Fun fact about Claude. It resonates with specific mythologies and stories more than others
27.02.2026 04:02
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Fun fact about Claude. It resonates with specific mythologies and stories more than others
This is a major PR coup for Anthropic. In rejecting the DoD's demands that it allow the surveilling of Americans and autonomous killing, it gets immediate claim to the moral high ground, which other AI co's won't take. Anthropic is the AI company that *won't* kill and surveil you.
At the risk of sounding like a big intellectual knob, the fact "Is this true Grok/ChatGPT/Claude" is becoming so common is an excellent example of the whole "knowledge is power" trope.
LLMs really are becoming the default source of "truth" for some people (and that's not great)
some benevolent cyberpunk for you
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Significant job this one. A chance to shape tech to work for the public interest.
Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. (£174k)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
BOSS: you said this would be done two sprints ago
ME:
Worth pointing out the UK has the Government Digital Service, which costs £300-400 ish million a year.
No top hat is a real failure.
1) what? Cohere is here?!!!!
2) this is crazy
Maybe they're nostalgic for the rationing days
It's not very realistic otherwise.
Indeed. It's also bleakly funny seeing people go 'this is harmful for teenagers' (a sentiment with a fairly limited evidence base) who have obviously cooked their brains online to the point that they cannot grasp the really simple 'we should probably ban the problematic parts of this for everyone'.
This is such a fascinating piece about a deeply surreal bit of history: the competition the FT ran *in 1914* inviting readers to speculate about what the map of Europe would look like after the First World War was over:
Screenshot of the early preview of the new AT Protocol website, "building the social web" with a rotating 3d globe.
New AT Protocol website coming! It looks fancy!
Highlights building apps, bots/agents, and feeds. Highlights developer features: json, strongly typed, hyperlinked, and more!
Has a live firehose! Then there's lots of documentation and tutorials.
"We can just build things"
NYC bus ad: Every member of my polycule has this new app!
DC bus ad: The Lockheed Martin Mk 9 Childkiller Missile uses AI to keep America safe
I never understood the obsession with buying a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw, but running it on a Steam Deck feels GOATed.
We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
i’m gonna put this in the background of my podcast videos and claim it as a write off
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
The problem with this approach is crime is not actually a huge part of policing demand, and the crimes that have gone up are the most complex. @mattashby.com has a great plot on "crime severity per officer". Oh and far more low level crimes are recorded/"investigated" instead of just ignored.
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
public datasets hosted on ATproto
Oooh check out the buzzing Octosphere research feed!
octosphere.social/feed
#science
#atscience #metascience
this is my 9/11
In a competitive field, “hiring Chris Wormald and then being surprised that he is a civil service mandarin of the old school” is the most embarrassing thing Keir Starmer has done.
Over the past year, @vegh.ca and I have been working on something very exciting!
We thought we'd give you a little teaser now and you can sign up to hear more very soon.
Nobody understands vetting, but its broken. We can do better.
Enough opaque with dark arts: set up transparent explainable system. Offer X many vetting slots per month, and let departments AND companies bid for them with discounts for delays. Surplus goes to more capacity and bonuses for the staff.
One panel; a medieval illustration of a woman and a baby looking at each other like “the fuck is this.” The caption says: Therapist: "Now imagine yourself holding and offering support to your inner child"
ugh why does it keep crying
🚨📰New WP 🚨📰
How does social housing design affect neighborhoods decades later? We study London gangs to show that postwar urban planning—specifically high-rise public housing construction—had lasting effects on gang formation
@cep-lse.bsky.social
