The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

I've moved my webpage from GitHub to Codeberg to reduce my dependence on Microsoft infrastructure.
dmdouglas.codeberg.page

Australia’s official plan for AI safety isn’t much more than a single dot point. Will it be enough? Australia is taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to AI regulation.

theconversation.com/australias-o...

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

AI companies' business model was clearly based on getting kids hooked on AI by forcing it into schools, but now kids just hate AI and are pissed at their schools...
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screengrab of live feed of Artemis II as it approaches Earth

Losing my mind over this. I have a machine in my lap on which I can periodically toggle over from something else I'm doing on the machine to watch a SPACESHIP return from THE MOON. Earlier I could hear the SPACESHIP'S PEOPLE as they talked to other people LOCATED ON MY PLANET BUT VERY FAR FROM ME.

Some sketches (pic 1) and original drawing (pic 2) for the cartoon below. The drawing is available here www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Panel 1: Some social scientists (five stick figure portraits of scientists) Economist Archaeologist Geographer Psychologist Anthropologist Panel 2: Some antisocial scientists (five stick figures scuttling out of the panel) Introverted Astronomer Solitary Mathematician Reclusive Biologist Misanthropic Chemist Withdrawn Physicist

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

As Günther Anders warned in 1956, what matters is not the decision AI reaches when it comes to questions about war, but the very fact that humanity would debase itself by asking a computer such questions at all...
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