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I'm not saying you're stupid, but when it comes to thinking you seem to have a lot of bad luck

I mean... yes, because LLMs have no concept of "truth". They predict text. Doesn't matter what text. At no point during training are they rewarded for "truth". This is why using LLMs for information retrieval is the exact WRONG use case, but I've lost my voice screaming about this already.

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

The world may be a dystopian nightmare, but I got to share some oatmeal with this cute green gecko this morning, so I’m gonna let that be my happy place for a while.

Trump Loyalist / Trompe-l'oeilaliste 'Strong message here' on R4 this morning. Armando Ianuccci was with guest Stewart Lee chewing over the memorandum of understanding set to end a chapter in the US/Iran shitshow. Hailed by 'Art of the deal' Trump and his followers as a great success

Gabriel Elizondo: "For the first time in 30 years.. its now govt forces & not armed groups that are the leading cause of death & injury to children during armed conflict.. with Israel topping the list with their crimes against children in the occupied Palestinian territories"

New True Edition ….

AOC: “MAGA is the last dying breath of the confederacy — we have every freedom that we have today because somebody in each generation refused to accept the world as it was”

The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Physician & suffragist Elizabeth Anderson was born #OTD in 1836. She was the: * First woman to qualify in the UK as a physician & surgeon & first MD in France * Co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women * First dean of a British medical school * First female mayor in the #UK #WomenInSTEM

Mehdi Hasan, "We have the Geneva Convention" "We have International Humanitarian Law" "We have the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court" "We have these metrics that were built up over the years, by the UK and the US; they led the world in writing these documents, these conventions"

Those people in America and the UK who are weaponising the death of Henry Nowak for their disgusting little hate agenda are absolute scum. All of them. I could not hate anyone more.

The same people who tell me I can’t ever be British because of my name are saying a guy named Nowak is British, but just for a few days while they hold riots

How many of us feel in a cold rage today? Mine is directed at Farage & this comment on yesterday's Guardian piece by John Crace is spot on. The writer uses a pseudonym or I would credit them but, to whomever he or she is, I say bravo.

I think about this a lot.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

It’s really frightening.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed

Groundhog Day. How utterly depressing that these dismal people get to fail us all over again. Big hand to the media for their starring role in this hellcycle of corruption, dishonesty and betrayal.

Well the media being owned by rw oligarchs, with severe and insatiable greed, is ever unlikely to challenge the puppets they help install to protect them. They all fill the HoL choc full of their ilk too. Scotland, Wales, NI break away from this madness and good English folks can come join us

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Everybody is going to laugh so hard when an actual admirer of Hitler becomes Prime Minister because everyone else was “tainted with antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Financial Conduct Authority is planning to share your financial data with the increasingly transparently fascist US tech company Palantir. FCA staff are pushing back. I've supported them by signing their petition.

The majority of us see Farage and Reform like this… as a bunch of lying, hypocritical, racist shysters who are totally unfit for office. So why do we have to put up with a media that generally treats us all like we’re the idiotic minority who get taken in by their crap? Be more Private Eye.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Great to have @karlbode.com back on the show to dig into the recent Sam Altman story and the problem with how media too often reports on tech CEOs. They lie, then those lies get laundered through trusted sources. That needs to stop!

It’s so impressive how quickly Jesse can produce new fully thought out outstanding lyrics.

A nice example of how journalists put words into the mouths of others. Here Rachel Sylvester in The Observer interviews Mary Beard. Note that the latter doesn't offer any names beyond Caesar. It is Sylvester who does the roll-call.

I debunked the original headlines about these school guidelines when they first came out a couple of weeks ago. But then the Daily Mail pushed this on Facebook over the Easter weekend, so I felt the need to address that too! 1/6 🧵

La 6e extinction de masse plus rapide que celle des dinosaures. Variété d'abeille avant et après la révolution industrielle

Failure to contextualize reporting in the context of historically repeated patterns emboldens liars and overweights their false claims.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

The leader of the Reform Party and prospective future Prime Minister has decided it is no longer appropriate to say on camera whatever someone asks you to say in return for a surprisingly small amount of money. From the new Private Eye, out now.

See also: legal work. Going through, say, endless dull contracts as a junior lawyer means you know how to deal with novel contract law problems later in your career.

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

Hear that, folks? If you’d just worked harder, you could have been born into a wealthy family like Jared was

How can this go on for another 3 years?

The mess the Middle East is now in can be largely traced to one factor: Donald Trump's belief a) that international political negotiations are like New York real estate negotiations (they're not) and b) that he is a supremely skilled negotiator (he's not). 1/n

West Bank mayor urges “American Jewish leadership to pivot toward supporting settlement expansion in Judea and Samaria, rejecting a Palestinian state, and framing settler incidents within the context of pervasive Palestinian terrorism.” Relatedly, West Bank “settlers” committed pogroms last night.

Palantir[] was founded in 2003 with backing from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm. Its name comes from Tolkien’s seeing stones—tools of perfect vision that ultimately served power, not truth. That wasn’t irony. That was branding. Palantir: Brought to you by Peter Thiel, JD Vance his #1 fanboy

The notes and coins in your pocket are the National debt. If it is paid back, they will disappear. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

Actual headline: The North Sea can make a lot of money for fossil fuel companies selling it on international markets. If we learn nothing else from the Israel-US-Iran War, it’s that energy security will never be achieved with volatile oil and gas and can only come from renewables.

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