You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
Woz Ahmed
@wozahmed.bsky.social
CxO, NED, advisor. Curious. Deep tech (most especially semiconductors) & China. https://chilliventures.substack.com/ Usual sensible disclaimers apply.
I told John Stoehr of @editorialboard.bsky.social that reporters "know Trump’s brain is broken. But their bosses would punish them if they said it loudly and clearly, because the bosses know Trump would punish their news organizations for reporting that. So they try to stay out of his crosshairs."
The more he fails to dominate, the more insane Trump gets
Can reporters see it? Yes, Mark Jacob told me. But they are afraid.
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It’s 25 years since 9/11 and it’s now more publicly acceptable to be a bigot than it was then, which is really saying something
Surely he has to resign again to let the people of Clacton prejudge the resukt of the police investigation? It’s much more serious than the investigation he resigned over last time…
this weird thing across all of these events that we're meant to accept that you can somehow deputise yourself into being border control/immigration authorities via the act of "protest"
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 7h agoSurprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
Some of the disruption was not lawful: eg road blockades by masked men. The police should have the means + tools to prevent and police that
This should not be described by the police as "lawful protest" when it is not lawful & not protest
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
What exactly is the mechanism whereby AI could kill all humans? Coz I suspect there's quite a few humans in that particular loop.
Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12h agoI’d like to know who is on the Anthropic comms team
If the argument is that Israel's global reputation is directly correlated to the safety of the Jewish diaspora then surely no one has a bigger responsibility to safeguard that reputation than Israel's Prime Minister. ... and he doesn't appear to give a shit.
In an article about the number of asylum refusals that are being overturned at appeal, the Home Office response boasts that "The asylum grant rate has been slashed from 77 per cent in 2022 to 38 per cent this year". No concern about whether decisions are correct. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Two thirds of rejected asylum claims overturned on appeal
The number rises to more than eight in ten for Afghans. Almost 5,000 migrants who have had appeals dismissed are still living in taxpayer-funded accommodation, data shows
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Would love to hear a definition of progress from the person who just sent me a no-reply email with a four-page pdf on how to book an appointment, a procedure that also requires downloading an app.
People talk about curing cancer as if it was some sort of fantastical future goal. We have cured cervical cancer. HPV vaccination reduces the cases to zero.
Roland Pierik@roleo.eurosky.social · 24h agoThe number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
this is a strong column in which he argues the Channel 4 sting may blow over in short term because it’s quite complicated conversely that’s the reason the £5m gift is so damaging you don’t need to be genius to wonder whether a politician should take such a huge personal gift from a crypto tycoon
This arsehole Daniel Thomas who has been organising the blackshirt thug protests and who claims to lead working class protest went to private school in Hampshire. His father Russell was a graduate skiing enthusiast, also educated in private school. Daniel was jailed for 2 years for kidnapping.
So I will keep doing what I am doing, as long as it is necessary. I'm afraid it'll be an uphill battle for a long time, because so much wealth (and therefore influence) stands behind the hype.
The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.
Just reading Restore Britain's constitution. Wow. Rupert Lowe really is the supreme leader isn't he? Unless I've missed it, there is no way of removing him and he (and only he) gets to decide its platform.
Why can’t Labour fight the new Blackshirts?” Piece from me on Burnham’s extraordinary failure to take on the extreme right-wing forces that our rampaging through this country
Why can’t Labour fight the new Blackshirts?
Fear, cowardice and stupidity rot the centre-left
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EXC: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, the first time a major model withheld from AISI Move has prompted fears in UK govt that tech firms are falling into line with Trump admin’s AI protectionism www.ft.com/content/560e...
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
ft.com
The Gare du Nord Eurostar departure experience has somehow, improbably, got worse. It’s like a spaghetti of systems with zero spatial logic or planning.
There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad
The strategic position of the USA would’ve been immeasurably better if it had not started this ludicrous war with Iran and instead given the Patriot interceptors its wasted to Ukraine, to defend Ukr against Russia. What the USA has done, insanely, is strengthen China and Russia.
the thing about warning society of emergent risks is that you have to be specific for the warning to be useful if your warning is just "this thing we're building is so powerful it's dangerous" people are going to assume your marketing or in the grips of selusion