Yes, it's a calculator, but what kind of calculator, and did you own one as well? No Googling or asking your favourite AI. Fun fact, I have not used this thing in more than 25 years and when I found it yesterday, I just pushed the power button and it still worked!

BREAKING: The storm surge for Hurricane Milton is expected to be 15 feet. To give you an idea of how deadly this is, here's what 9 feet looks like:

One way you can tell it's Prime Day(s) is that every company you've ever dealt with for any reason whatsoever, is sending you ads for alternative Prime Day deals that aren't on Amazon. You have to respect the terrifying power of Amazon if all these companies feel the need to

It would be interesting to redo a version of this where the expected armies of robots that we expect in the next few years, were there to 'keep things going' until we return from wherever it is we went off to.

AI wars trigger warning... :-) Well worth watching. For the record, Stephen Silver is the artist and lead character designer behind "Kim Possible" and "Danny Phantom". youtu.be/d7_6xxYjNi4?si…

Beyond algorithms and data lies something deeper—our ‘mind children.’ What happens when intelligent machines become part of our legacy, or we, theirs? freethinkeratlarge.com/the-evolution-…

Over on Facebook, my friend, David Graham asked me to make a picture of Jeff Bezos in a darkened room, blowing out a candle, with the caption, "Democracy Dies In Darkness," so I did this instead.

I do not see how the States comes back from this. Trump, by his unwavering commitment to always doing and saying the very worst possible thing, has wholly corrupted Americans' ability to tell right from wrong. There is no standard to measure him against, and no institution left

A big win for viruses everywhere!

The moment she walked in, he knew it was trouble! youtu.be/oulFFHW-Fls

Some information about Canada for Americans: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4V6…

The Science in the Fiction podcast on the science of consciousness in my Aurora Award-winning novel QUANTUM NIGHT: thescienceinthefiction.buzzsprout.com/2201157/episod…

When it comes to AI censorship, China bad, and US good. Right? youtu.be/wTqbWlc-8Pw

According to my accountant; starting tomorrow I’m going to have to start charging a tariff for my posts since I’m a product of Canada…😏 #tariffTuesday

AI is evolving so fast, it's hard to keep up! 🤯 Check out this discussion on the latest developments, including the open-source model DeepSeek. #AI #DeepSeek #OpenSource #TechNews youtu.be/zoGzak4eNLg?si…

Video of Donald J. Trump negotiating with Vladimir Putin.

Looking For The One Who Is Looking freethinkeratlarge.com/looking-for-i-…

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New preprint: we evaluated LLMs in a 3-party Turing test (participants speak to a human & AI simultaneously and decide which is which). GPT-4.5 (when prompted to adopt a humanlike persona) was judged to be the human 73% of the time, suggesting it passes the Turing test (🧵)

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