RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591

“The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.””

[Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist] “disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years,” he said. And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”

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AI companies stealing people’s work and claiming that their AI is making new discoveries. How long before humanity stands up to these companies?

#TIL that the DADGAD guitar tuning I've been trying out for a few days, though commonly known as traditional "Celtic" was, in fact, brought back from Morocco by Davy Graham in the 1960s, based on an oud tuning he heard there. He adapted to guitar then it was copied by many in the British Islands folk revival.
We invent so much of our 'shared cultural history' while simply stealing whatever we like from other cultures and hating what we don't like. "What did the Romans ever do for us?" :-)

"Naughty" Nige has reacted to falling popularity by calling in the Neo-Nazis, if anyone still doubts that he's willing to be 'a bit fasch' to win:
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/the-neo-nazi-and-far-right-coalition-that-converged-on-southampton-over-henry-nowaks-murder/
He actually "rage" bated his trap to dog-whistle them in.
Are British voters ashamed of betraying those who died in WW2 to see off Nazis yet?

Thinking out loud here, but wouldn't we want to make addictive products either illegal or heavily regulated? https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

Hell, our govenment could tax the shit out of these companies and firstly, it wouldn't touch the sides, but might move the dial towards ethic products?

...but we stayed for the Great Stitchwort.

Cannock Chase, S. Staffordshire, England.
We came for the bluebells.

@grimalkina wow, beautiful article, thank you for sharing. I was particularly struck by this quote:

“The ineffably stupid ‘move fast and break things’ that has so much to answer for in our time. Our new ‘Innovation Hub’ has an asinine three-word slogan: ‘Grow Ignite Disrupt’. It would make just as much sense to have ‘Paper Scissors Stone’ for a motto. And rather more to have ‘Smash Grab Run’.”

I decided not to mince my words on the title: "Apple going to kneecap the web: PWAs"

https://remysharp.com/2024/02/28/apple-trying-to-kneecap-the-web-pwas

Also, shortcut: https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

Sign. Share. Repeat.

@sil Look what I found today!!

I've seen so many 'people who should know better' talking about imagined limitations of AI, that I'm forced to believe their voluntary "see no evil" stance must be faith-based.
"They will never be able to program themselves". Hot-take Dude, they already do! That's what 'Real AI' will have to do.

Been thinking a lot about dual power and social media. If you're not aware, it's a state where capital based power and another, more socialist, form co-exist. The second is created by depleting the first. The move to federated, not-for-profit social media is an example of this. I urge you not to give oxygen to the other side, even to criticise it. Autonomy is the point.