I was in Barcelona recently and saw an apparently unofficial femicide memorial, just there, by the side of the street. We need more of this. Especially in the UK. Our politicians have got everyone frothed up about migrants they’ll likely never see or meet, and the biggest crime is literally right nextdoor.
Just had a classic LLM loop: “How do I do this?/You could use this setting/I can’t find that setting/that’s because it doesn’t exist”
PhilHumans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. – https://mastodon.online/@pseudonym/116135917950981989
See also https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/:
Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an unreliable machine keeps you alert, and a perfect machine needs no oversight, but one that works almost perfectly creates a trap where drivers trust it just enough to stop paying attention.
The 33-year-old Columbia University protester had been held in an immigration detention centre for a year.
It’s ludicrous, but I genuinely hope the law eventually catches up. Assuming it is allowed to…
Why are the problems here not manifestly obvious to all involved?
For me, this is the most damaging result of our short-sighted rush towards #AI “productivity”:
More recently, heads said parents had been using AI to generate lengthy, legalistic complaints that required increasing amounts of time to administer.
This is a completely justified use of an LLM and it’s going to cost more time than an LLM will ever save. Unless you use an LLM to respond, in which case we’ll just have LLMs burning resources achieving nothing.
Shameful
If I hadn’t let the RAF recruiter convince me to apply on an officer track JUST because I was a graduate, I reckon I’d have seen at least four “hot” combat deployments and three or four “very warm” airlifts, by now. Well, assuming I survived being deployed to Afghanistan on probably my first ever tour. Weird thinking about it.
Makes perfect sense to me. A country populated with people that believe that “more guns” makes people safer WOULD be in favour of starting a war in the name of peace.
I don’t really get how people continue to be surprised by this pervasive dislogic.
I sent a Pull request with some minor improvements to the Power Apps documentation in December 2024. Totally forgot about it. Apparently, they just got merged. I feel bad for anyone that tried to follow that tutorial in the mean time…