Ash Tyson

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind.

He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now.

I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*.

As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

The only political battle that matters in the world right now is the one against authoritarian nationalism (the word 'fascist' is succinct).

Very simply: if *any aspect* of your political platform aids authoritarian nationalism, we must oppose you with everything.

*Any* aspect. Reflect on that.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Jonathan Hall is speaking at Policy Exchange today, and if the reporting of his planned speech is accurate, some of these points are being put in an extraordinarily inept way, making it sound like any pro trans, feminist or anti racist discourse is undermining the UK and sustained by hostile powers:

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For existing audible collections maybe check - github.com/rmcrackan/Au... - Tools to help “take back control” (v.sorry!). Stripping the drm (with inaudible) and self-hosting a collection (in plex, audiobookshelf) plus apps to use on phones / PCs. It’s getting easier!

It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.

Notable for a UK audience that Palantir has a significant and expanding role within the NHS…

a table labeled "How common is your problem, how helpful is the response?" There are three columns labeled common, rare, and novel and two rows labeled Actual Human Expert and LLM. Common problem, human expert: helpful Rare problem, human expert: more helpful Novel problem, human expert: most helpful Common problem, LLM: helpful Rare problem, LLM: unhelpful Novel problem, LLM: harmful

i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert.

the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important

Would that be Wes 'Protector of Women' Streeting?

So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC: "We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works. "We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are. That's what the prime minister's doing."

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.

That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.

The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

What would a Democratic version of what's going on even look like?

President AOC plays League of Legends all day while defacto Commander-in-Chief Taylor Swift's team of 19-25 year old furries illegally confiscate all open FBI casefiles and upload them to Archive of Our Own as story prompts?

The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders.

But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.

That’s it: game over.

Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.

X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater QueerAF has uncovered video footage of the Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he’d met with Bayswater parents and expressed his sympathy for the “traumatic experiences” families with trans children...

I see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social met and expressed sympathy with the notorious Bayswater Group - and then invited them to participate in his 'consultation' and then ban on puberty blockers. www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...

Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest.

They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0.

It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.

Twitch streamer Angelique's 24 hour-Tits-Out-To-Get-Starmer-Out marathon hot-tub stream is currently being watched by over 12,000 gooners.

When will Starmer wash the soup bubbles of his failed leadership off the heaving bosom of British governance?

The Pinterest Board calling for Starmer to resign has been bookmarked no fewer than 147 times, and two separate creators have used it as a template to crochet a throw pillow.

Under these circumstances, how long can the Prime Minister possibly cling to a position so obviously untenable?

Captain Sad and his Ship of Fools, the Cowsills, 1968, 📸 by @DonaldJTrumpJr

Shall we do a re-cap for Labour? Deals with non EU countries will generate very little. They are too far away, we trade with them too little; trade deals' benefits are proportional to how deep they are and we and they are not going to want to go deep.

The other place has noticeably gone downhill since the recent exodus. Fewer quality tweets, lower overall engagement and far more crappy viral videos forced onto your feeds, rather than content from people you actually choose to follow

Yeah - the options are so poor up here that I don’t think there are any kerbside chargers at all. There are probably less than 30 car park chargers in total in the nearest 2-3 towns - with 70,000+ people!

(Home Bargains just installed 4 - so things are changing!)

Fast charging is the only real option if you can’t do it at home or work. (Like many, many people around here). It needs a big change in industry / government to make charging nearly as convenient as petrol - or people will just not switch.

I don’t think you’ve factored in the badness of the charging options in north west England! (Broken or extortionate chargers and many with no subscription options). I want it to work but not here - not yet.

Absolutely. I was naively assuming public fast charging would already be at a stage where you could treat it more like a petrol station. (Unthinkingly fuel up once a week, at the shops etc.)

Definitely needs a renewed focus from industry / government. Charging is not a solved problem (yet)

I hope someone can solve it. Fast charging needs to be cheaper than petrol even without subscriptions etc. I was shocked at the prices and how many chargers were already broken out here in the sticks!