Andrew

Adam Curtis succinctly expressing his thoughts on AI.

"Johnson’s dictionary is undoubtedly brilliant, but one of the fun things about it is that he compiled it from the point of view of a middle-aged, middle-class man from the Midlands who regards the idioms and values of all other areas of society as inferior – the language of court was pretentious, the language of women diminutive and sleight – and allows his own prejudices and politics, hilariously, to influence his definitions of words. Excise was, for example, “a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid”. Today, Johnson would be working for a Tufton Street thinktank like Taxpayers’ Alliance, and popping up on Question Time every week to push low-tax talking points without declaring his Dubai backers. My point is, I suppose, that supposed objective sources may always have been skewed."

The Nerve

Stewart Lee: Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas

Elon Musk’s AI service is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy

I found this absolute unit on the National Trust for Scotland's social media feed, and thought I'd share it here. Per their post, "Did you know we're experiencing a mast year? This means there's been a bumper crop of nuts and seeds from our trees – and our squirrels are very happy about it!"