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The Garden of Accounts
By the time the dead outnumbered the living on Martin Vale’s friends list, Facebook had stopped calling them accounts. They were Presences now. That was the marketing language. PRESENCE MODE™ rolled out after the third big mortality wave, when every platform discovered grief…
I couldn’t disagree
Uber delivery robots were attacked in Sheffield. Some have suggested this is the start of the resistance against the machines. In some ways I prefer these to those on unrestricted ebikes tearing about causing a hazard
The Entire Functioning of the Modern World is at Risk from the War in the Middle East
The Middle East is a primary global "data chokepoint," and recent escalations have moved the risk from theoretical to operational. Because 95%–99% of all intercontinental data travels through undersea cables, and…
Global legal, economic, and political systems along with the infrastructure that supports them, are often assumed to be strong and enduring, but in reality, they are fragile If for example data cables, oil, and desalination plants were destroyed in the Middle East, this would be catastrophic for all
The same tactic that the USSR used with the cheap-to-produce T-34 tank against the technically superior but expensive-to-produce German tanks in WW2 Both the war in Ukraine and now the war in the Middle East have changed the nature of warfare Cheap robotic ground forces? youtube.com/shorts/ALVcw...
Really good to be part of CODE (Co-Designed Digital Ethics for Justice) programme at The University of Law in Manchester this week, hosted by Dr. Victoria Knight and Dr Alex Beaumont
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I found this insightful. It is important to bear in mind that chatbots are tools. They are useful in certain applications. Humans are social animals and respond to connective signals from others whether human or not. Chatbots offer a form of connectivity.
www.joeykpollock.net/blog/intervi...
Shinya Yamazaki as Critical Realist: Interstitial Urbanism in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy
William Gibson’s Bridge trilogy is often read as cyberpunk’s turn toward the near future and the everyday, away from console cowboys and toward precarious workers and improvised cityscapes. Among its…
I am a huge fan of the Irish Passport Service www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passp.... I was able to renew my passport online in 15 minutes without any hassle. Pictures I had taken months ago for an international driving permit could be simply uploaded. If only other passport services were as efficient
Fabulous podcast regarding the use of AI and Judicial Practice @incjnetwork.bsky.social
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When a computers first arrived on our work desks in the 1990s the then Chief Probation Officer said that it would mean that our workload would decrease to the point it would feel like we were only working four days a week and that we would dictate rather than type
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Words to live your life by.
A genuinely thought provoking event with with contributions from an interesting mix of speakers Well worth a listen
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For all the Critical Realists out there. I have just set this up. Feel free to join and get some conversations started. whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
Tesla’s humanoid robot certainly looks the part. I expect EM dreams of a vast warehouse full of them ready to march out and take over the world No doubt an impressive engineering feat but will the world really look like a street scene from iRobot in a few years time with drones and cleaner bots etc?
Brain–computer interfaces are fascinating because they bypass our slow, sense-based interactions with technology, directly linking brain activity to machines. Long a staple of sci‑fi, from Iain M. Banks’s microscopic implanted neural laces, today’s real systems remain relatively crude in comparison.
Google researchers have apparently found that Chinese AI models generate internal “societies of thought” mimicking human collective thought although AIs do not think. An interesting phenomenon that if true could indeed impact how AIs are used for problem solving.
www.perplexity.ai/page/google-...
Thanks to all. Very good to see you all.
Not sure what happened to this robot fish but it keeps being posted on the internet. www.surrey.ac.uk/news/robotic...
Looking forward to this
We already treat other beings as conscious, yet with AI we lack any reliable way to tell whether an apparently conscious system is more than a sophisticated simulation, so current definitions of consciousness may be too limited to decide when it is “close enough.”
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One of the personal highlights of 2025 for me was to be a co-author of this report www.linkedin.com/posts/unumac...
It never ceases to amaze me how Transmetropolitan, that feverishly exaggerated every social, media, political, and technological excess possible - including embodied AI, predicted much of the look & feel of the surreal political landscape we see today We are literally living in the weirdest of times
