Why Russia can't win against the West Russia is often portrayed as the invincible military power. And yet, this reputation is based on two wars - Napoleonic and WWII. In both cases Russia won only thanks to the alliance allied with *the* leading economic powerhouse of that era🧵

Who is the most high-agency person you've never heard of? Rudolf Vrba. He escaped Auschwitz by soaking himself in gasoline -- to give a memo to Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Pope. Meet the man who saved 200,000 lives from the Nazis:

All educators should hear this again and again. The late @SirKenRobinson …

One of my dear friends asked me to train a Stable Diffusion model on photographs of his mother. He was very close with his mother who was a single mother. They had a lot of adventures together. She passed away way too soon. I trained a model locally and let him use my computer and taught him to use A.I. He's never used A.I. before and as you know prompting in SD is much harder than Midjourney, so I showed him Lixaca.art where he could search for prompts and styles. He asked me to sit in the same room and I sat on the couch and gave him space. He was typing and then asked me to come. I saw photographs of a young boy and his mother and I thought he was recreating photos of them together in the past. I asked if it was him. "It's my future son and my mom." He said it was a healing experience. With his kind permission, I share with you these and his captions.

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4…

Now a keynote from @ADCCo on enterprise demands on telcos Good points on maturity & credibility I don’t agree with the phasing of “digitalisation” Digital predates computing. It’s 100+ years old. It’s not new. Current transformation is in many ways post-digital

Why Architecture Is Important (and what it says about us) A short thread...

What's in an iPhone? These scientists made an iPhone smoothie to find out

100 million people use ChatGPT. Fewer than 1% understand it. A mega thread to get you up to speed:

Watch #MWLOnDemand ⏯ Hear from @ADCCo, Executive Director & Chief Research Officer of @STLPartners at #MWC23, being interviewed by @SpringhamJustin on Monday, 27 February 2023. See session here: ⤵ mobileworldlive.com/session/…

Broadcasting #MWC23 Keynote 2: Delivering the Digital Decade next week. Inc execs from @GSMA (@LaraDewar), @ITU @ericsson @deutschetelekom @chinamobileTR. Preview and analysis with @SpringhamJustin @SashaTwining @CoachRasMC @ADCCo mobileworldlive.com/

#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12

One of the pleasures of going WW2 historical research on General Douglas MacArthur's Section 22 radar hunters in the Southwest Pacific is the scope it gives you for looking at WW2. Today's surprise involved Germany & Allied intelligence limitations. 1/9