Alto (on hiatus), Packers fan, gamer and sometimes geologist. She/her. Partial to tea, sci-fi, and chocolate. Lives in the Castle beyond the Goblin City. Typos - model's own.
Sadly it's not just #JodrellBank losing funding, with deep cuts across the board for UK astronomy. One example is the HiPERCAM project whose funding has been entirely cut to save £50K/yr - peanut-levels of £s. Spectacular fast transient science lost, for what? 🔭😡 www.zmescience.com/science/astr...
One of Astronomy’s Fastest Cameras May Stop Operating Over a $67,000 Funding GapThe camera that checked JWST’s clock is losing its funding.www.zmescience.com
A good day to remind people that there is such thing as invisible disability. You might be looking just fine from the outside, yet you might have a flurry of impairments or vulnerabilities that need support and accommodations. People with invisible disability are less likely to be believed.
AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future - Halifax Examiner"There have always been plagiarists, careless and lazy researchers, and bad actors. AI in its current incarnation and its rapid, seemingly thoughtless, dissemination just takes it to a whole new level...www.halifaxexaminer.ca
Hey peeps, I have been claiming Carers Allowance for over two years now. If any of you peeps out there in a similar situation you might want to complete this...
Rob MorganThe DWP are asking for people to contribute evidence for a forthcoming review of Carers Allowance and how it operates. Admittedly this is niche, but please spread the word so it reaches the right people. www.gov.uk/government/c...
If you live inland you may not have noticed that the Met Office app has tide times, wave heights and weather-appropriate sea safety advice for beach locations. Very useful in planning your day out
Met Office - weather and climateIf you are heading to the coast, stay #WeatherReady and check out the beach forecasts on our App before heading out. Here's some more advice from our partners...
“This may be scary to some people… a dystopian future” Quite, Bryan. That’s why it’s been the plot of several SF horror stories and novels and more than one film. Horror stories evolved as warnings. You’re not supposed to hear them and think, ‘ooh, good idea’.
Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneurwww.independent.co.ukThere's a sub-atomic particle, rarely observed, which allows certain sounds to be propagated in a vacuum. You *can* hear the sound of laser gun battles in space, because of these whoosh-ons
James McLeodIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
This is more or less how Mesopotamian astrology worked lol
Roland MeyerIdeologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past
Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/
Hey! Would you like good news? Remember how the police seized and crushed a legal Tern cargo bike by mistake? Well charges against rider dropped! Compensation for crushed bike! And dodgy “test” used to detect illegal “e-bikes” dropped! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Midlands Police to change testing after destroying legal e-bikeWest Midlands Police admit their method to test the speed of the e-bike was flawed.www.bbc.co.uk