I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Ok but, hear me out: it is though, isn’t it? And the angrier she gets the more hilarious it becomes. Comedy gold.

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

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I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.

The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried. open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

A colleague of Farage's has literally gone to prison for taking bribes from Putin. Reform voters, how much more evidence do you need that Farage is the enemy within and that he endangers us all?

The #NightManager series 2 got off to a cracking start. As more episodes are on iPlayer I think it's going to get watched fairly rapidly!

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳

Realised a little while ago that I'd not watched all of season 4 of #StarTrek #Enterprise. Watched a couple of episodes today, and realised that the number is more than I thought. I guess I know what I'm doing in the new year then ;)

Posting fake Trump tweets is exactly what he wants. If nothing can be confirmed as being reliable information then there is zero accountability.

I remember being in the audience of a speech in the early 80s by then plain Dr David Owen of the SDP, saying exactly this: that a united Europe was equally a match for the US, Russia or China. That's why they wanted us out.

Most people, even Richard Corben fans, haven't read his earliest stories. He created short comics in many genres: humor, horror, social satire, high fantasy, adventure, and more. But my favorite stories by far are his dystopian science fiction. @realgdt.bsky.social

A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again. All to the colossal detriment of the UK. F*** them all a million times.

Morning Prime Minister... This is what speaking out against fascism looks like. As opposed to offering it state visits... 🤮

Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.

David Walliams' reputation was an open secret, junior staff were told to meet him in pairs & never visit his home, yet HarperCollins only dropped him when a Telegraph investigation came out. The problem is not just him. HarperCollins knowingly promoted & funded a guy sexually harassing junior staff.

Good! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Oh my god…

I really, really wish the right wing would stop demonising migrants. In this case she's dead wrong, boys *do* need to be taught about misogyny. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

The real disgrace in UK's welfare bill is that so much of it is spent on people in work. We are subsidising jobs that do not pay enough to live on. If we genuinely made sure work paid a decent living, then we would not have such a high bill.

The Human Adventure is Just Beginning. Celebrating Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which premiered in theatres on Dec 7, 1979. The film had flaws, but was a major triumph, for Gene Roddenberry, for the production team, and most of all for the fans, whose determination & persistence made it possible.

There have been 12 or 13 Star Trek shows over the course of, what?... almost 60 years?... and the fact that one or two of them have tried to target a slightly different audience than the first few of them did is WHY YOU HAVE A FRANCHISE THAT HAS LASTED ALMOST 60 YEARS, PEOPLE!!!

A quick google suggests this is happening everywhere. Wonder how many Government idiots have done it with sensitive and confidential data, or everyday folk for that matter. www.reddit.com/r/cybersecur...

The racism allegations should be what wrecks Farage's political career. But I also think his absolute inability to cope with being questioned, his thin-skinned nastiness when challenged in any press conference, is also going to hurt his popularity, esp among those who have not seen that before.

Who gave the billionaires like Musk and Bezos the right to cut the Earth off from the Universe?

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words". qed.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.

I’m not doing Black Friday this year. I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands. Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business. Shop independent this Christmas. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Farage really on the ropes there.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report

With all the noise being made about the US/Russia peace plan the admin is trying to foist on Ukraine, it’s important to understand why the full-court press is happening right now. Why Orban is attempting to speak for the EU… Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,

“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.

This is extreme but still on the spectrum of 'natural' or 'physiological' birth which is still promoted by some as superior (and still causes harm). Much like vaccines, the success of modern maternity care has made people forget how common and potentially serious birth complications are.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings. The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson. Now go away and write that out a thousand times.