This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.
Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
hearing microsoft is reorganizing its AI team under the banner of "the Copilot System." Also hearing that teams are under pressure to *reduce* AI token use, remit is that there needs to be "fiscal responsibility in AI ops" and that Claude Code usage is being reduced in favour of Copilot CLI.
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
This one is surely a still from an ITV drama called “The Rig” about oil workers solving a murder in the middle of the North Sea.
Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.
2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
This is the kind of excuse I need to motivate myself to learn a language and exercise more.
I certainly feel my student loan repayments (9p + 6p in the £), but it is difficult to express the invaluable cognitive training and intellectual enrichment that higher education gave me.
Lolololol
RESOLVED: no one to be quoted by large-circulation media outlets about overall employment levels until they have convincingly demonstrated to a panel of economists that they understand the lump of labour fallacy.
It’s time to retire the phrase, “when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”
on.ft.com/3RoUozD The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes
While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer. Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact. A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmbo, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US. "American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers, " said Qi.
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
Funny juxtaposition of headlines in this morning's Financial Times.
According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
So, they will accept protection money. They're basically mobsters. @gideonrachman.bsky.social was onto something with his article today: www.ft.com/content/9946...
It seems a lot of non-MAGA Trump voters had the same thinking: they believed that Trump would carry out the policies that they themselves liked, but he wouldn't carry out the other 'crazy stuff', thinking that he was saying crazy stuff to 'troll the libs'. It didn't occur to them that he was serious
Goldman Sachs is warning that that America’s famous “exorbitant privilege” might be killed by “negative trends in US governance and institutions”. 👀https://on.ft.com/42cMYnT
Intriguing @zoecrowther.bsky.social spot:
Government has quietly joined Reddit, where it's posting in subreddits inc Royal Navy & cars
It's part of No10's bid — driven by the New Media Unit — to step up comms online, where it feels voters increasingly get news www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Good article, Sarah. I am seeing this in software development. I was lucky to have come through an apprenticeship scheme. It's challenging to get hired as a junior outside of apprenticeship / graduate scheme routes. It will likely lead to further concentration (and scarcity) in senior dev roles.
Thanks!
is this a requirement in addition to scoring 8+ overall for daily living, that there needs to be at least 4+ score in a single PIP descriptor category?
meme stocks like Tesla tend to be volatile.
"TfL’s analysis shows that within a km of an Elizabeth line station in London, the number of new houses is 8-14% higher, and nearly 400,000 jobs have been created since 2015."
A smashing success: it's carried half a billion passengers since opening in 2022.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Subscriptions are worth it. The alternative model for online news prioritises intrusive ads that make navigation impossible, with clickbait titles that are either deceptive or tantalisingly vague as to what they're about. They punish the reader for clicking on the link.
Happened to me, a space in the project name which it rendered as '%20' caused broken SwiftUI previews.
The most obvious parallel to me seems like the end of the USSR, the classic "revolution from above." That's the clearest modern example of a small group seizing control of a state not in order to exercise power through it, but to dismantle it.
