you know the drill by now... fuck off, colonisers

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

“Steve Hilton will never let you down” 😂😂😂😂😂

So excited by this. Blue wine! With raspberries! Sounds amazing, like the future we were promised! The smell is exactly what you'd imagine, like panda pops with a weird alcoholic edge. The taste is awful, sour while incredibly sweet, rancid with an off-milk aftertaste. I'll try another glass.

Another thing about AI writing is that while a single instance of AI writing on a topic may be fine, any situation where lots of people use AI to respond to a particular prompt (comments sections, homework, admissions essays) the similarities among responses is tediously obvious.

Is this what we're calling a side piece now?

Chris Hardee (@stereotopical.bsky.social) explains why the indictment of Raul Castro does not legally justify an invasion of Cuba, despite the Trump administration’s so-called indict-and-invade theory for regime change in the Western Hemisphere.

I can't read the "Democrats Must Learn to Talk Sports" piece because of the paywall. Sometimes paywalls are good.

Maybe turning universities into marketised credential factories wasn't a good idea? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just wondering who @bbcradio3 are intending to be their audience with this programme? Not me,for sure.

Well heck, my LLM Discover feed nudged this one towards me and I think I'm being subtweeted by it. What larks. www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz...

While back in China, over-supply and deflation have curbed the appetites of citizens to consume what heavily subsidised producers have to offer.

Superb piece on the futility of China's so-called long game. In absorbing and collapsing European supply chains, it inevitably diminishes its own returns as continent citizens suffer low wage growth.

That environment is the sole responsibility of the CCP. IP theft, and the mentality of seeking economic gain and profit by any means, including disruption of other countries' capabilities, are not only consequential factors of it - they are wholly facilitated by it.

but I contend this with the fact that the race-to-the-bottom, highly competitive environment propogated in China and evidenced through its rampant involution, has provided the means and motive for the data extraction and sale in the first place. bsky.app/profile/usag...

Must be a great racket to sell the affliction and the “remedy.”

NEW - Wes Streeting writes for the Guardian tonight in the first of the detailed responses to Blair. He says there is a “striking weakness” at the heart of the essay which is the anger stoked by inequality - voters know playing by the rules and working hard isn’t paying off

As I was saying: "Spain is withdrawing its support from a French-led initiative to boost the EU’s trade defenses against China, trade minister said Thursday. “There was no specific political support of any non-paper at this stage,” Carlos Cuerpo said" www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Taking part in things demonstrative and designed to provoke a reaction or change should, to my mind, be received and understood by the intended audiences with an agreement of trust.

Trust that the instigator fully comprehends and accepts the associated consequences of their actions, however wide-ranging these may be, within the parameters of society and the company they keep.

and moral judgement that demands full assimilation of responsibility for actions taken. "Contemporary culture needs a more substantial response to these developments beyond: ‘everything is rosy if you choose it’."

Tiffany illustrates the tension between feminine autonomy, "whether ‘choice’ and ‘consent’ are adequate frameworks for thinking about sex, responsibility and social harm"..."since women are frequently pressured into decisions they later regret",

I found this to be a thoughtful read, setting the book review within the context of liberals' agitated debates about Bonnie Blue's performative promiscuity.

Superb piece on the futility of China's so-called long game. In absorbing and collapsing European supply chains, it inevitably diminishes its own returns as continent citizens suffer low wage growth.

Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...

Can confirm that self-isolation when needed does other people the world of good.

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

This is reassuring.

"Far more embarrassing, surely, is the fact that Reform UK has not replaced its candidate. Multiple newspapers and the campaign group Hope Not Hate have all been able to claim scoops simply be trawling Robert Kenyon’s social media history. This is not a good sign." Latest column, on Makerfield etc

Well heck, my LLM Discover feed nudged this one towards me and I think I'm being subtweeted by it. What larks. www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz...

Not much to disagree with in this very sensible piece on reframing personnel security into its harder and more accurate core of mitigating insider risk. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

The point I keep coming back to is, is personnel security - vetting, in this context - so unimportant, so low down on the list of priorities for top politicians, so menial a task apparently, that none of them thought to *ask* if Mandelson had actually passed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Standard Whitehall/government complacency around vetting and personnel security. Treated pithily as an HR problem more often than not.

Which brings this back around to the perception in government of vetting/personnel security being a mere HR formality rather than a serious (insider) risk mitigation process.

Just imagine what MPs and civil servants could be doing right now if they weren't fixated on this balls-up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Meanwhile:

Whitehall admin strikes again. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well, for all its interesting work engagements, this and last week have been excellent reminders of how I spend time managing my life idiosyncracies and social battery around people obligations. I fear the husband has taken the brunt of it, being with or at least around me more than anyone.

Further important qualification to this piece today, negating the point made in the Times yesterday. This wasn't a "hack" - it was personnel already authorised to access the Biobank data that was downloaded by Chinese researchers in entirety and consequently sold. www.thetimes.com/article/9c75...

As mentioned yesterday, the febrile environment built by the CCP in China has enabled such activity to take place by fully providing the motivation to take such liberties with research partner country's data. bsky.app/profile/usag...

It's the responsibility aspect I'm most interested in.

Full disclosure, I've had a family member experience prostate cancer treatment and can say with confidence that he wouldn't be here today without the initial PSA screening that caught the cancer in time. www.thetimes.com/article/4c23...

Nasa will begin building a $20 billion moon base, with the first equipment drop going to a spot near the rim of the Shackleton Crater later this year. In space exploration terms, this is rather thrilling. www.thetimes.com/article/7414...

I feel I should clarify for others that the dunk is on bloomberg not me.

Trying to convince my children to get a pet frog named "Croak Monsieur"

After that he lost me - his analysis of what is happening in the US shows he is trying very hard to ignore reality to allow him to gain influence through Trump. /2

Unpopular thought: Tony Blair is right about one thing - we need a debate about substance, not people. /1

Awful Man Offers Witty, Acerbic Take On Everything He Sees https://theonion.com/awful-man-offers-witty-acerbic-take-on-everything-he-s-1819570846/

It could be the algorithm, or it could be real life, but my impression is that at least 90% of the people with a take on T Blair's take are male.

Quite openly enabling users to profit from intel leaks, and encouraging such behaviour for new joiners with privileged accesses. It certainly doesn’t sound like a security nightmare or the very picture of moronic moral squalor at all.

Its lack of regulatory/ESG oversight means, domiciled as it is in the US, that its less than ethical business model prompts insider trading that creates a subsequent insider risk/threat profile for administration functions such as the Department of War. bsky.app/profile/jess...