Dan Thorpe

“Confidence that doesn’t announce itself” I’m sorry but what is the point of ass surgery if it’s not a fucking DUMP TRUCK sick to absolute death of this austerity mindset

In which I reply to someone with a blacked out name that they are missing the joke and they inform me that in-jokes are virtue signals “used often by the far right.” Kinda want to frame it.

And they keep saying Bluesky doesn’t have the juice…

Story on The Australian front page: Israel’s deadliest day: Nine die in public shelter in Beit Shemesh struck by Iranian missile Volunteer medic Ronit Elimelech rushed her elderly mother and three children to the shelter as sirens wailed, instinctively grabbing her vest and the medical equipment she’d used to save countless lives. It wasn’t enough to save her own.

All civilian deaths are tragic, but we're getting a real sense of whose lives are valued more.

If The Australian had run this story for Gaza it would have had to do it more than 8,000 times.

Never mind one for the around 150 children killed in a Tehran school just this week...

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Funding is available to support this position for a total 2 years for each position. Two postdoctoral researchers are being recruited for the ‘Your Boss is a Machine – Protecting Worker Autonomy in an AI-Driven Economy’ project, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Grant and led by Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh. Each postdoctoral researcher will be hosted at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE, although they will have the opportunity to interact with a range of departments at the LSE through collaboration and mentorship. Each position is tenable in the first instance for two years during the fixed term period of the grant project, with the possibility to extend a further year that is contingent upon successful project renewal in 2028. The successful candidate will conduct innovative and significant research as part of the project team, working collaboratively with Kate Vredenburgh and making connections with other scientific collaborators at the LSE or other institutions. We are open to candidates from philosophy, economics, sociology, or law, as long as they have demonstrated expertise in research related to AI and the future of work, and demonstrate a willingness to engage with an interdisciplinary team. In addition, thanks to the Future Leaders Fellowship grant, they will have ample opportunities for mentorship from senior faculty in their discipline at the LSE, and a sustained focus on their own research trajectory and success within the project. The successful applicant will; have successfully completed or be close to completing a PhD in Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, or Law by the post start date; have the ability to make significant, innovative contributions in this area, on topics relating to the project (broadly construed); be willing to work harmoniously and closely with their fellow team-members on the project. Ideally, the successful applicant will begin in September 2026.

Hey look at this cool job we're advertising here at the London School of Economics department of Philosophy.

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Photoshopped image of Anthony Albanese talking to a doctor with a spine in front of him next to an image of Grace Tame wearing her 'Fuck Murdoch' t-shirt. Headline: Spineless man frustrated that woman dares to have one

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Email from Norman Lebrecht to Yuja Wang that reads: Dear Yuja I hear from Philippa Cole that you have withdrawn from any possible opportunity for a BBC Lebrecht interview between March and June this year. I am surprised and disappointed. I thought you were a serious person who stood by her commitments. I may have to revise that opinion. all good wishes Norman" And Yuja's response (via her Instagram Stories): "@norman.lebrecht this derogatory misogynistic bullying need[s] to stop. We are human beings who grow with nourishing energy, not characters for you to abuse."

Not Norman Lebrecht pulling a Tyra Banks

New Philosophy Tube just dropped on Nebula ⭐️

A complete history of conversion therapy from 1849-now, including an exposè of groups trying to keep it legal in Britain and enforce it on the NHS with the apparent blessing of Health Secretary Wes Streeting

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Incredibly happy to see a video essay this comprehensive and accessible about the past and present of conversion therapy in the UK (and a real high point for me to have my work cited in something like this!)

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Or maybe, making sure people can afford housing, health care and basic necessities, are able to form community by not having to constantly move and are ensured financial security in one of the richest countries on earth might do it? How’s leaning right going for UK Labour? 🫠🫠🫠

Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

"Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza."

Despite its positioning as the trustworthy, “nice” AI lab, Anthropic is as big, ugly and wasteful as OpenAI, and Dario Amodei is an even bigger bullshit artist than Sam Altman. It burns just as much of its revenue on inference (59% - or $2.79 billion on $4.5 billion of revenue, versus OpenAI’s $2.5 billion (62%) on $4.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2025, if you use The Information’s numbers), and shows no sign of any “efficiency” or “cost-cutting.” Worse still, Anthropic continually abuses its users through varying rate limits to juice revenues and user numbers - along with Amodei’s gas-leak-esque proclamations - to mislead the media, the general public and investors about the financial condition of the company. Based on an analysis of many users’ actual token burn on Claude Code, I believe Anthropic is burning anywhere from $3 to $20 to make $1, and that the product that users are using (and the media is raving about) is not one that Anthropic can actually support long-term. I also see signs that Amodei himself is playing fast and loose with financial metrics in a way that will blow up in his face if Anthropic ever files its paperwork to go public. In simpler terms, Anthropic’s alleged “38% gross margins” may, if we are to believe Amodei’s own words, not the result of “revenue minus COGS” but “how much a model cost and how much revenue it’s generated.” Anthropic is also making promises it can’t keep. It’s promising to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure (and an additional "up to one gigawatt”), “tens of billions” on Google Cloud, $21 billion on Google TPUs with Broadcom, “$50 billion on American infrastructure,” as much as $3 billion on Hut8’s data center in Louisiana, and an unknowable (yet likely in the billions) amount of money with Amazon Web Services. Not to worry, Dario also adds that if you’re off by a couple of years on your projections of revenue and ability to pay for compute, it’ll be “ruinous.” I think that’s he’s right. Anthropic cann…

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BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

Some pretty detailed Noticing Things here

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

"Sartre’s injunction to remember that antisemites are primarily “amusing themselves” is true of most right wing discourse, no matter... how terrible. As such, the right are strongly averse to any sort of reality-testing." @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Can confirm this is an accurate representation of the anime, only thing I’d add is that it’s also kinda gay (complementary)???

All this time, you lacked the vitamin? And yet you persevered?

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

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Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.

One of the sites in our study had crudely laminated A4 printer paper signs saying MALE and FEMALE over two gender neutral bathrooms (obviously with no alteration to the braille), people truly just do this shit for some reason and it makes me feel insane x

UK politics Alistair Carns: Labour's ex-marine who 'would be a nightmare' for the Tories 20m ago

The British public are tired of the weird charisma vacuum lawyer who the press were all gushing over and calling a sex symbol. The British public are now crying out for a weird guy nobody’s heard of who looks like a deformed Neil Patrick Harris as the Nazi Psychic SS Officer in Starship Troopers.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Cut off screenshot of a message to a choreographer friend, reading “would you be open to teaching two unco fags how to move in a compelling way”. “Unco”, of course, being deeply 90s Australian slang for “uncoordinated”

Wedding planning is fun, actually

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

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anyone telling u outright not to learn music theory is secretly an evil robot trying to keep u from making cool shit

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.