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Times The State Of It podcast transcript: But Keir Starmer is not like other Labour politicians. He's not really a Labour politician at all. And again, his political judgment, fundamental political judgment, on what Simon Case describes in one of the letters from the files as one of, if not the most important roles in His Majesty's diplomatic service. You know, he outsourced even that to people who knew a man he neither knew nor liked, particularly, and vice versa. And I think that gets to the heart of all the reasons Labour MPs are looking at this and thinking, you know, maybe not now, but there will be other straws and the camel's back will eventually be broken.

How does a guy who is “not really a Labour politician at all” get elected Labour leader, in highly dubious circumstances, without anyone saying “this is a bit weird”? Could this have anything to do with him inexplicably replacing the US ambassador with Peter Mandelson, who was very keen on the job?

Voila comment un lobby lgbt financé par le sordide bergé en son temps ou soros et consorts avec largent de lue se comporte comme un mouvement facsiste. A quand un retout a letat de droit ?

Gerbert Rambaud, candidat Rassemblement National à Vaugneray (Rhône), accuse les LGBT+ d'être financés par le milliardaire juif George Soros et l'Union Européenne. Une vieille théorie du complot antisémite et anti-LGBT+.

Doing all of this homework heightened my investment in the games—but it also conjured something disconcerting and primal in me. I first noticed it during the fourth quarter of the Cardinals-Titans game that Sunday. The Cardinals had been heavy favorites, and I'd bet on them to win by a touchdown. Early in the fourth quarter, it looked like a win was in the bag. The Cardinals were already up 21-6 when running back Emari Demercado ran for what looked like a game- sealing 72-yard touchdown. But when the referees reviewed the play, they found that Demercado,

who had dropped the ball after scoring, had actually let it go half a step before reaching the end zone. The touchdown was reversed, the play was ruled a fumble, and the Titans proceeded to pull off an improbable 16-point comeback to win the game. My money vaporized. Rewatching clips of Demercado's fumble, I was filled with an irrational hatred for this person I had never met. I hated the way he sauntered so cavalierly into the end zone. I hated the way he tossed the ball to the ground like a used dish towel in what I'm sure he thought was a cool flex. I hated the way he shrugged off reporters questions in the locker room afterward by repeating the same meaningless quote ("Just gotta be smarter"). The intensity of the feeling, fleeting as it was, unnerved me.

This is one part of the story that really worries me. It's only a matter of time before some enraged gambler attacks an athlete.

PR guys doing their most outlandish joke impressions of their worst clients don’t come close to what AI CEOs keep saying in public forums

I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while.

It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.

At this point even American citizens shouldn’t show up to this thing. Just have cleared out stadiums, camera coverage of empty seats and silent fields.

Sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner with a knife on camera is apparently legal in Israel

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

A story I have told a lot of times was training I did for medical patient writing.

"Patients might be ESL, they might have a grade 4 reading level, but you know else struggles with complex, compound sentences? You, at 3am sitting in emergency with chest pain!"

Why steal all those wages and taxes if you're not even fucking using it.

Microsoft’s Copilot Health can connect to your medical records and wearables Analyze wearable data with Copilot.

This is cool because we all know how good these companies are at keeping data siloed and secure.

Robert Peston ® @Peston• 5h X Why the UK is especially vulnerable to the economic impact of Trump's Iran war - with those on low incomes and the public finances particularly exposed. Steph and I discuss with Mohamed El-Erian in new Rest is Money podcast

Well, our problems tend to boil down to: We sold off most of our state capacity to private companies that don’t give a fuck about anything except driving down costs and jacking up prices to the maximum they can get away with, so that means we have no wriggle room at all. It is Pay, Or Fuck You.

"my mom, who actually used ChatGPT to translate random things a few times, surely seems to know more about AI translation capabilities than Bender does."

he sure does seem to believe that women should perform for him or we're "smug"
Do women with expertise threaten him, I wonder?

A drone strike has hit a Sudan school and medical centre, killing 17, mostly schoolgirls An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care centre in southern Sudan Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital of...

This world. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... No words.

a newly unearthed interview?
from 2013?
on the day the mandelson files were made public?
what a coincidence

Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!

Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.

BREAKING NEWS: Oil tanker on fire after being attacked in the Persian Gulf.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I think the unspoken part here is that Mandelson had very clearly been at the heart of all kinds of things, for many years, and that at best nobody seems to have showed even the slightest curiosity about what his actual role was and why the fucker was everywhere with his fingers in multiple pies.

Thread of beautiful shots of women here, all with alt text (as it should be) 👇

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

4D chess: appointing a leader who is already dead so Israel can't kill him.

Screenshot of article which reads: Let’s talk about the value of solidarity. Recently, senior leaders at the University of California, Los Angeles, made overtures to work with the Trump administration after receiving a settlement proposal that required the university to restrict freedom of speech and expression on campus and to pay $1.2 billion to the federal government. The UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, along with the American Association of University Professors and other unions, sued the administration. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, writing that the administration used a “playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune.” (A ProPublica and Chronicle of Higher Education investigation detailed how the administration tasked lawyers to “rapidly ‘find’ evidence backing a preordained conclusion” at UCLA.)

Screenshot of article which reads: Last month, the Trump administration dropped its appeal of that ruling. While the case itself proceeds, this means that unions were the ones who protected academic freedom at UCLA, not the institution’s senior leadership. Faculty unions can provide some scaffolding to make it easier for faculty members to find ways to act together. But if you can’t join a union at your institution (seriously, join your union!), it can be just as important to join organizations like local chapters of the AAUP (which has already shown a willingness to fight government repression that directly contradicts their past actions during the Red Scares). United Academics of Maryland at the University of Maryland, College Park (affiliated with the AAUP), which is not an official bargaining organization, still worked collectively to win nearly $9 million for workers at risk of losing their jobs due to canceled federal contracts.

Unions are by no means perfect (anyone who's ever been in one can tell you). But I would rather be part of one and push for change than be trying to go it alone.

“Zohran Mamdani is the most prominent observant Muslim in American life. He has made his religious identity a central part of his political identity, and he has vowed to stop ‘biting his tongue’ in the face of Islamophobic attacks,” Reihan Salam, a Muslim who is the president of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, wrote in an email. “That gives him unique credibility and authority to speak out against the chauvinism, extremism, misogyny and racism that exists within Muslim communities and that has spilled over into violence again and again.”

why isn't the Muslim mayor taking this opportunity to talk about how all Muslims are bad?

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Those fuckers. I am incandescent

Let me tell you about the time that a literal labor union used AI images in a teach-in (I did not know this was going to be the case when encouraging members to attend) and members understandably messaged me during the teach-in to be like "hey, WTF."

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

Transphobia is a rot that hurts everyone. Everyone should be safe in our city centre, and this kind of violence for clickbait is unacceptable. Full solidarity with @greenpartyhan.bsky.social and bravo to her for staying resolute against these bullies. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...