An ignoble fellow. Full-time writer and lifelong europhile. Hoping to rejoin the EU and see Trump and Putin get their comeuppances. That Musk is a wrong'un too...
Oxford, UK.
Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trumpโs war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks.
It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.
Iโve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where Iโm militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.๏ฟผ
Don't mind me, I'm off to gut higher education, one of the UK's most successful and globally respected exporting industries, because I think doing so will let me defeat white nativism with immigration charts.
I am the most naive human being alive.
When I was a kid we were taught that emissions were warming up the atmosphere, increasing the probability of things like wild fires, even in chilly old Britain. We drew pictures. We wrote to MPs. This was my neighbourhood yesterday
My anger at the deniers, obstructionists & shills knows no bounds
Westminster is famous for its nightlife - and we're consulting on how we can ensure as many people as possible enjoy our nightlife in safety. Ignore nonsense headlines about us banning "vertical" drinking - we love our visitors if they are standing or sitting!
Have your say: https://bit.ly/3TGUDKL
Oops. We developed new technologies as if we were communists believe that they would reduce human toil, and create conditions for flourishing lives. But actually they dominate us, alienate us from each other, reduce us to servants to machines, and diminish our creativity, just as Marx noted in 1844.
What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.
In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok.
I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X.
The platform continues to facilitate
The best we in the UK can do is: Since William Ewart Gladstone stepped down as PM in 1894, every single Prime Minister has been alive at the same time as Harold Macmillan.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesnโt accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface