For those that hope (or worry) that LLMs will do breakthrough scientific research, I've got good (or bad) news: LLMs are particularly, exceedingly, marvellously ill-suited to this task. (if you're a researcher, you'll have noticed this already) Here's why🧵

Sundar Pichai I just realised your name means "Beautiful guy who pitches AI."

Hard to fathom how incredibly stupid you’d have to be to get sucked in by the MAHA thing

New drone surveys show that bird flu has wiped out nearly half of the females in the planet’s biggest elephant seal population. The staggering loss highlights how rapidly the virus is spreading through wildlife and how much remains unknown about its long-term impact on marine

A farmer leaves part of his crop harvest for birds to eat. This is how rich people behave. We need more such rich people in world.

I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣 🔊 Sound a must

Rapid Mass Extinction is here: an extensive new study reveals how harmful deep-sea mining can be for seabed creatures smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dee…

“The prospect that hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions—of people will get kicked off SNAP…gives charitable food sector executives nightmares. They know that SNAP supports far more meals than food banks could ever provide.” —Christopher Bosso go.nybooks.com/48Mp9Xc

Kiska Saath? Kiska Vikas? किस्का साथ? किस्का विकास? कुनाल कामरा की बातचीत अशीष कोठारी के साथ | Nope w/ Kunal Kamra ft Ashish Kothari | 057 youtu.be/NbuNreQwY3c?si… via YouTube

As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has pushed nature-based solutions, reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity. e360.yale.edu/features/kigal…

letterboxd.com/film/ballast/ 今年のベルリンコンペ何が驚きかってLance Hammerの18年ぶりの新作“Queen at Sea”が選出されてることですわ。2008年の“Ballast”がサンダンスで評価され、将来を嘱望されながらもその後音沙汰がなく、今とうとうの第2長編という。青天の霹靂すぎるな。今まで何してたのだろう。

'The origins of the rules-based order lie in the legal justifications for an act of piracy, motivated by profit.' lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/janu…

I see this cutesy “mutual aid” stuff all the time. In reality, there’s nothing “mutual” about it. It’s just charity with a vaguely punk aesthetic For it to be “mutual” would require organizing, as equals, with the people in need. That would lead to a completely different result

Classic reverse centaur Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER

“But dishwashing is drudgery!” Virtually all labor is drudgery outside of community. Your love of convenience technology is a symptom of an atomized, alienated existence. You don’t need more robots—which only alienate you further—you need other people. We are social animals

Lovely essay from Niladri Chatterjee / @niladri4u.bsky.social on why biryani has taken over Kolkata's street food scene: "In a struggling economy, biryani is fiscal prudence disguised as indulgence." scroll.in/article/109055…

Local high school track team boys yelling gesturing and thumbs downing the Cybertruck yesterday as wife was driving. Call the school or nah?

A strange force is blighting landscapes across the Arctic: bright orange water visible from outer space. Here's why. ft.trib.al/vkDwYBr

Nozomi IIjima's "Scoffing Pig" is maybe most tragic photobook I've seen. She follows pigs on a farm, showing how the pigs understand the horror of which they are a part.