Leader of the Green Party in Wales, Anthony Slaughter, calls for a wealth tax, and a switch from council tax to a land value tax #BBCQT

Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from:

- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.

Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.

The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Farage always wanted to either lead the Tory party or destroy it.

Looks like he'll be able to do both.

#Zahawi #PoliticsLive

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government."

Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List.

We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

Prince Andrew says he's fine missing the royal's Christmas dinner; he'll be doing bottle bongs and liquidising kittens on Youtube with Fisty Steve.

#R4Today

Almost all of this Venezuela report seems to be factually correct, but #R4Today is going with the Trump assumption that the US can remove Maduro, and that's OK. And then they discard the fact bit.

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

Keir Starmer on former Tory MPs defecting to Reform UK:

"21 ex-Tory MPs have now left for Reform. The real question is who's, next?"

The story of Erdős problem #1026 Problem 1026 on the Erdős problem web site recently got solved through an interesting combination of existing literature, online collaboration, and AI tools. The purpose of this blog post is to try…

“Problem 1026 on the Erdős problem web site recently got solved through an interesting combination of existing literature, online collaboration, and AI tools. The purpose of this blog post is to try to tell the story of this collaboration”

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I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X.

Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.

Acute Spinal Epidural Hematoma: A Serious Complication of Chiropractic Therapy Spinal epidural hematoma is a rare but potentially devastating condition that can result in permanent neurologic deficits if not diagnosed promptly. This case report presents a 48-year-old female pati...

Acute Spinal Epidural Hematoma:
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We could have the “is Die Hard a Xmas movie” debate or we could ram rusty needles into our eye sockets whilst listening to Cliff Richard on endless loop, at this point its entirely touch and go which is the most painful

Confirmation bias is my favorite bias.

An image of the dragon Smaug from the Hobbit,sleeping on a pile of gold. The word 'notepads' has been added to the pile.

Me

I'd say Chris Mason is a close runner up.

Can anyone think of a more overtly biased BBC political journalist than NICK ROBINSON?

Lenders gear up for loosening of capital rules by Bank of England Bankers are expecting easing of leverage ratio as part of forthcoming review

Playing with Fire.

British banks expect their capital requirements to be eased.

Lower capital requirements and higher leverage to be permitted as post-2008 crash reforms scrapped.

Banks will do more gambling to boost profits. Public purse will bear the cost of bailouts.
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Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the climbdown would enable wider benefits to be delivered quickly.

Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights.

It was a manifesto pledge

Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?

DeepSeek just released a new state of the art math prover, DeepSeek-Math-V2, competitive with Google, OpenAI or ByteDance, while being a publicly documented open weight models. A few reading notes along the way:

Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

"torch _dtype is deprecated! Use "dtype instead! PerceptronForCausalLM (model): PerceptronModel (embed_tokens): Embedding(8197, 64, padding_idx=3) (hidden_layer): PerceptronDecoder Layer ( (self_attn): PerceptronAttention( (q_proj: Linear(in_features=64, out_features=2048, bias=False) (k_proj): Linear(in_features=64, out_features=2048, bias=False) (v_proj): Linear(in_features=64, out_features=2048, bias=False) (o_proj): Linear(in_features=128, out_features=64, bias=False) (q_norm): PerceptronRMSNorm((16,), eps=1e-06) (k_ norm): PerceptronRMSNorm((16,), eps=1e-06) (mlp): PerceptronMLP( (gate_proj): Linear(in_features=64, out_features=256, bias=False) (up_proj): Linear(in_features=64, out_features=256, bias=False) (down_proj): Linear (in_features=256, out_features=64, bias-False) (act_fn): SiLUActivation() (pooler): UnconventionalTalentRevealedHere(magical-16) (input _layernorm): PerceptronRMSNorm((64, ), eps-1e-06) (post attention_layernorm): PerceptronRMSNorm((64,), eps=1e-06) (norm): PerceptronRMSNorm((64, ), eps=1e-06) (rotary_emb): PerceptronRotaryEmbedding() (Im_head): Linear(in_features=64, out_features=8197, bias=False) PerceptronForCausalLM'> Total parameters: 975393, Trainable parameters: 975393 tensor ([[8192, 659, 174, 4365, 313, 238, 2014, 92, 7462, 34, 8193, 8192, 663, 174]]) <| im_start |›user why is the sky blue?‹|im_end ||im_start|›assistant <think> Query: "why do some people in the other ones like the same way to make it" Parse components: - "try" » need specific numbers, not just "bad" → temporal comparison. "different ways" + temporal question. ### 1. Semantic parsing "Basic" = "width-country" - ambiguous. • High confidence. - "destrish" = "friendly" = "graid" = "math"

Mariusz Kurman & @mkurman88 X.com HA! Check this out, bro! :D First checkpoint of PERCEPTRON 0.975M! High eval loss (3.91), so stay tuned, brothers and sisters. And it's a fcking SINGLE hidden layer model D Literally: embeddings → hidden layer → norm → embeddings

the experiment continues — recognizable text below 1M parameters(!!)

they exposed it to 1B tokens of the SYNTH dataset, probably can train longer

N8 N8 Programs @ @N8Programs • 17h i'd always recommend using at least two hidden layers so you get access to induction heads 1 O10. Thi 711 Mariusz Kurman v @mkurman88 贝 企 X.com Think about it differently. If we can train a single-layer model with somewhat promising results, it indicates we're doing something fundamentally wrong with the current SOTAs

the reason why he’s doing this

Thinking about starting one of those accounts that posts photos of their pets with captions written from the pet's point of view. My gimmick would be that my pet is a japanese spider crab and the only thing it ever says is "I'm going to get you"

Robbie Gibb says he finds the idea there's been a coup at the BBC is "offensive". I doubt he finds it nearly as offensive as I find his efforts to interfere with editorial independence or hiring decisions, but sure.

Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.

Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes

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