Reposted by IBBoardLisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 8h“While federal laws very clearly prohibit government use of taxpayer dollars to fund purely political propaganda campaigns, the second Trump administration has exhibited a profound commitment to its unique legal philosophy: ‘What are you gonna do about it?’” 09631
Reposted by IBBoardJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 8677801959
Reposted by IBBoardErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21hRiley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comRiley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding ClaimsGaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete. 1394861943
Reposted by IBBoardJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21hA thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image. 421220182
Reposted by IBBoardJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22hTo be fair, the single most publicly-accessed example of "AI" in the world can't find its ass with a flashlight and it's right on top of the search listings, where the most accurate search result used to be. Every LLM suffers from token drift over time so it's only a question of WHEN they're wrong. 2162048
Reposted by IBBoardChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 11hAmazing how comments on how to think about AI resonate across fields. This is from drama/comedy but could equally be science: The barrier to access to doing astronomy isn’t technology or money (any more). It’s care. (& having the space to give that care and attention, of course) 🧪 1444
Reposted by IBBoardHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I maybe don't mind us giving commands in natural language, but I don't think that an AI should ever be allowed to answer in a voice that emulates a human, because it's *not*, and it doesn't have the depth and the accountability that goes with a human. It's too seductive, and too easily misleading 8865
Reposted by IBBoardMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026the right spends an inordinate amount of time whining about the birth rate and while making our system more parent-friendly won’t actually change that - it turns out wealthy countries just have less kids - they could absolutely put real money behind their preferred lifestyle but they won’t 836737
Reposted by IBBoardJon "The Warhammer Modeller" @warhammermodeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's Tuesday, it's time for a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 139. July 1991 0256
Reposted by IBBoardWil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 29/09/2026There are more actual humans subscribed to my blog posts than the stupid algorithm shows my posts to on Threads. If I have something to important to share, however brief, I'll say it here.wilwheaton.netfriend computer can bite my shiny metal assWhen I do an interview, or I guest on a podcast, it never feels like it’s enough of a thing to post about it in my blog. It feels like the sort of thing I should just drop into Threads. The thing is, Threads suppresses the everlivingfuck out of almost... 1849142
Reposted by IBBoardDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable." 116133
Reposted by IBBoardJosh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Player psychology re: die rolls and percentages truly drives me to the brink of madness. "lol" 2561036
Reposted by IBBoardAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price. 13990302933
Reposted by IBBoardHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots. 3587124
Reposted by IBBoardElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20hStretch your brain muscles with this bundle of programming-themed puzzle games! Pay what you want and benefit EFF, too. www.humblebundle.com/games/progr... 04921
Reposted by IBBoardDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed. 311233
Reposted by IBBoardDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes, this. Treating gig / lower paid service economy workers better however done is surely something government can practically do, but only once it accepts this as legitimate work bsky.app/profile/rmcu... 05411
Reposted by IBBoardParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter. 201501352
Reposted by IBBoardM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember when proven liar Keir Starmer got up and did his Island of Strangers speech and spoke of the “incalculable damage” migration had done to the country 222069
Reposted by IBBoardGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. 11574122
Reposted by IBBoardDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132493820
Reposted by IBBoardMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life. 561616593
Reposted by IBBoardDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world? 1428574
Reposted by IBBoardJon "The Warhammer Modeller" @warhammermodeller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today is Monday and this is a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 55. July 1984 13610
Reposted by IBBoardDavid Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Missed this at the time (a few weeks ago) - small civilian jet accidentally landed at RAF Fairford! But article also tells of a massive C-17 making the reverse mistake and landing on a civilian runway 3 times shorter than the one they were meant to be using! theaviationist.com/2026/09/13/s...theaviationist.comSecurity Alert at RAF Fairford After Civilian Jet Mistakenly Lands at U.S. Bomber BaseAn odd incident unfolded on Sep. 12, 2026 when Cessna 560XLS+ D-CJMK operated by VistaJet landed at the U.S.-operated RAF Fairford instead of Cotswold 221
Reposted by IBBoardHeather @uberheathen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I assume dogging is when you stand on your bed and spin around 3 times before settling in for a nap 2864
Reposted by IBBoardChris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026This seems to reinforce their bigotries so they become resistant to being told they're being lied to no matter how obvious the evidence is that they're being lied to and exploited by the political grifters. In fact the more obvious it is, the more stubborn in their beliefs they become. 0596
Reposted by IBBoardChris Limb @catmachine.com · 28/09/2026People REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong. What the far right have done is weaponise this and tell people that the feelings of bigotry that they’re secretly ashamed of are actually good. And if deployed cunningly this works on far more people than you'd think, which is exhausting. 314340
Reposted by IBBoardRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme... 1133541564
Reposted by IBBoardShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision. 28632
IBBoard @ibboard.co.uk · 29/09/2026I love how there's always a "that's on me" as if it has any sense of remorse, and a "don't ever do that again" as if that's going to make it materially change it's behaviour 🤣🙃 000
Reposted by IBBoardMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving... 2427367
Reposted by IBBoardMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement 14750273
Reposted by IBBoardLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer 822960
Reposted by IBBoardStéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” – Aldous Huxley 0192
Reposted by IBBoardelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026they're wasting money for the sole purpose of being cruel and that in itself will cost us even more money, while they talk about more cuts because we're apparently struggling with money 118553
Reposted by IBBoardDavid Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comBugs Bunny Riding a HorseAlt: Bugs Bunny in drag, dressed as a Valkyrie with a pink skirt, eye makeup, blonde pigtails, gold bra and a gold helmet with wings. He is riding sidesaddle bareback on a very fat white horse which has a pink mane and tail and a flower garland round its neck. 1114
Reposted by IBBoardᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed 1628499
Reposted by IBBoardAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026The BBC is part of the problem... 24691256
Reposted by IBBoardThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that. 391002413
Reposted by IBBoardMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026anyway this dynamic is not uncommon in any industry in which powerful men have access to impressionable young people they want to exploit but I think it’s especially bad here given that these people are in charge of building the technology that’s trying to take over every aspect of our lives 460327
Reposted by IBBoardExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN EUROPE Almost 32C in Germany today,over 30C in Switzerland, 33C in France and this is just the beginning of a heat wave which will completely rewrite European climatic history with several thousands records smashed by even 5/6C margins. HISTORIC 1222136
Reposted by IBBoardTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We've made the Tamagotchi evil. 78420
Reposted by IBBoardJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...thewarhorse.orgHegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are PassingData shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard. 420348
Reposted by IBBoardDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 18771972989
Reposted by IBBoardMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026Our new policy limits student-facing AI use from 2-K through eighth grade, reflecting Norway’s approach: kids need to learn to think critically, use their imaginations, and stay curious. 558575
Reposted by IBBoardMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026he is literally immune from any kind of legal limit, at least when it comes to anything related to his personal actions, thanks to the Supreme Court he installed his administration is constrained on occasion but he personally is not our system of government will not survive if we don’t change this 1157387