Those poor cows.

All these people complaining about this but I don't see the problem. Reciprocity. That is what the make the world work.

BBC lead story is another one about asylum seekers. This story does not appear.

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This headline

This is upsetting in every way imaginable.

We can only hope this terrible decision will be reversed.

So there is no deal yet.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is a great privilege to have come second in the ballot for Private Member’s Bills. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. You can read my full statement on this here or on my website: buff.ly/I78DfUX

"I believe it undermines public trust in our democracy more widely if we cannot deliver on a measure that is supported by a very large majority of voters in all parts of the country.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I expect governments realise that acting against Musk is now like declaring war on a small but powerful country. He is simply too big to treat like a regular citizen. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Pope Leo at Sagrada Familia: “We cannot believe in Jesus and make war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.”

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

The list of purchases Peter Murrell made with the embezzled money is quite ludicrous and quite sad. I am sure there will be a comic film made about it pretty soon.

Decades ago, I supported mandatory helmet laws for people riding bikes. Then I was convinced by evidence and the bigger picture that such laws are actually counter-productive in many ways. This NZ article explains some. I support helmets, but not mandatory helmet laws. Build safe infrastructure.

Curious pairing

These kinds of errors are like human biases, revealing something about how LLMs "represent" the world. Evidently not as we do.

“I do not have endless time to wait for politics to catch up. For people like me, this is about whether we get any say over how our lives end and how much suffering we are expected to endure." Hannah Slater, who has terminal breast cancer, is urging MPs to bring back the assisted dying bill.

System 1 and System 2: "He also told the jury that “part of him” had wanted to kill Watkins, while another part had not. “Sometimes what your heart wants is not what your brain wants,” he said."

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If you ever needed evidence that people are not Bayesians, you need only observe that people were confused by this. Cheap talk does not confuse rational minds.

Countries with high speed rail and their challenges: Italy: Hills ✅ Japan: Hills and earthquakes ✅ France: Unions & Strikes ✅ China: Vast distances ✅ UK: NIMBYs ❌

We will soon be expecting authors to write locked in a glass room with no internet before we judge their work as authentic. Writing will become a stunt.

Ken Loach is the epitome of the wise elder. This is an amazing interview.

Given that Middlemarch is now officially (again) the best novel published in English, I am sharing this essay on negotiation in Middlemarch. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nice to see Middlemarch on the top. Middlemarch is Eliot's name for Coventry, and with Coventry also in the Premier League next year I expect a lot of tourism and a lot of big names coming to visit Warwick University.

I am of the view that potholes should be treated as free speed bumps.

This is really great.

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

People have been pleading with Labour to change the system and now it may be too late. In every election, most votes have no impact on who represents us or what policies we get.

Oh! What's this? Only the UK Labour government speaking out, again, via the UN, on the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank...the very thing that many people repeatedly suggest the UK Labour government is not speaking out against! www.gov.uk/government/s...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

I have mixed feelings about this. I wish Dawkins had not claimed this, but it does highlight just how little we know about consciousness. I think if I met a humanoid robot who spoke like AI does I would have no trouble thinking it conscious.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.

I understand why it is in there but ... the famous scene from The Odyssey featuring the Trojan Horse! A whole generation of students are going to "read" The Odyssey and write about the Trojan horse.

It seems the BBC is anticipating a Reform government and obeying in advance.

This article saddens me. They talk about an "industry" but only identify a few bit players making outsize claims about what they can do. We already know asylum seekers are being exploited, so of course they are being exploited in this way too. This article will cause real harm to real people.

Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data. FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

EGPROC is at University of Warwick this year. We are hoping to see a lot of familiar and unfamiliar faces in Coventry.

J.D.Vance suddenly becoming the man of the moment among the left!

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

I expect that we will eventually find out why the word "marathon" was used, but no journalist would use those terms to describe a day of talks -- not even enough time to get to know one another.

There is a popular story in negotiation literature. It involves American negotiators and -- lets say in this case negotiators from Country X.

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