'Vote Tory get Nazis organising your bins'. You have to admit, it is a bold, innovative electoral strategy.

The national relying on experts as usual.

I haven't seen the Odyssey yet, but I am sure it's not as good as the original which is of course, Ulysses 31.

It's quite warm out.

2014 to 2019 summed up nicely ;) @kevverage.bsky.social

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · last wk.

honestly those people don't know anything

Headline should really be 'Open AI hacked hugging face using a model with internet access and safeguards turned off'

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.”

Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.”

Appalling attitude by Nick Ferrari here. Clearly no understanding of the choices people in poverty have to make on a day to day basis. The mocking tone and attempt to undermine the study with plucking the cost of individual items out of a google search clearly misses the point.

LBC@lbc.co.uk · 2w ago

"You're telling me people in this country can't afford a 50p toothbrush?" "Yes." @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social is in disbelief at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest study into the cost of living.

Keeping Mahmood as home secretary stomps all over the positive vibes for me...disappointing choice.

Slightly topical....available now on the apple app store :) apps.apple.com/gb/app/polit...

BBC TV Journalists seem to have forgotten we don't have a presidential system. The Labour party's mandate to govern isn't "Keir Starmer's mandate".

BBC news 24 covering the World Cup final with 6 talking heads while the game is live on BBC 1 seems a bit daft. Anyone who is interested will be watching the other channel.

Anything on telly tonight?

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Is there a German word for thinking you are late for a meeting then the relief that the meeting was cancelled at the last minute then getting annoyed it was cancelled at the last minute?

Hot take: Andy Burnham isn't from 'the North', he lives in Manchester, that's half way down the M6.

Burnham to be the third prime minister in five years to sketch a ten-year ambition for power

If everyone in the PLP knows Burnham is going to win, let’s not have a contest just for the sake of it. That's fine in opposition, but nothing to be gained from that when in government.

I don't think this is as big an issue as we like to think it is. Outside of a few journalists, no one really cares what was in it after the first king’s speech. I am very sure the electorate don’t.

matt howes@mh8748.bsky.social · last mo.

Burnham is still tied to Starmer's manifesto. Sure he can deviate, but the more he deviates, the more noise he'll run in to

Watching the duke of Edinburgh concert from 1986 … bloody hell. The talent on stage.

If you want to be pedantic there is only one with different ways of interpreting them, but it’s Friday and the football is on later.

Vale@vale.rocks · 2mo ago

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

This 👇

George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

I suppose, given the Makerfield result, there will now be a flurry of Journalists and newspaper editors calling for Nigel Farage’s resignation as Reform leader.

Holyrood search tool UI updated to include item of business search. You can now search for contributions, votes or items of business, filter by term, speaker date etc. Links to full transcripts available. www.scotfact.com/holyrood-off... This is also available via the scotfact MCP connector.

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Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have put the GERS supplemental dataset into the Scotfact MCP data sources, which allows you to use Claude or ChatGPT to interrogate the data. Like this..

I have added an MCP server to the scotfact toolset, you can plug it into Claude or ChatGPT for some stats or Holyrood search fun. Details at www.scotfact.com/mcp.

Immigration isn't causing our biggest problems, writes Stephen McNair. It is a tool to solve them. Research by Jonathan Portes and Lauren Gilbert shows ageing population, labour shortages and weak growth all become harder to manage when migration falls.

Every move makes it worse: the migration “doom loop”

Migration regularly dominates public policy concerns. Yet every attempt to manage it, increases alarm. A new report explains this “doom loop”

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Anyone know what the Iran invasion has achieved? Anyone?

So I assume we will see massive drops in prices at the pumps today...no, sorry. The price slider up is instant but down takes months apparently. No one knows why.