"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Plaque for “Cadbury dental” near the Cadbury chocolate factory

Near the Cadbury chocolate factory. Chuckle every time

People's Emergency Briefing - Teaser Trailer YouTube video by The National Emergency Briefing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaI-...

So where are all the AI apps? – Answer.AI Practical AI R&D

Coding agents everywhere but we're not getting more contributions to society (proxy: open source contributions www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...). And services that are usually reliable seem less so these days..(does downdetector have a data feed to study?). Weird times.

Iberian blackout prompts calls for Europe-wide grid reforms Report into last year’s catastrophic outage says the problem did not lie with solar and wind power

The Iberian blackout was not caused by renewables, but by outdated methods of voltage and reactive power management. This was already the conclusion reached by experts, two official investigations, and now also by the international ENTSO-E study. www.ft.com/content/bc3c...

Rick & Morty robot purpose pass the butter meme, but with the robot being Claude Code and doing menial work of resolving git merge conflicts

I am once again asking people to stop using warnings and lessons of what not to do as instruction manuals.

The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

This is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBE... (I'm a bit of a JH fan).

What if AI just makes us work harder? [FREE TO READ] Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

What if AI just makes us work harder?
as.ft.com/r/8481a3a6-8...

Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch | Oxide and Friends | Episode 3 Bryan and Adam were joined by Grady Booch, software engineering pioneer and living legend, to speak about the past present and future of software engineering. History doesn't repeat itself, but it doe...

Good episode! @oxide.computer share.transistor.fm/s/de217423

How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

The real problem is that the only people qualified to drive an agentic coding model are people who are intimately familiar with the codebase and *familiarity with the codebase drops when you vibe code*

See, for example, the recent study commissioned by Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush (Full Cover) YouTube video by Emma Harner

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANOu...

Kind of feels like Pax Americana is enshittifying.

Full-body portrait photograph of Susie Wiles, a middle aged woman in an olive pantsuit with a white shirt underneath. The room around her looks unstaged - in the foreground is a sliver of a wing chair, on the other side a small portion of a desk with half of some papers and a post it showing. There is a light switch just over her right shouder and an open hallway behind that.

Full body portrait photograph of JD Vance, a smarmy-looking thirtyish man in a dark suit with a red tie and white shirt. He is posed against a blank gray wall. To his right is a flag on a flagstand, only 2/3s of it in shot. Next to his left upper arm on the wall is a light switch and a thermostat. On the left side of the shot, we can see the very back of a blue chair in side profile, a bit of a lampshade and a tiny sliver of a side table.

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis

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Chris Packham speaking to the audience

Expert assessment Ten leading scientists and other experts will present the latest, authoritative assessment of the climate and nature crisis, highlighting the implications for the UK and pathways forward. Chris Packham CBE- Opening Statement Prof Mike Berners-Lee- Chair Prof Kevin Anderson- Climate Tessa Khan- Energy Transition Prof Hayley Fowler -Weather Extremes Prof Nathalie Seddon- Nature Prof Paul Behrens- Food Security Prof Hugh Montgomery OBE- Health Lt Gen Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE- National Security Angela Francis- Economics Prof Tim Lenton- Tipping Points

The National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social in Westminster today is a call to action for politicians.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social started with “let’s work on creating hope, where there isn’t much of it left”

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

From twitter today: Trending in United Kingdom: Nazis.

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How? I'm adding new videos, deep dives & behind-the-scenes stories to Talking Climate.

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Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

A small gripe in the grand scheme of things but this shows what's increasingly obvious to people attending UK party conferences

Many fringe events are not open discussion of policy & political options, but *adverts* for whoever is paying for the event

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It. A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

Cars. Ruin. Everything.

Shouldn't have had that coffee.

Today was one of my favourite lectures, on how evidence influences debates.

Case A: 79 people died as a consequence of smart motorways (2010-2024). That's sufficient to pause the policy.

Case B: In the first year of the Welsh 20mph scheme 900 fewer people were injured. There's still contestation.

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"The son of an immigrant, a child of the counterculture, a man offering an unmistakable fuck-you to Big Brother, and a person who, above all, would never kiss the ass of someone who had absolutely awful taste. This was Steve Jobs." www.anildash.com//2025/09/09/...

For oncologists who incorporated AI into their practice, their ability to spot tumors fell by around 20% within just a few months of adopting it--Bloomberg

Good people, don't outsource anything you're not willing to lose....

Letter of the day (in the Times)

fossick

One really consistent pattern whenever I look at the energy and financial data for large big tech companies is that energy + revenue are being decoupled. They keep having to buy more and more energy each year to make the same $1 of revenue.

This is a pretty new thing

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...

Cover of the book

A quote from ‘Serving the Reich’ that is as pertinent today as it was in 1930s Germany:

“The sense of helpless fatalism among the academic scientists seems not so much misjudged as calculatedly self-serving. The Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, working at the University of Berlin in 1933 said…”
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