This is why the Labour party is heading towards extinction. Not only is there no obvious replacement to Starmer, the majority of members don’t see it as necessary .

Child poverty is the fault of the parents, says the Labour Home Secretary. Or the fault of the children for existing. I'm not sure but it seems to be one of the two.

I explained here why Stogia is wrong: there's no magic money tree which means finance is more available to the private than public sector, & the constraint on investing is real resources, not the public finances: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/no-magic-m...

Well, what does it mean for AI to be "fake?" Language evokes intelligence - in the reader. It's a powerful illusion. A reasonable critic sees that computation at scale can fuse language w/math in ways that do things. That is not "intelligence," and the problems that come that error are bountiful.

Prospect paywall down! Soak in 2,000 pages on 1,000 years of capitalism — distilled into 2,000 words www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...

For people saying 'AI would be great, if it weren't for the arseholes in charge of it', I don't think you quite get the point. AI *in its current form* exists only because of the arseholes and their nature. They own it and control it. They don't give a toss about morals or ethics.

If people are using AI to create emails, maybe those emails don’t actually need to be sent. We all receive bucketloads of emails that would be better off not existing at all.

Ah I gather from R4 that govt are announcing a programme today where Microsoft and Google offer training to everyone in the country to use their AI tools, which I'm guessing this research was commissioned to justify. Also, great to be in a govt-backed multi-level marketing plan

A lot of people blaming Burnham for Labour’s current mess. Shock, horror, a politician is personally ambitious. Very. But (and it’s a big but), the fault really lies with Starmer. He’s created this situation by choosing a path most natural Labour supporters hate, sunk in the polls. It’s on him.

A lot of wisdom in this thread.

The Emperor Penguin has completed his mission.

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

If the democrats do not unite over this uncontrollable militarized white supremacy slave squad terrorizing our cities, we must primary every single one of them. It doesn’t get any clearer than this. We are being invaded by an anti democratic force of fascist thugs trampling our constitution.

It has to all go together as a comprehensive state reset focussed on resilience in turbulent times. So: - End to foreign interference via money and media - PR because 4-way FPTP is unstable - EU reset as part of West-minus-USA - Social democrat state in which everyone is valued - Anti-Quisling laws.

Board of Peace - Season 1

There is such huge opportunity cost to each Trump tantrum. So many people with critical jobs have lost another week when they could have been doing something useful.

Trump has nothing to show for this. Proof he's a mad fool, and the people around him are nowhere near as clever as they think

If all this is really about bolstering Greenland's capabilities, as Graham is claiming, why is the White House so angry about other NATO states bolstering Greenland's capabilities? And why couldn't the US have done it within existing frameworks that allow for a US military presence?

Those people praising that Carney speech & wishing a UK PM could do similar should ask why they don't. It's not because nobody in the UK is as smart as Carney. It's because our system selects against the sort of people who could deliver such a speech.

“I don’t think people have taken seriously enough how bad deregulation of financial markets, by Thatcher, by Reagan, was. I don’t think people take seriously enough how bad it was not putting people in prison for the great financial crisis …”

These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

Fascinating. How AI Is killing the very thing it depends on (as far as code generation is concerned). LLM’s generating code code turn out to be one of the most negative things that ever happened to the software industry.

Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests. Google: Okay, we'll block "AI" overviews on that query. The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be "fixed" by patching query by query. A short 🧵>>

My social media action plan: 1. Put everyone active on Nextdoor on a watchlist; 2. Introduce a Prevent programme for men who are 50+ and post more than twice a day; 3. Require people on Facebook to *prove* that they left their doors unlocked in the 1950s/60s/70s/80s/90s

Well at least we know how the world ends. Some government acting on a recommendation from on one of TBI's tools. He wants a legacy, I just rather he left the rest of us out of it.

We have had code generators for decades, they are called compilers and interpreters. Software has advanced by the development of higher level models, with syntax and semantics closer to the problem domain. 1/

“Pay me $8 a month and you can use my tech to create child sexual abuse imagery” might not be the PR win Elon Musk imagines it to be, y’know.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Do you like genAI slop? I do not like them, Google: stop! 
I do not like genAI slop. Would you like them here or there? I would not like them here or there. 
I would not like them anywhere. I do not like genAI slop. 
I do not like them, Google: stop!

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Jason Blakely, "In the Land of the Data Blind" "Political scientists subscribing to the dominant approaches to American government face what philosophers of science call an epistemological crisis..." harpers.org/archive/2026...

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

If you're looking for the backstory to the US action (attack? raid? invasion?) in Venezuela, you should definitely check out Moe Tkacik's impressively comprehensive account in the Prospect. prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

The fun part here is that people who don’t like migrants largely believe this because they’re constantly screamed at about menacing immigrants from every TV, radio and news stand, and the whole reason that’s done is to discourage people from noticing who it is that gets most of the money, and how.

Weak, irrelevant, cowardly. Nobody expected any better from the British government (or the EU, tbh).

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

If Maduro was bombing Miami, every single world leader would be shouting from the rooftops.

I know the main story is the increase in our knowledge about MS, but it is also a prime example of how the term AI brings nothing to the conversation. It covers everything from a form of data analysis, as in this case, to Chat-GPT. And as such fails to convey anything.

Only because people make this one simple mistake “The problem is that AI is a black box. It produces knowledge, “ but it doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Coding assistants have become a mainstay in the software world.” Really? I think that statement is in the category well explained by Harry Frankfurt, as is the output of all LLM’s

I riff on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social’s discussion of institutions and growth to explain why banking may be an important missing link in economists’ understanding of how and why growth takes place. Institutions and growth: How banks used to provide the liquidity that fuels innovation and growth

💯 And the same applies to any intellectual product, from papers and reviews to legal briefs, compliance plans for nuclear energy, and the fraudulent Deloitte reports. The claimed utility is predicated on misunderstanding that these artifacts must serve as testimony to cognitive processes.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.