The story of Dick Cheney's cable guy www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-...

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

She has a point

Do fuck off.

Backing up or uploading the brain digitally is my terraforming Mars, in that I do not believe it will ever be possible and those throwing money at it have a fundamentally limited understanding of the thing they are trying to do.

I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...

RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time

They should do like they did with Gerry Adams on the news

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.” RIP Tom Lehrer

Brilliant piece (better than the title suggests) on the continued lure of a job at the Indian railways, the tough wide ranging test to get in, the student ghettos & coaching companies that service the millions who want these jobs. Read it - all the better in print! www.economist.com/interactive/...

Everything is awful but guide dogs are being trained using toy squirrels stuck to remote control cars. And you need to see it

I’m glad the Royal Society wrote to Musk, but disappointed that they didn’t have the courage to uphold their own code of conduct, which now looks meaningless. Don’t ask him to resign, show courage and take the decision yourselves. www.theguardian.com/...

I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!" Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half. 1/2

If you are inclined to gloat over the death of kids — or the death of ANYBODY — because they live in a place where 6 in 10 voted Trump instead of 5 in 10 or 4 in 10, then I think maybe you’re not here for the hunting.

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄 This was initially published in @thetimes and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc Let’s take a look….👀 🧵 1/26 (1/1)

📺 New video! 'Location, Location, Location' is 25 years old, and Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have helped – or hindered – hundreds of hapless homebuyers. Can they keep their frustrations at bay with three more fussy couples looking for somewhere to live?

Seriously though I’m a 3L in Australia and I just had a midterm that was “use Copilot to answer this problem question and then fix the answer” and I’m pretty sure the intended takeaway was “never ever use AI as a lawyer”

at a place I was working a few years ago we got a trendy manager seagulled into our team and she decided to open a meeting by talking your single best childhood day and my mate Steve went utterly blank eyed and said "I don't talk about my childhood" and she cancelled the meeting.

AI will change everything. Now for a clip from Google's new AI video generator

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give. If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.

This #wato interview with Sebastian Gorka is an absolute car crash and she should have cut him off 5 minutes ago

Here is this year's philosophy entrance exam for "Normale", the school at France's academic pinnacle. "You owe" Candidates have six hours Use of calculators is not allowed.

odd that dril hasn't posted since the pope died

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

What the fuck

my favorite amy klobuchar story from my youth: back when she was the hennepin county attorney, my bff’s mom was the ramsey county attorney they both agreed to run a charity 5k. BFF and I were like 3/4 of the way through the course, and saw Klob get dropped off and pretend she ran the whole thing

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

Deranged. Will secure the collapse of a significant part of the UK university system, at a time when there is a lot of money to be made out of it, for no political return. If the case is explained properly most will not mind foreign students coming.

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

well ladies and gentlemen wasn't that a great display of f'ing around? I know I know thank you very much. please remain seated however as the second part of the program is about to begin.

I've been trying to find the right ancient history parallel since last night and I think I've finally got it: It's as if Rome punished the uppity provinces by deciding to sack itself.

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Zuckerberg 2012: Move Fast and Break Things Zuckerberg 2024: Move Fast and Take Things

Whatever happened to taking things to the grave

my generation were lucky enough to consume media which gave us good role models of groups of young men socializing in the open air, helping with each other's problems and navigating relationships together.

He's also very aggressive in a non-shouty way. He went at me once at a dinner (a long time ago) with everyone watching and I crumbled despite being right on the facts because it's just so unnerving.

Ethnically cleansing a region so you can put people you like more in that region is not, in any sense, a new idea.

I would tell you that my great grandparents are rolling over in their graves, but I can’t be certain, because unfortunately, I don’t know where those graves are.

A few months ago I found a grave in a Surrey churchyard with a musical stave carved on it, whistled the tune to myself and instantly kicked myself - a surefire recipe for looking over your shoulder for the next 5 miles…

I think it’s important for people to realize that the present is just the past, dressed up and with new technologies The same hucksters, liars, swindlers, fear-mongers, megalomaniacs, snake-oil salesmen, etc are all still among us, they just might have a different veneer