Lee Curran

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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BBC Politics Y @BBCPoliti. • 49m «The real focus should be on Epstein's victims and also the work that this Labour government has been doing to tackle violence against women and girls" Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to claims that No.10 is a 'boys club'. #BBCLaurak

Luckily we have a ton of new MPs who are well placed to remove and replace the boy’s club and seek justice for Epstein’s victims. We know there can’t be any funny business, because they were hand-picked by Peter Mandelson himself.

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

again (with respect to OPs): LLMs do not make 'mistakes'. they respond to textual input with statistically likely textual output. whether that output correlates with 'facts' or not is effectively arbitrary. using them to answer questions is a sort of category error.

If Starmer looked away over Mandelson so did Parliament. So did most of the media. And yet Starmer finds himself almost forced to resign? Why? Part of the answer is a weak Labour Party, from top to bottom. Part of the answer is an increasingly unhinged political culture.

Lewis does make some good points here, but look: Mandelson is not just some guy here. He has been at the core of the Labour right for decades; he was clearly right in the middle of McSweeney’s project all along, both the secret wrecking campaign and after; he was *literally picking candidates*.

So you’re done pandering to racists and transphobes then?

An MP calling someone a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions in an *anonymous briefing to a journalist* is really quite something.

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Fuck the useless fucking arseholes who run the railways in this shithole of a country.

Quite funny that Starmer's allies are waking up to this point now …

Cuts to Winter Fuel… not in the manifesto
Disability benefit cuts… not in there either
Cutting jury trials… also not there
Digital ID… no mention
Raising employers NI… nope
Freezing tax threholds… nah
Contracts with Palantir… no

Amazing really. Decades of “Shut up you stupid pricks and let the grown-ups sort it out” and now here the grown-ups are, pants around their ankles live on national television, trying to explain why their hand is stuck in the till. 18 months into their great renewal project.

News headline showing Palestine Action activists being cleared at trial

This is brilliant news, and also shows why the Labour Party wants to abolish most trials by jury, and how important it is they don't get away with it:

There's genuinely a study on the government website commissioned in 2018 but only published in 2025, which is like: the UK is probably really corrupt but there's so little transparency and such poor data that it's impossible to say how bad it is
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Almost as if the Times is owned by a man at the very centre of global networks of abuse & corruption, and the FT isn't.

[The FT is, in fact, owned by Nikkei, which is owned by its employees. Practically communism!]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei,....

Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Ma...• 3h X Mandelson lobbied The Guardian not to make me Europe Editor. His meddling became public(in The Telegraph) and I was offered the Brussels post but decided to return to The Mirror as a columnist. No tears for him here. Michael Crick o @MichaelLCri..• 12h Mandelson had a reputation of angrily telling journalists who upset him that he would report them to their their bosses whom he claimed to know well (for example, BBC DG John Birt). Does anyo...

Sienna Rodgers @siennam...• 42m X A little anecdote on @TimesRadio earlier this week on the time Mandelson tried to have me fired If you were not a mouthpiece, you were inviting trouble

A lot of people seem to feel free to talk about this stuff now, where they didn’t before

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

From: Sent: To: Sunday, May 8, 2016 10:18 PM jeffrey E. Subject: London talk the title of my talk October 25 in London, audience "500, 35 pounds paid attendance each "An Evening on Evolutionary Biology: An overview covering Feminism, Transgender, Homosexuality and Honor Killings." $3000 for me (i will already be in London paid for by Imperial College) and an almost certain corporate $3000 add on just as you outlined-this will create an immediate internet wave especially in the UK with coverage in all the major newspapers and so on anyway i will concentrate on it, to the exclusion of individual pieces at the moment all best

I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

This is for real what has happened: Peter has been the brains of the outfit - if not literally the boss, then certainly the guy everyone defers to - going right back to the secret launch of the secret wrecking campaign in 2018. And nobody wants to be the one who explains that’s what it is.

rememeber when Labour members elected a left-wing leader so the parliamentary party engaged in a kamikaze wrecking project under the political guidance of a key associate to a paedophile sex trafficker leading directly to the ascension of the Prime Minister we have today

This is the thing. If everyone just goes ‘oh how awful’ every time there is further confirmation of an already incredibly well documented elite paedophile ring, but no accountability ever arrives, what on earth are we doing.

Jeffrey Epstein sent Peter Mandelson $75,000, documents show Newly released files include three payments from disgraced financier’s JPMorgan account to former UK power broker

Mandleson, of course, is by all account still a member of the Labour Party. Worth remembering Neal Lawson, the head of compass, was almost expelled from the party for retweeting someone who called for tactical voting in a local election. www.ft.com/content/1728...

The Arts Council now funds AI projects, which I find baffling tbh

www.thestage.co.uk/news/ace-to-...

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.