Bicycles vs. rocket ships...soooo much that's great here, that can help us reframe what we demand of AI, and tech more broadly.

Watch the video, read the book!

Perhaps those nuclear fan-boys can fix this, before they continue to lobby for more tech that will result in similar waste - that is IF that tech one day becomes a reality…

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It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

The US women’s hockey gold medal winners refusing to go to Trump’s White House, and the US men’s hockey gold medal winners enthusiastically going to Trump’s White House, would actually say an awful lot about the broken state of the United States right now.

Just going to leave this here

MacKenzie Scott's net worth is less than a third of the most generous billionaire on this list but to date she has given away an amount close to half of Buffett's donations, multiples of anyone else on the list while innovating a whole new model of more fficient & effective giving...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

Went for a walk this morning… was feeling tired… sure glad I didn’t scare any tax dodging, expense abusing, ladder-pulling, former Tories! #tiredYetStillWalking

When will MPs start making decisions based on what’s best for the general population? It’s still corruption (perhaps morally rather than legally), making deals based on keeping billionaires happy, rather than for £££, knowing that they will be taken care of on leaving office! #NHS #getPalantirOut

The sourdough ‘Kater Kruste’ is awesome! 🤩

Anyone who believes they can carry on living peacefully because they are not part of a minority and are not being targeted should read Niemöller again.

Construction of enemies by fascism never stops.

🇺🇸 #fascism

I know people who served in the GDR army, who were nowhere near any action and yet they pay a price for playing a part in an authoritarian movement by having a “Penalty Pension” i.e. a reduced pension… every ICE employee should also see some consequences! #fascismInUSA #whatAreWeWatching

Carbon capture? Perhaps you should add unicorn farming to the list! Your concerns about the climate are not serious unless you’re explaining to people that CCS is unproven at scale. #publicService #tellTheTruth

María Corina Machado "awarding" her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump.

I feel like maybe giving her the Peace Prize was a mistake?

A pity he didn't reciprocate by presenting Machado his FIFA Peace Prize medal.

A very embarrassing day for the world

💩 (this should be our message to Musk) #OfcomBanX

And WTF why are there still people flying to conferences and business meeting in the US - or having a nice holiday abroad there?
How???

…dann sollen sie halt Auto fahren !1!11!!!

(gilt auch für Radfahrer*innen: nirgends Radwege geräumt 😭)

👀 @katjadiehl.bsky.social

Am Sachsendamm (Schöneberg) wurde penibel jede Schneeflocke von einem Dutzend Kfz-Spuren (inkl. A100) entfernt. Auf dem Radweg kurz mal drüber gewischt - passt schon? ❄️🌨🚴‍♂️

JOURNAL ARTICLE ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes Getaccess > Panle Jia Barwick, Siyu Chen, Chao Fu, Teng Li The Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjaf048, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf048 Published: 17 October 2025 66 Cite P Permissions < Share v Abstract Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along with comprehensive evidence on how students' own and their peers' app usage affect academic performance, physical health, and labor market outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data from a Chinese university covering three student cohorts over four years. We exploit random roommate assignments, differential exposure to a policy shock (gaming restrictions for minors), and differential exposure to a discrete event (the introduction of a blockbuster video game) for identification. App usage is contagious: a one s.d. increase in roommates' in-college app usage raises own usage by 5.8%. High app usage is harmful across all measured outcomes. A one s.d. increase in app usage reduces GPAs by 36.2% of a within-cohort-major s.d. and lowers wages by 2.3%. Roommates' app usage reduces a student's GPAs and wages through both disruptions and behavioral spillovers, generating a total negative effect that exceeds half the magnitude of the impact from the student's own app usage. Extending China's three-hour-per-week gaming restriction for minors to college students would boost their initial wages by 0.9%. High-frequency GPS and app usage data show that heavy app users spend less time in study halls, are more frequently late or absent from class, and get less sleep.

Evidence from random roommate assignment and a gaming ban for minors in China once again show what I now believe incredibly strongly: smartphones and social media destroy civilization

via @arpitrage.bsky.social

#Klimawandel live

As @doctorvive.bsky.social has pointed out a quadrillion times, it such a moment of significant and extreme alarm that fossi lfuel industry talking points are being shamelessly and bluntly repeated by people like this

Very, very, very grim

XR Fries and More Aktion am Flughafen Düsseldorf

Karikatur Frittenorgie in der Lufthansa VIP lounge.

Fries and more flyer

Lufthansa verspricht Fliegen mit „klimaneutralem" Treibstoff.
Dieser Treibstoff soll über das Recycling pflanzlicher Öle gewonnen werden. Wie absurd das ist, lässt sich leicht am Jahres Kerosinverbrauch der Lufthansa belegen (rund 9 Mio. Tonnen Kerosin im Jahr 2024. (1/4)

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

Former Arsenal and current Betis footballer Hector Bellerin bikes to work and advocates for "greener cities, with fewer cars". Great to see him using his voice for this cause #urbanism #walkable #carsruincities #cardependency #carfree

There’s really no better alternative right now, as the billionaires have hijacked our press and our ministers… if only the faragistas were here to read, see and consider this… #antiEstablishmentPolicy #theAlternative

We went from AI will cure cancer to this… 🙄 #thisIsAILow

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,