Farage looks like a man who tried to nonchalantly jump over a low wall to take a shortcut, caught his leg on it and almost fell over, then tried to style it out while also looking accusingly at the wall, before walking off, trying to hide a limp.
Neil Henty
@neilhenty.bsky.social
Editor, copywriter, page designer (magazines), copy editor: Senior Content Editor, Atlantean Media & Sub-editor, British Archaeology Magazine (pt)
The only really meaningful statistic to come out of the Clacton by-election
FIFA is right, there has been a ‘concerted effort to undermine’ Infantino. For good reason and entirely because of his own corrupt, unethical, and unprofessional behaviour. Not really sure how the accusation of a campaign against him counts as a criticism or defence.
Government destroys very successful export market, just to appease ignorant racists. As ever.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d agoSunday Times research finds universites down £550+ million on international (aggregate across the 55 universities with lower international fee income of 128 surveyed)
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
wired.com
yeah, there were no clues that Musk would ever oversell his companies /s
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoSpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics
theguardian.com
What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
The most powerful people in our society are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the attempt to make artificial human minds, while millions of real human minds are being left to die of disease, starvation and conflict. Of all the sick things about the “AI” quest, that is the sickest.
Anti-football lost. Good. There’s so much that was wrong with that #WorldCup but at least a decent footballing side won it. Time for Infantino to go now.
And Messi not booked for kicking the ball away after the ref gave a foul against him 🤔
Neil Henty@neilhenty.bsky.social · 4w agoLiterally nothing wrong with that goal #WorldCup
A petition to ban the sale and use of smart glasses such as the ones sold by Meta. Just stumbled across it. Nefarious things, made for those with bad intentions. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses
The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...
petition.parliament.uk
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
'Meanwhile, a Financial Times report by...Gillian Tett offers an early sign of a return to...connective thinking...: one finance firm has shifted its hiring away from “AI-native” STEM graduates toward humanities students. In the financier’s words: “We want critical thinking, not just AI.”' 2/3
Humans still matter more than AI in finance
Recruiting digital natives with critical thinking skills is going to be crucial
ft.com
He wasn’t a very good Antichrist, then, was he? When are we going to act on the fact that having too much money drives you mad?
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭@ajaanmark.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: late Swiss theologian Hans Küng was the Antichrist, says Thiel. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · last mo.Giving myself a headache in the archives
Have you considered simply not breaking the speed limit? www.thetimes.com/life-style/d...
The 20mph trap — I’ve got nine points!
I was a model driver. Now I’m one fine off a ban. By Jack Burke
thetimes.com
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.
The anti Farage vote should coalesce around @countbinface.bsky.social
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last mo.Nigel Farage announces he’s quitting as Reform MP for Clacton - forcing a byelection - which he’ll then run in as a “people vs establishment” candidate. Hopefully no one will fall for his boll****
"If I hadn't done what I'd done, there would have been no Brexit". We know, you fuck.
🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.
With hardly any media coverage one of Britain’s few world-leading sectors is, right now, being decimated. The university funding model does not work and anti-immigrant hysteria has deprived the country of the means by which we met the shortfall: international students.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo agoA grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2
Gianni Infantino says that hydration breaks are about everything other than the money. I do not believe him. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/739...
Gianni Infantino says hydration breaks are for player welfare. It’s just very hard to believe him (Gift Article)
The FIFA president defended their introduction this week but his arguments are extraordinary, says Seb Stafford-Bloor
nytimes.com
It's very funny that Musk is not a trillionaire any more but also the fact you can supposedly gain and lose three hundred billion in a week should really hammer home that the economy is fully imaginary