Chris Pitcher

2/ Almost as significant is the clear message being sent by two dates associated with the Black community being deleted, despite both being federal holidays: parks are no longer free to enter on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (third Monday in January) and Juneteenth (June 19).

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Who is Aileen Cannon and why is Trump's Florida trial delayed? Critics say the inexperienced Trump appointee Aileen Cannon has indulged the former president's delay tactics.

Southern District by any chance?

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Trump ordered to pay $382,000 after losing UK lawsuit over Steele dossier Orbis, founded by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, compiled allegedly damaging intelligence on Trump in 2016

Is there any info on where this hypothetical action might take place? Only because I think the last time Trump tried something similar in UK courts he.... lost www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Reason 954 why a whole bunch of hypothetical AI data centres just ain't going to get built.

This might feel like splitting hairs but I think the language here is super important if we are to understand and use LLMs appropriately. If we try to project intelligence on to these things based on misunderstanding the tech, that's on us (though the AI hype train has a lot to answer for) /end

At one point the article reads:

"'Mere presence plus an ambiguous reaction under stress falls short of proving shared intent beyond a reasonable doubt in my view' ChatGPT explained"

My issue is with the word "explained". ChatGPT does not understand, it is not intelligent, so cannot "explain". 4/n

I believe we also need to be much more careful with the language we actually humans use around LLMs. I've even done this wrong myself in this thread by using the word "they" to describe LLMs - "it" is probably more appropriate since anthropomorphising these models is part of the problem 3/n

LLMs are just text generators. They do not weigh up evidence. They do not understand the law, because they don't understand. They have no concept of "fact", "right" or "wrong", because they have no concepts. They just splurge out the most statistically likely reasonable words. 2/n

Interesting article for lots of reasons. For me it shows some key issues with trying to use LLMs in the real world. The main one being: we all MUST remember these models are NOT intelligence... they do not use "logic" in the human sense, certainly not in the way we would want from a juror. 1/n

A smart admin would have moved to drop this "case" on Tuesday before the polls closed

There were certainly hints yesterday. Now this

If the US Supreme Court in their hearing tomorrow about Trump's tariffs even *hint* to a majority of Justices declaring them unconstitutional - combined with the ongoing govt shutdown - these "jitters" could look a whole lot bigger in 24 hours time

Part of getting older I didn't anticipate is this sort of creeping realisation that there's a huge amount of stuff out there written by people that don't have the first clue what they are talking about. On like, *everything*

Excellent thread about the very real-world issues we face in the NHS. Wish there was more analysis like this and less hot air from certain quarters and their pals in the press.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

If we throw another hundred billion dollars or so at all this we might get a system that can recognise a packet of crisps!

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Am also very interested to find the source on this to see the methodology used, please share if you find! As someone who is in the pilot, all I will say is "I don't recognise these numbers"

This is a superb article about how democracy works in 2025. Focus is on US politics but contains myriad lessons for UK here also.

The more you learn at the moment the more you realize that so much of what’s going to pop the bubble is straight up physics and resources. It’s not clear if you can even build a gigawatt data center campus let alone power one, and GB200s have a negative 100% gross margin. Oracle bought 400,000!

AI bros: this is not like last time, totally not a bubble, everybody relax

Also AI bros: just like last time even if it goes bad you'll get nice things

Feel similar is true in the NHS right now (just replace "sold for actual profit" with "deliver actual better service")

Message in CTO WhatsApp group: I did a code and architecture review for a company yesterday who had vibe coded their MVP - there were no common classes, modules, functions, etc. every "feature" was a separate file with literally a main method full of all the code required for that one function - no reuse anywhere and loads of bits of code that were declared but never used, variable names that didn't make sense, the same variables defined everywhere, etc. Because they were quite far down this path the tidy-up process is going to be a long and difficult road

From a CTO WhatsApp group I'm in

How fast must the Royal Mail van have been travelling to hit this wheelie bin so high in the air!?

This is a really key chart. Look at the difference between concern about immigration between Lab to Reform switchers and Lab to LD/Green/don't know switchers.

The latter group is five times larger.

Remarkably light given sunrise was at 7:02 in Leeds today 🤨

Starting to wonder if US govt buying up a share of Intel was rolling the pitch for when (not if) NVIDIA gets in trouble and needs a state bailout as the company is clearly in the "too big to fail" territory where the really bad things happen.

On the one hand the courts are doing a commendable job as the only check and balance left against huge abuses of power in the US. On the other it's the ultimate "pay to play" game where wealth can always turn proceedings into a war of attrition which ordinary people cannot afford.

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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

Looking forward to JD Vance coming out and shouting about freedom of speech in this country once again after this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...