Aindreas Ó Gallchoir

Yeah, it’s the sexy problem thing - our AI is so incredible it could end the world! which is hard to square with - actually we’re thinking it’s an erotic chatbot and some generative video slop, we’re losing a billion a week, could we have half a trillion dollars please.

Isn't Burnham faintly ridiculous though? There's more than a bit of Partridge about him imo. And God he's so sweatily desperate to be PM. I can't see it.

I thought Lamb was *a little* too super powered this time towards the end, in terms of figuring out people’s moves. But that’s my only complaint. Bar that up to par imo.

I mean… we’ve taken fucking orbiting satellite photos of the landing sites ffs.

Barbican if they had any balls. Martin Short wandering lost around brutalist concrete pathways on a cold winters day.

I think she's a brilliant film maker (watch zero dark thirty every time it turns up on streaming) and the first act is pin sharp, but I think they didn't quite know what to do with the ending? It being ambiguous felt the wrong decision to me. Like.. at least give me a sopranos weird cut to black.

I guess.. *mild spoiler* having the conceit be that they would be forced to make the decision 2 minutes before knowing what the actual 🧨outcome of the emergency was - in order to maintain the Rashomon pov tension across the vignettes, felt forced? Doesn't the pres say- cool I'll decide in 2 minutes.

Yeah it's like wtaf. He's literally saying - you're showing me too many black people and it's making me angry. How is Nick Robinson not disassembling him live on air with that shit.

hard to forget the thing a senior BBC bod said after Brexit - 'if someone says the sky is green, do we need to counter that.'

And that was said in a laconic, musing fashion. I mean..ffs.

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Wasn’t the denouement a *bit* annoying?

The thing about Peston is, he would happily interview Goebbels, and ask long winded pablum questions.

Yeah it’s batshit. We can kind of forget the sheer scale of what’s happened the last few decades.

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Yeah totally. Like, if you’d presented the current real time planetary dataflows to the guys at Darpanet, decent chance their brains would have exploded. There’s maybe an argument that Amazon, who fell into AWS to an extent, were evolutionarily funnelled into the scale they’re operating at.

Yeah it’s weird, she’s even describing packet switching / swap out behaviour that goes back to Darpa, but it’s the concurremt planetary scale of it. I get her criticism on concentration, but it’s hard to see a thousand flowers blooming at that level. There aren’t many plucky start up hoover dams.

Very interesting thread from the head of Signal on why AWS failure took them down/why they’re on AWS in the first place. Tldr - they have zero choice in the matter, and the internet is no longer a distributed system.

It’s like with trains. America is very big and Americans are very spread out. Europeans are smushed together.

Dunno. I think there's a limit to how much you can fuck with American tech mega corps unless your first name is E and your last name is U.

No chance. The dems are a complete shitshow.

The justices have a range of emergency ejector seats tho. They can simply refuse to review / send it back down, or do stuff like find the plaintiff lacks standing etc. if they don’t fancy it, they ain’t ruling on it. In fairness they might well think it’s something that needs the legislative branch.

Yeah and a substantive change there could be a decade or two away. Trump picked young justices.

Afaik the SC has already swerved 230 at least once the last year or two. they’re happy to jump feet first into restricting abortion rights, but tell them they’re potentially going to destabilise the speech and/or commerce on the internet and watch them get allll kinds of circumspect eh.

Dunno. Maybe? It’s the problem with them being unable to legislate worth a shit I think. With them incapable of drafting any non-moronic legislation, they're left hoping that judges will fix all their problems. But I can’t see a judge going within a mile of 230. It’s a keg of dynamite.

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I‘d bet a reasonable amount of money the supreme court will still refuse to touch 230. Among other things, removing the 230 shield would make say, a small website with article comments legally liable for the content of those comments. The SC won’t touch it with a barge pole I reckon.

It’s weird. They’re clearly mutating into a squid horror, but he’s half malfunctioning, trying to use Cameron era phrases like Right and Proper while trying to defend overt racism. The Tories are royally fucked. Brexit will eat all its children, one by one.

But isn’t the bottom line that the president’s powers can be pushed a verrrrrrry long way because they’re quasi-monarchical?

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Now we’ve got a Corbyn variant.

Yeah. But like - brass tacks, the government is skint, the state is skint, Brexit is a millstone and all the easily accessible money is in the middle. There are no fun answers here. Fwiw I think Reeves will institute some form of perceived wealth tax just for vibes alone. Along with real tax rises.

Yeah, I mean, kicking down the doors of Mayfair and demanding they fork over is a pleasing notion, but if you want to effectively hit deep pockets you… up large employers national insurance contributions right? Theyre the fattest cats by definition ffs. More so than any particular CEO and his Jag.