Brilliant piece of scientific sleuthing 😊 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
04.03.2026 23:40
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Brilliant piece of scientific sleuthing 😊 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, 1942, states: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”
80 years later, AI pops up for real. “Great!” says Pentagon. “Can we use it in automated weapons?”
& I’d thought the First Law was the obvious one … 😞
“When leaders abandon [shared definitions], numbers lose their power to clarify and instead become cudgels to use against opponents, leaving the public without a common basis to judge competing claims.”
Amazing work ….
Gustavo’s work always makes me smile 😊
As someone caring for an elderly parent, I have to say this is a very well put together guide on things to think about
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/i...
The President had literally months to prepare his response to the Supreme Court ruling, yet couldn't even stick with his decision on the s.122 (temporary) tariff from Friday to Saturday, raising it from 10% to 15%.
ie., per the processes set out in representative democracy
So good to see - goes to Justin’s repeated point Re: the true power and resilience of democratic economies lies in the strength and power balance of core institutions
Celebrate the little things 😊
Life goal attained: 2000m in under 8 mins!
…. makes me feel genuinely nauseous
Brilliant! Finally - recognition that driving is as much about the physical learning & reaction experience as it is about reasoning
torquecafe.com/new-car-regu...
Well reasoned article on the challenge of monetizing AI without exploiting sensitive user base info www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Great article on financialization vs value creation: “the ‘best use of capital’ from the financial sector’s perspective means only the highest financial return. The value of growing vital industries and employing Americans plays no role in the calculation”. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
As a qualified electrical engineer, can confirm the bigliness of his eminent expertise
A very powerful article
Great analogy 😊
RIP the legend Rob Hirst
GOAT drum solo: Midnight Oil “Power & the Passion”
share.google/JOQwDv0phoKt...
This conflation of military force with law enforcement is wrong - so, so wrong.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.”
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
Golden quote by Jonathan Hall, KC:
“It sometimes seems to me that it is not so much extremism as normalisation that we have to fear.”
I’ve voted …. 😊
On Realism: “to acknowledge that we have entered a pessimistic and belligerent era is not to give in to it. Realism offers many lessons for the present moment — about the profound dangers of unrestrained power and the tragic bent of contemporary politics”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/m...
😢
Great analysis
