Eleanor Baker
@eleanorb.bsky.social
Risk, games, fitness, cooking, teen and cat parent. Also rage and despair (but trying to keep a lid on those).
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A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
mathandai.org
September 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
In light of all the pernicious hard right nonsense going on I've just donated to the RNLI and you can too by following this link if you like rnli.org/support-us/g...
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September 10, 2026 at 9:16 AM
In light of all the pernicious hard right nonsense going on I've just donated to the RNLI and you can too by following this link if you like rnli.org/support-us/g...
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I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
September 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country.
Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.
Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.
This is an overtly political statement unbecoming for a chief rabbi that conflates Jews and Israel and does not represent the views of me or people like me
I could say more, but it’s almost Rosh Hashanah and I don’t want to start the new year badly - and, frankly, its awfulness speaks for itself
I could say more, but it’s almost Rosh Hashanah and I don’t want to start the new year badly - and, frankly, its awfulness speaks for itself
September 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country.
Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.
Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews.
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If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk
September 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
September 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1
idk why do 60 year olds with erectile dysfunction like reading the same article over and over
August 31, 2026 at 1:40 AM
fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1
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The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.
August 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.
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Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
August 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
August 25, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
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The teeny-tiny germ of insight in Richard Tice's argument that we should just enjoy the heat is that we ought to demolish and build enough on our coasts that everyone who lives in a British city can afford to decamp to their holiday apartment in August.
August 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The teeny-tiny germ of insight in Richard Tice's argument that we should just enjoy the heat is that we ought to demolish and build enough on our coasts that everyone who lives in a British city can afford to decamp to their holiday apartment in August.
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Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.
August 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Lot of people younger than me lately. What are we doing about this.
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Once they tell you about confirmation bias, you start seeing it everywhere.
August 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Once they tell you about confirmation bias, you start seeing it everywhere.
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Today's Ben finds out a factoid while researching stuff...
The University of London awarded full degrees to women from 1878 - 60 years before Cambridge 42 years before Oxford. 15 years before Edinburgh. 😀
The University of London awarded full degrees to women from 1878 - 60 years before Cambridge 42 years before Oxford. 15 years before Edinburgh. 😀
August 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Today's Ben finds out a factoid while researching stuff...
The University of London awarded full degrees to women from 1878 - 60 years before Cambridge 42 years before Oxford. 15 years before Edinburgh. 😀
The University of London awarded full degrees to women from 1878 - 60 years before Cambridge 42 years before Oxford. 15 years before Edinburgh. 😀
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White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
August 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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The terrible Jason Arday story comes on top of this, which affected me deeply this week. Human beings are very, very fragile.
Treasury ‘materially contributed’ to suicide of personal assistant, coroner finds
Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself after disciplinary proceedings that coroner in Surrey found be to be flawed
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The terrible Jason Arday story comes on top of this, which affected me deeply this week. Human beings are very, very fragile.
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I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
DEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
August 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
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Farage got 63% of 44% of Clacton voters in an election he called and that he was the only MP standing. And he's calling it a win.
August 14, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Farage got 63% of 44% of Clacton voters in an election he called and that he was the only MP standing. And he's calling it a win.
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Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.
August 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.
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Yea you see, the problem here is that what historians actually do is construct the ‘well structured large historical dataset’.What you’re saying is that Claude can write an elementary school level paper on like the civil war
Are we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.
August 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Yea you see, the problem here is that what historians actually do is construct the ‘well structured large historical dataset’.What you’re saying is that Claude can write an elementary school level paper on like the civil war
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Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me
@andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me
@andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
March 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it