“The UK government has told the country’s port authorities that it will not turn on critical health and safety checks for EU imports when post-Brexit border controls begin this month - because of the risk of ‘significant disruption’ …”
ft.com/content/ba1974…

How to Leave the Planet

- advice from Douglas Adams

Thread both ways. ↑↓

This is cool. It may or may not be helpful.

Anti-poverty programmes should be seen as basic fiscal prudence. Leaving kids hungry is bad for them but also piles up social costs for the future.

#AI is coming for #Doctors too…

“OpenAI’s model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems”

Actually, this is good news. We don’t have anything like enough doctors. ft.com/content/5b7a76…

Exciting news for the #Education world: we can apparently now fast-forward through 150 years of classroom practice thanks to #AI

“Can AI take teaching out of the Victorian ages?”

#HypeCycle

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

News Group are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I had accused the Sun of doing - phone hacking, unlawful information gathering, landline tapping, the burglary of my flat and office, the bugging of my car, the illegal blagging of medical records, lies, perjury and…

On #Scale , #Cities and #Population Density

HT James O’Malley, aka @PsyThor

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/we-can-save-…

#AI models may be able to 'replicate and survive in the wild […] anywhere from 2025 to 2028”

#MooresLaw futurism.com/the-byte/anthr…

#AI will break language barriers.

Potentially bad news for those in the #Translation business. Good news for pretty much everyone else.

#MFL #Linguistics #LostInTranslation theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Should all schools in England be secular and, if so, who will save the King?

#Robotics 2024

Boston Dynamics. Atlas Robot. Just add #AI

Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet.

The sympathetic nervous system may have originated in jawless fish—not tens of millions of years later as previously thought, according to a study published today in nature.

By Shaena Montanari

thetransmitter.org/evolution/new-…