Charlie Phillips

@charliechar.bsky.social

Documentary person doing documentary things. Formerly of the Guardian. Lots of #lufc stuff

The disease stuff is getting particularly irritating because so far it's delivered far less than expected on that front, even in the areas credible experts were quite hopeful for, like protein folding etc. So the "five years" stuff here increasingly feels like an Elon promise.

Patrick Smith@psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 13h ago

I'm entirely unsure where exactly we are in the AI hype cycle. Anthropic's CEO says we need to slow the pace of development, but at the same time — in the *first line* of his 3,800-word essay — he says "AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years."

The Telegraph is terrified kids are going to become lentil munchers. Dal is famously known to be a very expensive dish. How will schools cope with the burden? 🤡

Telegraph headline and opening sentences:

Compulsory lentils in Labour school meals shakeup
Unions warn that schools will need extra funding to meet requirements for healthy dinners

Schoolchildren will be made to eat lentils and chickpeas once a week and ice cream will be restricted under Labour plans.
Rules to be announced on Monday by the Department for Education (DfE) will force schools to put pulses on the menu at least once a week.

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊

I replied to it as well. I wrote. "Are you bonkers? This isn't about £50. You may as well throw a pebble in the sea. This is about the loss of democracy unless you do something. And, now. You have a huge majority. Please use it!"

Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: buff.ly/bsku22S

Only 1.2% of RNLI calls are for asylum seekers in the Channel — red poster arguing that cancelling RNLI donations equates to saying "I hate migrants... I'm willing to jeopardise the lives of the other 98.8% of rescues," followed by the sarcastic "Lovely people, right?"