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“A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

Far Right Said Fred.

Algorithmically driven timelines are a scourge but at least Insta seems to know me quite well.

Somewhere there’s a smug engineer who knew what was going to happen and had start_procedure_v3-final_final-USETHISONE ready. #f1

The Captain has turned on the signs So stow away bags of all kinds Then make sure your tray is folded away And the seat-back no longer reclines Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️

So beautifully well articulated.

As head of PR at Weyland-Yutani, I’m afraid to say that this statement needs to be repeated.

Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.

"I've got Barrowman on the phone sir"

Absolutely this. Academic freedom cannot be a cover for discredited/pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority. Science is not a tool to be used to insinuate an answer while giving the speaker somewhere to retreat to when challenged.

Even here on Bluesky, a lie (or worse a half-truth) can make it around the world before Sam Vimes has got his boots on.

Finally! Now my AI agent can walk my dog, and connect with my children, and comfort my wife as she cries herself to sleep at night.

Mind blown (Escherich/E. Coli). Love these little treasure troves from history.

Lots of interesting points in this thread and the replies. It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments

RIP Sam Neill, the Bond we never knew we had.

Of course it’s a labrador. That is the face of a stoned dog. #vetmed

FTFY

I don’t mind it, but there’s no doubt it looks like a matte painting of an alien cityscape in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.

I think the tech bros are only too happy to see the pushback against SM being funnelled into this wholly ineffective intervention. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem - attention stealing, algo driven polarisation and uncontrolled misinformation/anti rationalism

“These teenagers we’re just in the process of extending the franchise to. Is there any way we can piss them all off simultaneously, so none of them want to vote for us?”

Paging Lynne Truss… “Utah is suffering from such dry conditions that a group of kids with a lighter and a squirrel managed to start separate brush fires within hours, according to local media reports.”

Straight back at you with: The “No chandeliers” does it for me

If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.

Even Monaco has potholes now.

To pick out just one of the fundamental misunderstandings there, fossil fuels are incredibly inefficient. We throw away 2/3rds, almost 400 exajoules, of our energy budget, mostly just extracting, moving & using fossil fuel, >$4.5 trillion, almost 5% of global GDP. Before anything productive is done!

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

It turns out that the tactic of "dithering for as long as you possibly can and finally being forced taking a decision that makes you look weak, pisses off one side immensely and buys you no credit with the other" is not in fact the secret code to being a successful Prime Minister

Exclusive behind the scenes on the first Amazon-era Bond film.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Is there anything to be said for getting Ken Clarke in?

The dawning of a beautiful day here in Avalon. Photo taken today on Glastonbury Tor. The sun is rising almost centrally now through the archway of St Michael's tower. I was lucky enough to have the place to myself this morning too.

A beautiful and heart-breaking thread.

Next up, what’s the great British public’s view on Streptomyces sp. vs Actinomyces sp.?

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

In Seine.

BREAKING: The Miami GP is at threat of cancellation after doubts surface over the ability of US officials to keep a straight open for safe travel for a sustained period.

A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.

A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.

My youngest daughter felt a bit victimised by her big sister at the weekend so quietly slipped upstairs and rearranged her bookshelves for her. Revenge will no doubt be swift. Pleased to be passing on these pass-ag genes to the next generation.