This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
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This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
this fucking guy
Watching oil refineries/tankers burn and black out the sun for days as I take my little recycling bin to the curb to do my part to save the planet.
🔗 to full text of the letter, with 12 expertly worded questions that will hopefully, finally, get to the bottom of why we find ourselves in this dire situation.
So impressed by Dame @chionwurah.bsky.social and her committee - politics actually in action ❤️
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
Because big computers and AI is all we need to do research... 😢
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War crime upon war crime upon war crime
Meanwhile, in nazi land..
The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Schrödinger’s QR funding, which both is and isn’t funding research. 🙄
Basically the bucket is a label which allows the government to say it’s putting billions into “curiosity-driven research”, while most of that money isn’t actually funding research at all.
Definitely. Which is why the best academic AI policies I’ve seen make it clear to students that “submitting work that was produced by “AI” (chatbots, LLMs) *is* plagiarism and will be treated as such.”
Live tax-free in Dubai, until shit hits the fan and you ask to come back, funded by the tax-payer...
"To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France."
I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government in a few months time. Was it worth it? Persecuting refugees in order to satisfy an electoral strategy even she probably doesn't believe in. Pissing away the last dregs of your integrity for a plan which has already been shown not to work.
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here is a copy of the open letter from the heads of physics departments across the UK- worth reading as it makes a lot of excellent points
www.iop.org/about/news/o...
This is of course a trick question, nobody is safe here.
Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
And it is losing them very specifically because - this is the phrase every Labour friend tells me they hear on the doorstep - "it stands for nothing". How is it possible No.10 have concluded that they can reverse this if only they stand for nothing even more resolutely? WTAF are these people doing?
Starmer telling Labour MPs today that the Greens are "divisive," "sectarian," and "not the kind environmentalists they pretend" is not going to go down well with the millions who now back Greens. It'll simply tell them Labour doesn't hear us. More tin-eared stupidity.
Is there life on Mars? For decades, America was in pole position to find out with its multi-mission Mars Sample Return program.
But MSR is now officially dead. And in the race to find alien life on Mars, it’s now China’s to lose.
Me @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/26/1...
Hannah is awesome! 👏
Would have loved to see the faces of geniuses at Labour HQ last night 🤡
Shocking from UKRI: no more aircraft observations, investing in "land-based capabilities and remote sensing equipment."
The atmosphere is not land-based(!) and remote sensing can only provide an approximation of what FAAM could do. And I say that as someone who should gain from such a pivot.
What will happen. Mahmood will continue to try and ban legitimate protest against the Israeli genocide; Streeting will continue to play to the fascist gallery by denying trans existence; and Labour will continue to haemorrhage voters. Starmer is too weak to change either.
Anyway, I have never read a single academic consultant report that wasn't like 10 minutes of data analysis with 20 pages of shiny colorful graphs that mean very little.
What a fuckin waste of money that entire industry is
A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General.
Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.