RM Griffiths

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

I’m not saying anything new here, but for Farage not to turn up for the results in Clacton, for a by-election that he caused, when people have been up all night counting votes, overseeing it etc… it’s shameful!

I now kinda want to watch an Argentina-Paraguay game. The football equivalent of Aliens vs Predators.

Absolutely perfect

Some notable exceptions but my impression:

Uncanny pool-side reading this morning. Douglas Adams, famous soothsayer, foresaw Nigel Farage’s resignation speech.

No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.

Utterly in my head over the Starmer drama. Am I disappointed in him as a leader. Yes. Do I think the floated alternatives will be better? No. Do I want change? Yes. Do I think it unwise to change leadership now? Also, yes. Round and round in my head it goes.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

Let's imagine what this tweet would have looked like if a left-winger had said Jews praying in public was "an act of domination".

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

Had an uncle like this at my wedding

I’m sure that the Taoiseach will be quite relieved to hear that Keir is not Winston Churchill.

hello I'm mental

Remember to be extra vigilant when you're out on the piss with your Fabergé egg.

School children to do mandatory (“voluntary”) shifts in care homes to solve the care crisis, reduce the need to import “low-skilled forriners”, and give the feckless youth of today a sense of purpose and duty “like we had in our day”.

Wow.

I find this absolutely infuriating. (I know I ought to read the judgment, but I’d like to be enraged online without full understanding.) What about coconut milk? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

1. Interesting to see Reform abandon its flirtation with nativism / birth rate boosterism in favour of the policy of the last Tory government 2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

If, like me, you need a break from the exhausting task of spreading Christmas cheer to all, be sure to call someone a bony-eared assfish, 'distinguished, by some sources, as having the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate.' #merrychristmas #assfish

A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.

“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss” That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.

Beautiful drive by Lando. #f1 #abudhabi #AD25

When I hear “I voted for yourself” #celebritytraitors #traitorsuk #traitors

COTA is one of my favourite races… and it’s so bloody boring 😭 #F1 #COTA

Some individuals impact lives like meteorites. You don't need to meet them or know them to be moved by them, to be inspired by them, to be sad when they are gone because they made you happy when they were here. On D'Angelo, Dec '14: talkinganimal.co.uk/dangelo/

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

*Cough cough*

In his newsletter this week ( open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/w... ), @jonnelledge.bsky.social recalls of an old viral tweet, pictured below. Which means I can’t now help but riff on how our current government would respond if Reform said something similar. So let’s imagine. 🧵

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Rapidly coming to the conclusion that everyone needs to spend a lot less time on the internet – EXCEPT journalists and cops, who evidently need to spend far more time online.

To ensure this never happens again, Starmer should once again ignore the foreign service Mandarins and to go with his gut. Welcome, Ambassador.

Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him

I can

Which is why the Govt could try blaming the boats on Farage… but god forbid they say that Brexit isn’t marvellous.

The Dublin Agreement and #Brexit 👇

Oh magnificent. Thanks Jack. www.ft.com/content/b94d...

#edfringe #edinburgh #fringe

Edinburgh? Fringe? Kids? Live Manga! HIGHLY recommended. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Trump on Epstein island: "I never had the privilege of going to his island."