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Programmer, hiker, runner and cook. Linux user. Likes music. Usually quietly in the corner at parties.

He isn't going to 'see sense', George, because to to do would be to undermine Mahmood, Cooper, and most of his Cabinet. It just isn't going to happen. So, there's no use 'hoping' for it.

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

I really, really wish that people would stop comparing LLMs to, idk, the internet or the printing press or whatever. Those technologies had network effects (where the underlying technology of the printing press was really widespread literacy). LLMs are like 3D printers—neat at the margins.

Most of have a supercomputer in our pockets with the entire universe on it, in which we are the main character. It’s useful in many ways of course, but I’m not sure it’s psychologically good for us.

Social media has reverted much of the population to the condition of superstitious medieval peasants. Can't understand how something works? Cry witchcraft. Vaccines, urban planning, clouds (ffs) and it's all 'I saw Goody Proctor with the devil!'

This is how manipulation spreads: turn speculation into suspicion, suspicion into ‘debate’, and debate into perceived reality.    The repeated disinfo narratives about Zelenskyy’s alleged ‘drug use’ are a textbook example

My SIX takeaways from Tommy's "Fashtonbury" event yesterday... 1) Numbers way down on last year when they claimed "3 million!" (lol) marched (was nearer 110k in reality but these people live in Conspiracy Theory & Disinfo so whatever) This year met police estimate ~60-70k.

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The Republican Party, like the Conservative Party, exists to make sure the rich stay in power & can make money. That’s why the Republicans are not standing up to or removing Trump. He’s doing exactly what the Party exists to do. They’d rather he didn’t expose the truth of the Party. But that’s all.

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says

Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’

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1/8 A question that keeps coming up on the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show on @lbc.co.uk is "What if Trump just declares victory and runs away?" I am only a Simple Seafarer - But I have given the matter some thought over the last few weeks. If it were easy to answer I would have rung in already...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region