In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Although with Avanti, I've found the reason is often different between the info given by the departing station and the info on the train. I had started to assume they just made it up.
Geoff Mulgan April 14th, 2026 The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK
‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’
Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research
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In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities.
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That this is not taxed into oblivion is beyond me. Out of control global warming to create fake nudes of Natalie Portman is the dumbest reason possible to ruin a planet.
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Aston has a range of IAA grant offers, but the big ones are £50k for the year
I agree - I've long thought it should be bumped up to £20k, or £15k, to make it more impactful
Interesting new article in Sexuality & Culture: "Drag Me to Safety: Migration, Liberation and Performance for Lebanon’s Underground Queens"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The key to democracy is showing up in large numbers
Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”
I used to listen to Steve Richards a lot, but he decided to do a joint podcast with TM and it's the kind of judgement which makes you doubt all his other political perspectives.
While Bluesky folks will, appropriately, highlight Matthew Goodwin's losses with this - important to remember that Tim Montgomerie has been advocating for the horrors of Orban's Hungary for far longer.
We should all be heartened that you can, in fact, vote out fascism, and that as Americans the fascists we’re going to be voting out are deeply unpopular everywhere
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This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.
Not making this investment now is just backwards thinking.
Cover of Etta James's album, At Last
Rediscovering old music I used to listen to now on vinyl, and I had forgot how much of a classic this is.
However incompetent you think the Home Office are, there is always another level that they can reach.
This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.
Particularly true for methods and some forms of qual analysis
In other words, Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an Al tells them without question, with one report finding that only percent of users actually double checked an A's answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to Al when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time-a grim trend the researchers dubbed "cognitive surrender."
When you combine the fact that 1) most people trust what an AI tells them with the fact that 2) AIs might only give correct answers 80-90% of the time, the defence that "it's no different from a human" doesn't hold and there should be mandatory warnings of the error rate
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First look at the Moon and Earth together!
4 people on the left, 8.3 billion people on the right 🌎
Grade 1 listing in my area bans the thin double glazing that is indistinguishable from single glazing
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.
“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane
Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
Undoubtedly interesting and significant but where does 'aware, have used, don't anymore' go?
