The leading US AI models are trained on the mass of information on the internet, freely making use of work done by thousands of scientists , journalists and experts. That's fair.
China's AI models are catching up by using US AI to freely train their models. That's unfair.
Have I got that right?
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Starmer berates Farage for not condemning the death threat to Natalie Fleet MP from a Reform UK councillor.
"Look at their candidate in Gorton and Denton. A man who says anyone who isn't white cannot be English. No wonder he's been endorsed by Tommy Robinson."
Rave reviews? Surely not. Raving might be in there though.
The Brutal Logic -
A. "... and that's everything you need to know to halt the #ClimateCrisis"
B. π¬ "But I can't possibly do X".
A. "So then Y"
B. π€―"But that's devastating"
A. "So do X"
Not a Tesla in sight.
Donald J. Trump 9 @ @realDonaldTrump The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE." The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been - Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the "HOTTEST" Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums. 415 ReTruths 1.33k Likes Aug 19, 2025, 2:46 PM
βHow bad slavery wasβ.
This is what we are still doing, and this will be the consequence, in two posts.
Quite apart from anything else, this a major opportunity for UK higher education which we are currently doing our best to neutralise.
Seems like Trump's America is following Putin's lead in interfering in the elections of smaller countries.
Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions.
Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.
Weapons of mass destruction. I hope this isn't Iraq all over again.
We all had a vote. Unfortunately we lost. The white working class are not numerous enough to win on they're own.
France also wants to attract foreign researchers as Europe seeks to reap an intellectual windfall from the US presidentβs battles with academia
Perhaps one of the most un-Christian people I have come across. No compassion. No charity.
Liz Truss has announced plans to launch her own 'free speech' social media platform, inspired by her experiences as PM. So, presumably you'll be able to post whatever you like for 42 days
HBO responds to criticism of its casting for the new Harry Potter film series by bringing in some actors who better reflect the original films
Farage is no Hitler, but this is rather like the Nazis claiming to be socialists.
Europeans must accept their efforts to flatter or cajole Trump into doing the right thing on Ukraine have failed. Trump is on Putin's side. Europe (minus Hungary, of course) now needs either to ensure RU is defeated in UA, or prepare for Putin to attack other parts of the former Russian empire.
I was looking at my great grandmother. In 1911, abandoned by her husband, she was living in a small 2 up, 2 down terrace in Barrowford with her 5 children and 2
boarders. As the breadwinner, she worked at a local cotton mill. By 1921, the 4 children over 10 were working with her. She died aged 57.
Iβve spent some of today digging into the life of an ancestor of mine (this is a lie, it was @onekdog.bsky.social who did the actual work). But it really highlighted to me how much pain and suffering and hardship has been a significant part of the human experience.
When will we learn? This happened at Turf Moor too.
We're there to watch the sport, not the stunts. www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/3601310...
Why?
Funding should get the job done.
No matter who spends the money, that job is protecting the world from climate change.
"These 15 medics and first responders were heroes. They ran towards danger. They served their people. They believed in the sanctity of life, even in a place where life is constantly under siege. Their memory should be sacred."
β #AJOpinion by Ahmed Najar ‡οΈ
Nobody is above the law. Nobody should be stealing taxpayer's money for their own purposes. That is the judgement of a court, not a politician.
Incumbents recover Change in net approval rating of world leaders, January to March Canada +18 Australia United Kingdom Mexico France +10 +4 +3 Germany Spain Brazil +1 +1 -2 Italy -4 Source: Morning Consult -NEW STATESMAN
The Trump Effect.
US imposed a 50% tariff on Lesotho, whose average citizen earns less than $5 a day. Why? Because the formula for supposedly "reciprocal" tariff rates has nothing to do with tariffs. The Trump team have calculated each penalty by dividing the U.S. trade deficit with a given country by how much the U.S. imports from it and then doing a rough adjustment. Because LesothΖ‘'s ppl are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from the nation, they have reserved the highest- possible tariff rate for one of the world's poorest places. The idea that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is absurd 1
Trumpβs whopping great tariffs on the tiny African nation of Lesotho sum up the full madness of the scheme.
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Trump says his tariffs will raise $6 trillion.
Assuming that's over 10 years, that's $600 billion per year.
There are 134 million households, so this is nearly $5,000 per household per year.
And it's like a sales tax, so it's a flat tax. A huge hit to the budgets of working folks.
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Courtβs justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
