Ang the Man

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Favourite movie you like because of your dad…

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@firesidealpha And Claude’s wise response…

Is AI-doom chatter feeding a future rogue AI? Partly, but a superintelligence could infer the risks anyway. Truly hazardous specifics should stay restricted; open debate gets plans scrutinised and improved. Obscurity has a poor security record.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@firesidealpha Doesn’t this vid - and the talk around it - hand the idea to a future misaligned, internet-scraping super-AI?

And won’t that apply to EVERYTHING we now say about AI on the web?

With hacks too, it’ll know everything - including our plans to “stop the AI apocalypse”?

#QforClaude

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@DanNeidle It would be interesting to know *who* is blocking this sensible change at EU level - could there be “aviation industry” pressure or lobbying of EU governments? And if so, which governments are caving in to it? Can anyone help on that?

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@afneil Yes, but in Russia and elsewhere, individuals (eg. oligarchs) or so-called “para-state entities” do the government’s bidding - so whether GOVERNMENT or private foreign ownership, it amounts to the same thing. The government has got it right this time.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

A photograph taken by T. E. Lawrence as he entered Damascus in 1918 - from my tattered 1939 edition of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Hello @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews, you just described @ShabanaMahmood @MoJGovUK as “shadow” Justice Secretary in the 4pm news bulletin on R4 - no she’s not!

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Now corrected - however that happened, thanks!

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Dumelang @CentSelatlhwa and @dized, nice piece on 🇧🇼 for the BBC News website:

https://t.co/JtWHcaEq2p

But they’re currently misspelling the name of the capital in your byline!

I’ve written to them. Almost as bad as the old colonial spelling of “Gaberones”!

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Dumelang @CentSelatlhwa and @dized, nice piece on 🇧🇼 for the BBC News website:

https://t.co/JtWHcaEq2p

But they’re currently misspelling the name of the capital in your byline!

I’ve written to them. Almost as bad as the old colonial spelling of “Gaberones”!

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Congratulations on the Emmys, Justin!! Fantastic recognition for a huge amount of work!

[Justin Marks @Justin_Marks_]

So young we were when this show began. On the final day of production we looked like this...

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@Richard_C Finally learning my clickbait techniques 🙄

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

You’re having a nice evening drink on the terrace when this happens…

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@IanDunt Disagree with this, Ian. Serious trouble was coming from the far right, and his grim choice was to deal with it now - with the chance of blunting it a little - or later. He took the former option, and it worked. Neither blinder nor blunder, but blunter!

[Finton Worsnip🕺 @toniusward]

Must just be me then

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@IanDunt How about right-wing, headline-savvy insiders who are deliberately sabotaging his campaign?

He defied them - and now they want a total wipe-out in order to elevate Braverman or some other extremist to the leadership.

A conspiracy theory? Hey, politics is vicious…

[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

Helena Bibowa, the oldest and only surviving native speaker of a tiny language called Wymysiöeryś is turning 102 today.
In honor of that, let me take you along on the story of Wymysiöeryś.
It's of death and resurrection, and a hefty deal of random, but I promise it's a happy one.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@revishvilig And one more biggie… Russia extends and consolidates its control over Belarus, with a view - when conditions allow - to absorbing it, de facto or de jure, into greater Russia. And that would be a massive win, whatever happens in Ukraine.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

@ANTSdirect Bonjour, juste pour vous signaler… la boîte photo au tabac “Chat de l’Ile” à Strasbourg ne fonctionne pas depuis quelque temps. A enlever de la liste d’endroits “photo-signature”?

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

Here’s another example from the thread… “Night at Gurzof” (1891).

The ambiance, granted, is vivid and magical.

But look at that two-masted barque - it’s a bizarre miniature, like a duck-pond model!

Accuracy is not the point of his work - but there’s a bare minimum, surely?

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What made Aivazovsky so successful? Well, his paintings speak for themselves — they are thrilling, dramatic, mysterious, and beautiful.

Because, even though he was part of the international network of "Academic" European artists, Aivazovsky forever remained a Romantic at heart.

[Ang the Man @Ang_the_man1]

But there’s a problem. Anyone who knows ships will tell you that - at least some of the time - Aivazovsky’s proportions are a bit skewed.

Here, for example, the masts of his ship are much shorter than they should be - almost laughably so!

And this cannot be poetic license…

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

But it was when painting the sea that Aivazovsky's talent and skill shone most brightly — and that helped him remain a succesful and popular artist until the end of his life.

He went to the Chicago World Fair in 1892, at the age of 75, where his paintings were exhibited.