

Moravec's Paradox and others

sign in a wood KINDRED INTERDIMENSIONAL MONITORING POINT PLEASE CLOSE ALL PORTALS WHEN FINISHED TO HELP MINIMIZE INTERDIMENSIONAL CONTAMINATION

Goodnight.

Updated version of my test image of the Lagoon Nebula (M8) with the first light of the ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera and broad-band filters. This image combines: - 39 x 120s H-alpha (Baader 3.5nm ultra-narrow filter), in red. Darks and flats included. - 40 x 15s OPTOLONG L-Pro filter, in green. No flat or darks. - 28 x 300s [O III] 3 nm ultra-narrow Antlia filter, in green. Includes darks and flat (this image is the new addition). - 56 x 6s ZWO B filter, in blue, no flat or dark. H-alpha data taken on 21st Aug 2020, L-Pro and B data taken on 23rd Aug 2020, from my backyard at home, 15 km North from Sydney's city center. Telescope: Skywatcher Black Diamond 80, f=600mm (f/7.5) Equipment: I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). ZWO filter drawer for changing filter. The [O III] data taken on 18 August 2021, including the Orion 0.75x focal reducer and the ZWO 7x2" filter wheel. Processing: Data processed with Siril software. FITS converted on TIFF using NASA's Fits Liberator considering a logarithmic function. Color / saturation / levels / contrast / smart sharpen with Photoshop. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ).

Lagoon Nebula from Sydney: updated version - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2n73Lec

If Tim Burton & Wes Anderson were neighbours

Photo of Weber BBQ with chicken and vegetables

We are back in business, baby.