This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Sam Coates reports "We've got some breaking news"
It turns out that the head of the civil service told Starmer he should get all the security vetting done before he announced who'd be the new ambassador
"Clearly Starmer chose not to do that, [he] chose to ignore formal advice"
I read that article about the sexual torture the IDF put their prisoners through. I can't share the link, it's too depraved. I don't understand how people can be this evil.
Chatting to a mate at the weekend who relayed a story about a reasonably well known Labour MP who called him 10 times recently after he messaged he was joining the Green Party. Kept leaving him messages on his phone to ask to chat about. He kept avoiding the calls, until eventually he accepted one.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Oppose nhs privatisation = oppose healthcare. Same logic.
i'd also call your attention to how the guardian - ***nominally a liberal newspaper*** - frames this:
stonewall is struggling because it was 'uncompromising' on trans rights
not because the national media, guardian included, decided to hound a minority from public life
Learn that they will often send you pizza you didn't order and sometimes pizza that will make you sick
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Multiple peer reviewed studies in high impact journals have shown a substantial benefit of gender affirming care for trans youth. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon's penis for "further study" says this care is dangerous. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
The way to do it us renationalisation of energy and public investment in renewables.
Greens opposed to profiteering by foreign billionaires and continued energy insecurity because of lack of demcratic control. Labour bowing before profit and overseas investors once again.
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You've nailed it. The UK energy industry privatisation wasn't designed to benefit consumers, it was designed to ensure that even the least efficient 'supplier' (i.e. reseller) could make a profit so that the share prices would rise, thus guaranteeing a 'successful' privatisation
Buried 30 paragraphs into this abysmal BBC piece blaming renewables for the high cost of UK electricity is the actual reason it's so expensive, which is fossil gas. But Justin Rowlatt seems uninterested in this detail.
Nationalise JMB as payment for their tax avoidance.
How long will it take for English consumers to demand price caps in England too?
"We never censor the powerful"?
Well...
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“That is [Israel] that you're defending, a rogue nation, that bombs whoever it sees fit & then claims to be a victim.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social fact checks Israeli military spokesman Doron Spielman on Israel’s bombing of civilians & its double standard on nuclear weapons: zeteo.com/p/do-you-acc...
BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.
BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial.
UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details.
“If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”
Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide.
The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵
When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
