Christopher Payne

Watcher of the known universe. Living with cancer.

[Nick Milo @NickMilo]

🚀 Linking Your AI is now LIVE on @ProductHunt (link below)

It's time to stop getting trapped by AI companies wanting to lock all of your skills, prompts, and conversations in their app.

I own my AI assistant.

Here's to digital sovereignty! 👑

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

If there is someone who will stand up to Trump, that's Meloni.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

[Christopher Payne @cjapayne]

I love his work, the "what to look for... " series with his drawings is a gem; so much of my childhood encompassed in those books!

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

“A branch of flowering lime hangs above the roof”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Christopher Payne @cjapayne]

@campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics Starmer is toast!

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

The Trump surrender of Ukraine descends into utter chaos. But “chaos” is too mellow a word: What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder. Words have a hard time keeping up with the story. But we’ll try.

https://t.co/Qy39irWYhl

[Christopher Payne @cjapayne]

Since @Leonardo_Hotels took over the Marriott Forum hotel in Barcelona, experience booking and checking in is far worse. Puts me right off this chain.

[Dr Alex Young ⚡️ @AlexanderFYoung]

🔥 MIT just exposed every top AI model and it’s not pretty.

They built a new test called WorldTest to see if AI actually understands the world… and the results are brutal.

It doesn’t just check how well a model predicts the next frame or maximizes reward it tests whether it can build an internal model of reality and use it to handle new situations.

They built AutumnBench 43 interactive worlds, 129 tasks where AIs must:

• Predict hidden parts of the world (masked-frame prediction)
• Plan sequences of actions to reach a goal
• Detect when the environment’s rules suddenly change

Then they tested 517 humans vs. Claude, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3.

Humans crushed every model. Even massive compute scaling barely helped.

The takeaway is wild.. today’s AIs don’t understand environments; they just pattern-match inside them.

They don’t explore strategically, revise beliefs, or run experiments like humans do.

WorldTest might be the first benchmark that actually measures understanding, not memorization.

The gap it reveals isn’t small it’s the next grand challenge in AI cognition.

(Comment “Send” I’ll DM you the paper)

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

WHAT A SPECIAL FINISH ⭐️

Fitzpatrick & Hatton close out in style!

#TeamEurope | #OurTimeOurPlace

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

Hard not to enjoy the #Rydercup. The Europeans like one another, laugh a lot, play beautiful golf. The Americans have a witless crowd, boring chants, no team spirit and offer nothing but just a bit of shouty jingoism.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

🗣️ "Can we play you every week?!"

European fans loving it, US fans not so much... 😆

#RyderCup

[Shane Lowry @ShaneLowryGolf]

A day we won’t forget 🇪🇺

#RyderCup

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"The Guardian view on the water industry: a return to public ownership should still be on the table."

There is an all pervasive stench within Ofwat, Defra and the Treasury of small state / non interventionist thinking, it is costing and will continue to cost water bill payers billions.

The market is not going to provide on this occasion and to think so is delusional.

https://t.co/7vHOTtTIqz

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

This parade cost $45 million?! And it even had additional sponsors like the UFC and Coinbase.

Was it yet another money laundering scheme?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Guess what happens when you mess with a retired audit partner at PWC?

You get your ass handed to you on a plate, wouldn't that be right @YorkshireWater.

All hail Stanley Root ladies and gentlemen. 👏👏👏

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The very fabulous Stanley Root, the retired audit partner from PWC who kicked @YorkshireWater's ass.

Here's his work on @thameswater. All that nonsense about shareholders investing money into the company, it's rubbish, there is not a single year since privatisation that TW's shareholders didn't take out more money that they ever put into the company.

Brilliant bit of investigative accounting. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/HhtZlz6nSZ

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“I can’t believe you’re asking me that question…”

@CarolineLucas dismisses the idea that Brexit has been beneficial for the UK after President Trump’s tariffs

[Braden (Fan) 🐦‍🔥 @Braden_LFC]

Klopp made him vice captain in this exact video and he chooses to sneak out the back door for free. Revolting player

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

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