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3/4 @sianushka.bsky.social The uk govt was forced to accept gays in the military by ECtHR in 2000. It was absolutely not govt policy. Political credit where it's due, please
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Replying to @postoctobrist.bsky.social
Old boy has gone in with both barrels: what do you think about Brexit, what do you think about Scottish independence. Not really waiting for an answer before musing about whether ‘referendum’ is a gerund. “You’re a lawyer, you did Latin-“ and he is disappointed to learn otherwise
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I must say this piece I wrote in August has aged extremely well. We’re not ready for the AI security crisis. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
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imagine being the one person in the world who pays a thousand pounds to meet Amol Rajan, and taking him back to your house that is covered in Joe Orton-style collages of Amol Rajan and showing him the tattoo of his face on your upper thigh and how unfair it will be when you also go to prison
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The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act
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If I can get just one teen girl to use the word epistemic, this entire career will have been valuable. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/random PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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It's embarrassing for Silicon Valley that this has to even be said. But it does. I'm also embarrassed for them that they can't grasp the human mind and its extension, human society, are indivisible. You can't separate intelligence from who and what we are.
Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.
My personal western cultural canon starts with this. What's top of yours? youtu.be/18ifdidR8QA?...
Anyway, my personal Western cultural canon starts with this. What is the top of yours? youtu.be/7MBySz9Qxbc?...
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It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
Anecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.
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Simultaneously here and in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🤨
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