Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431663432
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5293117
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026...we said "a prompt management program". There are not separate chatbots at work, they are not "interacting" or forming civilizations god help us. It is *one* LLM, being repeatedly queried by a program which uses the results of queries to build new queries in a structured way 619324
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026Spain on the other hand needs to install a lot more batteries quickly if it wants its own solar boom to continue.bloomberg.comSpain Got a Head Start on Renewables — Now It Needs a Battery RevolutionAs a brutal European summer underscores the energy transition’s urgency, the Spanish model is reaching its limits. 16510
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/09/2026This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company. 401201331
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit 391764322
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialIva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's the 1st of September and the new academic year is starting! #Academia #Teaching #University #Research 336356
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times. 131363640
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Of course the UK government did have folk in from Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc to tell them about negotiations. But it was all about the technical stuff, when the real substance is building the right senior official / political level frameworks. Still not sorted. 1382
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026One of the guys who helps me out on the farm said "The one thing nobody tells you about farming is how much of it is texting people" it's nice to know nothing has changed 7761107
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026People are gonna be mad about this but yes it's a MASSIVE failure that the Biden admin failed to do the basic mechanics of engaging with the press and pissed them all off. "The press shouldn't base its coverage on whether we answer their emails on time" ok but they do. So answer the fucking emails. 3219615
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialFinbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026What of innovation? "It reduces capacity that produces the model cycle arriving 2029-2031, because product planning, powertrain engineering, software development are the functions being thinned." 2102
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 23/07/2026So, who wants to vote for the next euro banknote designs??? There are only two groups of design (culture, or nature), but there are a few design variants in each group and I have to respect some of them for being more interesting than the usual banknote design. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... 462
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a simple matter of the fact about the 2020 election.” Clayton: “I’ve given you my answer.” Ossoff: “What is your answer?” Clayton: *doesn’t answer* Ossoff: “Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?” 922522604
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026historians, what's the *factual* question in your period you'd most like an answer to? Not a matter of interpretation, just something we don't know but would love to. 13668
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” ... 825867
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026That the media keep running cakeist pieces by politicians with regard to the EU is really quite the sign of a lack of seriousness all round. 511218
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...nytimes.comSomali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry 19030241816
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialBrian Schmidt @schmidtbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I'm not normally alarmed about privacy hacks, but this looks bad/inescapable: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comOrdinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracyScientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, resea... 022
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialMatt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Job Hunting in January vs Job Hunting in June. 714912
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. 17144952553
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already. 431970397
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialBen Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I cannot emphasize enough how much this car does not actually cost $9,000. Chinese cars outside of China cost what all other cars cost. They are MAYBE ten percent cheaper for comparable equipment. The prices in the domestic market are not real prices. 021
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026A good example is jet fuel in Europe. A lot of preemptive cancelling of flights, the importation of a load of American jet fuel much faster than I thought was possible & some fast adaption by European refiners has - so far at least - meant avoiding a real crunch. 8933
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/05/2026the 10x framing is a little cliche but a good way to think about AI tools, I think. the thing is 10x 0 is still 0 2351
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/05/2026It makes many online spaces intolerable. If I want to talk to ChatGPT or Claude, I'll just talk to ChatGPT or Claude, I don't need to talk to Claude pretending to be a person with mediocre prompts. You can use AI to help with writing, but you need to actually do some writing to be helped with. 31324
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026So we get the extremes in the UK, of people saying the EU isn't interested, or those thinking one more ask and they'll finally give us everything we've been asking for 10 years. Such a dismal spectacle, almost a celebration of ineptitude. 2717
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Found it. Something the "just build" crowd should ponder youtu.be/_YBY8EHkZK8?...youtu.beWhat's The Deal With "THAT" CONCRETE Section of the M25 MOTORWAY?YouTube video by Auto Shenanigans 272
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case 126135332868
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book. 441556278
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Flooded rice paddies. Amber waves of wheat grain. Second-growth forests. Canalized rivers. Removed mountains. Flooded valleys. Graded plains. So much of the landscape that seems so natural and eternal is recent and transient Not even the river and mountain are immortal 1163
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The economics are brutal. Anywhere that a litre of diesel costs more than 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity, an EV truck pays for itself in 12-14 months. After that, it will be more profitable than diesel every single month: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comTesla’s Semi Is Getting Overtaken by China Inc.Electric trucking is about to have its BYD Co. moment. Long considered an implausible alternative to conventional, diesel-powered road freight, EV trucks have been quietly growing into a formidable bu... 725993
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/04/2026Soniferous Aether xkcd.com/3238/ 343954464
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDr Seán Ketchem @cskwriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“This report exposes a ‘stone age’ system where major operators often fail to even display – let alone sell – available cross-border connections. “We are making it structurally difficult for even the most climate-conscious travelers to choose the greener option.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comAlmost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank 231
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialStefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Sweden and German intelligence agencies report that Russian official economic data is fake www.ft.com/content/04a9... 076
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialThe Local France @thelocalfrance.bsky.social · 07/04/2026France announces 'massive' plan to tackle carte de séjour delaysthelocal.frFrance announces 'massive' plan to tackle carte de séjour delaysFrance's Interior Minister has announced a 'massive' plan to tackle long delays for foreigners in getting or renewing the carte de séjour residency permit, which he described as unacceptable. 011
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026It's a good point here from Eliot Cohen, though ironically European and Gulf commentators have sometimes been prone to churning out the same tropes when discussing the strategic chaos generated by Donald Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 34810
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialMac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I think its really funny when people complain about AI generated playlists in music apps, like girl what do you think shuffle was 271
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Phone less convenient in every way and furthermore it is for babies. You always see babies poking away at phones and tablets. A baby is never on the computer 513615424
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 23/03/2026The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵 8279593839
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 23/03/2026Everything I have written about the EU rail ticketing reform is here: jonworth.eu/tag/ticketing/ *PLEASE* push me on any of that. Help me tighten up my arguments, eliminate the shortcomings This stuff MATTERS. We all ought to fly and drive less, and take the train more. The EU must get this right!jonworth.euTicketing - Jon Worth 4196
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I’ve stolen this from someone on Twitter - it’s too good not to share here. Jessica Simpson was taught acting by Chuck Norris. And if you think for a moment that you can guess what that involved, you are very, very wrong. 417347
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialJon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19/03/2026It's another of those weeks where I could have filled my railway newsletter twice over! But tomorrow's edition will be limited to: Analysis: New trains are not necessarily good trains Bullshit Meter: Eurostar is not going to maintain 67 trains at Temple Mills 1256
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026* GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS: WHAT DOES TRUMP EXPECT FROM A HANDFUL OF EUROPEAN FRIGATES THAT THE POWERFUL US NAVY CANNOT DO? THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, WE HAVE NOT STARTED IT @reuters.com 17966961664
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Just arrived at an analogy for the book that I think works: Imagining the world without the current institutions of the global order is akin to imagining urban life without traffic lights. The impossibility of living without them means that they would have to be reinvented. 12508
![Comic. [Person and second person with ponytail on stage. Person 1 gestures behind at a display of different wavelengths while Person 2 addresses people off-panel.] PERSON 2: We all know the speed of light is constant for all observers. But our experiments show that the speed of sound *changes* based on the observer's motion. Thus, we posit the existence of the *soniferous aether*, a medium that fills the space between us and carries sound waves. [caption] Sometimes physicists forget that air exists and rediscover it from first principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihw3odqgiz2qkryc3oav6r53wwxyod7537cy5qmhdhzqbui4cennq)