Jacob Aron

News editor for New Scientist

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@ContactHaringey your waste collection website is not working because of a secure connection error https://t.co/4IwJ5XZV3G

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@Coneee Thanks!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace

[New Scientist @newscientist]

In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided linking recent record temperatures with climate change https://t.co/on260vlBhP

[Dr Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel]

Image by Michael Carroll in 2013. We did NOT see the little one coming; it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one & perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

The making shit up machine will make up as much shit as you want, and it only costs $200 a month!

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

Had a sort of a funny experience with OpenAI’s Deep Research tool, which I wanted to share since I think it reveals some of the tool’s strengths and weaknesses.

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

And this is why I am yet to find a use for LLMs

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

anyway I guess as long as whatever thing you're doing has the property that it can withstand a factual error rate of ≥85%, this thing is safe to use

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

This ain't gonna happen

[Marcia Smith @SpcPlcyOnline]

"We will pursue our manifest detinty into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." President Trump in his inaugural address just now.

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@Miles_Brundage Do people not discuss this all the time? It's the origin of the singularity, p(doom), etc. Or am I misunderstanding?

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

Hahaha what?!

[The Verge @verge]

Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok https://t.co/b3UrJuJGRw

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

"plan" is doing a lot of work here

[George Mann @sgfmann]

The Guardian: Tory plan to build 40 new NHS hospitals in tatters #TomorrowsPapersToday

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@ShakeelHashim Fair enough! Seems great that AI can get rid of those 900 hours of work then

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

It seems insane that this form exists? 972 hours! Is anyone reading it?

[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says that AI can draft 95% of an S1 IPO prospectus “in minutes” (a job that used to require a 6-person team multiple weeks).

“The last 5% now matters because the rest is now a commodity,” per Solomon.

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@ShakeelHashim How long did it take you? Did you get, say, 9 hours of value?

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@sepinwall Great piece, thank you

[Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall]

I wrote about how strange and wonderful it was that the incredible Twin Peaks briefly dragged David Lynch into the mainstream, and how hard he fought — especially with Twin Peaks: The Return — to do what interested him, and not a potential mass audience: https://t.co/pNDFuRnM5V

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@Darren_Mooney I think we've seen 2, 3 and 5 on screen. Not sure how many years canonically have passed since the Netflix show (and really it would be silly to try and fully unify these timelines) but it's not impossible the others are from his off screen years I suppose

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@AScribbledEagle Yes, that's my point

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

Did it though? Or did a noisy statistic continue to oscillate around zero?

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK economy grew for the first time in three months, expanding by 0.1% in November, official figures show https://t.co/bBuzeNVIiD

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

@colin_fraser I'll hold it down with an unstoppable force