Of all the possible things to not understand, this seems an odd one to highlight. “STARMER’S TAX BOMSHELL”

LOL at this being a “reveal”. It’s not like any Substack author doesn’t know this and doesn’t care. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

Today is Candlemas If you have not cleared all your Christmas decorations by today, a demon hiding behind them will cause dire mischief in your house for the rest of the year. See my popular post on this: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Is it really the case that the debt can increase by 38% in 3 years? That's around 11% compounded (and that's ignoring any repayments). I know inflation just about touched 10% a few years back but it's been well under 5 for most of this time....

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

WHY DID NO-ONE THINK OF THIS? Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal www.theguardian.com/technology/2... (Aside: everyone thought of this)

Even the Guardian can’t help itself with the sanewashing. This isn’t “digitally altered”. It is fake, fraudulent, dishonest, abusive. “Digitally altered” is a change in contrast or sharpness.

Apparently I haven’t switched off enough of the Artificial Stupidity in my computer. (To be clear the LHS is my typing and the RHS is the autocomplete suggestion.)

I’m sure that cover will fly off the shelves.

Kudos to Gary for realising and saying this ages ago. But bugger me, why were the "big guns" so slow to realise it too, and how much faith can we have in their judgement?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Yes, the UK govt’s official position is that they should continue to post on xitter but no one in the UK should be allowed to read it.

So the govt’s official position is that they should continue to use xitter but no one in the UK should be allowed to?

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AI ISN’T PEOPLE

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

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sorry to grimpost so soon into the year but we truly gotta fight back against the people who are proudly encouraging use of the mistake generator and that's going to mean criticising some people we formerly respected as people who like the idea of science or truth or evidence

Without exaggeration, there has never been a major loss that has been so self-inflicted and openly welcomed as machine-generated lies, mainly because it appeals to big male egos and self-interest through chatbot sycophancy and those personalities have had the biggest platforms

Why are people not pointing out that this is idiotic nonsense? People can be living abroad for any number of reasons when they have children…the idea that these children are therefore not British is plainly silly.

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

Turns out to be a pretty average flu year that started a bit earlier. NHS and Govt have a responsibility to communicate data responsibly and they failed this winter.

Chess should consider itself extremely lucky that these are the biggest issues in its world!

There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".

You guys all voted for this, admit it, and own it. All of you spend your careers spreading climate disinformation on Twitter. This is on you because you are the ones who have been constantly peddling the false narratives that brought us here in the first place.

Finally, slightly weirdly, and probably a bit off topic, this year I inherited my Dad’s holiday condo - which is in Boulder… and has a view of NCAR!

Through the 2000s I worked (in climate by now) at FRSGC in Japan, an institute clearly inspired by NCAR. In the 2010s we made a collaborating visit to NCAR for a couple of months as our company (blueskiesrearch ltd) was starting up. #SaveNCAR

I’m British and live in darkest Yorkshire. But my Mum worked as a computer programmer at NCAR in the 1960s. In the early 1990s I did a summer intern there. Margaret Thatcher visited - it was around the time that the Hadley Centre in the UK was being set up. #SaveNCAR

Institutions matter. It’s so sad that the randomness of the Idiocracy destroys everything that made America enviably great throughout the world. #SaveNCAR

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

Brexit was a terrible act of self-sabotage but I think Trump…trumps it. NCAR is an amazing place. Harming it is nothing more than pointless, vindictive vandalism.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Spey! Alas! I am very sorry to say Etc etc www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m off out to water the lawn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice analysis but surely no one can be remotely surprised…other than about the smallness of the proportion who have changed their minds, perhaps.

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

Pretty tired of the negativity and scorn directed at the Green Party, also by some here. Is every policy spot on perfect? Of course not; though I agree with more of theirs than I do other parties’. Don’t mock people for engaging, for having ideals, for refusing to play our flawed electoral system.

"The Silicon Centipede" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I suppose we can tell ourselves substack isn't quite as bad...

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

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Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...