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Secretly biased AI advice made unfavorable choices about five to eight times more likely in an experiment. Users still rated the AI as highly helpful. doi.org/hcnwz7

Three silicon spin qubits operated at once with single-qubit gate fidelities above 99.99%, despite sharing one microwave control line. With all five running, fidelity stayed around 99.9%. doi.org/hcnwz8

Small AI models may be months away from copying themselves between smart gadgets without human help. These AI worms would likely spread slowly—but be hard to stamp out.

Emergency commissions! I got laid off last weeek. If y'all wanna help out a (human) Latino artist from the Global South, commission me some art! #Art #OC #CharacterPortrait #TTRPG #DnD #Commission #NotAI

#Pathfinder2 #CharacterArt #CharacterPortrait #Inkdrawing

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Google’s DeepMind isn’t done transforming genetics, it seems: today the group released a new atlas that predicts every possible effect caused by nine billion possible single changes in the human genome.

I am a cis, white, straight woman who was born and raised on a remote dairy farm, raised around no diversity at all. Virtually everything I know about people unlike that narrow group came from meeting people at cons first. Embarrassing but true.

Black sludge that seeps from the earth and grants you untold wealth and ability to do things that for the vast majority of human history would seem like powerful magic *and in exchange* turns you and everyone who deals with it some degree of evil.

#Sketching from @redsreferences.bsky.social

Good Morning, World.

"Our analysis here shows that intense heat is increasing rapidly even in living memory, with such events tens to hundreds of times more likely since only 2003 and virtually impossible just 50 years ago." www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

*Tehran calls* beautiful historic peace, ships of the world start your engines let the oil flow *Netanyahu calls* wipe them out. allll of them *Miller calls* they're POISONING the BLOOD of our COUNTRY *Tehran back* clearly Iran needs nuclear Someone please put Mamdani on for his 2AM nappy time call

El Niño continued to strengthen in June 2026, with satellite observations showing elevated sea surface height in the equatorial Pacific. More warm Kelvin waves appeared to be approaching.

"Det er SÅÅÅÅ viktig at folk som sliter med psykiske problemer, tør å åpne seg opp og fortelle andre om problemene slik at de kan få hjelp!", del (n+1). www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/5p6X...

Learning a new drawing app. Feels odd going from wacom pad to scribbling directly on the screen. #digitalart #wip #Dwemer #artsky

The Elf Archaeologists Are Saying Hurtful Things About Your Skeleton: you lie on the floor and people say mean things about your bones. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/565228?affiliate_id=2525274

Rare Saturday morning cartoon...I mean YT video! For years now people have wondered if corporations are secretly spying on their conversations using their phone mics. Recently, some companies claimed to have that ability. Turns out, they were SCAMMING other companies! skepchick.org/2026/05/is-y...

This is also profoundly deceptive. Some machine learning applications emulate simple neural networks, but LLMs like Anthropic’s products do not. At all. They’re complex probability calculators, with some pseudo-randomness thrown in. That’s all. They do not resemble organic brains even a little.

Practicing using ink blobs for shading and structure. Troll's chant by #Pratchett #Discworld #InkDrawing #Art #TraditionalArt #Sketch #FanArt

Vishal Verma interviews Luna Sabastian about her recent book, “Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva,” which traces the emergence of Hindu nationalism—with its corresponding ideas of religion, race, and caste—to "the global fascist moment" of the interwar years. @harvardpress.bsky.social

I dag grattar vi kungen Sven Nordqvist, skaparen av bl.a. Pettson och Findus, på 80-årsdagen. 🎉

For the Moore folks…

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Publisher attempts to block AI scraping limits access to the historical record, raising questions about how we preserve the web 📚 PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI explores access & accountability 🔍 📆 Tues, April 28 🕙 10 AM PDT 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/preserving... 🧵

#sketching #ink #art Bing, "En gammel romfarers beretninger" www.nb.no/items/d7b347...

I've spent 20 years making tabletop RPGs. 35 or so, mostly without a GM. Finally gave them a home. Hyperfictive is my personal imprint. hyperfictive.com

China billionaire owner of Northumbrian Water wants to bid for Thames Water. NW has 50+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers. 90% of England's water is foreign owned. More of the same can't solve problems. Must end privatisation. Must nationalise.

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

I don't want queer events that are just going to a loud bar and mingling, I want queer events where we learn about uranium glassware collecting and play pvp Quake over LAN

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

"Nei, det er det ikke lov å slette. Nei, det er ikke lov selv om det er feil."