Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

Miliband doubles down on net zero - Energy Live News Labour to announce breaking the link between gas and electricity prices and more renewables push

Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”

It is one of the counterintuitive things about ai that it doesn't operate like Google search used to. It invents cases and articles that it thinks ought to exist, and puts them into lists of real things, making it hard to spot.

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The Tisun companies failed to pay tax on £514k of dividends.

Richard Tice's claim this was because of losses is contradicted by

- the accounts, which show a (wrong) use of dividend exemption - the fact there **were no material losses**

Got lucky today.

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It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock.

But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic.

No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar.

It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
As Orbán bites the dust, it’s worth remembering this old Farage confession in the clear. He always seems to be compelled to thank foreign entities for their help in damaging our national interests - it has echoes of a serial killer taunting the police.👇

But we also replaced one Khamenei with another; empowered the IRGC; did nothing for the protesters, killed over a thousand civilians, including hundreds of children and lost at least 13 US service members, alongside over 500 wounded); left Iran with enough highly enriched uranium to make 10-12 nuclear weapons; gave it greater incentive to try to build them; irreparably tarnished America's reputation; did lasting damage to the US and world economies; depleted our arsenal of scarce missile-defence interceptors; diverted valuable military assets from other regions; empowered Russia with an oil price windfall; triggered further conflict in Lebanon; further eroded domestic and international law; and may have left Iran in control of the most valuable waterway in the world, in a position to earn tens of billions of dollars in revenue per year through tolls, while holding the world economy hostage.

So @jderbyshire.ft.com asked @philgordondc.bsky.social if the Iran war is the US’s Suez moment. He said no, but then pithily and pitilessly sums up how it has been a comprehensive strategic failure. Oof!
www.ft.com/content/0cbc...

I don’t mince my words here.

"The forest ended. Glad I was
To feel the light, and hear the hum
Of bees, and smell the drying grass
And the sweet mint."

Remembering the poet Edward Thomas, who was killed in action on this day in 1917 in The Battle of Arras.

Mr Trump, even I knew they were doing that. Are your advisors keeping things from you?

stares in Danish...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Much as it pains me to point it out, the American people elected him and now carry the responsibility. There are more effective ways available to prevent him committing genocide than posting on social media.

Nancy Pelosi has called for President Trump to be removed from office

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?

Bush Cold Open: Iraqi Television Address - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

In the run-up to the first Gulf War, SNL had a skit where Dana Carvey, as George HW Bush, gave a speech to the Iraqi people where he said America was a great scorpion and jackals would slake their thirst on the blood of Iraqi soldiers. It was funny because it was so absurd.

I took great pleasure this morning in wishing a lot of people at church a Happy Tax Year End. So very multifaith.

#ThatWouldBeAnEcumenicalMatter

The interior of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, decorated with daffodils and lilies, Easter banners and the St Giles' banner "Glory to God in the High St"

Happy Easter!

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Via Reuters: Announcement from Pete Hegseth - US Troops can now request to carry their own personal firearms on base for personal protection, without having to explain why they need to protect themselves on base.

Dionne Warwick: ‘There are far too many fools for the day to be funny.’

Vice President Harris meets with the Artemis II crew in December 2023: NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy: Thank you for your service and for setting the standard of excellence, alongside the teams at NASA who made this possible. You make the United States and Canada proud.

Economist Cover. Foreground: Open mouthed blurred photo of Trump. Background: sharp focused photo of Xi. Above Xi: ‘Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake’ - [Napoleon Bonaparte]

@economist.com Cover.

(Spoiler alert: I love the sound of my own voice more than I love 'saving time')

So you do more research from your sift. As long as your search engine isn't solely funded by liars, you've a good chance of finding your answer. Then - and for me, this is a big part of the whole stramash - you put your answer in your own voice.

Because you can answer a research question in bullet points of incomplete sentences. Some of your bullet points may be irrelevant. Only the person who asked the question will know which.

Sen Chuck Schumer: ‘I can promise this: The Senate will not vote to leave NATO and abandon our allies just because Trump is upset they wouldn’t go along with his reckless war of choice.’ 1/

How many of them have no choice? Just as in 'use Google' means 'use whatever resources Google feels like throwing at the user experience today and the planet can fry, m'kay?'

@startpage.com is the one that lets me choose. And, astonishingly, I cope without ChatGPT.