🦇🕷️🕸️Jack Anderson🕸️🕷️🦇

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

AI evangelists have spent years now telling me, a person with a master's degree in creative writing, that their chatbots can help me with my writing. I'm going to say whatever I please about it in whatever tone I choose.

Well then how about making two versions, one with AI built in and another without it, for competent people?

I do not wish to know anything about the American nonsense going on with the woman who slept with the brain worm quack, yet I have learned many details and thoughts about both parties.

I don't think it's particularly complicated to be honest, Starmer and his team dislike, among other groups, immigrants. Once you understand that they're sincere in their horrible beliefs it all makes perfect sense.

I watched the speech as he delivered it. The whole context does not help and does not excuse the racism. He was a lawyer for decades and an MP for years, he knew the importance of tone and of content, it was a racist speech and it demonised immigrants.

I think it's fair to say that someone who describes immigrants being here as a result of a 'squalid period in our history' who are 'turning us into an island of strangers' does, in fact, view immigrants as having less inherent worth than people born here.

True, true. Was also kind of heartening to see that BP had called for help from other groups and still only managed to get a couple of dozen people out.

Antifascism is good and fun, and looking the enemy in the eye is a worthwhile endeavour, but I really would like it to be unnecessary. I'm sick and tired of fascists marauding around my city, occasionally taking up my weekends, and threatening people in my community.

Think that's probably partly that this one was on a Saturday and the last one was a Sunday (iirc), and also this was the hotel they tried to attack last year during the riots.

Recently released emails? Because... Yes.

It's *also* why he stays silent whenever the far right say something awful, or he agrees with it. He doesn't understand that leading involves more than just making laws,enforcing laws, and obeying laws.

It's also why the Palestine Action proscription is still in place. The law says they're terrorists and lays out the penalty for supporting them, therefore, to him, they are terrorists and people supporting them deserve to be arrested, even though this obviously not working and kind of stupid.

This goes beyond thanking the supreme Court for the "clarity" of their appalling judgement regarding trans rights, he doesn't actually seem to understand that he is now the one that *makes* the laws, and is uncomfortable changing them. Which is why he's so bad at this.

<Taking a long drag on a cigarette and sitting backwards on a chair>
The problem with Starmer is that he is first and above all a lawyer, and lawyers are awful. He views the country as a collection of laws and nothing else, which makes him a terrible leader and an even worse Labour leader.

Just had to check and yes, it is.

I have definitely read too much. If someone points you at the extremely short one between him and Tom Barrack, current US ambassador to Turkey, just... don't. For your own sake. Made my skin crawl.

Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators.
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to Fuck.
Lonnie Donnegan - My Old Man's a Dustman.
There is much, much, much worse music to have sex to than Portishead.

It doesn't make you a worse person. Searching for a reason not to hold them in contempt, something that isn't there, and that you know not to be there, is pointless at best and counterproductive at worst.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Not sure that's cynicism as such, more a learned reaction after seeing that man receive absolutely no consequences for any of his actions forever. I do get what you're saying, but thinking he'll get away with this as well isn't *unreasonable*. He got away with an attempted coup.

This *and* it is still the case that nobody can adequately explain where Epstein got his billions from. They all wave it away, change the subject, make some vague allusion to him being a clever stocks and shares guy. It never adds up. Where did his money come from.

The Colour of Magic. There are better books, there are a lot of better Terry Pratchett books, and I read it too young to get all the jokes, but that was the first book I ever really lost myself in. There's something about his style, the way you hear his voice as you read, that really sang to me.

Answer to this problem is 'who gives a shit.' This is Bond, not Star Trek or Marvel, there's no consistent lore to carry over and no overarching plot to speak of between actors, just don't even address it. The next film starts, James Bond turns up and fights some bad guys. Who cares.

There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.

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That's not to say there isn't still some residual lunatic adoration, just that it's not a frenzy now. Qanon's not really a thing anymore, he's clearly not involved in the day to day running of much. It's like he's fading away while his lieutenants take centre stage.

The first time around Trump tried to govern by cult of personality. This time... I dunno. Sort of feels like the cult's lost the glamour. The old magic isn't there. Right wing Americans still largely hate dems but don't especially love the man himself anymore, at least not to the same degree.

Alright FINE, I'll do my thing instead of faffing too.

They can stop short of banning it but I don't think there's any reasong for them not to pick a fight with Elon Musk. Getting off twitter is a good start, publicly stating that Twitter js the mouthpiece of a vile far right billionaire would go down pretty well, tbh.

Interesting to see the Reform party welcoming the coveted off duty zeppelin pilot demographic.