Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
Just the arithmetic of anyone other than John Swinney becoming First Minister on May 8th means that, articulated or not, some kind of deal with the Tories and Reform would be necessary for the Labour party. What is astonshing is that they'd even CONTEMPLATE it prior to a campaign.
'We're being emasculated, and our democratic rights are being ignored'
Alan Cumming reacts to Wes Streeting saying the UK won't 'give' Scotland another independence referendum
Orbán is out, but the think tanks, funding and relationships built under his government won’t just disappear overnight.
So we’re making that investigation free to read
“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake..
Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted.
Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.
We are delighted to welcome Nicola Sturgeon as Chair of our Board of Trustees.
Refugee families are facing their greatest threat yet.
But we know another way is possible, and that's what we will stand for together.
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This has been the story of mainstream social media ever since Zuckerberg’s original FaceBook: a place where men get to judge an ever larger pool of women, and the women conform themselves to that desire. The scale has changed. The principle hasn’t.
If Starmer continues to grovel to Trump then a huge motivating factor for supporting Scottish independence will become pride. Scots voters don’t want to be linked to a nation that crawls on its belly to America. Starmer is draining national self-respect. Better go it alone than become serfs, right?
The great irony of April Fools Day is that it's the only day most people approach the news headlines with the appropriate level of scepticism.
Good story, but too awkward for a paper south of the border — even those hostile to Starmer — to lead on since it gets into a complex set of allegiances and financial obligations.
Feudalism - not a good idea.
"They pay no capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders."
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Imagine the lives that could have been saved had we managed to delay the next wave until after our population was vaccinated.
Actually, we don’t need to imagine - countries that avoided significant waves until after their populations were vaccinated saw far fewer Covid deaths.
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NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?
Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia…
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I'm just so angry about this. Labour campaigned on, and got numerous seats in the last GE in Scottish constituencies because of, pledges to support the Edinburgh supercomputer (they moved in to Cambridge) invest in Grangemouth (closed) put millions into GB Energy in Aberdeen (zero). And now this😡
Deeply disappointed that the UK Labour government has blocked Ming Yang’s investment in our renewables industry - putting up to 1500 Scottish jobs at risk.
At the very moment we should be building clean energy, they are sabotaging Scotland’s industrial future.
We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴☠️
Scotland is rich in energy, so why do we pay some of the highest bills in Europe?
Because we don’t control our own energy resources.
Independence is how we can lower bills and ensure our energy wealth works in the interests of Scotland - not Westminster.
Bloody hell. From secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ (who continue to dominate our discourse despite Liz Truss demonstrating the dangers) to a secretly-funded political party. Should have seen that coming.
Remember: when Nigel Farage opens his mouth, the fossil fuel industry speaks.
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.
Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
All those wee lives, snuffed out in a moment.
The world is so full of horror,
So much of it caused by bitter, cruel old men, desperate for power, desperate to stay out of jail.
Palantir should be nowhere near ... well, anything.
They should be dumped faster than toxic waste.
Unlike Westminster, Scotland's Government refused to do a deal giving Palantir access to our NHS, but the data-thirsty company has shocking power globally, and is run by the worst of people.
“Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.” A subheading underneath says: “Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.”
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s these caterwauling idiots who slowed our move to clean, renewable energy leaving us economically exposed and the plaything of tyrants like Putin exploiting oil & gas markets. They are the enemies of Britain masquerading as patriots. They’ve destroyed this country and will bury it eventually
