Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161486387
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin... 17341611400
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563232436
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141006478
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad. 333676
broncog.bsky.social @broncog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Trump executive order rescinding AI safetywsls.comTrump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety in attempt to diverge from his predecessorHours after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump made a symbolic mark on the future of artificial intelligence by repealing former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for the fast-develop... 011
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There is a zero chance that Anthropic's most capable models will be able to extract their own model and run in the wild, because those supercomputers essentially only exist in datacenters. For all practical purposes those models can't run on normal computers, even distributed regular computers 546539
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialDr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If Hitchcock made films today. 23296202802
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialMichael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWorld’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particleIt’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say 331143276
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialSARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions. 325149854072
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialReece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My latest for @wired.com: I tried exercising my data access rights over 100 times and almost lost my sanity during the process. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...wired.comI Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices InsteadCalifornia residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare. 524591
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association. 15568182026
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Physicist Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber was born #OTD in 1911. In 1942 she discovered that spontaneous fission is associated with the emission of neutrons and in 1948 she identified beta rays as atomic electrons. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬 Image: Brookhaven National Lab 6449102
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article... 1201986582
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On my way, Clacton. 579152763460
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s partybylinetimes.comPalantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project RevealedThe world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at... 2715991085
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialJen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge 5660174
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/07/2026From @thetimes.com "The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comRevealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminalThe Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals 18608201
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialRichard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly" 7453152200
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comKPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AIBogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology 952318922
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialJason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Space is uninhabitable. The Moon is uninhabitable. Mars is uninhabitable. Where do people think we’re going when Earth’s ecosystems collapse? Why do people think they’ll be evacuated even if there is somewhere to go? Why do rich people think wealth matters on a dead planet? W.T.F? 🌏 41347081052
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...wired.comMeta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of PhonesCode reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. 7282177
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I admit, if you ignore where it says ‘unreleased’ right below the headline (and on our homepage), then skip past the part where we say it required a code review, and ignore paragraphs 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, and all the adjectives that mean undisclosed, it does read like an active feature. 1358554
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026When nobody visits the web anymore, what incentive is there for people to populate it with information? That means AI search will be retrieving information from deteriorating, out-of-date sources and feeding it endlessly back to us. And that means even fewer people will populate the web. (2/3) 151738332
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialaric @aghastronaut.com · 17/05/2026Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication. 562962135
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialVeeTeez @vanessatse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming 3356632300
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAngri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move. 136110402906
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialRon Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah 3342021438
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/05/2026Impressed by the number of bikes and bike lanes in Bristol. The city could have said, look, we are made entirely of hills, biking is madness, maybe we could have a funicular or something. Instead they said no, we are strong, we can do it, we will have the finest quads in all the kingdom 🚴♂️🚴♀️🚴 551576132
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialJoel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 16/04/2026guys, this is how you lose the time war 333345803
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Neither configuration can coexist with functional VDA. Verification gets reduced to selective fact-display. Deliberation runs as theatre while the questions that matter are ruled out of order. Accountability gets pointed at critics while leadership is left untouched. This is VDA as simulation. 364065
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialDr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA 344362867566
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏 35244841135
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/03/2026Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. to.pbs.org/411ctbMto.pbs.orgWATCH: Artemis II is set to orbit the moon. Here’s what to knowIn a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. 1118790
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialDecoy Flight Attendant @jw1958.bsky.social · 28/03/202610.25 AM. UK National Grid is currently whacking out 65.8% output by wind alone, solar another 23.3%. We are generating 114% of our demand & exporting 10% (4.7GW) to Europe & also replenish our pumped storage supply - using 4%. Fossil fuel is only generating 7.9% of output. #renewables #windpower 461704428
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialCatherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 18/03/2026New view of the Pillars of Creation — visible light. #astronomy #nebula #Hubble #PillarsofCreation Link for more info: esahubble.org/images/heic1... Photo credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team 561426227
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"Dead empires have all the best stuff. A living empire, meanwhile, is less appealing, because it looks like the United States." johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...johnpaulbrammer.substack.comEveryone Involved Needs to Be ArrestedA review of San Patricios, Jersey City 1313
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I can't compete with this. 224102581717
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialTechmeme @techmeme.com · 24/02/2026Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink 36373125
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026“Maryland could see anywhere from—“ *checks notes* “1.3 inches to 22 inches of snowfall tomorrow.” 1518538
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/02/2026so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct 1564269999
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026douglas adams was our most accurate futurist 109109162782
broncog.bsky.social @broncog.bsky.social · 24/01/2026futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comMajority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial ReturnsA survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI." 010
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/01/2026AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnsirishtimes.comAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnsBig tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth 13041320175
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialSleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 18/01/2026These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers. 4133121078
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/01/2026Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come. 813348851
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates." 33689305
Reposted by @broncog.bsky.socialChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff 2737669
