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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 9h

Now AI companies billions of dollars in debt are worming their way into government partnerships because they need the state to be too embarrassed and exposed to let the companies fail, no matter how bad their "solutions" get.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 9h

Studies show AI doesn't increase revenue, and increases costs. AI researches know that the problems that make AI unusable are insoluble in that a "hallucination" (getting it wrong) is the product working as intended.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 20h

Coo!

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 20h

Just listed at Barbican - a December afternoon of rare footage of Derek Bailey, one of a series of events that week marking the 20th anniversary of his death. Supported by @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

So Watt Special: Derek Bailey - New Sights, Old Sounds | Barbican

A film screening of rare, unseen footage of Derek Bailey from the Incus Records archive and beyond, capturing his performances and collaborations across decades and continents.

www.barbican.org.uk

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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.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Jensen *nearly* describing OpenAI, a company that has yet to make any profit, as the most profitable company ever, before correcting himself.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

"great!"

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a thought, Dick & Dom - teach people how to fix up their rented homes in order to get their deposit back *without* using AI? Surely you can see it's irrelevant?

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Feel Altman's been pushing for government integration and making wild (illiterate) promises about economic revival just so he can turn around in a few months and bleat that OpenAI is too big and important to fail.

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ChicaLolita @chicalolita.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, it will be extremely funny when the AI bubble inevitably bursts. On the other, it is so baked into the fabric of every economy around the world that it will wreck everything like a tsunami of shite. Is it too late to just let some air out of the bubble before the pop?

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

AMD shares up because of deal with OpenAI.

a bald man in a red sweater is asking what is the point of creating this fantasy

ALT: a bald man in a red sweater is asking what is the point of creating this fantasy

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Predict three more months of internal griping about Badenoch, before she goes for a Major-esque "put up or shut up" and it ends up with a very different outcome. Worry then is, what if it's Fibber Jenrick?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

In the 17th century there was a coffee house in London called Fernando's, and you get references from the time of people "going to Nando's".

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Agatha Christie would have heard Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans pretending that Biden tapped their phones, and that Trump didn't tap teenaged girls.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

We really fucking need more sociology.

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 1d

Different situation. Was a train buffet carriage.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick might not know this but the court is a carefully balanced set of people that all work together to deliver justice. This includes some people speaking for, and some against, the subject of proceedings.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Just remembered that time Clint Eastwood thought a chair had told him to go fuck himself.

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Can't knock the film and don't doubt that he's excellent in it, but the trailer made it look like a 90s TV drama.

IGN @ign.com · 2d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Brishit Values

Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Cornwall's better than it used to be, but on my first visit there it took me a few days to work out why I was feeling so uneasy.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

White ghettoes.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 2d

Got two free hot chocolates on Sunday because they hadn't been programmed into the check-out machine. Top that!

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