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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

Who could possibly have seen this coming.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5h

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England 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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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 9h

AND THIS FUCKING RECORD

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 16h

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 9h

I'VE GOT THIS FUCKING RECORD

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 16h

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 9h

The lawsuits are going to be quite the spectacle.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 9h

ok thanks for clarifying. massive respect for people who show their process

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 18h

Look at my moon, isn’t it super!

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

www.ft.com/content/5f6f... What do you call it when a massive customer can't pay, so you help it by giving it bits of your company?

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn

Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

Who has a checkered past, Robert Jenrick? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Minister accepts Isle of Dogs housing development 'was unlawful'

Conservative party donor Richard Desmond avoided a £40m bill due to timing of the deal.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

my friend's dad is a journalist and photographer. He did an exhibition on Handsworth. Jenrick should focus on housing and education in Newark, for which the Conservatives did f*** all. I grew up in Newark under the Tories, BTW. Have a word. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Handsworth's self-portrait project 40 years on: 'Giving people that voice was extraordinary'

In 1979, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon put a pop-up outdoor photography studio in the Birmingham suburb where passersby could take their own pictures

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 1d

Alter Ego (Mac, 1986)

An old System 6 status window reads: "That wraps up your status for the very first years of life. I hope you like yourself. If not, you can always try to improve in the years to come. There's plenty of time." Buttons are Continue and Escape.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

I watched it when I was a child and was terrified. Re-watched it with OH about 10 years ago, and we agreed it was the music that stood out. The acting and script are also very good. I love John Wyndham generally.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

The music to the BBC's Day of the Triffids is really superb. It brings the whole drama to another level of creepy weirdness

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

Did he send them all back where they came from?

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but where is Hong Kong Phooey

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

Son 2.0 came home from school after vaccination, saying his friend didn't have his because his mum "doesn't know what's in them".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

This is quite a read. I'm sure it will all be fine. www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

I daydream about moving manufacturing to desert states where all the power is... what would that be like?

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 3d

I loved these books when I was a teenager in the 80s but the scales have fallen from my eyes since. When I studied physics a lecturer told me Feynman was hated by UK academics because he kept having affairs with their wives. Angela is right about Maxwell. Why isn't he celebrated more?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 6

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

www.ru.nl

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