I couldn’t develop skills! So what if - and hear me out - *no one* could develop skills???

Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’

Following the time leading up to the events of the first film IS the first film isn’t it??

It's entirely possible that I'm an incredibly stupid man, but what does this mean? Is it after the events of the first film, or before them? Or following the time leading up to them, so... At the same time as them?

I find the use of "warriors" rather than soldiers somewhat infantilizing. As if US service members are playing dress up with swords.

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Tim Davies getting the sack for not being right wing enough is legitimately hilarious given he was handpicked by the last Tory Govt for the role and has spent his entire time at the beebs pandering to Reform. The Labour govt will definitely pick somebody even more right wing.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

yeah with that sort of death toll on his hands the best he can hope for is a podcast

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Does anyone want anyone to be Prime Minister any more? It's there an MP that you think... Yep. That one should be in charge. I don't want Keir Starmer to be in charge, but I don't trust anyone else to be either. This is the first time in my lifetime that I despise everyone in the House of Commons.

This is disgusting. We are a disgusting country with a disgusting government. A shameless, nasty, sanctimonious, grim promontory full of bitter failures, perched on a damp rock in a grey sea. Just awful.

Labour, extraordinarily, doing the exact same thing (changing the rules so that they retrospectively apply to people who'd followed the rules and done everything right) that they expressed outrage at the Tories for suggesting just a few weeks ago.

I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, available from all good book stores.

Winter is Coming - in the not unknown form of fateful alliances between the traditional right and the centre-right and technocratic centre-left with no better idea than to compete on cultural illiberalism. It won’t end well.

this island is 2 op eds in The Sun away from reinstitution of prima nocta

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people. Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite

why can they not just fix it

Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

People really ought to be more embarrassed about putting shit like this up in public.

"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?" "What are you going to do?" "Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

"We're worried the far-right are going to take power?" "What are you going to do?" "Get a lot of practice in on all the stuff they want to do, so we can really hit the ground running..."

Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.

A problem with politicians - our Prime Minister Keir Starmer seems to be a paradigm example - trying to appeal to views they don't really understand or empathise with - that generates lurid overcompensation: so "control" becomes not control + decency + fairness but control as performative cruelty

The Labour government will articulate a principle that a person who meets the criteria of being a refugee (have a genuine fear of persecution, sufficient to have to leave their home) has a responsibility to contribite to the cost of a democratic society meeting its obligation to hear that claim

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Starting to wish this was a sign I could just tap, really... youtu.be/PSoymORuJEI?...

We might be fighting this for the rest of our lives, but fight it we will.

Well, this was a delight. Unsurprisingly, considering who was involved, but an exceptionally good time, if that's your sort of thing.

Well, this was a delight. Unsurprisingly, considering who was involved, but an exceptionally good time, if that's your sort of thing.

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(The Kindertransport actually was supposed to be a return ticket — the children had to have £50 of their own or from a sponsor, to fund their leaving once it was deemed safe to do so — but that’s absolutely not the popular memory of the scheme, which tells us a lot about humanitarian imagination…)

"Hey guys we invented a bullshitting machine. What should we use it for?" "How about this task where the margin of error is vanishingly small and any mistake or inaccuracy poses a risk of mass human casualties?"

The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"

Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.

HERE WE GO BOYS AND GIRLS! The podcast is live! please have a listen! @goingmedieval.bsky.social is amazing and this was a super fun conversation. i was barely drunk* during it! *not drunk

Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Folks it pains me to ask so bluntly, but could anyone use some work doing by me? I've got to find income for three months until my next royalty payment, and I'm not having much luck.

Every day he's been in office, he's pandered to racism, demonised refugees, and essentially told REFUK voters that they're right. If he's worried about what that's done, he should quit.

Fine, I will write the next James Bond. INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through EXPLOSION BOND: This film is for grown ups

Sounds ideal

People don't like Trump! People quite like it when you stand up to authoritarian foreign governments! It's actually quite difficult for conservatives to take sides against the UK and for Donald Trump if you make them say it out loud!