A question of intent On Israel and Gaza.

Former Supreme Counrt judge Jonathan Sumption, witing in the New Statesman.
www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

And it makes bizarre mistakes. When Brian Wilson died I tried it on one of my fave lesser-known Beach Boys songs ("Trader", actually written by Carl Wilson). This is clearly about imperialism & the Native American genocide but it insisted it was about being ripped off by their manager.

It's brilliant for things I hate, like minuting meetings and Zoom calls.
For areas of knowledge, it did me a not bad summary of HIV cure science but being AI, it's always a bit out of date and lacks critical thinking.
It's useless for anything creative - I tried it for a story idea - cliché city.

And the 50-word 'sauna flyer'

DoxyPEP | EATG EATG has released an updated resource on DoxyPEP (doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis) to provide a community-informed document on a prevention strategy, the implementation of which varies widely ar...

*EATG's doxyPEP page*
Polish translation just released.
Robert Hejzak and I wrote it; Deniz Uyanik made the 'sauna flyer'; Apostolos Kalogiannis put it online (CZ, UK, TR, GR!).
- Easy to insert a translated version - Polish is the latest of several.
- Share widely!

www.eatg.org/publications...

Chris Packham - Wikipedia

I don't think 'we' do, necessarily. This guy, for instance, is a v popular UK TV presenter who has Asperger's
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_P...

I agree. Asperger's is very different. Children with classic autism have cognitive problems and are non-verbal or have language delay. Ones with ASD may be hyper-verbal and very intelligent. Just because there are features in common, e.g. social interaction difficulties, doesn't imply a 'spectrum'.

‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international corr...

About time a national newspaper reported fully on *this* Trump genocide, which may kill 4 million by 2030. I understand why US ones don't, but others should concentrate as much on the lethal impact of US foreign aid cuts as on his so-called 'diplomacy'.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Every word of this...
'If this were poker, Putin is holding a pair of twos and bluffing by going all in. Trump, instead of calling Putin’s bluff, is saying, “I think I’ll fold.”'

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"But net zero's a disaster!" - Farage, Gove, Jenrick etc

'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science.

And not just HIV...
www.space.com/space-explor...

Lay low or mobilize? HIV researchers agonize over how to respond to Trump administration’s attacks on science

www.positivelyaware.com/articles/lay...
Closing down huge areas of scientific research the action of an empire in terminal decline. The problem is that the US has been so far ahead in some aspects of medical research, including HIV, that other countries aren't ready yet to pick it up.

This just out in The Lancet with Moi as co-author (I mainly revised the PrEP bit).
Miłosz started writing this about 3 months ago and it's been a bit overtaken by events. But the message still holds, Europe won't see 'the End of AIDS' till eastern Europe does.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for Europe The new regime in Washington is testing pro-American sympathies to breaking point

This is the nostra-culpa article I've been waiting for from the Telegraph. In its own way quite daring; unequivocally draws a parallel between Trump 2025 and Hitler 1939, & the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Also says 2010s Austerity was a disastrous mistake.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

As HIV activists disrupt PEPFAR hearing, an expert explains the damage Trump has already done to U.S. global AIDS fight

Excellent interview between novelist/journalist/activist Tim Murphy and Mitch Warren, Executive Director of AVAC, on the current and fast-moving PEPFAR freeze situation.
www.positivelyaware.com/articles/hiv...

IAS statement: PEPFAR freeze threatens millions of lives 25 January 2025 (

Blimey. Back to the AIDS era. Millions of lives threatened.

www.iasociety.org/ias-statemen...

If Trump keeps going as he seems to intend, the rest of the world will either have to do without America - which implies uniting against it - or *become* America. So much for sovereignty?

I've watched the vid now.
It wasn't a Nazi salute.
It was a Fascist one.
A clearly deliberate full Mussolini.
Wasn't he the guy who ended up hanging from a lamppost?

Critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years, AMOC study finds Earth, being 71% covered in water, is influenced by the ocean and its movements. In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), m...

Gulf Stream shows no sign of weakening yet, though will eventually: "It's almost unanimous that the Atlantic overturning will slow in the future, but whether or not it will collapse is still up for debate," Foukal said. "This work indicates that there's still time to act."
phys.org/news/2025-01...

...Except that the best poetry also talks precisely about precise things too. Just differently.

It's popular with me. Except that the best poetry also talks precisely about precise things, too. Just differently.

Well I like this.

They did this to my dad (that would be around 1930, yes I am old). He ended up writing right-handed, very slowly and neatly

YouTube video by axelnapalm Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Or course not. Snagglepuss knew what to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fwp...

I don't think it's naive optimism, I think it's despair. Trump's second victory was a big blow to progressives everywhere and until we actually see what he's going to do we wait in anxiety. Oddly enough I think Space Karen's Tweets may annoy Europeans enough to generate some real opposition.

Previously the EU might have got together with China, India etc to form a united bloc against an isolationist USA. However Brexit has weakened the EU (and the UK) and China is also in trouble with high unemployment and low domestic demand.

My BlueSky feed's already getting deluged with tacky AI pics from tacky AI accounts. Today: a flood of cute pics of foxes (I'll probably get more now). But at least they're more jarringly different from real posts than on FB & are getting called out more by real people. Best we can hope for I guess.

"It's disgraceful Labour won't spend years on a public enquiry instead of enacting key recommendations from the last one, which didn't come up with the finding I wanted, that all Pakistani-origin men are culturally conditioned to rape white girls" - précis of Robert Jenrick on Today this morning

Because *you* are a tacky AI.

Actually, I suspect to his base "immigrant" means almost anyone with dark skin and a foreign-sounding name

I love the Death of Stalin. It mixes the humour and the horror perfectly. I'd love Armando Iannucci to do the same for Mao and Mrs Mao