Nigel Anderson

Tom Flood nails this fundamentally faulty reasoning @tomflood.bsky.social

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

thought about this bit out of nowhere this morning so i watched it again extremely solid use of my time www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEC...

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

Irish radio ads be like: Child: Daddy, what's bollux? Daddy: What's bollux?! Child: Yes, mammy said "It's all bollux" Daddy: Oh! You mean "bollocks"! It's all bollocks how many sellers use this same damn pattern because some advertiser told them cute sells.

My latest @nbcnews.com investigation dropped this morning -- We analyzed the YouTube watch histories of 11 students to look into how some students end up viewing over 5,000 YouTube videos in class, on school-issued laptops, in a single school year www.nbcnews.com/specials/hoo...

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

At work everyone is getting tied up in knots tip-toeing around the minefield of AI agent workflows, trying to avoid accidentally triggering some process that has Consequences. This is no way to live.

This painting by the artist Adriaen Coorte, made in 1699, shows a simple bunch of dramatically lit asparagus, on a stone shelf. Still life paintings of food, often called Vanitas, were a common theme in Dutch art in the 17th century and alluded to moral themes such as the brevity of life.

Our CEO's all-in approach to AI now has his internal musings on negative reviews on Trustpilot posted as the company response to the negative review. 😬

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Dun Laoghaire to Howth

A neighbour tapped me up to join the local bowls club, explaining that for home league matches they take it in turns to make the sandwiches. "We obviously don't ask the single guys."

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Superb analysis of AI prose: how it works and how it feels silentroom.media/the-craft/br...

The thing about Londoners is they stand, dripping in the nip after each shower, squeegeeing the shower screen to stop limescale build-up

AI-coders gonna code. We've largely handed coding over to Claude. Pre-Claude the unzipped product weighed 59.1Mb & had 24 DB tables. Months later it weighs 80.8Mb, with 32 DB tables. One week later & current beta (entirely the work of founder's agents), bumps that to 84.4Mb and counting...

Sally Rooney's books will no longer be distributed by Faber & Faber due to her support for Palestine Action. This is absurd, and part of a broader ludicrousness in British society where solidarity with Palestine is punished in increasingly nonsensical ways, while genocide goes unpunished.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Ireland suffered a negative terms of trade shock because of the effect of war on energy prices, making Ireland as a whole poorer. Unavoidable, the question being where the burden falls. With tomorrow's strikes, public sector workers assert "not on us". We are not all in this together...

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

I was on the telly.

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple law forcing LLMs to use "Meesa" instead of "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything)

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

Smoke alarm went off because teenage daughter, minutes before heading off on a school trip, shoved the hair dryer on full hot-blast into one of her washed-and-not-yet-dry favourite trainers, then wandered off to finish her packing.

New series of #BlueLights has far-right protestors shouting and waving placards and the anti-fascists brutally assaulting the police with boots and metal bars. Hmmm-okayyy, sounds about right BBC.

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

No AI for kids. Full stop.

This is like being proud of Holocaust denial.

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

Alt text: Kemi Badenoch holding a Conservative Party leaflet titled "the right way" with graphics of multiple arrows pointing in different directions.

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.