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He loves an empty threat though. Remember when he challenged Zuck to a cage fight and then promptly chickened out?? Pathetic.

Make a war film rubbish: Magnolia Tide

Jesus christ, Liz fucking Truss?!?!

When they care only about the price of science, but not the value.

It's Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! I love the ones that go underwater, like this 1977 cover art for "A Medicine for Melancholy," by Ray Bradbury. It's uncredited, but might be a Dean Ellis.

Radiobread

Downgrade a movie: The Brown Knight

Downplay a book or movie: The Mancunian Candidate

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

The single greatest memo of all time.

I want to buy a thing and own it. Not rent it. I don't want to pay a monthly fee to access it. I don't want it to be stored in the cloud. I have to pay a monthly fee for an app to tell me how many subscriptions I'm paying for. It's insanity. We pay memberships for things that have ads. Why?

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been fucked up for so many by so few.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: In the interest of national security, Scotland and Ireland must immediately seize the Trump-owned golf courses on their land.

Someone should quietly explain to him that, if he makes any further movement on Greenland, all his UK golf courses will be vital to UK national security, immediately repossessed, and either rewilded or converted to wind / solar farms...

80% of Europe’s spending on cloud services and software - around €265bn per year - flows to US companies. Digitally, Europe is less a sovereign power and more a US colony. www.cigref.fr/la-dependanc...

Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.

Time and again, people look back on horrors and wish they had taken action and done things differently. Trump and Putin have brought us to that critical turning point. We either remove them or suffer the consequences for generations.

Tell you wot, Sagan had it on the money...

Arrest Bondi for not releasing all of the Epstein files. Arrest her Today.

The world is actually FULL of technologies that were created and then went away because they sucked and no one wanted them. it happens all the fucking time. The idea that as soon as they're here we all just have to learn to live with it and find a use for it is just stupid tech industry propaganda.

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact. The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Greed.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Starting to look like Trump might be a bit of wrong un. Time will tell.

it does not necessarily mean this though, because the dominant way people end up on Wikipedia is through Google, and Google has loaded the top of all of its search results with AI-mediated info taken from Wikipedia. This does not mean consumers prefer it this way, the choice has been made for them

When did everyone decide that things in frying pans need a weight on them? Deeply weird.

it really was stunning how quickly so many managers and other people with power snapped over from "cautiously exploring AI" to "you must use AI to walk, shit, and breathe or you're fired"

There are an awful lot of seriously weird takes on Bad Things Happening in the UK on here at the moment. Please do take time to ask a Brit before sharing! I volunteer myself as tribute here.

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Unilateral talks between trump and Putin aren’t peace talks. They’re war plans.

Trump and Putin are meeting on US soil because a country lawless enough not to arrest Trump is lawless enough not to arrest Putin. www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1...

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

Thinking about it, and as someone who could never have cared less about them at the time, it is genuinely culturally embarrassing that The Liberties were a Thing. Oooooooh he's just like Byron. Grow up.

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵

Babbage indulging in some Victorian vaguebooking...

A recurrent theme throughout this war has been that Western decision-makers, driven by inherent risk aversion, are being pushed ever closer to a position where they will sooner or later have to accept tremendous risks to avert Ukrainian defeat and its catastrophic consequences.

@davidallengreen.bsky.social

A wonderful quote by Herbert Simon: "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. [...] It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."