Daniel Rourke

Mark Zuckerberg Decides Meta Needs More Slop, Buys the Social Network for AI Agents Because Facbook and Instagram don't have enough bots, apparently.

#ACCELERATE

#CosmicHorror factoid of the day:

If the vacuum of space didn't block sound from reaching us, the sun would be as loud as a jackhammer everywhere on Earth. At all times. If the sun were to blink out, it would take 8 minutes for the light to stop but 13 YEARS for the sound to stop.

Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’

Huge 'His Masters Voice' vibes #StanisławLem

And so we celebrate in other ways...

Threads

Happy Threads day, to all who celebrate it 😭

Trump says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead after US-Israeli strikes Trump describes Khamenei as

Fuck

Metaphors of AI indicate that people increasingly perceive AI as warm and human-like Analyzing 12,000 metaphors of AI from a year-long U.S. survey, this study introduces a scalable framework for quantitatively analyzing implicit perceptions from open-ended language and shows that Americans...

Metaphors of AI indicate that people increasingly perceive AI as warm and human-like

And if war in the Middle East isn't enough distraction...? #aliens

Helluva way to distract attention away from the Epstein files

What's a line of delivery you'll never forget?

Nuclear Gandhi - Wikipedia

Lest we forget: Nuclear Gandhi

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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Akira is coming in 4K

The reason iMAX was invented? My body is ready… #Akira blog.alltheanime.com/akira-theatr...

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video fee... Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?

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I'm not complaining

We all know that MPs and Trade Envoys forwarding 'state secrets' to their rich friends in industry happens every single day of the week, and always has done.

The Mandelson & Andrew arrests are optics, pure and simple. Arrest them all.

Why it's high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants We have long drawn parallels between ants and humans. Now we are comparing the insects to computers. It is time to stop using ants as analogues for ourselves and our machines, says Annalee Newitz

1st World problems

A Potentially Infinite Number of AI Homer Simpson ‘Cover Songs’ Have ‘Poisoned’ Soulseek A troll is sharing more than 2,000 Homer songs masquerading as originals—and there may be plenty more on their way.

Early signs of The Singularity

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - live updates It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

Optics. Not unless he is arrested for paedophilia / sex trafficking will I be celebrating

It's Tracey Emin talking about anal sex

This is it. I finally found it. The article I am the least likely to ever read. Thanks Guardian

I just processed an MA application for a candidate who has a BA in 'E-Sports'

an unctuous mass wholly free from bones

The grossest horror movie of 1986 is also one of the most romantic films ever David Cronenberg's The Fly is swoonsome in a tragically doomed way.

I couldn’t agree more

Odd use of the future anterior here. I'm a bit confused 😂

Irrelevant. My point was that engaging with the thing you are outraged by is counter productive. Outrage drives engagement. Just don't engage. Reduce outrage. Chill.

And yet here we are....

Aaaaand, now your outrage comment has brought attention to the post of the article of the boy you don't want attention giving to.

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge; home secretary ‘disappointed’ by ruling and says government will appeal

Finally, some news that doesn't make me want to scream

Hahaha. I doubt that very much. The biggest cover ups are the ones you have never heard about.

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.