Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

The secretive Mont Pelerin Society was formed in 1947 explicitly with the goal of transforming the world order.

They worked methodically to transform the ideological structure of economics within universities and politics and successfully transformed the economics of the West in the 80's.

For a government that claim to want to be judged on their results, they don't half do a lot of things which won't have any.

Surely Robbins should have furiously fired someone last week too? Isn't that how this works?

Yeah PMs are maybe the people who can benefit most from rapid iteration of prototypes.

the open-closed gap on generally-available model performance is narrowing

frontier labs risk being undercut in opus-class until they make mythos-class GA

I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

Unsupervised use by politicians is the real problem

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Happy 4/20 everyone

I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

They did it. Those crazy sons of bitches really did it.

I really deeply believe that social learning & cumulative cultures drive technology output, which requires challenging your internal mental model that everyone is just a static isolated individual and we should model innovation as an additive thing between isolated individuals. But it is relational

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Yeah I found that jarring

More and more i do think politics should just be getting a random sample of the population to hash it out with some informed experts

telling a bunch of Americans about how all the schools you went to had corporal punishment and noting the increasing looks of horror on their faces with satisfaction before realising you have been calling it capital punishment from the start

He has been madder for sure

What, in a t-shirt?

Quite possible to love something and hate it all at once. People voted for prohibition then hated every minute of it.

fake i think

While this is absolutely bang on the money up until now, I actually think usb c will be with us for The Ages.

It's so fun when loud men mock the idea of anyone looking at gender differences re: tech being useful and interesting

I am never leaving this website

My late father was an industrial engineer in Karachi back in like, the 80s. From everything he told me, it was in fact EXACTLY like that, with everything from telephone handsets to *Bakelite.*

Why did I check the quote tweets on this? I knew they were going to depress me, just wall to wall people who are going to be poorer than they should be in old age who think that “invest more in stocks and shares ISAs” is some kind of spiv’s charter and not, you know, important advice.

There is quite a lot of crime in jails.

In the 90s there was plenty middle-aged dubiousness about the internet. "So, you give away our product, how do we make money exactly?" Obviously, at the time I was, get with the program grandad, information wants to be free, and now, in the ashes of the media industry, I see they had a point.

This website is a total prat magnet

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting.

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