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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whole lotta coughing going on. Noticed this in central London yesterday.

Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It can get noisy there. Was at an ETH event back when Google Glass was the future, and the Glassholes wearing them roved around in self-important, loudly-chattering, browsing-on-the-move packs. Non Glass wearers could not join their lunch tables - we were not cool enough. 😁

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My latest at Aerospace America: how moon rock can be converted into breathable air, and more. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Robotics will soon supply us with extra arms. There is a three armed drummer testing one I think.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The washing line shrine is up ...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

How we could miss spotting an incoming killer asteroid: space images are being increasingly fogged by megaconstellation satellite trails.

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The YouGov poll of Labour members is quite interesting. Members mood is quite different than the febrile reporting from inside Westminster. Surprisingly good for Starmer, Reeves and the project. No open revolt, no burn it all down yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Just goes to show, gameplay is independent of snazzy graphics and audio ... Eye Spy, anyone?

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Wonder if that is because NASA didn't do the double dip into the atmosphere this time, as that aerobraking temperature change - come in, heat up, go out and cool, and then come in again - must have helped fragment the shield on Artemis I.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had such a lovely chat with Ruth at your book launch, where she was so full of plans. So shocked that she's gone so young.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Remember those micrometeorite impact flashes the #NASA #ArtemisII crew saw on the lunar near-side last week? They won't be good for lunar habs ... but it's AI to the rescue. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/this-ai-pred...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

No worries. On Twitter I opened a helpdesk ticket for Orion with Satya Nadella. 🤓

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 05/03/2026

The video mentioned in the Ian Wright section of today's Arsecast 👇

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I logged off Arseblog Live in a distressed huff when you wrote 'Goal Chelsea' at the death. Only hours later did I hear on the BBC news it was disallowed. Doh! Lesson: Mustn't leave the virtual ground early, either! 🤩

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Well, they know this anyway. ASATs only *start* the chain reaction. After that, satellites will fragment and destroy each other with hypersonic debris. Orbit is a virtuous circle for the attacker, but it'll be the end of low Earth orbit navigability for the rest of us. 🤷‍♂️

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

That is not how Kessler syndrome works. One ASAT could wreck a whole orbital shell, and probably neighbouring ones as the debris from one target vectors up and down.

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Dutch research teams are developing artificial human hearts based on soft robotics technology - which might be biocompatible, have a natural pulsatile heartbeat and even overcome the infection, clotting and rejection risks of today’s metal artificial hearts. My story: cacm.acm.org/news/can-sof...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

NASA probe Lunar Trailblazer died after pointing its solar panels 180-degrees away from the sun, an NPR FOIA request reveals. Why sign errors bedevil spaceflight: cacm.acm.org/news/in-spac...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Their best for me has to be the headline on a story covering NASA's failed series of 'Faster, Cheaper, Better' lean, mean space missions. After a series of unmanned probes crashed, the Econ headline was: 'Faster, Cheaper, Splat!' 🤩

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My latest at Aerospace America: how moon rock can be converted into breathable air, and more. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Is this survey now one year old? i.e. based on AI released one generation of Moore's law ago? 🤔

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Obviously. And authors and writers. Every book says "not for storage in a data retrieval system" or somesuch - and deepnet weights are merely thinly-disguised data.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday

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Per Arne Godejord @pagodejord.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...

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Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.

One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Once again, this is not how copyright law works!

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The BBC has posted about 50 episodes of its much-missed arts series, Arena, on iPlayer - including this paean to @forduk's most-stolen-car of the 60s, the Ford Cortina. Includes Alexei Sayle on Mastermind - with some terribly tough Cortina questioning. 🥸 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Arena - The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

This programme looks at the history of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen and most misunderstood car.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh very good. Jazzer also reminds me of Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside. Starting to think there may be a formula to this lark.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Yes perfect choice. Amber is of course Lucy, the scheming one. This is fun. The SWs are rumbled!

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/10/2025

someone check on Gregg’s’ cyber security, we got lucky with M&S

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Those old Emap Media habits die hard ... 🤣 (ex IB ed here!).

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Oh! Soz. Anyway, who is the hapless Cliff Barnes of Ambridge? Jakob? Kinda ambitious but not very driven. Ooh how about Ed?

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"You're a no-good drunk [Sue-Ellen/Alice] - git back to that thar [sanatorium/rehab]." Yes. I see what you mean! And Doris probably ain't dead - like Bobby, she's just been having a long shower. #TheArchers

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Caused a stir at our allotment, that story - leading to much composting of courgettes.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Brain food KLAXON ...

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Goose #1 to its followers: "As you see, the humans are simple creatures that form a straight line to point things at we more intelligent life forms..."

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Incredible. I've heard of fire extinguishers flying into them, too, and killing people.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This is a deeper dive than my brief NewScientist op-ed into the RAeS conference on the dangerous idea of cockpit AI replacing airliner copilots. Kicked into the long grass for now, unions worry the cost-cutting idea will be back.

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

China is going the way of Japan: making robots the do idiotic tricks rather than being useful. When Japan needed robots to inspect Fukushima post meltdown, all they had were dancing Asimos and robot dogs. Caused a big rethink. ;-)

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Paul Marks @paulmarks12.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hi folks. Are you related to the Elsevier Science journal, Space Policy?

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