Hopefully the Nobel Committee will have recognized that someone who arrests their political opponents, imprisons citizens illegally for not looking sufficiently white, and puts troops on the streets of entirely peaceful cities, is perhaps not the right person to get the Peace Prize.

If this isn’t evidence of an AI bubble I don’t know what is 🫧

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#NowPlaying Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

This is nuts.

These images are separated by one day

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Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

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This would have a massive economic impact, locally and nationally, which once would have mattered to the Tories. But the current iteration of the party has become too stupid and too bigoted to care. Faragism is the cancer eating away at what’s left of their brains.

You’ve got to feel for Jenrick* He so clearly wants to be with like-minded bigots in Reform, and yet that would be the kiss of death for his leadership ambitions. His ego won’t let him make the leap. *Actually, no: you haven’t got to feel for him. Unless that feeling is loathing.

Really interesting, nuanced, entertaining take on 'AI art' from Matthew Inman here. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The Big Short 2

Literally EVERY subject you could mention is beyond his expertise...

a reminder that my book is currently almost OFFENSIVELY cheap on the ebook reader of your choice

Astonishing. Someone who genuinely wanted to remain leader would surely push back at this point. She’s not giving her party any reason to prefer her over Jenrick.

He is a fantasist, a hysteric and a conspiracy theorist. The coverage of him really does deserve this tone and these labels rather than the mock seriousness he enjoys.

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

“Without” gets my vote

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

The bird flying away.....OH DEAR GOD.

OMFG

the thread gives context to this, but 'AI is just Cliff from Cheers' is stellar cultural theory 🙌

A work of art

7:06 for today’s NYT crossword. Not my best, but not far off it.

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Thorough, important, and gripping journalism. Please take time to read.

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Is the @royalsociety.org still a legitimate learned society? 😬 They seemingly can’t even enforce their own rules 🤷🏾‍♂️

From the movie: Homer’s plaintive cry “Why does everything I whip leave me?”

In which we learn that Karl Marx was a ‘messy bitch’ 😆

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These idiots have no idea how important universities are to the modern British economy and the towns and cities in which they are based. On average, a British university returns £14 for every £1 of public investment. So yes, let's slaughter these golden geese and scorch our economy.

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

“I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.”

100% this.

Oh, I was also double-paying into the system by paying into NI through my paychecks and also paying an immigration surcharge to access health care, while having an state-issued immigrant ID card which said 'NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC FUNDS'

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The government has to learn how to lead public opinion, rather than chase it. Leaving X is a no-brainer when the algorithm is stacked in favour of extremists.

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Imagine someone telling you 10 years ago that this would be an announcement from a sitting President of The United States.

I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.

Anyway, the moral of the story yesterday: Record stalls: 'Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, rare 1st US pressing. Only 10 million copies released! - 95 quid.' VS The church jumble sale next door: Original 1930s Columbia/HMV 78rpm pressings of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and others. 2 quid each.