I am exhausted. This is basically just people repeating the words “process”, “appointment” and “vetting” over and over again.

I had not fully appreciated just how furious his own MPs are with the PM

A big part of his electoral pitch to the UK was that he represented honesty, stability, sanity and decency, which compared with Johnson et al. was what we desperately wanted. He's been found wanting and is still trying to throw everyone else under the bus. It's just not OK.

"You can send your most senior career diplomat to DC, a boring precedent that has mostly worked, or you can do something stupid."

Yes, my work is similar.
Someone "tidied up" my work with AI recently.
Sure, nicer graphics/layout, and shorter, but the AI got it wrong on the actual technical content, and I then had to spend many more hours editing. Sigh.
I'd rather the AI had merely done the layout/visuals.

Sure, we will need to teach the ethics of AI use. But in terms of substantive content, spotting fakes involves humans having legal knowledge and being able to build legal argument. There is no shortcut away for teaching this core of legal skills. Being at the "sharp end" means saying that, loudly.

Worse, if Law Schools don't continue to train students to understand legal issues in depth, then they will not have the capacity to even do the "check AI is right" function he suggests will predominate. We're being sold cost cutting for law firms, with an airy wave about what will actually change:

But there are some real gaps in his analysis. More AI means fewer human lawyers working on crunchier issues. If human lawyers can't cut their teeth and hone their skills on the sorts of low level disputes Vos is now waving into an AI-driven space, they are not going to be capable for big cases:

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😂 Simple RATHER THAN honest?
Simple AND honest are possible. It is quite true that the top 0.1% need to be taxed more to fund more decent lives for the rest living off £12,000-60,000 vs the 0.1% who easily spend that on a handbag, or 1/5th of one of their many cars, or half one of their new kitchens

Yes we have a pretty wind turbine view from our bathroom window.
SO prefer that to when I used to breath coal burning polluted air, disrupting much of a view of anything when Beijing was still dirty powered. UK was in my grandfathers time too..
Bring on more wind and solar power!

He very much oversaw a process that made it clear that the only acceptable answer on ‘can Mandelson be the US ambassador?’ was yes. That’s a big problem imo.

Very good 😂😂👏👏

My only thought was, “but there are so many types of “bread” these days: pita, French, olive, gluten free, naan, white, brown, rye,… so would you,.. work out a price for each of them?”…

Don’t think CEOs were paid £10 million a year equivalent in the 1970s while 100,000s needed food banks, right?

Semafor graphic of China's wind industry dominance

All those red lines in the graph?

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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant where chats stay confidential Meet Lumo, the zero-access encrypted AI assistant by Proton that does not track or record your conversations. Ask me anything — it's confidential

Is AI is the new flying?
Even when the lovely more ethical, private lumo.proton.me #AI seems good.
Or eating meat for those with tendency to VitaminB12 & protein deficiency.
Flying helps us go & better understand our world, connect, build bridges, Peace... BUT... hideous carbon footprint

Thoughts?

Sure, but that's partly as very few people really want to hear that.
People don't like "complicated". They want simple, easy, quick. There are very few here AND, strategically, it makes little sense to make phaseout noises. Rather, he makes lots of noise about EU, CA, AU etc ties being strengthened

That's weird, this long time canva user is finding it's AI quite useless. It says it can't even edit slides

But I just want Canva to be able to edit my slides with AI and it won't

I used AI for the very first time today, here’s what happened.

I had a simple task: use a picture of 6 photo frames on a wall and turn the images inside the frames into high quality png’s.

First I tried Gemini - it made 9 pics with incomplete grammar, not even remotely close to the pics I gave it.

Ok, but what can it DO for us millions of average, normal Canva users?

Ok, but canva AI is telling me it can't do a simple thing like edit a slide... ??
So what is the point?

Nice of him, but it's normal to get a permit to sell or cook hot food on the side of a rd, no?
As a town Councillor, we did not allow anyone to do this when all other small businesses & charities got permits (which we didn't object to & were usually granted).
Great to Help, within rules for Safety

I doubt it's because he doesn't Want to; rather it is very difficult to, and not solveable overnight.

I thought everything was moving to drone wars and cyber warfare now anyway.
Didn't the USA start sending in huge drone bombers decades ago anyway?
Israel style iron domes continuously improving...
But seriously, Hack our IT, cars, or Energy systems from afar and isn't that pretty horrific anyway?

I was just about to throw away a Transparency Intl brochure as (much as I know their heart is the right place and they try), western white-collar corruption (as pointed out by @jasonhickel.bsky.social book), is SO much larger and more awful, and yes, let's end that/ clean up at home first!