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Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 NEW: The village of Piddington has voted to leave the UK in a referendum over plans to house up to 1,256 asylum seekers in a nearby MoD site

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team

Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code

God@thegodshow.com

How does being Lindsey Graham’s sister qualify someone to be a Senator?

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 NEW: Shabana Mahmood has announced members of the public will replace judges in deciding appeals from failed asylum seekers

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social

It is absolutely fine that people are having fun taking this reply completely out of context from the original post and I wish you all a very pleasant It Can't Happen Here

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social

Thomas Piketty and a large team have just proposed a worldwide tax & economic revolution. buff.ly/2Gk9zN0 In short: ⦿ Cap rich-nation growth near zero ⦿ Cut work hours in half ⦿ Cut material consumption by 1/3 ⦿ 10% of GDP going into a global fund ⦿ Tax wealth to essentially end it It's potty.

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Susan DuBose@houseofbast777.bsky.social

Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland

Ray Beckerman@raybeckerman.bsky.social

SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/m...

cnbc.comSpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar saysThe analysts see a wide range of possibilities around xAI and find its "economic moat indeterminate."

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

Not now, outer core!

scientificamerican.comEarth’s molten outer core is behaving in chaotic, unexpected waysScientists are working to solve a mystery of Earth’s molten outer core, which lies more than 2,000 kilometers beneath our feet

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

This crew is the picture of health

The Guardian@theguardian.com

At least 15m Britons not saving enough to retire, Pensions Commission says

theguardian.comAt least 15m Britons not saving enough to retire, Pensions Commission saysJust 4% of self-employed workers are putting cash into pensions, with ‘large groups across the UK facing a severe cliff-edge’ Millions of people across Britain are facing a “cliff edge” when they retire due to a chronic shortfall in saving that will require a radical shake-up of the pensions system to fix, a government-backed report has warned. The Pensions Commission said 15 million people were currently not saving adequately for their retirement, and warned this could rise to as many as 19 million without action. Continue reading...

Todd Kendall@alpinemigrant.bsky.social

Peter Kellner did this on YouGov last year. Even if you (perhaps rightly) doubt the full scale of this, it is clear that the march of time has changed matters. I do find "rejoin" a stupid word to use. Like Yoda and Try, there is no rejoin. There is just join.

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social

If you start a new supermarket, you should just put an apostrophe and S on the end of the name, because that's what everyone is going to call it anyway.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Did you talk to Xi about the cyber attacks that he's done in the United States? TRUMP: I did. And he talked about attacks we did in China. You know, what they do, we do too. We spy like hell on them too. I told him, 'we do a lot of stuff to you that that you don't know about.'

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

RFK JR on Hantavirus: We have it under control. We’re not worried about it.

Ben Goggin@bengoggin.bsky.social

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comOpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooterThe lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Warren Davidson: "We had essentially the whole chain of command in one place. People say, 'That's a lot of vulnerability,' but it's also a flex, saying, 'Iran, there's really nothing you can do about it. Shed tears, whatever, but you can't influence things in the United States.'"

america’s local band cheekface@cheekface.bsky.social

fuck your desert island disc, I want to know your Guantanamo bay song. what song would the government use to torture you at a Black Site

localswampgay@localswampgay.bsky.social

When life gives you lemons, you don’t have to only make lemonade. You can also make a nice lemon loaf or a curd, a tart perhaps. Lemon meringue pie. You are not limited to lemonade.

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

Lactose The Intolerant (SPOOKTACULAR)@lactose87.bsky.social

But Suddenly…. France.

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk

We're taking beavers on tour! Ever wanted to see one of the UK's most elusive mammals up close...?

Paula Hammond@writerpaula.bsky.social

On a walk around #Conwy yesterday, I spotted something I hadn't noticed before. This magnificent #Gothic railway arch, built in 1840, through the #Medieval walls. It even continues the castellated parapet! Zoom in, and you can see where bits were chipped away as trains got bigger! #photograph #photo

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social

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 www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

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