Mark
@markrshaw.bsky.social
Yorkshireman, higher education bod, literature enthusiast. 🏳️🌈
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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
www.theverge.com
October 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
October 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.
August 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.
Public decorum has just completely collapsed hasn't it? I am currently sitting in a cafe, and two women are next to me holding a phone call on speaker phone at full volume.
I don't want to hear your conversation. Stop polluting the public realm with selfishness.
I don't want to hear your conversation. Stop polluting the public realm with selfishness.
September 26, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Public decorum has just completely collapsed hasn't it? I am currently sitting in a cafe, and two women are next to me holding a phone call on speaker phone at full volume.
I don't want to hear your conversation. Stop polluting the public realm with selfishness.
I don't want to hear your conversation. Stop polluting the public realm with selfishness.
The world feels like an overwhelmingly depressing place right now. AI doom narratives, runaway climate change, and wars threatening to reach a nuclear threshold.
Please stop the planet, I want to get off.
Please stop the planet, I want to get off.
September 12, 2026 at 6:49 AM
The world feels like an overwhelmingly depressing place right now. AI doom narratives, runaway climate change, and wars threatening to reach a nuclear threshold.
Please stop the planet, I want to get off.
Please stop the planet, I want to get off.
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this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit
“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
www.bostonreview.net
September 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit
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we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
Google Maps has updated to label Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S., following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. trib.al/5axpigr
August 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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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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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
July 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
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Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
July 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Think this will remain one of the all time "The haters said we couldn't do it, and turns out they were right. Great call from the haters" stories of all time.
I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down.
I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".
I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".
Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
June 27, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Think this will remain one of the all time "The haters said we couldn't do it, and turns out they were right. Great call from the haters" stories of all time.
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All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening
June 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening
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Hot podium guy is, tbf to him, ageing well. Here he is in 2019 (first major appearance), July 2022, October 2022 and today.
June 22, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Hot podium guy is, tbf to him, ageing well. Here he is in 2019 (first major appearance), July 2022, October 2022 and today.
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guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
June 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
Nobody should be a billionaire, let alone a trillionaire.
June 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Nobody should be a billionaire, let alone a trillionaire.
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This from the man who spent years hectoring us about how crucial it was for 'our own laws to be debated and made in our own sovereign parliament'.
Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
www.thelondoneconomic.com
May 31, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This from the man who spent years hectoring us about how crucial it was for 'our own laws to be debated and made in our own sovereign parliament'.
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the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will
typing it out barely feels real
typing it out barely feels real
May 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will
typing it out barely feels real
typing it out barely feels real
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Leaving aside the pros and cons of Starmer as a leader, hard to imagine a more vivid poster child for the Reform/Farage narrative that liberal democracy in Britain is broken and we need a ‘strong leader’ than what’s happening right now….
May 12, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Leaving aside the pros and cons of Starmer as a leader, hard to imagine a more vivid poster child for the Reform/Farage narrative that liberal democracy in Britain is broken and we need a ‘strong leader’ than what’s happening right now….
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![2-panel comic. (1) [Two people looking at flying airplane] PERSON 1: What’s with the little wings on the tails of airplanes? Do they really need them? PERSON 2 with ponytail: They’re horizontal stabilizers. They serve a crucial aerodynamic role. (2) Previously, at the airplane factory... [small segment of airplane with small wings] PERSON 3 with short hair: These wings you made are *way* too small! The plane is supposed to be much bigger! PERSON 4 [next to a person with shoulder-length hair]: Sorry! We’ll start over. PERSON 3: No, there’s no time. Just make it longer and put bigger wings on the new section.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicym2v22k5f6fa365r2u3amjpvsoxlbfs575syebmjdsfjystwuqq)
May 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Never say that the King does not work for his money.
Trump jokes that his mom had a crush on King Charles drawing awkward laughter
trib.al/SKGt883
trib.al/SKGt883
April 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Never say that the King does not work for his money.
They absolutely knew what they were doing with this and.
April 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
They absolutely knew what they were doing with this and.
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If Trump were a proven Kremlin asset, what would he do differently?
Trump will discuss a potential US withdrawal from NATO with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced.
April 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
If Trump were a proven Kremlin asset, what would he do differently?