TJ at Rainbows End

Love all sport and science fiction/faction. Especially epic sport and science!

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

While football does not cause domestic abuse, stats show that incidents can spike during major tournaments. The 'Unspoken Stat' is called xV, and that stands for expected violence against women after the game.  A study by Lancaster University has shown that domestic abuse incidents can rise by 38% when England lose and 26% even when England win so the xV is a frightening statistic, and we can all help.

Support and information is available from domestic abuse charities @ichoosefreedomcharity & @leedswomensaid or you can call the national domestic abuse helpline number on 0808 2000 #TheUnspokenStat

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The rock that wiped out the dinosaurs was about six miles across, taller than Mount Everest, moving at 45,000 miles an hour. It hit shallow sea off what is now Mexico at 60 degrees, which a 2020 Imperial College London study found was close to the deadliest angle possible.

The steep angle mattered more than the size. Coming in at 60 degrees threw the most rock and gas high into the sky, where wind could spread it around the world. And the target was the worst it could have picked, shallow seafloor made of sulfur-rich rock. The impact turned that rock to vapor and threw billions of tons of sulfur into the air.

The blast, equal to billions of Hiroshima bombs, was only the start. As the debris thrown into space fell back to Earth, friction turned each piece into a glowing hot pellet. For up to an hour, the sky over much of the planet glowed like the inside of an oven set to broil. Anything caught in the open cooked. The only land animals with a real chance were the ones that could hide underground or underwater.

At a site in North Dakota, nearly 2,000 miles from the crater, scientists found fish buried with tiny beads of impact glass still stuck in their gills. Those fish died within an hour of the strike, killed by a wave that sloshed out of an inland sea when the ground heaved.

What finished the dinosaurs came slower. The sulfur and dust wrapped around the whole planet and blocked out the sun, and with the light gone the warmth went too, dropping global temperatures by several degrees and keeping them down for years, in some models more than a decade. Plants need sunlight to make food, so in the dark they died. The plant-eaters starved. Then the animals that hunted them starved as well, and the loss climbed up the food chain until about three quarters of every species on Earth was gone.

Here is the part the joke gets right. Birds are dinosaurs. They split off from small meat-eating dinosaurs more than 150 million years ago and lived alongside the giant ones for over 100 million years. Most birds died in the disaster too, including every last one that still had teeth. The ones that made it were small, ground-living birds with beaks that could crack open seeds, and seeds can sit buried in the soil for years, waiting out a disaster.

Those few survivors became every bird alive today, more than 10,000 species. The pigeon outside your window is a dinosaur whose family lived through the single worst day this planet has ever had.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The second you reach for the words “ban,” “stop,” or “eliminate” as your policy, you're on the wrong side of history. 

Shape the technology toward the goal, don't try to outlaw the future.

[Leicester Xtra @XtraLeicester]

OFFICIAL 🚨

Russell Martin appointed manager of Leicester City

The three-year deal was finalised on Saturday with an announcement expected in the next 48 hours.

Via @JBurtTelegraph

[SCOUTED @scoutedftbl]

As far as breakout performances go, you won't see many more obvious than the one Ayyoub Bouaddi has just put in against Brazil; an unflappable 18-year-old on the biggest stage of his career so far. That performance will always be a reference point for everyone that watched.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Football On The Soar @FootballOTSoar]

Matty Piper speaks 🗣️

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[TJ at Rainbows End @TJLL22]

@alexwg Thanks for all your updates and this epic blueprint!

[TJ at Rainbows End @TJLL22]

Come on the Dons!

[TJ at Rainbows End @TJLL22]

#cfcmatchday

[Daily Mail Sport @MailSport]

Aston Villa want to offer Pedro a way out of Chelsea as he falls out of favour at Stamford Bridge after four league starts this season https://t.co/Pot0BzyOSj

[Flib Flibbity @mattrawkslc]

Listening to @Lockedonsports and loving the passion of David Locke as the @utahjazz are looking to close out a HUGE road win!

[TJ at Rainbows End @TJLL22]

@hollyymunro unlucky today - all the best for the match against Germany - cheering you on 👏

[TJ at Rainbows End @TJLL22]

@bewellbusiness Well said Sir.

[Moved to @thegaddad @bewellbusiness]

My latest blog 'Mental Health - Casual Disregard in Football' https://t.co/5Fv2NMSQGS

[St George's Hospital Charity @GivingtoGeorges]

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[niklaus classic™️ @ChetSuplex]

Imagine playing next to Lebron and thinking it would be a good career move to not play next to Lebron

[Karolina C @kika335]

#LCFC @LCFC

[Jamie March @jam_march]

Would love to hear LCFC fans singing "Who the f**k are Leicester City" back at Man Utd fans tomorrow.

Very fitting chant for the occasion!