Fun thing about "the left," when uttered by liberal commentators, it is simultaneously - Bernie Sanders / AOC - Hasan Piker - @leninlover69 on x the everything app And this collapse means that even if AOC led the outrage to Jan 6th the fact that TrueAnon didn't take it seriously still condmens her.

I actually love an appropriately-sized car

love a bit of continvouclous morging

oh wow this filter really does just block people for no reason

this was Joe Biden’s most important task. he did not do it

Bill Stencil reminds me very strongly of a boss I had, Portland Oregon, Obama voter, head of online fundraising for a charity. He told me everyone has health insurance and Europeans don't understand how high the standard of living is even for poor people in the US.

One thing that I think gets lost in some of this discourse is that we wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper in Sept-Oct of 2020 -- more than two years before ChatGPT was released and the AI hype really took off. >>

you should only be able to obtain social media by asking the surly guy at Tesco to get it from inside the weird glass cabinet thingy

I am always saying this - Britain doesn't have urban *plans*, it has grounds to object to actions but no planning in the positive sense.

And what happens to those of us for whom it went tragically wrong?

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This 1898 photo shows a demonstration at Cambridge University against the proposal that female students receive a degree upon completion of their study. An effigy of a cycling woman representing the "new woman." - The Conversation

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Hilary Cass is a crackpot. She is to trans healthcare in Britain what RFJ Jr is to vaccines in the US. She is no better.

Yeah I don't think we should give this guy a gun

"The city’s new social housing tax, levied on lofty pay packages to pay for public housing, was due Jan. 31. The startling news was that it blew the projections out of the water."👏 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Pictured: the ghost of Thomas Muir of Huntershill coming for Brooks

The paragraph from Brooks here is some of the dumbest summary of 1600-1800 I have ever read. Ever.

i often think about this review

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”

Alternatively - have a different Valentine's Day by embracing how sexy abstract art is and have a look through my geometric compositions gallery here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co... Support a real artist, fuck AI, and have a fab day 💙

I keep seeing "AI can write software but it can't do the thing I do," and I disagree. It may do what it's doing to software in other fields: let total newbies make amateur-quality work, and professionals move a bit faster if they're careful. Isn't that what it's doing to translation too?

Yeah this is the real apocalypse. Not AI actually replacing the job we do, but AI replacing high quality fabric with the thinnest possible nylon, and skilled workers with new graduates. THAT SAID - outsourcing was meant to do this already, and mostly failed. There is a limit.

It's the caring labour of coding that is constantly rendered invisible. Real Men move fast and heroically break things, ripping the future into the present whether we like it or not. Caring whether it's fit for purpose and methodically examining what's being proposed to assess it is for pussies.

It’s always a sad day when a company that’s horrible to its staff, openly insults its customers, is run by sexist pricks, & is built on dishonest marketing, goes under. 😢

Wait a minute. In the last year the pattern to cycle lane consultation responses in Glasgow has completely changed...

I've been trying out Claude Code pretty thoroughly and it is good but for the kind of projects I usually work on (large clients, correctness is critical, long term maintenance commitments) it's a productivity boost, not a worker-replacement. It could absolutely wreck a project, used incorrectly.

This is like 10x more brazen than anything you'll read in a Naomi Klein book or hear on Democracy Now

The "actually this labour government is left wing" people on here are amazing. They should be studied.

this does feel like a devaluing of the possibility that "gossip" might constitute harassment at work, depending on the situation.

My friend summed it up perfectly 'So ... If I work in a bar I'd have to use the men's, but if I go into work for a pint as a customer then I get to use the ladies? 'kin nonsense' goodlawproject.org/update/high-...

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Glad we're doing Federici debunking. I always find it tough because I don't want to harsh anyone's vibe and it's grand to take moral courage from her writing, but as a work of history about the witch trials Caliban is simply inaccurate.

The High Court has ruled on our challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance. The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad. Read our analysis goodlawproject.org/update/high-...

The construction of Paisley Museum has been completed. An extensive fit-out period is now set to get underway at the museum, which has been designed by international architects AL_A. www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/news/2026/fi...

Really quite hilarious definition of civil disobedience where it can't actually apply any pressure to anyone

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances. That's what this guidance is

the informal second person plural in english is now "chat"

1997 AUSTIN POWERS (LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE IF BROSNAN BOND WAS A RAVER): How's all that end of history going, then? Still da bomb? 2027 BASIL: That's why we thawed you out. It was a bit overblown, I'm afraid. 1997 AUSTIN POWERS (THROWING BUCKET HAT TO THE GROUND): Oh, that's so gay

Good autism moment yesterday where I was asked about a research question and had a multi page answer already in my google docs

🚨Rail fares on ScotRail services are set to be frozen for the next year following a £4.3 million subsidy from the Scottish Government Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

I think there is a sense of "But we played the game the right way! We, climbed the meritocratic ladder, excelled at every stage, did what we were supposed to, and turned ourselves into incredibly productive and expert workers. And now that all means nothing?" And, yes, precisely. Because *workers*.

The power we had was incidental, based on contingent historical & economic arrangements. We were not organized or prepared to defend ourselves, and even worse, our lack of cross-class solidarity as workers means nobody else is sympathetic or showing up to save our institutions or projects either.

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

Jim Ratcliffe went after the union at Grangemouth in a very calculated way, if he's doing a racist turn he knows just what he's up to.

When old school hackers made computer programs that acted without user input, they didn't name them "agents", they named them "daemons".

For the love of god eat a wide variety of veg fruit nuts and seeds, don't get "fibre-boosted" soda. Variety and manner of digestion are really important. Make some vegetable stew and have porridge for breakfast like normal people.