Just extraordinary that the antichrist just happens to manifest itself in tech regulation - a thing this one really rich guy doesn't like. What are the chances? Seems really specific but yeah wow what a coincidence.

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trillion dollar business idea for anyone who wants it: 'vibe coder cafe' with activities that are shaped around people who are waiting for their claude/codex etc token quotas to refresh

Someone ask if he'd be willing to take over from Keir? Y'know just temporarily like.

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

See I think this would be good because it could force us to make a unix style “worse is better” economy. Trouble is that’s not what the greens want…

The hope is we get Iain M Banks culture. But let’s be real the Polity is more likely.

“Notify me and immediately create a comprehensive handoff document at 40% context saturation” gang rise up

people keep saying "having adhd is an advantage now" no you idiots our attention span is being assaulted non stop and our brains are shriveling and can't focus for shit and instead of confronting this you morons are like "maybe this is good actually"

It all depends on what happens next no? If the future of UI is a LLM interference with a dynamic UI that surfaces whatever is the right input or display for the job. Then 2026 could just be the year of Linux on the desktop. 🤣

if they have monopoly or cartel power, wagging your finger at them and telling them to not do that is a bad idea. it won't work and they'll be mad now. you should destroy them.

My not a software developer college made 18 commits today. She installed WSL2 and Claude yesterday. Let’s just build the damn Culture and stop having wars and starvation. Kinda incompatible with billionaires that. No kings. Stop the moats.

The Government must publish the risk assessment of the Trump Drug Deal. Support the campaign here: hey-mp.uk?c=USphar

@dollspace.gay since you were working on polish An idea for onboarding people to OS projects Put a Claude.md in the root to make Claude into an onboarding teacher (obviously you need docs to point it at too) It can also handle building and installing it Then just get ppl to clone & Claude

So I have some money in investments. Looking at Iran and AI. Really struggling to imagine a situation that 6 months from now I’ll regret being entirely out of the indexes today?!? Like ok things could resolve soon geopolitics wise but are we realllly gonna see a big broad move up from here?

PUT GERONIMO THE ALPACA ON THE TENNER, YOU COWARDS

Could be worse. In order to avoid controversy, all Euro notes feature bridges. In order further to avoid controversy, they're all fictional. Or they were until the folk of the Dutch town of Spijkenisse took it upon themselves to build them. Now all Euro notes feature bridges from just one Dutch town

Some folks are asking if I am anti-AI. I am not. I am pro-using good tools. AI is a tool, or a set of tools. Those are powerful tools, and like most powerful tools, they can be used and misused. The problem is that there are no rules around how people can use or abuse those powerful tools.

Well that’s a happy thought

I’m also not clear that Iran is going to settle for “US declares victory and leaves” as an end to this. They need to create so much political pain for Trump and Netanyahu that Mojtaba has *some* confidence they won’t kill him as soon as they are able to locate him

Would I die in a ditch to defend the hereditaries? No. But abolishing them smacks of performing Lords reform as an easier alternative to actually doing it

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Same guy who went to negotiate with Putin and didn’t take his own translator

I've been reading a great deal about current and potential impacts of AI on labor markets. Just published: a 2-page overview of frameworks for thinking about this: www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

Really hope that Jevron’s paradox applies to software. I kinda think it will.

That’s entirely fair - labour were told exactly what was necessary, that they had to deal with foreign own propaganda, that they needed to deal with social media, that they needed to prosecute those involved with foreign influence, and that they needed to recover the theft during Covid.

So shouldn’t we have motorway and national speed limit down to 50mph already? Like… what’s the path out of this soon not to need that?

At the weekend a hung out with some friends. At one point heat pumps came up. One friend who’s house is unlikely to suit one mentioned that “at least gas is a lot cheaper than electricity” So anyway what’s going on today?

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

This is a failure of imagination There are open models small enough to run on a home computer Simple ones will run on Raspberry Pi You can build cool shit that you own if you want to

“Trump doesn’t have the attention span” Ok let’s map that out. Shit will go sideways. He will get angry at his impotence. What button is he gonna reach for in that moment? De-escalation button or big red end the world button? We better hope the people around him are ready to stop this.. Jesus.

boilerplate poli-sci brain had me saying "so the president isn't in charge of the economy" all my adult life until boom, yeah, he just pressed the bad economy button. he pressed it on purpose. he loved pressing it. he's holding the button down.

Oh oh I know this one. They give you a really compelling chat interface to a proprietary orchestration system that de-skills you and locks you in to their tooling. I don’t think it will work. People aren’t that dumb surely?

All the talk of Claude is very weird for me personally, because it’s my brother’s name. So seeing people saying things like “is Claude conscious?” just has me like “Well he’s terrible at replying to texts and is often hungover on Saturdays, so I can see why you’d be asking”

The Representation of the People Bill contains some useful measures, but it must go further – put proportional representation on the statute books, shut loopholes that let dark money in, and modernise media platform oversights to stop misinformation and disinformation.

Cory D has arrived. Additional pilons constructed. Insufficient vespene gas.

If Starmer has lost James here then I don’t think Labour actually has a floor?

Digital sovereignty https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10547/

www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/... Oh man a friend sent me this after my last post. 🤣

We hold these truths to be self evident. A world where everyone is on UBI except Sam Altman, Elon Musk and JD Vance is a world worth fighting against. Ok it needs some work. 🤣

Friends don't let friends overanalyse single council by-elections that are very likely outliers. Unless it becomes part of a pattern, it is just a single datapoint, which cannot outweigh all other evidence without good reason.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

💬 Sarah Olney MP reminded the House that MPs had voted for her Proportional Representation Bill in December 2024. ❌ Inside and outside of Parliament, there is a growing acknowledgment that our voting system is not fit for purpose. ⏰ It's time to consider the alternatives.

The fragmenting political spectrum is now consolidating around two new poles: those who think the role of government is to improve productivity and prosperity vs those who think it’s to proliferate religious war in the Middle East, hasten the time of tribulation & generate content for social media.

I do want to make sure we're being clear about this: The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

It’s Thursday so we know what that means: by-elections! You have until 10pm tonight to make your predictions for this week's contests. Let's take a look at who is voting today... Make your prediction here: called-it.uk

It is very important and cool that AI chat is happening on here. AI could easily be another Industrial Revolution. Likely the “hyper scalers” like fiber telcos before are doomed to be commodified. But if the value this technology creates gets sewn up by the monopolists we are screwed.