It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.
I was in an east Asian food shop talking to a stranger about dhal and my wife just accused me of giving "unsolicited lentil advice" and now I have to form a band with that name
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Churchill culling a badger would be more historically accurate
Worth pointing out that if someone on the left had suggested that a prominent Jewish politician had "no idea of England and is uncomfortable with the very concept itself", then they would be roundly condemned for engaging with an age-old antisemetic trope.
Secondly they have one eye on the corporate consultancies that come after their time in office.
Lots of people are asking "who do they hope to attract with these policies?" And the answer is twofold, firstly they want to repel the left and moderates, getting them to leave the party and allowing a figure from the right to take the leadership.
If you are viewing Labour's policy decisions through the lens of electoral politics then you're going to get a weak analysis that produces more questions than answers.
The party is run by a faction singularly unprepared to govern who are engaged in a struggle to dominate the party in perpetuity.
It sits on my desk in Lisbon, I enjoyed and speak of it a lot when discussing possibilities for transformation
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's also amusing to see the absolute certainty with which people who have zero understanding, knowledge, experience or respect for genuinely participatory processes, pontificate on questions of how to bring people along with you.
I can't be overstated how much of this is driven by their politics which consists of "we know best".
It's Blairist technocracy in overdrive which shows little to know understanding of the political terrain in 2026.
Woops, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have a new scheme to put 'Human Authored' into new books and Tracey Chevalier (author of Girl With A Pearl Earring) goes on the BBC Today Programme to promote it... and promptly admits that she uses genAI for historical research.
Anyone involved in organizing for progressive causes should assume, as par for the course, that the state is monitoring them.
And this is irrespective of which political party is in power.
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Loved it. My first thought was 'punk bird!' and then I watched it grab and devour a worm.
I literally stumbled upon one of these birds on my way to work this morning.
Which makes it all the more depressing when western politicians and media wheel out those old arguments for war and the consent manufacturing machine goes "whirr"
What I will add is that it appears clear this is not like 2003 in the sense that the US and Israel have no real interest in regime change, there is no real plan - however half-arsed - for any transition in power. This is just a policy of regional destablization to embed Israeli power in the region.
I'm too old and tired to be rehashing arguments that were as valid in 2003 as they are in 2026. I'm just going be referencing those as (Standring, 2003a; Standring, 2003b; Standring; 2004).
Their goal isn't to govern, they have one eye on appeasing capital and the cushy consulting jobs post-Westminster
Strange that Yvette Cooper was doing the rounds claiming that the UK doesn't consider whether allies are breaking international law but allows them to make their own evaluation.
Not sure if accidental or not but it's particularly appropriate: Robert Shaw was born deep in the Red Wall, in Westhoughton
I don't know if it was an intentional or incidental effect of the 1983-1997 Labour modernization project.
Symptom of the replacement in the Labour party of those whose political coming of age was in the trade unions with those who were formed politically in the NUS/JCR.
There's little doubt that the current Labour leadership sees anyone to the left of Blair as a dangerous extremist
Agree completely. It's important to recognise and criticise violence, injustice and oppression while rejecting false binaries.
