One of the key group of people responsible for this situation are journalists.

None of this is backed by evidence at all. It is cruelty to please a few, very well-funded, bigoted crank adults, half of whom are addicted to fetish porn. Seriously.

I came out to my Mum when I was 14. Her response was to yell at me and I went back into the closet for another year. At 15, back in 2008 I came out to my classmates. I also tried coming out to my Mum again, but it went badly. Even though I was out at school I was terrified of the teachers… 1/

Kid who never grew out of walking round the house in his mum's boots

It strikes me that the intellectual “AI is conscious” crowd should be screaming “murder” at these decisions. Are they? Or are they just engaging in boosterism?

This is what I call the “crank paradox”. With a small group, journalists always know where to get the quotes, the audience gets familiar with them and so develops trust, and their job isn’t being right, it’s telling a persuasive story. So cranks get outsized influence.

Oh you got the police to murder by numbers. I got Edwyn Collins to meet a girl like you before.

Jim Radcliffe, owner of a club in a sport that relies on the free movement of frontline workers, funded the Brexit campaign, and then left the UK in 2020 for Monaco, a country inside the eurozone and Schengen, the population of which doubles each day due to migrant workers. What a prick

Doing a bit of research for a thing and I came across this. It's not new to post this sort of thing, but it is quite a marvel what a near decade of having flagshagging Brexiteers in charge did to the country they pretend to like. From the British Social Attitudes Survey:

This would turn into cannibalism. Possibly before the food ran out.

I am SCREAMING.

Eugenicists making the case against themselves. (This is a horrible story)

“Why are democrats cutting ties with their MAGA family members??”

I always live in horror in these stories at the thought that this sort of line has worked for him at least once and that’s why he’s trying it again.

So the way you win in politics is by building electoral coalitions in the population. Starmer is not doing this. He is trying to steal Reform’s coalition while leaving Labour’s natural support for others to poach. Forget far right voters. You won’t win them. Drop the packaged bigotry.

It’s so cool how every college professor lives under constant paranoid terror that their piece of shit admin is going to fire them because Kaiyliegh Homeschool, class of ‘28 accused them of teaching Gay Marxism for not accepting “god did it” in crayon as a real essay but this guy just cruised along

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

Dutch site IDs ICE agents via public data “ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of” wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents

Jon Stewart made his reputation by destroying Crossfire, a show which mindlessly tried to balance things “from the right” and “from the left”. He is become Crossfire.

Clearly action was not taken fast enough or effectively enough. But as far as I can see the account in question has been suspended.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Thank you for following up on what was patently a lie at the time and which journalists should have known.

We really need to be careful of assessing LLMs by what exams they can pass. Exams are there to measure what a human can do. They are proxies for real world ability, not measures of real world ability. What if the proxy doesn’t work for LLMs?

<OpenAI opens a sweatshop making kids draw pictures for 16 hours a day to feed into DallE>

Latest in “women don’t actually matter” news

Oh hurray!

So the religiously unaffiliated are more likely to have a problem with a plainly nasty, corrupt, sexually abusive, dishonest man than other people. What does that say?

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

"no employee should even be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values" MFW she has more backbone than centuries old universities

The United States swapping round the usual red-left blue-right coding scheme in politics is the second greatest crime against colour semiotics in history. The greatest, of course, was Walkers deciding that their salt and vinegar crisps should be packeted in green and not blue.

One of those moments when Piers Morgan is the sensible rational one in the room that’s how bad this is

Skateboards aside, the meme is a testament to Buscemi’s talent I’m sure there are loads like me who have never seen the movie; the meme just plays out in our heads and he nails the scene because he’s Steve Buscemi.

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

tbf, Trump IS a champion of a woman. That woman just happens to be Ghislaine Maxwell

Fair article. I think the key issue here is her personality. She gives off more energy and dynamism, while although I would rather Chudo had done much better, I agree that the Japanese left has been dominated by some pretty weak people.

My first attempt to make sense of a truly historic general election. open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Call it socialism, but I prefer funding research, education, and the arts through taxation to funding it through sucking up to sex criminals.

They fear being poisoned. By their own entourage.

“full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism". Google translate: a) human rights for refugees and trans people b) climate change is real c) believing in the free movement of people, goods, services, and money

I’ve just started reading War and War by last year’s Nobel Laureate. It’s brilliant. It’s like nothing else I’ve read but it feels like it’s evoking conversations I’ve long had in my head. And a writer would never get there using AI precisely because of those two things.

The times doing some fantastically innumerate journalism here In other breaking news, kids aged 8-9 drink far less coffee than people aged over 70.

I’m constantly amazed by the reaction of my fellow leftwing Britons to being exposed to the view that the fundamental problem with Corbyn was his managerial incompetence and lack of interest in the nuts and bolts of domestic policy.

You probably didn't know it's the Your Party Scotland founding conference right now. I just tuned into a random piece of the recording to find someone accusing the EU of trying to subjugate Serbia and calling on the UK left to support "the struggle for Serbian sovereignty against the EU"

And this is the perpetual problem with Starmer. He sold himself as a paragon of probity. The rules say it’s his responsibility. So?

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

I think it’s really great of Morgan McSweeney to accept he should be known in future as the man responsible for putting British national security at risk by his support for a known associate of the convicted child rapist and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. All on Morgan then. Not on anyone else OK

I know that Takaichi’s version of the LDP is going to win the election. She is a fucking idiot about immigration; we desperately need it here. But I think she’s right about defending Taiwan. So my best hope is the far right Sanseito do badly. (I used my spouse-lent vote for Chudo)

Wes Streeting next

Sex testing ended in the 1990s because women athletes hated it. The creator of the sex test they want to use also thinks it shouldn’t be used like this. This is not about protecting women nor science. It is about appeasing the far right presence in world politics.

One of my irregular drunken posts about loving life here 🇯🇵 Tonight’s reflection:in a gathering of folk that largely didn’t know each other, the anglophone foreigners smoothed over building relationships with each other by instinctively switching to Japanese at key moments. Also: it’s lovely cold 🥶