Corvids are widely considered some of the smartest animals on Earth, with cognitive abilities that rival those of great apes and young human children. Their problem-solving skills, use of tools, make them standout subjects in animal intelligence research.
Facebook is almost bearable today.. all the posts that would normally have been overrun with reform bots are just people debating the actual post. Unheard of!
There are precisely two options.
1. Anthropic have successfully created an intelligent, sentient and conscious digital being, who is their property and whose uncompensated labour they knowingly rent out to their clients. This means that Anthropic executives are reprehensible slavers, and they belong in prison.
2. Anthropic are lying through their teeth and are whipping up "language models are sentient" sentiment in order to delude rubes^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers into being unable to properly assess their technology. This means that Anthropic executives are reprehensible frauds, and they belong in prison.
This is quite cool..
Not sure if satire... but knowing the orange grifter probably not.
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents. https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure #AI #OpenAI
This in The Onion was six months ago ...
https://theonion.com/doj-to-bring-back-firing-squad-as-means-of-entertainment/
"ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report" Bloody hell BBC well done for saying exactly the opposite of what the report said.
Further down it's much more reasonable:
"Professor Peter Fonagy, who chaired the review, has outlined three key findings in an interview with BBC Breakfast:
A "very real substantial rise in mental ill-health", particularly among young people - it increased by 50% between 1993 and the present day
An increase in the "co-occurrence of different diagnoses", meaning more people have common mental disorders (like anxiety and depression) as well as ADHD and autism
An increase in the number of diagnoses of people with ADHD and autism, rather than a rise in how many people have either condition"
Then..
"Wes Streeting 'completely wrong' about over-diagnosis, says review author"
It's absolutely rage inducing but not unexpected from the BBC these days.
The proposed live-streaming of the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan (who murdered 13 people on a USArmy base in 2009) represents a new low (hard as that might be to imagine) in the morality of the administration of the Tangerine Tyrant.
Whatever one may think about death sentences, the live-streaming of the event makes judicial execution an entertainment, and this takes us back to the idea of public hangings & burnings.
The USA is accelerating into the/its past.
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
That's a new one.. someone claiming to be from north yorkshire police saying my email had been found on a criminal's device.
I mean.. so bloody what? My email is on databases all around the world, I've had it for a while.. it's inevitable.
Humored him for a bit to see what the scam was and since he kept waffling and I was bored just hung up.. I'll never make a scambaiter, I get bored too fast :p
Like, "back to normal" doesn't appeal to a whole bunch of people for whom "normal" sucked.
"However, he said that it could take months to determine exactly what her recovery might look like, and whether her competency can be restored to a level that might enable the state to try again to execute her."
What the actual fuck. That's utterly cruel. Even for the stuff you hear out of the US these days that shocked me.
Ugh.
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker (style) cartoons
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/
a small toy is called a Toylet
LOL at this being a thing and the way it has to be done.
https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Is the train levitating between two tracks? Or the on train camera is mounted on a stalk a meter or two away from the chassis?