Nick Appleyard

Can we please say “rogue AI company” and not “rogue AI”. Surely there’s enough room in the headline for one more word.

@LoganFive@beige.party “If you want to succeed in science, you have to sell it more. You can’t admit that you’re uncertain.” This was in a US university of course. I went back to Europe and never returned.

@meganmariehart Boop

@luciedigitalni@aus.social Fortunately #Meta’s legal action has been entirely successful in preventing you from finding out about Sarah Wynne-Williams’ Sunday Times bestselling memoir #CarelessPeople, published by Flatiron Books.

@zzt@mas.to Remember that is essential to follow the approved purity testing protocols. If not, then you are at risk of not doing purity testing properly, opening yourself to criticism from purer purity testers.

Time for a fresh #introduction. They tell me I’m chronically #trusting and #optimistic 🤜 🤛 . It’s a weakness I feel no need to address. After the first 10 years my wife said she wasn’t going to explain my jokes any more 🙅‍♀️ , since I didn’t seem to care if anyone laughed anyway. That was a while back, and our #kids now have the same policy. Professionally I’m what happens if a #scientist 🥼 looks at themselves and asks what that’s for. Spoiler: it ended up being about people, and how #technology can make our world better 🌍. My last ricochet took me from #digital #economy to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism: #space! 🚀 🛰️ 📡 . I've become a delocalised European 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 who rarely sleeps five nights in the same bed these days. Not even for the fun reason. But I came here in the Great Relocation of 2022 to escape from all that, and to hear about your #pets 😻 and #hobbies 🧶 It’s quiet here, away from the road noise and the shouting. You can hear the birds sing 🐥 🎵

@ZLabe@fediscience.org What happened with methane from 1995-2005? Whatever it was, can we do that again?

@cstross The current and future projects that those investors would otherwise be backing will become starved of cash. Entire political movements may fold.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net In-groups are always full of this stuff. Emails around our work typically say things like "ARTES rules say that after JCB we will need to present this to MS at IPC so they know what's going to TEB. But then the delays of LOA between OP and FP are affecting our TTC." New starters have a learning curve as long as a year before they unpack it all.

@rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social That’s the same message I left when cancelling my Guardian subscription during the Observer sale.

@fj Well done Brussels! Keep it up!

@Ask_aubry@mas.to Oh no! Think of all the women who won’t have the opportunity to marry this prime specimen of humanity!

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Democracy, meh. When you do get around to the SpaceX thing, I look forwards to your repeated enunciation of "TRILLLLION". Apparently the market for data centres in space is the same size as the entire US economy. I did not previously know that.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I can help you with that.

@parismarx@mastodon.online Some of these choices are HARD!

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online Yeah, a necrotic hernia would have got me at 16, or if I survived that then a burst appendix would take me out in my early 50s. Plenty of other infections along the way, too. Yay for antibiotics.

@evacide@hachyderm.io OK, that was a trigger. Donation to #EFF is on its way.

@hadleybeeman@w3c.social True dat. Good to know you’re still out there. We’re still finding new things to do with satellites. Yesterday it was the feasibility of beaming down solar power to Earth. Today it was predicting whether boat engines would be a nuisance for whales. Tomorrow? Not sure yet. I’ll spin the wheel.

@paulisci@mstdn.ca This is an awesome thread and it must have taken you ages and a lot of work to assemble. As such, it contradicts itself gloriously.

@jmaris@eupolicy.social @kde@floss.social “Up”grade.

@gr8nanjan@aus.social @CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social @jann@twit.social @apodoxus@mastodon.online @Michigander@toad.social Oh I know that one. Tap water has been frothed up with air. Boiled water doesn’t have air bubbles, even after it has cooled back down.

@AstroKatie or maybe it’s a Hubble Bubble? No idea whether that explains anything, I just enjoyed typing it.

@AstroKatie Noting the caveats about the observations, if this does mess up the cosmological age/distance curve then what are the implications? Is dark energy then trashed, for example?

@futurebird@sauropods.win @Moss@beige.party Millipedes are the ones with three rows of legs, yes?

@enerdata.bsky.social Meanwhile their oil and gas extraction is responsible for emissions of 562Mt/year. We should never allow them to mention one number without the other. https://earth.org/36-fossil-fuel-giants-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-report/

@robotics@mastodon.world Why make them humanoid?

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org You can even change it to a Protonmail address.

@petersuber@fediscience.org Score -5 points to #OpenAI! Current score: -8319 points. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-bans-anthropic-government-use-rcna261055

@hadleybeeman@w3c.social Oh, that's work worth turning up on a Monday for!

@petrillic@hachyderm.io You have to wonder how many trombonists got kicked in the head during rehearsals.

@bestforbritain.org @bylinetimes.bsky.social I am #shockedshocked.

@koen_hufkens@mastodon.social Or not at all.

@ufofeed@channels.im Which one of these cartoon characters is supposed to represent the Indian Space Agency?

@acemaxxanalytics@econtwitter.net What is the value of a pie chart which is not to scale?

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Is it shorting their stock?

So I ask myself cui bono? Who benefits from the story that #Claude #Mythos is the scariest creature in these woods? And who told us this story?

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The whole Mythos-is-scary and Mythos-is-powerful news story was just marketing puff. In the end there was nothing to see. https://mastodonapp.uk/@nick_appleyard/116388588057200298

“Forecourt Eye said it would partner with facial recognition company Facewatch to offer more than 2,000 retailers free access to crime reporting technology from the autumn.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8mrrlkjppo #FacialRecognition #Surveillance