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Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

If money is speech, what’s being said by someone who contributes to both parties, and how is it different from naked corruption?

MS spend their entire history on a Star Trek-esque alternating good-suck-good-suck release cadence for Windows, and it looks like they’re going to break it by going suck-megasuck

Flashbacks to the amber screen monitors at the library cataloguing system

Where on earth are we going to house 240,000 British tax dodgers returning from Dubai?

It’s worth noting that booking.com only shows around a dozen hotels in the entire city when you limit the search to rooms costing enough to be charged the 10,000 rate. The overwhelming majority of rooms in the city are getting either no increase or one of a few hundred yen.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Thinking about Red Dwarf. Shout out to Rob Grant.

So as well as the whole giant robot thing, NERV have got all the 14 year olds in their care drinking coffee? I’m worried for their mental health.

Do you know, I’m starting to think that Tony Blair might be a twat

Following America into an illegal war worked out so well for Tony Blair, I can see why Starmer would want more of that

They’re wankers

Most tech “innovations” are variations on ways to use technology to exploit loopholes in legislation, in this case running a bank without having to follow the rules that banks have to follow.

I keep clicking this every week somehow imagining that you’re playing the long game and one day there’ll be some sort of payoff

Red Dwarf’s ‘visionary’ co-creator Rob Grant dies aged 70 Grant and Doug Naylor created the much-loved sci-fi sitcom in 1988

Worked with Rob on an unrealised project back in 2010 and he couldn’t have been nicer. How terribly sad.

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INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

I am so sick of GDP as a measure of humanity

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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Mmmm, KotKo

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

I wonder if that hasn’t played a part in why the internet is shit now, it’s too much stress to put anything out.

Why 2026 is the year to visit Cambodia After a year of political disruption, Sarah Rodrigues says Cambodia has finally become a celebrated destination in its own right

This extraordinary South East Asian country is no longer just for backpackers

After a year of political disruption, Sarah Rodrigues says Cambodia has finally become a celebrated destination in its own right

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The irony is that those companies will have had to pay for that API access, unlike Anthropic who scraped all their content without paying anyone for it.

I miss when the Web was something you could surf

a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

All AI video seems to be either quick cuts or slow camera pulls on someone staring into the middle distance. Meaningful actions don’t seem to be a thing it can understand.

The volume of text used to train modern LLMs didn’t exist in his time, even if he had access to every single book ever published up til that point. The notion of predicting next token probabilities based on a massive corpus created by a billion Internet users would be a huge leap on many levels.

Your phrasing of the prompt is doing a lot to lead it in that direction.

Is this why hes in every movie?

There’s a lot of tech industry people on my LinkedIn who don’t seem to realize just how much they’re telling on themselves every time they gush about how their productivity have been multiplied by 10