The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window

A point to make here is chain of evidence - nothing coming out of the Trump administration can be trusted to be genuine or untampered with. The upshot is it would make the Epstein files nothing more than the ultimate distraction, where they can finally reveal "the genuine files" as a nothingburger.

Government is the perfect mark to sell AI to, it's run by technical illiterates who will happily listen with bated breath to advisors composed entirely of your sales team, and have bottomless pockets of other peoples money.

Companies that have experimented in using AI have seen no productivity gains. The message doesn't need to "cut through" because the message is empty hype. Remember cities will be redesigned around the Segway?

This is undoubtedly the real "war on British culture and values" - by preventing our culture and values being continued and studied.

He'll try some more appeasement, of course. If he were cut in half, it would say "worm" running down the middle. I can already hear his whiney nasal voice say "It's a matter for the US courts to decide."

Labour is run by the most right wing elements within it, this is what is commonly understood by "hard right." You may be thinking of far right, consisting of several major political parties in the UK, that now hold policies once only uttered in public by the terrorist group the National Front.

Digital ID will put UK on a dangerous path – just ask India I spent years reporting on digital IDs like the Brit Card. This is what I found

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I have no idea who these people are in government. They are nothing like any Labour government I’ve ever known.

Presumably the EU wasn't lobbied by The Tony Blair Institute funded by Larry Ellison over how he might profit and how best to use AI and the centralised database of everyones information the UK ID card scheme will enable to surveil on everyone and keep them "on their best behaviour" (his words).

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

‘The chancellor appeared to be referring to the little whirlpool ramshorn snail, which is 5mm in diameter, and one of the rarest creatures in Britain’..: Environmentally sound policy then🌍

When the LLM bubble bursts, everyone is going to have massive datacentres full of very expensive to operate, relatively domain-specific hardware. Oversupply, underdemand. The "new thing" doesn't magically and instantly appear to replace that demand.

Same, I once queried a mod instabanning someone on IRC when they seemed to be chatting quite amiably, and got what was an almost perfect rendition of the bartenders Nazi bar speech, apparently their nick had those special numbers, I was naive and shocked at the time.

This would have been about 15-20 years ago on Slashdot while trying to work out why several posters were displaying the most vile politics imaginable and interacting as if it were perfectly normal. I stumbled across some chat logs associated with the usernames. I just wish I'd kept the receipts.

However, I'd say that this wasn't just implicit in the culture. There was an actual insurgency. I've personally seen discussions between fascists where they were intentionally joining and subverting the conversations in tech message boards.

I've worked with tech all my life. Computing was a niche subculture for a few nerds, then like any subculture that suddenly becomes on trend or a gateway to wealth, had a vast influx of the most horrible people imagineable that drove the worst aspects of the culture to new levels of toxicity.

"Do a critique of “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France " in meme format, but only bad takes?"

It's safe to say Labour have turned out to be not so much a disappoinment as a genuinely frightening wolf in sheeps clothing. We voted for no more Tories, and instead got Tories in red rosettes, all trying their best to be a Reform tribute act.

ID Cards - frightening far right authoritarianism from the billionaire-owned Labour party. Doing your best to deliver Larry Ellison's vision of an "AI powered surveillance state" where "citizens have to be on their best behaviour all the time". I cannot wait for you all to lose your jobs.

How absolutely lovely and endearing it is to see all the UK's main political parties engaged in the equivalent of Monty Pythons Four Yorkshiremen sketch over immigration. "Well, I'm going to deport 750,000." Nobody in the UK deserves these pond slime.

Absolutely everyone says that they are not racist, especially the most blatant racists. Keir Starmers wife is Jewish, which has no bearing on whether he is racist, or, in fact, whether she may be or not. It just doesn't have any bearing on it, so why bother mentioning it?

And no, this doesn't mean I'm calling for alcohol to be banned, any more than I'm calling for all drugs to be treated like alcohol. And yes, there are many, many drugs that are far more addictive and destructive than alcohol. Decriminalisation doesn't mean deregulation.

Imagine a world where "we can't ban cocaine, think of all the jobs in the cocaine industry and loss of taxes, it's madness to consider it, the economic harm is too great, not to mention it's a long standing tradition and part of our culture", now you understand our relationship with alcohol.

Alcohol is a nasty drug with addicts, causes a great number of deaths and injuries each year, with long term health conditions that place great strain on the NHS. Were it a new drug, it would be banned immediately. Drug classification has no relationship to harm, it's all politics and perception.

Absolutely true. Successive experts with decades of experience, bought in to advise successive governments have all said it should be decriminalised. Politicians ignore this advice and concoct their own fantasy so that they can project a "hard on drugs" image, it's pure theatre not based in reality.

The only thing I don't believe are the itinerary entries that are phrased as questions when clearly they would be presented as statements. Brexit: we can deport geese.

The final part of DARVO, where it seeks to obfuscate and deny what they've been responsible for. The dissonant part is that it's no longer pushing the free speech maximalist persona (although, of course, Reforms idea of free speech is "for me, but not for thee")

Labour has become a party of weathervanes. What's missing is not the appeal, not optics, not "we just have to explain it better". It is to actually stand for and believe in something beyond merely chasing hypothetical votes, and this is not the same thing as doubling down on failed politices.

Turn it about, make it not a fatalist prediction, but a call to action. I'll readily admit my hate for the direction Labour have chosen, in part because I see this as the inevitable outcome. Labour needs a huge shake-up, and soon, realisation needs to come long before the next election.

This won't work because the people voting for Reform have demonstrated they neither care for nor understand facts and figures. It's an appeal on the wrong level.

Thanks, Online Safety Act. The horrifying thing is that nearly all political parties in the UK still think that the atrocity of a bad law is a good idea.