This is actually a pretty good policy if you want to help people move location downsize or upsize, and get the housing market moving. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just imagine how great they'll be when they get down to 10%!

I make potato farming equipment and I gave new farmer Jones, who is light years from making a profit farming, a slug of my company and in return he promises to use his new found money to buy my equipment to till fields in lands he does not yet own. My company in now 35% more valuable?

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

I regularly see American accounts say stuff like “wow this is bad, but at least we’re not in Britain” and I’m really not sure what information space you are living in, and I don’t want to take away your crutch but…

The press should be doorstepping the people who funded these repeated complaints and lawsuits. Make them explain themselves

Fundamentally, this is not a party that understands what they need to do to win again.

This is a @jamesrball.com point, but this lunatic on the radio is saying it takes ten hours of CCTV watching to find the point at which a crime happened. Could someone show him (the copper, not James) it's possible to move to different points, and what "binary search" means? #r4today

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line". www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Don’t do that, he’ll just go and nick all the fucking rings.

Techmeme front page:

It's really striking that Mel Stride's announcements on welfare haven't even got somewhere as coherent as 'if it's mental health, you're on your own', or 'every school leaver needs to buy an out of work insurance product', it's all just 'we'll cut the things that made the focus group light go green'

A pub in London Fields is trying to put up a timber canopy over its outside seating. The planning process so far has taken FIVE YEARS. That’s longer than it took to build the entire Hoover Dam. capx.co/nimby-watch-...

Was wondering what the fuck was wrong with Nottingham for a moment.

Labour did this on Tory social care proposals for example, and now have kicked their own social care reform plans into the long grass. How much easier their task would be if they had been willing to help out the Tory executive and watch them take the political hit for unpopular yet necessary reform.

Tbh this is the kind of thing that bugs me the most about the current era of politics. So many people in power just aren’t really seriously engaging with reality. They gleefully vote down a plan while in opposition with the help of rebels only to bring back the same plan when in govt.

Badenoch is the most compelling of the current party leaders because of the gulf between who she believes herself to be (she visibly thinks she is a bold thinker) and the reality (incredibly lazy and partisan).

The Bluesky theory of moderation is one of those “I’d really like to believe in this, but I am dubious”, but I will put that aside for the iconic reply to “people who have convinced themselves that they are the boss of people they don’t give any money to“, a curse of social media.

"Bad faith use of the legal system is incredibly corrosive of public trust; it’s much more antisocial behaviour than painting graffiti on a bus stop." is a very good and correct line backofmind.substack.com/p/sopppps-an...

Stephen Miller looks like the villain in a movie about tax audits.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

And some people still say that THIS IS FINE

TAKAICHI WINS

“An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a ‘perp walk’ of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras.” Via Reuters

There’s no rule of journalistic neutrality that requires you to say something is “unclear” when that is objectively untrue. It would be illegal. There’s absolutely zero ambiguity about that fact. Saying it’s unclear is making a false statement in your reporting.

The musics still playing, even though some of the performers are being carried out in body bags

GDPR is a great example of the sort of regulation which (I) creates a bunch of effort for people who want to comply (ii) gets innocently over-zealously deployed (III) becomes deployed as an excuse for orgs not to do things they don't want to and (iv)is fairly easily disregarded by those who want to.

"a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"

In memoriam...

Fascinated by her exact blend of over-confidence, where you can see her doing that weird blinking thing she does when 'her complete lack of preparation or genuine intellectual curiosity' collides with 'facts she had not previously bothered to be across'.

So the US subsidizes Argentina to sell soybeans to China, which means China doesn’t have to buy US soybeans, which means the US is going to have a massive bailout of its own soybean farmers. This might be the single worst policy in the history of policies.

just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

House prices will be our last bulwark against fascism.

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets." 😩😩😩

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

Business has paid a lot to support decarbonisation and sustainability. Invested tens of billions. Most of it under Tory-led governments. And now the party is saying it was all a waste, and pointless? Just not serious people.

It’s funny to remember a few years ago when too online Americans were feeling so triumphant that they basically took rising inflation as proof positive of American wealth and greatness and nothing to be worried about

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal. This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

I just don't think the inability of every random person to generate realistic videos of anything they want in seconds was an actual problem, or something that justifies the astronomic investment and maintenance costs? Like, am I the asshole?

Oh

“My only consolation in this time of immense personal difficulty has been the vast sums of money that my husband and I embezzled from the British taxpayer in the midst of a global health crisis.”

It is amazing that it has taken this long to mandate this. It makes such a difference to patients. The doctors at my local surgery were very happy with it too. Typical that the anti-patient BMA oppose it.

Staggered the number is this low tbh.

Many students use AI to get their work done. I think this is a disaster for higher education — it circumvents the process of learning, and expertise never gets built. I wrote about it for The Argument today, with findings from our latest poll on AI attitudes. www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...