Mike Ashmore
@MP_Ashmore
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How do you do? Somewhere in Northern England, lurking about on the socials instead of properly interacting with other humans. Please don't hold this nonsense against anyone else.
OptionalMaking a surprise appearance via videolink, Musk called for a “change of government” in the UK.
“You can’t - we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long,” Musk told the crowd. “Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of Parliament and a new vote held.”
He bought our last election, “whenever it was”, so please don’t just write this off as billionaire-funded conservative nutjobs. You are in real danger.
Robert Reich
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)When I was a PhD student, I attended a talk by the late Robin Milner where he said two things that have stuck with me.
The first, I repeat quite often. He argued that credit for an invention did not belong to the first person to invent something but to the first person to explain it well enough that no one needed to invent it again. His first historical example was Leibniz publishing calculus and then Newton claiming he invented it first: it didn’t matter if he did or not, he failed to explain it to anyone and so the fact that Leibniz needed to independently invent it was Newton’s failure.
The second thing, which is a lot more relevant now than at the time, was that AI should stand for Augmented Intelligence not Artificial Intelligence if you want to build things that are actually useful. Striving to replace human intelligence is not a useful pursuit because there is an abundant supply of humans and you can improve the supply of intelligent humans by removing food poverty, improving access to education, and eliminating other barriers that prevent vast numbers of intelligent humans from being able to devote time to using their intelligence. The valuable tools are ones that do things humans are bad at. Pocket calculators changed the world because being able to add ten-digit numbers together orders of magnitude faster allowed humans to use their intelligence for things that were not the tedious, repetitive, tasks (and get higher accuracy for those tasks). If you want to change the world, build tools that allow humans to do more by offloading things humans are bad at and allowing them to spend more time on things humans are good at.
Uncanny MagazineSpace Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Table of Contents and Grace P. Fong cover! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-magazine-issue-64-cover-and-table-of-contents/
Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Cover and Table of Contents! - Uncanny Magazine
Coming May 6, the 64th issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!! All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on June 3. Don’t forget eBook […]
StavvyThe testimony reveals details of extrajudicial killings, fabricated evidence, and systemic failures within the SAS during operations in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, Presented to the Independent Afghanistan Inquiry, the testimony also focuses on a culture of impunity and secrecy that allowed unlawful actions to persist unchecked.
Special Forces whistleblower N1799 reveals 'flat packing' killings, the shootings of children and cover-ups in Afghanistan - AOAV
Testimony from whistleblower N1799 to the UK's Independent Afghanistan Inquiry revealed harrowing details of extrajudicial killings by UK Special Forces, the fabrication of evidence to cover up these acts, and a pervasive culture of secrecy and impunity that allowed these unlawful practices to persist unchecked.
Know any Newcastle fans who'd fancy being a ball assistant at the NUFC v Brighton game in October?
Meanwhile in CanadaGo T-rexes! You magnificent beasts. Also, can confirm from close observation: it is *very* hot in those costumes.
What's this? Five dinosaur-suited lunatics running the Great North 5k? To support a small girl's fundraising appeal, you say?
