"A 2025 study by Ibrahim, Hafner, and Rocher found that warm or empathetic models had error rates 10–30% higher than their original versions. System prompts designed to add warmth produced 12-14% drops in reliability.”
www.nngroup.com/articles/hum...
"Would you like nudes with your nukes?"
Introducing Microsoft Copilot 365 Office Premium Family Copilot Standard for Windows Copilot app youtu.be/HU8iL0jOHO4?...
Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay.
A few comments, in a short 🧵>>
bigthink.com/the-present/...
The guidance for how Public Charge Point data should be published is here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
'Data must be open in line with the Open Government Licence'.
The guidance is a bit open to interpretation but I don't think could be stretched to, "Pop us an email we'll see what we can do".
Updating myself on how the UK's #EV chargepoint operators are publishing their data openly. Shell Ubitricity are the largest operator in the UK, so I started there.
At best, Shell have misunderstood what #opendata is, and/or the regulations don't explain how to publish ubitricity.com/en/pcpr-data...
'I just have talent, Margaret has genius.' CRM
If I can't stop my phone appearing in the reflection, I might as well make a feature of it
Alan Cumming wants his new LGBTQ+ festival to be a ‘beacon of hope’ uplifting queer and trans voices
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/27/alan-cumming-lgbtq-festival-to-be-a-beacon-of-hope-out-in-the-hills/?utm_content=1761646886&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
original Star Trek Lower Decks Moopsy design that looks like a load of bread with a face and feet. Purple dry erase marker on whiteboard.
Lower Decks pals just reminded me I designed the original Moopsy, which I had totally forgotten. The artists love to laugh at me for my crappy drawings. Enjoy.
Written by Michael and Denise Okuda, “Lost Voyages: Phase II and the Rebirth of Star Trek” is a great documentary about Trek projects (show, movies) abandoned in the second half of the 1970s, which led to The Motion Picture. With fascinating interviews, and some cool ships.
Warmly recommended! 🖖
T'Lyn better be hiding just out of shot
the article is like “it’s not a vacation, it’s a different thing!” btw (it’s vacation)
What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend (Fast Company) Gen Z is rethinking retirement—by taking it in mini doses. The rising trend of *micro-retirements* means career professionals are pressing pause for 1-2 weeks every year to avoid burnout and boost well-being. While it's gaining traction (even among non-Gen Z workers), experts warn these breaks could come with long-term financial and career tradeoffs. Is unplugging worth the risk? Here's what to consider before booking your "someday" now.
the zoomers have rebranded vacation
Extraordinarily response from the EHRC to our letter asking whether they were using AI to process consultation responses: "It is not for your client to question the manner in which that process is
being conducted while the process is ongoing."
Obviously we won't let it drop.
Meanwhile, in "no-one proof-reads titles" news...
There's something bizarre about framing livestreams of the horrible things that happen in real life as a _child safety_ issue; Southport, after all, was local dads and granddads.
A depressing policy exercise: read Ofcom's post-Southport proposals on how they want livestreams to be restricted, whilst remembering that it was a 17 year old girl minding her own business who filmed George Floyd's murder. Then consider these proposals in the current US political context.
Dr T'Ana, Rutherford, Sending, Boimler and Mariner as crochet hats.
Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!!
Who wants a Lower Decker on their head?
(I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏)
#StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay
"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
“It’s important to a community that wants to be an immigrant sanctuary to also be a data sanctuary, and that means to collect and retain as little information as possible about immigrants,” EFF’s Adam Schwartz told @chicagotribune.com.
1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning.
- <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT.
- The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia.
The latest from S. Baum.
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There is a maximum amount of time each day you're supposed to focus on the world's problems instead of your own, after which you have a legitimate need for therapy on your thought processes being self-destructive. At some point you have to stop scrubbing your hands you are bleeding into the sink.
If your DMs are “encrypted” but one org holds all the keys, you haven’t distributed trust – you’ve built a backdoor.
Juicebox only works when boundaries are real. Separation isn’t optional.
Replication != distribution.
I'd argue it's less than not great, it's bad. Since they're not using HSMs for Juicebox, and they control all the realms, they have the ability to easily brute force anyone's 4-digit PIN and get their stored secret. It's basically just backdoored.
Screenshot of a dialog from Twitter. It says: "Messages are now fully encrypted End-to-end encryption: messages are end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. State-of-the-art privacy: There's no way for anyone, including X, to read your messages. Set up a passcode: In order to secure your messages, you'll need to set up a 4-digit passcode."
This is just a flat out lie and everyone involved is either malicious or incompetent
let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice
I wrote a bit more about X’s new encrypted DMs and the Juicebox protocol. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a...
I rated Latvia (along with Luxembourg, UK, Switzerland and Malta), but I wouldn't rely on my judgement to pick anything like a winner
This maniac has been drawing all the #Eurovision performers bsky.app/profile/happ...
