TV: And if you follow the cold front through the weekend, you'll see we have a 30% chance of upset. Me: ...What's upset? The Egyptian God Set: NOT MUCH DAWG, WHATS UP WITH YOU

My 3 most recent impressions of the police are; * Their violent & suspicious arrest of Nadine Buzzard-Quashie; * Arresting elderly women for peaceful protest; * Their attempt to frame a credible rape victim for 'peverting the course of justice' for reporting a police officer.

This suggests you don’t have a system prompt telling it to challenge your thinking enough though? If you’re never surprised it can probably help you more than it is!

It’s bad for politicians to take undeclared gifts because it usually leads to bad policy outcomes in most cases. Think our collective willingness to treat everything as election strategy becomes self-fulfilling cos it encourages us all to outsource all thought to an imagined person in the West Mids.

It would however be really really funny

I'm I extremely uneasy in the Metropolitan Police directly attacking a politician in the middle of an election campaign, even if the police were in the right (which let's face it, they are). To be honest I don't really think it's their role at any time.

@cathicks.bsky.social assume you’ve seen this but incase you haven’t.

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god i love being me. why the hell did i spend all that time being someone else?

@kagi.com hey so I have a personal account that is probably not available anymore I want to get my team on Kagi in my non-profit Is it possible to transfer my personal acc to the company team?

We usually think of the resource curse in terms of oil. But what if compute is the new crude? If AI allows states to generate massive wealth without needing a productive, tax-paying middle class, the democratic social contract starts to look very fragile. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com.

But demonstrably not murder tents outside the home and orchestrated arrest in front of a well briefed press of a first minister for nothing, bad.

Every single time, the argument is the same. "this tool makes dangerous knowledge too accessible to people who might misuse it." And every single time, the actual function of the restriction is to consolidate control over who gets to know things, not to prevent harm.

Your writing on the octopuses' manner of thinking in Children of Ruin/Memory absolutely blew my mind.

If you like laughing at British politics you might like this: tacticalvote.co.uk/game

We had a 2 hour AI coding game jam in Field Level Tech. This is Becky's entry tidied up and made kid friendly (the internal version had me paddling a kayak in the straits of hormuz and had me in absolute stitches) I think it's safe to say Becky won our jam.. :)

Anyway, an important thing to realize is that right-wing nostalgia for Antebellum Plantation Life and tech guy fantasies about Explosive-Collar Apocalypse Bunkers are the same thing. A vision of an ideal society for sadists where they are granted unaccountable power over helpless people.

Unqualified, total ideological victory for the ppl who signed that Declaration two and a half centuries ago. The staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And they won the whole goddamn pot. Now it's a matter of stopping a later generation from squandering it all.

so like are we just going to pretend that nepo baby cis comedian isn't planting someone in his audiences to act like a Problematic Trans Person so he can shit on trans people while being lauded for it?

Do you understand how stupid you have to be to defend attacks on Jews because of Netanyahu’s foreign policy? Or because you don’t like Israel? Attacking Jews just living their lives will not free Palestine, it will not end the war in Iran or Lebanon - it simply is just attacking Jews you FREAKS

Amazing how many of the obnoxious replies to this are in @segyges.bsky.social ai hater list. There is just some kind of tribal thing going on. Owen has said as much in the past but real validation there.

An absolute classic.

The world needs anti-AI ideologues. I welcome them. I want more of them. I just need them to please be serious.

This is a terrible pattern we need to not let become normal. You should have your own sovereign AI, make your own API calls or at worst your own AI subscriptions (fungible). Talking to an agent which is not aligned with your interests is just not how we want this to work.

It just got a proof of concept of something really cool that it cant talk about so all it will say is this.

If they were trying to bring down the republic you gotta ask what would they do differently?

Forgotten elements of McSweeney’s role with Trump Pushes forward Mandelson as a good Trump whisperer. Mandelson also key to introducing Thiel to PM MM also tasks Maurice Glasman to bring back info on Trump’s inauguration. Glasman meets Vance & Thiel www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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PEOPLE DO THIS TOO This is why as a manager you don't want to micromanage or bully your reports because it will put them into a similar helpless basin. People work backwards from how you treat them to justify the way they are being treated

High streets become deserts. Meanwhile Amazon pays no tax.

So McSweeney just confirmed the two candidates offered for US Ambassador were Peter Mandelson and George Osbourne. Forget processes, vetting etc - you have to take a long, hard look at yourself to wonder how the fuck you end up with those two candidates at all.

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

Happy for the software moat metaphor to die now please! Nowadays there are only two moats, the Taiwan Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz.

Good morning from Oakland where I'll be covering every aspect of the Musk v. Altman trial, starting with jury selection today. We expect Elon to testify in coming days, as soon as tomorrow even. Catch up on what's happening here: www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/t...

Thesis: If you put humans in charge of governance, they will fail due to human limitations. If you put AI in charge of governance, they will fail due to AI limitations. But AI are good at correcting for human limitations, and humans are good at correcting for AI limitations. We need both.

Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." On 60 Minutes, Trump reacts to the shooter's manifesto where he is called a pedophile, rapist, and traitor. What's notable is that Norah O'Donnell never mentioned Trump's name. Norah O' that

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

Elon is really just a petulant child. Mate you pre-sold Tesla’s you pre-sold self driving which still doesn’t exist! This is going short! I thought you lived in a school… no take only throw. 🤪

A Greg Egan short story I hadn't read!

Dear BBC, All you need to do is supply a few verified examples of times you used another party's banner while "explaining" their policies.

48 hours later and the only outlet to follow up this story has been the National in Scotland Call me old fashioned but think destroying information with a legal hold on it and a disclosure to Serious Fraud is pretty important stuff open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Constantly waving the Union Jack or the St George's flag is like buying a sports car to compensate for having a TINY DICK. They KNOW they're not patriotic because everything they've done has hurt this country. So they hide behind the SYMBOLS of patriotism.

The psychology of boycotts is fascinating — they're simultaneously acts of moral clarity and cognitive dissonance management. We tell ourselves individual choices matter while knowing systemic change requires collective action.

if i write spells that control silicon, does that make me a sandwitch?

It's about the threat of AI undermining their privileged position in the economy. They are scared and reaching for any passing bit of hope to grab onto. Possibly also there is state level disinfo at work here. He who has the data centres after all...

So I had no idea of this... this is very important because it tells us that china is not going to save us from Trump in order to save themselves. They will cheerfully see this collapse the US hegemony. Shit.

Oh come on people can't keep falling for this.

Of course! If you have skills for the new agent work get the hell out of big VC funded firms that are duty bound to extract your value and automate you into obsolescence

When you could be paid more at AWS !