'ChatGPT is nothing more than a “souped-up autocomplete”.
(It) does not draw its info from a carefully curated database of facts. It has no way of selecting the most reliable sources, references, or evidence. It cannot evaluate.'
Book review: The AI Con...
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Title: Maths puzzles for conspiracy theorists. 1. A train departs at 2pm Travelling at 40mph. The next train follows an hour later, travelling at 45 mph. Why are we still using trains when the government has hyper-speed ufo technology? 2. Susie brings eighteen Apples and twelve Oranges to school and divides them equally Between her six Friends. How many of these children are in the pay of big fruit? 3. When Tom was eight, his sister, anne, was half his age. Tom is now 48, so why does Anne just laugh at him when he patiently explains to her that the earth is flat? From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com
Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
This isn’t bad …
Off to Manchester today for #CPCNorth - who will I see there?
cannot stress this enough
Just in case it finally disappears, the CDC page I've been obsessively refreshing for months is currently still there, confirming that vaccines do not cause autism
Pharmacies should be at the heart of #HIV prevention by raising awareness of and offering #PrEP - a pill that stops HIV transmission. 💊
Recommendations have been published in a new @policybristol.bsky.social briefing.
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Copper script by KJ Charles. Two men in silhouette in 1920 clothing
This book by @kjcharleswriter.com is utterly, sweetly, impressively delightful!
A 1920s MM romance between a detective fighting corruption and a hot graphologist (handwriting analyst), who is also a post-war amputee.
They’re so cute!! 📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🏳️🌈 📚♿️
This may ruffle some feathers with Starmerite partisans, but at some point the silence from Downing Street becomes so deafening that the logical conclusion is that Starmer agrees with the ethnonationalists running amok
The onus is on Downing Street to prove otherwise and show leadership
Such a shame that Rule Britannia has been hijacked by the roundabout painters and hotel botherers. #LastNightOfTheProms
Some will say this escalated quickly.
Those who've had their eyes open and ears listening will tell you, this is just the beginning.
National mental health director Claire Murdoch resigns with immediate effect claiming political pressure for a new person...her resignation letter....👀
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Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.
Regulatory failure at its worst.
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For anyone who needs respite from the news, I highly recommend Taskmaster, an extremely silly long-running UK show in which five comedians compete at absurd tasks. Low-stress, high-pleasure, lots of laughs, utterly disconnected from reality. As your doctor, I hereby prescribe one episode minimum.
Headline from the AP: Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates <image of two dumbasses>
Worth reading the full article - it's not 100% rubbish but it's only leading to small gains in very specific tasks, and for some things it's slower and also produces worse results. So perhaps the billions in productivity gains are not just over the horizon. Awkward.
Screenshot of a news article with the headline: “Organiser of campaign to fly England flags was jailed for bid to smuggle illegal migrants.” The subheading reads: “Lee Twamley was described as a 'pretend patriot' after details of his past emerged.” The article is by Jon King, dated September 2, 2025. Below the text is a photo of a middle-aged bald man with a trimmed grey beard, wearing a light jacket, standing outdoors in front of a building. The caption says he pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate illegal entry into the UK.
Ho ho ho hoooo!
This is just too delicious.
In a hundred years, if we survive to write about it, historians will look back on this period as a snake oil boom for AI while fascism burned everything down.
A fake sexual health leaflet called “having sex with a flag - a sexual health guide.” There is an illustration of a middle-age man with grey hair and glasses looking closely at a Union Jack underneath the picture It says “your guide to totally doing it with a flag.”
The Labour party right now:
It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities
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Derek @dieworkwear.bsky.social yrs ago you helped settle the biggest debate in medicine when you ruled that scrubs should be untucked. Thought you might appreciate this full circle, as today my professional body the European Society of Cardiology hosted someone at conference that you might recognise
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down.
The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.
Headline from The Guardian: The Big Idea: why we should embrace AI doctors
this is so sick
- man w/ confusion, scheduled for dementia screening
- man repeatedly asks chatbot if ‘she’ is real
- chatbot lies repeatedly, saying ‘yes’ & giving address saying ‘the door is unlocked’
- man falls on the way and dies
what if he made it & walked into a woman’s home? 2 victims?
Better red than dead.
#methemoglobinemia
“A system dropping from 80% to 42% accuracy when confronted with a pattern disruption would be unreliable in clinical settings, where novel presentations are common”
lmao they replaced one answer choice with “none of the above” and it broke
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A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine
I refuse to wade into the debate around trans issues except to say that everyone deserves dignity and safety. Full stop.
But as a student of philosophy, this one has me gasping for breath.