“Epstein invented loot boxes in gaming because Bobby Kotick sent him an email about them five years after FIFA Ultimate Team debuted” How are people somehow finding ways to clutch at straws when there’s a trove of actual stories in these files?

Goodwin played a key role in the early 2010s in shaping how Far Right voters were perceived and portrayed by UK media. This discourse framing is still prevalent today. Worth considering how far Goodwin's worldview from the start had tendencies that pulled him deeper and deeper into radicalisation

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All the stuff coming out in the Epstein files is such an indictment of the rich and powerful. It's not that this kind of thing doesn't happen at all stratas of society, it does. But the elite have a lot more ability to do evil on a larger scale!

Pro tip: if you look like satan in photos of you performing normal political activity, perhaps consider a different career.

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

It's genuinely crazy the degree to which scientific racism is way more popular among liberal elites than normie liberals, despite it not being supported by relevant science

Private Eye have, incidentally, never apologized to anywhere near the extent necessary for their role in promoting this.

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

I had another try with Claude Code today: this time on a small repo consisting only of code I wrote and know extremely well. It analysed it and came up with a list of useful things to do (very good), and it managed to get one of them done quite well, with some prompting to bugfix properly.

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

Woke up this morning feeling full of fear and despair.

Take my country's fucking name out of your mouth and don't talk about it like it's a lab experiment, you disgusting fucking freak

I have been trying out Claude for some research-related programming tasks - specifically writing documentation for a hard-to-understand and obscure codebase.

Can confirm I’ve had the experience of saying I live in London and getting a concerned/worried response, almost certainly due to all the online nonsense out there. Don’t believe the lies!

Wow, Fallout episode this week was, I'm going to see, probably more Of The Moment than anyone could ever have anticipated in certain ways.

Word has gone out in conservative internal communication channels to present the post Pretti moment as a sea change "pivot" moment. "Feds are now cooperating with local law enforcement" is one of the talking points.

what really bugs me about the "trans people got ahead of public opinion" line is that it ignores *why* public opinion changed. it didn't just come out of nowhere, there was a deliberate push to make trans rights a wedge issue.

I work in a computer science department, so these two papers side by side seems about right.

Key thing here I think is that the rapist in question was a cop. I'm sure this kind of thing happens in any case but I'm especially cynical about police corruption in such cases.

Me when I ask tradespeople if paying by card is OK and they tell me cash is fine, and I just pretend that's a reasonable request because I need my windows doing.

Wrote to my MP about my concerns re: X and she wrote a very good reply emphasising she had scaled back her usage and basically only uses it as a minor channel of communication now/to keep the named account. She also said she'd write to the Cabinet Office on my behalf which she has now done.

GL having moved to America does explain why he's gone even more coco pops than he was already. I imagine he's reading some absolutely steamed things.

"harry potter's dropping popularity is about liberali-" stop. call 911. you have marxist academia brain poisoning and there isn't much time left

Genuinely the total credulousness of the government when it comes to Tech Shit has really taken me by surprise and possibly it really shouldn't. Just didn't have that down as a Labour failure mode!

I am quite worried about what my next job is going to be. I was thinking of Amazon who work in my field, but I'm not sure I could handle the ethics of that. This post is so real in that sense.

Today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. This year's theme, "Bridging Generations", is a call to everyone to carry responsibility for remembrance.

“Operating independently” You mean like when Liz Truss parachuted in a ‘gender critical’ transphobes to EHRC Chair & board roles? Or when Bridget Phillipson did the same, against the Women & Equalities Committee & Human Rights Committee advice? 🤔

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

I love to log in to this website and see people defending the honour of Stalin and saying that he would NEVER be associated with a man like Bovino.

Some personal/family stuff going on lately that I can't really talk about but which has me on edge.

what a silly game

Got a call from a poor chap from Welsh Labour on the hunt for donations and I ended up in tears to him thinking about the state of the party. Poor guy, I shouldn't have talked his ear out but it all came flooding out.

It's quite funny to me that just as AI tools seem to be getting genuinely at least fairly useful in programming, their advocates and their allies have done such an excreable job marketing and pushing their use in other fields, to the degree that it feels somewhat taboo to use them at all now.

FYI, this one's fake www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Labour party understands democracy very well. Neutral statement.

I think the Labour party might actually never manage to appoint a leader who isn't a man.

The thing is right this kind of thing enters the Cool Zone extremely quickly. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"If you disturb me I am going to fucking murder you."

Oh yeah for sure I'll pay for a £4 Facebook subscription, brilliant stuff. Fuck off!

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Yeah for people not up to date on the back story, the conservative war on "Gender Ideology" actually started as a response to Gender Theory, and specifically the impact of Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" at the United Nations summit for women in 1995.

More likely than not, the thing that will save us will be his old age. And then we'll have a bunch of pundits and cowardly politicians trying to convince us that our institutions held, we are just fine, and no need to reform anything.

I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.

Fucking evil thing to say.

as Pratchett put it:

I'm quite worried about what I'm going to do in my next job.

In all the British liberal pearl-clutching at what is going on in the US, there's never an acknowledgement that the scaffolding exists here, just waiting for a PM and Home Sec to let them loose. And, yes, the kind of people who are in these jobs are *exactly* like those who work for ICE.

This whole idea that Americans seem to have that European = white really fucks me off. Like I'm sorry but that isn't the case and it's not us being racist by saying so.

It was not the one lxds.