Taffy Osborne

me: hey, can we pick up my mom on the way to church? uber driver: sure me: cool, I’ll cancel the hearse

American polling lines are another version of this right? Like it's never taken me more than 10 minutes to vote, and we know who has won the same night, despite hand counting every ballot.

62km!!

I genuinely saw this and thought “we’ve really moved a long way from slogans like ‘live, laugh, love’”

A system that moves by sea and can do intercepts? So a warship then? Do the navy know they are getting 10bn for new ships?

Going to bed

This is really fun by Giles and it makes his point superbly.

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

Ok this is great.

These idiots are going to get someone killed. From the sound of it there might be enough to prosecute here. The idea of boats having to turn off AIS, which these days is a vital safety system, and weilding knives around inflatables with people in.... The authorities cannot let this roll on.

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

This is very good by Martin

ICYMI: my post on the sheer unhealthiness and groupthink of the culture around AI, "a community of would-be-martyrs, enmeshed in a deep paranoid fantasy that they alone can stave off the end of the world."

..so the problem here is not that Ministers say there are "legitmate concerns" about immigration. It's that Ministers don't come out & say "but some so-called concerns, expressed both by so-called protestors and the media, are frankly just xenophobia and racism, and they should have no place here"

This is exactly it I don't want to live forever but I would *love* to know what happens.

He'll require a minister for DCMS for this so that's out.

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

Unexpectedly intervened in a suicide attempt off a bridge in Cork, which was unexpected but everyone is fine and clean forgot to take a picture of the well deserved Guinness #4. Was very handy to be hanging out with a team of therapists who were great but could have used a security professional

This is lovely

Cos of my event work I spend a lot of time holding up decibel meters to things and some of the "how can the resident possibly be expected to live through this" videos and the readings they are getting are equivalent to living next to a normal road.

I think it's worse actually because in 2003 you had to go out of your way to say not all Muslims, Islam compatible with life in a democracy, just these extremists etc. and now they don't bother.

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

Anyway, Brian Eno said it best:

Certain words spring a trap in his mind: Asylum seekers = lunatics Transistor factories = trans people Intervention = military

Yes for a bit, then she would be unsound on something obscure and everyone would get oddly mad.

I think (hope) this type of thing has failed to understand the electoral backlash the type of politics this type of guy represents is about to receive. I really hope the Americans find a *vengeful* candidate next time round to properly shut the door to these guys.

Pete Hegseth could become the presidential candidate of the right-wing media’s id, running a furious culture war campaign fixated on domestic political enemies that checks all the boxes for authoritarian-minded pundits indifferent to traditional policy issues. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

I love it when I research and buy a thing within 5 minutes, then get constantly moidered about the thing for weeks afterwards, as I am now someone who might buy a thing. Lads it's a toaster, I only need one, I brought one from your website.

it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences

This is very good by Dmitry on systematic bad faith argument.

If you were to be born at random today in a random country your odds of living a good life in a free and rich country are significantly significantly better if it's a monarchy. Worst case it's a rich gulf state, very very worst N Korea. I would rethink some of your assumptions.

This is obviously correct. Anyone who thinks at this point they are rejecting all AI hasn't noticed when they have used it successfully.