Luca Tiratelli

“Social media” officially refers to a sector that no longer exists

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Once again: the fact that academics have to do often the basic job of journalists (providing accurate information to the public, when it isn't even demystifying their claims) speaks volumes about the level of democratic crisis in this country (there is no democracy without a well informed public)

Wonder how many actual human PhDs you could fund for all the capital thrown into OpenAIs furnace

Francis Fukuyama:

At the moment the OSA is not applied to gambling websites. Really can’t see any excuse for this.

The norm is surely a function of the fact that humanity cannot survive (or at least anything like civilisation cannot survive) a nuclear war. That fact would still be true, so I reckon the norm would emerge regardless.

Interest rates falling because the economic growth outlook is a bit gloomy and we are beginning to accept persistently higher levels of inflation feels like a weird thing to celebrate as evidence the economic plan is working

A relatively good news story in NHS land is the declining workforce vacancy rate, and the decline in geographic inequalities in that rate.

The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.

This was pretty much the position of the original luddites, one of history’s most unfairly maligned groups.

They said that automation of artisanal work under capitalism will decrease quality and lower wages for skilled workers and they were… right!

I’m reminded of the governments narrative about the Birmingham schools “Trojan horse” letter: yes this is clearly a made up forgery with no basis in reality and yet somehow maybe it’s still true in some way.

This is a bit of a problem for the “legitimate concerns” narrative so beloved of journalists.

Can a concern be legitimate if it’s based on a misapprehension of reality? Because clearly, some people’s concerns are just that.

Can a journalist please ask what exactly the government thinks a responsible citizen should do with this information once they have it

I'm reminded of what Paul Krugman said in the 2000s, that it was an economy powered entirely by people selling their houses to each other

right now we have an economy that is growing because AI companies can get unlimited funds from investors to build data centers

Listening to LBC News, politicians are still lying about what the Rwanda scheme was, or they still don't understand that nobody was ever to come back

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

"I just have some unpopular opinions about number theory that question received wisdoms"

Would a university be allowed to fire a maths lecturer who consistently teaches that 2+2=5 under this rubric

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

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they should be called YIYBYs, because it’s very much not their own backyards they’re actually wanting things to be built

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

This may be a reach, but I genuinely think that Shamima Begum case was a huge moment in what got us here.

That was a moment in which the British state formally and in law broke the taboo about saying "some British people are more British than others and the rights of the lesser are up for debate."

It tells us so much about the debate around immigration that the first response by journalists and politicians here is not: does this mean they are over- or underrepresented? This bias and ignorance used to be limited to the most lurid and hateful parts of the media. It is now a standard response.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

NHS England » NHS launches first ever review to tackle LGBT+ health inequalities NHS England » NHS launches first ever review to tackle LGBT+ health inequalities

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From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.