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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP

Simon Hailstone @simonhailstone.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

As someone who avidly followed all the Apollo missions as a boy, this is an incredible moment. The inspiration of and admiration for all those involved has triggered some deep memories, and reaffirmed my lifelong view of the need to enable science and engineering for the common, human benefit.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Orwell’s 1984, but with LLMs

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Simon Hailstone @simonhailstone.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I don't post about politics, but it seems that education systems will always have to cater for the slow learners. BBC news 👇

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 20/05/2025

This is great summation of the idea of technologies encouraging unthinking acceptance of their output: smithery.com/2025/05/05/c...

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Cognitive Debt

“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

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Simon Hailstone @simonhailstone.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If only this could be applied to party manifestos. 😀

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My message to the world

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In irony too funny for words, Anthropic asks that you please don’t use AI in your job application. No, really! open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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Irony too funny for words

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Simon Hailstone @simonhailstone.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Dame Tracey Emin 👏 "[] people told me I couldn't do things, [] go to university, [] be an artist. Look at me now. Yes I can, and other people can. If you don't have the education, you can't change anything." 👈 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Dame Tracey Emin: 'Cancer changed a lot for me'

The King makes the artist a Dame Commander for services to the arts at a Buckingham Palace ceremony.

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Simon Hailstone @simonhailstone.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here's some more detail to that BBC report on the Bennu asteroid, and a reference to the source.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

👉 DeepSeek may well have broken OpenAI’s Terms of Service and distilled their intellectually property without permission 👉 OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers. 👉 Karma is a bitch.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

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Santiago @svpino.com · 26/12/2024

The biggest challenge right now is not to prompt an AI model to produce code. Almost anyone can do that. The challenge is to validate that this code is actually doing what you want it to do. The challenge is to understand how to improve it, fix it, and update it.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Oh bravo NASA! The #Parker Solar Probe lives!! It's back in communication range and has sent "a beacon tone... indicating it’s in good health and operating normally". Huge congrats to the engineering team who built it to sustain the brutal >1000°C temp 🥳🧪🔭 ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarp...

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun – Parker Solar Probe

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