Michael Galpin

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026) Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love. We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway. America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire. His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen. Ian McKellen 29 October 2026 Photo: University of Huddersfield

"It's vile. It's not representative of the Tenderloin." A video game portraying San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood as a zombie battlefield was taken offline Friday after drawing backlash from city officials and residents. abc7ne.ws/0LXMMA

Is it good alignment or bad to consider the consequences of an action? Seems pretty good to me. Or at least, similar to one way we align human behavior.

Mark Zuckerberg pretending to enjoy Guinness is my new favourite thing.

Using only a bar, tell us where you went to college.

In the first inning, the average pitch was thrown at 98 mph. The median pitch was 98.7 mph.

Claude filled out a form on police site, falsely indicating it might have information regarding an unsolved murder listed on the site. abc7ne.ws/PSvga6

I think slop grenades are very real and not a matter of prevalence Also AI writing is often takes **much** longer to read and understand because of its low information density, unnecessary poetry, literary devices, lack of transitions etc. so it’s a negative externality bourne by the person consuming the writing That being said, most people don’t read shit anyways

AI data centers are fueling a growing shortage of skilled construction workers, driving up costs and potentially slowing construction of homes and businesses.

Here’s a perfect example of why Tesla Self Driving is pure magic. In this video, we’re approaching a one-lane covered bridge. Notice that after oncoming cars clear, there is an ever-so-slight pause by FSD before proceeding. Why? Because FSD sees a car yielding on the other side of the covered bridge, and is confirming that it’s yielding for us. You can barely see the car yourself as a human, but FSD sees it, which can be verified by the tiny car spec on the screen animation. Zoom in and you’ll see it on the screen. FSD signals full understanding of this situation, and acts/reacts with such speed and precision that blows my mind every time. This is the key breakthrough of V14. The car feels completely dialed in and alive at every fraction of a second. No pausing, no uncertainty. It’s just alive. There is no awkward hesitation, nothing that feels any different from what an experienced human driver would do here. This never used to be possible before V14. It couldn’t even understand this scenario at all. Now not only is it possible, but it’s so natural that you don’t even bat an eye. And we’re about to see a step change with V15. Completely insane.