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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?
The video mentioned in the Ian Wright section of today's Arsecast
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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! 🤩
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. 🤷♂️
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.
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.
OpenAI: We'll do it
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...
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...
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!' 🤩
My latest at Aerospace America: how moon rock can be converted into breathable air, and more. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/...
Is this survey now one year old? i.e. based on AI released one generation of Moore's law ago? 🤔
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.
Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday
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-...
Once again, this is not how copyright law works!
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...
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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Yes perfect choice. Amber is of course Lucy, the scheming one. This is fun. The SWs are rumbled!
someone check on Gregg’s’ cyber security, we got lucky with M&S
Those old Emap Media habits die hard ... 🤣 (ex IB ed here!).
Oh! Soz. Anyway, who is the hapless Cliff Barnes of Ambridge? Jakob? Kinda ambitious but not very driven. Ooh how about Ed?
"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
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.
Caused a stir at our allotment, that story - leading to much composting of courgettes.
The courgette poisoning issue is for real - as The Guardian's Tim Dowling found: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Brain food KLAXON ...
