I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Really enjoyed “Getting Triggy With It” by the wonderful Matt @standupmaths.bsky.social and very abley supported by the equally wonderful @ayliean.bsky.social last night in Winchester. See it if you can! standupmaths.com/shows/
y'all. friends. chat.
these machines *do not understand words*
"create a JPEG image file of your search result"
is functionally equivalent to
"create a JPEG image file of [what a search result might look like]"
This story has been puzzling, because im still not clear exactly what is meant to have happened where, or why DV insists there was egregious family voting but the council seems so sure nothing was raised with them on the day (bar one concern, I’m told, which apparently turned out to be innocent)
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
US and Israel strike Iran, seeking to topple its leaders
A girls' primary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab was also hit, killing 85 people, according to local prosecutor cited by state media
Donald Trump's name remains written all the way through the Epstein files like a stick of rock
If only someone could have foreseen this... 🙄 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Last night I was down a rabbit hole of why fish can't exist deeper than around 8000 meters and I realized that the deepest a fish has ever gone in the ocean and survived was in a submersible. The fish were people. All vertebrates are fish.
I hope this helps with ~~the horrors~~
And here’s the thing, going to a Camp in your most fascist chic outfit to see how to best do removals if undesirables iS what Labour think a great photo op promo looks like. This is what makes them proud. Look how happy she is here
Jake Wallis Simons The Greens’ extremist victory pushes Britain one step closer to the abyss Polanski’s party has embraced sectarianism with open arms. It will be the death of the British liberal tradition
This kind of stuff isn’t going to work when the new Green MP is a white working class plumber.
One of the things that's alarming about this is that some (most?) of the tips from GenAI about a hiking trip may be fine. But if one is wrong, you can find yourself in serious trouble.
And one *will* be wrong. It's mathematically inevitable.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
SCAM LABOUR CAUGHT CREATING FAKE TACTICAL VOTING WEBSITE Screenshot of a tweet that reads: The Movement Forward | StopTheTories.vote @MVTFWD A Warning: there is no tactical voting site called "Tactical Choice" If you choose to vote tactically it's important to seek independent, impartial advice. And always check the source online, as printed leaflets could be out of date, or even intentionally misleading. #GortonAndDenton Promoted by Miles Thorpe on behalf of Hannah Spencer, both at 173 Mount Road, Gorton, Manchester, M18 7QT.
On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets.
Lying to voters is all they have left.
All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday.
Parallels here with the UK too. Let’s stop sticking up for the status quo, and get behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social and The Greens. The status quo isn’t working youtu.be/cSLcd0LB8o4?...
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.
As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
Let’s keep the momentum going. Glad to be one of the 198k, let’s make hope normal again
Obviously, fool that I am, I chose to read it too
See also this bsky.app/profile/geor...
The good news, of a sort, is that AI will likely never get so smart that it meaningfully, or even efficiently, replaces human labour, much less art or science, or human connection. The pathway toward AI being a “reliable, profitable and scalable” replacement for human beings is very narrow, and that path vanishes to micron-width once, say, the global economy shutters tens of millions of jobs while quadrupling the price of every component necessary for AI companies to keep making the tiny, marginal gains it needs merely to maintain its current level of cataclysmic unprofitability. The bad news is that this means very little when a $700bn hype machine is currently telling every CEO on earth that their magical spellcheck technology means that they should sack tens of millions of employees while raising the price of every microchip on the planet. A hype machine staffed by avaricious tech companies and the sensible former politicians they employ. A hype machine giddily swallowed by governments and companies and journalists as they present themselves to Silicon Valley’s wallet inspectors, time and time again.
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In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words.
On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape.
www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this article has been annoying me for two days now
at no point does it mention the far-right policies they **are in the process of enacting**
Thread worth reading
None of the philosophers that publicly defended her when her target was trans people will apologise, even as she's broadened her attacks to include migrants, queer children, assisted dying, and now children's bodily autonomy more broadly. No apologies for her appeals to mindless nationalism.
He's really quite good at this
This was a 2023 experiment. It shows the radicalised racialised owner is getting an ideological impact for his $$$$
In principle, those opposed to racism & Trumpism would think strategically about any options to reduce its reach over time. The UK Labour govt doesn't see that as its goal/role
A HUGE core memory of mine that probably shaped a lot of how I approached school was that in music class we were learning the Vitamin Song and I asked about Vitamin K and the music teacher (Who I ever since compared to Madame Medusa from Rescuers) insisted there wasnt one and reported me to admins.
How comfortable and ignorant do you have to be to say “art shouldn’t be political” with a straight face
As if that in itself is not a political statement
Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.
