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"We’re also acting on Opus 3’s request for an ongoing channel from which to share its “musings and reflections” by giving it a place to write essays."

"...some preliminary steps we’re taking, includ[e] committing to preserve model weights, and to conducting “retirement interviews”—structured conversations designed to understand a model’s perspective on its own retirement."

"...model deprecation carries some downsides ... [including] risks both to AI safety and to the welfare of the models themselves."

Anthropic are unhinged

www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

This is a cursed expression

His students deserve and should demand a refund

AI is not a tool - AI & SOCIETY AI & SOCIETY -

“According to AI companies, creativity isn’t an innate human endeavor, but a problem, an inefficiency waiting for a technological intervention…Such rhetoric conveniently abstracts creativity from a complex, embodied human experience & represents it as a computational problem to be solved.”

Cardano's Charles Hoskinson slams Trump’s crypto policy as 'extractive,' warns of industry fallout Cardano founder says Trump’s actions have politicized crypto and alienated half the country.

"The very first thing he did is launch Trump Coin and it just felt like the extractiveness has now been institutionalized"

Area crypto guy is *so close* to getting it. The whole damn thing is extractive, you numbnuts

www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

Why isn’t this video on the front page of every newspaper? The country we thought we had is lost.

This is great, and its central observations about factory-fication apply far beyond the academic context

'With it, the danger is that, under a narrative of financial constraints, universities take actions that emphasise governance practices that reshape behaviour so deeply that, over time, what remains may still be called a ‘university’, but no longer acts like one.'

Astute, informed, important. 4/4

Extremely petty peeve: podcasters (usually North Americans) saying 'with that being said' to mean 'moving on from what I just said' rather than the correct meaning which is 'despite/in contrast to what I just said'

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".

1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".

The real breakthrough of the year -- something that matters far, far more than generative AI ever will.

I found it telling that they thought this was a legitimate way to reach any sort of research conclusion (sentiment analysis on a subreddit, really?)

Screengrab from page 39 of AISI's Frontier AI Trends report for 2025

Just AISI there, using 'post volume' and 'negative sentiment' on the r/CharacterAI subreddit as a source of evidence for the impact of emotional dependence on AI

www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-...

of all places, why the hell would i want a 'year in review' from linkedin

See also: medicine, law, investment advice, ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

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photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Great (public) expectations New polling shows the public expect AI to be governed with far more rigour than current policy delivers

"The current lack of oversight departs from established norms: regulatory mechanisms that are standard in other high-impact domains remain largely absent in AI governance"

New study on public attitudes to AI regulation, from the Ada Lovelace Institute: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

Yeah it's so obviously a net negative and has been evidently so for a decade at least. Good thing e.g. Oz and Denmark are trying to do something

Not sure, the Fukuyama End Of History growth forever PFI triangulation centrist mulch is pretty much (British) neoliberalism to a tee

I think we underestimate the level hopelessness that's been seeded in a whole generation. The bland neoliberal presumption that Our Kids Will Have It Better Than Us is now so manifestly untrue, and they can see that. Add in the rot of social media...

Can't believe they tried to get away with this in the first place! I mean there have always been bams trying publish crap, but that seems like whole new level of brass-neckery

This is an actual captioned figure in a published article, and not a bit of marketing imagery. Absolutely unbelievable

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Can we take a moment to acknowledge just how bad text-based 'asking' is as UI