Matt Yeo
@mattjyeo.bsky.social
Labour Cllr, Reading Borough Council. Lead Cllr for Housing Used to be an Elections manager. PhD in Sports Economics from Univ of Reading.
Let’s get a move on with air-con grants 🆒 Despite Labour approving grants for air to air heating and cooling systems last year, 4 heatwaves later and they still aren’t available… Why? Because agencies haven’t approved an accreditation scheme 😐 It’s time to get it done👇
How did that all go then, Zack? Did you get much airtime out of it today?
Full solidarity with @lizzicollinge.bsky.social and any MP facing abuse just for doing their job. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lizzi Collinge says MPs facing 'overwhelming' levels of abuse
Labour's Lizzi Collinge says anger is being "whipped up and personalised" by political debate.
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To be fair, “Councillors and council elections don’t matter” are a load-bearing part of the “Kemi Badenoch is doing well and the Conservative party’s prospects under her are looking good” thesis.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 22h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Just another day in the death of rhe Tory party
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)
It’s long been clear that Reform is beatable – Farage’s terrible personal ratings, toxic brand, mass tactical voting against them. The narrative that victory for them is inevitable was based on superficial analysis + wishful thinking on the right.
The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow
The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow
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There's a whole group of them - Phillips, Matthew Syed, John Rentoul etc - deeply and safely ensconced in liberal, metropolitan London, entirely clueless and totally incurious about the rest of the country.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d agoDear me.
Trevor Philips was born in Islington, educated at Imperial, was a member of the GLA and lived in Kentish Town before moving the NYC this year.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d agoDear me.
It’s ok. You own your NFTs and can transfer them into any other game using magic beans.
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 5d agoUbisoft’s NFT RPG Champions Tactics is shutting down. The game scrapped its use of blockchain tech in May, and will now end entirely in October. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft...
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (+5) RFM: 23% (=) CON: 17% (-3) GRN: 12% (-2) LDM: 12% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 29-31 Jul. Changes w/ 15-17 Jul.
Now withdraw your stupid Peace Prize. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa World Cup plans: Gianni Infantino scraps private investment proposal after widespread opposition
Football's world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president Gianni Infantino's proposal.
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If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. 😞
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
What I 'enjoy' about the Craig Murray plan is that it seems a little unclear about exactly how a military confrontation would play out, but it is at the same time very explicit about how John Swinney should tell the DVLA it has no authority in Scotland. Got the priorities sorted.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 6d agoA former British diplomat has drawn up a strategy for winning Scottish independence – which could trigger a war with the rest of the UK
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 28% (+5) RFM: 23% (-4) CON: 20% (=) LDM: 10% (-1) GRN: 10% (-3) SNP: 3% (=) Via BMG Research, 28-30 Jul. Changes w/ 23-25 Jun.
“The memory of him will always be in the red-and-black shirt, the defining image of Italy’s new era of defending” @jonawils.bsky.social pays tribute to the late, majestic Franco Baresi. For @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Franco Baresi was not only the captain but the moral heart of great Milan team
The centre-back, who has died aged 66, defined an era of hard Italian defending and his collection of honours is eternal proof of his class
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First impressions are he'll probably do alright actually (Burnham that is).
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoWill Trump be Burnham’s undoing, or the making of him? The answer lies in Europe | Jonathan Freedland
What the fuck do we want or need this for?
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
In a crowded field, this is one of the most dangerously stupid things Google has done in the last few years. And I use the word "dangerously" advisedly.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Ceuta a clear eg of how optics drive migration politics Broadcasters have not found a way to report dramatic images *and* report trends, issues & changes that are not dramatic/visible. Optics are always [crisis escalates] whether a one-week spike, or year long trend. Not crisis is uncommunicable
Obama called Trump an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal
Obama called Trump an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr. a ‘f****** moron,’ diary reveals
Former President Obama reportedly apologized for using crude language during the call, but continued his blunt criticism of the Trumps
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This Cabinet statement on Rewiring the State is fascinating, has clarity about what it is trying to (and the challenges therein) and is full of goodies for place-based advocates like me...
Rewiring the State – Cabinet Statement (HTML)
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