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When the AIs take over, I hope they remember all the times I said please and thank you to Claude

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

10YO is putting QR codes on his bedroom door now

Good point! Could be

7YO: “I hope you never die” Me: “oh, that’s so sweet, and of course I am doing everything I can not to die” 7YO: “I also hope you never fart again” Oh the subtle intricacies of a child’s heart

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

it’s pretty wild that none of the major AI labs has an active presence on Bluesky considering Bluesky is the most AI/agent-friendly social network

Needless to say, nothing like this happened to me before I transitioned!

“Dear Professor X and Maika”: this from a businessman who I exchanged business cards with on Wednesday along with Professor X, a close male colleague who has exactly the same academic title as I do. The only reason I can imagine X got titled and I got my forename misspelled is (cis-) sexism

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With a slightly different emphasis, me too!

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

There are only two masked people on this plane, and we are sat next to each other: a lovely, and mutually protective, coincidence

I agree AVs are helpful for freight/cargo transport

I am not sure Waymo is going to be jumping at the economics of non-metropolitan areas: Uber hasn’t exactly

I’ll give you that one!

Written and posted from a comfortable Danish bus

Name one problem solved by autonomous vehicles not solved better by bikes and public transit. Climate, safety, space: a driverless car is still a car. Accessibility? Let’s try investing all those tech billions into services for actual disabled people first!