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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3h

⏰ Don't miss @zackpolanski.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.

💻 BBC iPlayer at 9pm
📺 BBC One at 10.40pm.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 2h

And this is when it's massively subsidised.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 2h

"Can our secret police invade your country?"

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 5h

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 5h

This wouldn't be the first time millions of software developers have ended up relying on something that actually made their jobs harder.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps the *real* opportunity with Generative AI is for businesses who take advantage while all their competitors are distracted, and solve an actual problem with a solution that actually works and can be sold for actual profit.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 8h

The whole idea of letting an LLM loose on a spreadsheet seemed absurd to begin with.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 9h

"where for some the mantra is 'one feature per release', we might instead practice 'one hypothesis per experiment'. The learning’s from each experiment are fed back into another pass, where we formulate a new hypothesis if ours was refuted by the data."

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/i...

If Releases Are Experiments, What’s Your Hypothesis?

A view I share with a small but growing number of people is the idea that software releases are experiments. An experiment needs a hypothesis, and that hypothesis needs to be falsifiable – ot…

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 9h

Meanwhile

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12h

This is why some tech start-ups delay reporting a profit for as long as they can

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 23h

The funny part is that, if we ignore how much money's being pumped into GenAI, in actual revenue, the arts dwarfs it.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I can see this era of hyperscale language models ending, and a future of small, task-specific models that can run on consumer hardware.

Someone at Samsung agrees with me :-)

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI on.ft.com/3WqHK5t

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Invest in the second-hand GPU market ;-)

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, practical skills, creativity, problem solving, *making* stuff or *doing* stuff - that's working class.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

The laughable thing is they also underfund & undermine science, engineering & technology, because they don't understand that either. They're seen as low-status careers, even if they're well-paid. My old school won't even talk to me about careers in software. Now, if I was working in PR or banking...

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 1d

My speaking tour kicks off this morning with #jetbrains #dotnet Days Online in about 90 minutes. I’ll be doing a quick 45-minute talk on Clean Architecture. Other talks happening now!

lp.jetbrains.com/dotnet-days-...

JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025

Join us on October 8-9, 2025 for a free virtual event bringing together the most influential people in the .NET space to talk about topics they’re passionate about, including .NET Aspire, Blazor, and ...

lp.jetbrains.com

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

Not any more, it seems. So much $ at stake, would anyone dare?

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I think most of us suffer from solution fixation to some degree. The trick, I suppose, is knowing that we do.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

It helps if prototypes look like something we'd be happy to throw away. Yeah, maybe the sofa goes there, but right now it's just a pile of cardboard boxes with "SOFA" written on them.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I've found that decisions, once made, resist getting unmade. It's almost as if they have a survival instinct of their own :-)

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's natural that the more time and effort (and money) we have invested in something, the harder we find it to let go. I guess it's also a bit like how I might walk into an empty room and see all kinds of possibilities, but in a furnished room - sofa goes *there*, and I just can't unsee it.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 1d

It always worked. Saved them about £100K a month. The boss was *not* happy. Turns out *she* had created the original solution. And also, now she had no need of a team :-)

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