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AI Confidential with Hannah Fry Hannah Fry takes a deep dive into some of the most extraordinary human stories emerging from the world of AI, from falling in love with a chatbot to life and death decisions made by robots.

Hm. I would recommend checking out the second episode of this... AI Confidential with Hannah Fry - BBC iPlayer share.google/i971LOhWfpRf...

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Truth...

Initial pebbles...
#Lettercutting

Mrs J is watching a documentary on #Channel5 about the Mary Celeste. I look up from my book, and, apart from the talking heads it is all AI slop... Unbelievable.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Something that should be more widely recognised...

An astonishing piece of fiction. By turns gentle philosophical speculation and eldritch apocalypse horror, it's got right under my skin...

That's gorgeous.

Oxford in the spring looking absolutely stunning! A privilege to take our students up to @exeter.ox.ac.uk to be inspired!

Foreign Office starts planning evacution of thousands of Britons in Middle East About 200,000 nationals thought to be in the region as tensions rise after US-Israeli attacks on Iranian regime

As a UK taxpayer, I steongly suggest that all those tax-dodging UK immigrants in Dubai should be given a bill for their evacuation expenses.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

GANG VIOLENCE: Can It Be Stopped? | The Crime Agents YouTube video by The Crime Agents

Hospital admissions of young people for knife assault have almost halved since I set up London’s Violence Reduction Unit in 2019.

London's Violence Reduction Unit director Lib Peck spoke to The Crime Agents about how prevention has played a key role in the progress we’re making:

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Pebbles carved with uncial letters in the aunshine

Chip chip...

Well, maybe not so charming... There was an itv documentary about the headmaster (& not for a good reason).

The snooker balls in a sock approach was popularised by Ray Winston in his debut in the borstal drama "Scum".

I can really only contribute to pillow fighting in memories of prep school - we had old feather pillows which if whirled round long enough could be transformed into an effectively solid lump at the end of a long empty pillowcase handle - made a pretty good cosh...

Now that's taking your pillow fighting very seriously... (Up there with snooker balls in a sock)

This has been going for a while. You should follow @conradhackett.bsky.social of PEW on here, who has been (quietly and politely) making the case for the (very obvious) issues with the data...

Surely, given your unique métier, "Up yours" would be the obvious choice for carving...

A version of this yokai features at the culmination of The Regicide Report - the final volume of @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files...

"The Grand old Duke of York, he had 12 Million Quid, he gave it to someone he never met for something he never did"

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

Someone must be asking...

“Are we going to charge him, Sarge?”
“Not right away, constable. Stick him in a cell and let him sweat for a while.”
“Er…”

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .

I bet Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is sweating now...

I completely agree, but you know "stars come right, elder gods return" etc.

I can't believe it has come to an end...
And what an ending.
A thousand cannons loaded with eldritch mayhem and they all go off at once in the last few chapters...
Thank you @cstross.bsky.social it has been a blast. (Now back to the start I think...)

Well depends on how you interpret it... I would say that most Christians would agree with you... President Bartlett did this one very well... youtu.be/AIHjoT19XpE?...