Mike Green

It’s kinda ridiculous that the BBC employs a disinformation specialist whilst simultaneously treating the most visible part of their output with all the care and caution of a bull in a china shop

You come for us, on today of all days.

Glup is obviously a Rodian, I don't know why I am sure of this from the bottom of my soul, but I am.

One thing I'd do if given a star wars IP is have the main character upon leaving a bar say "cheers Glup" to the bartender and have them credited as "Bartender Glup" and absolutely refuse in any material to confirm his last name.

Easy to forget when literally no other politician is willing to do it anymore.

Calling it now that once MPs experience and pass on the (very predictable) backlash to the OSA now it's in force the government's gonna (falsely) blame Ofcom for being "overzealous" in implementation and it was never intended to target normie things like Wikipedia (yes it was).

A baffling thing to me is Treasury's reluctance to introduce the ability for local authorities to levy a binding tourist tax. Would help councils alleviate the pressure on them and is pretty popular with the public.

Average dinner party enjoyer:

A train driver or airline pilot who did something half this bad would never see a cab or cockpit again - they wouldn’t even need to come close to actually killing someone.

Oh no, you might have to make some adjustments to your life if you can’t drive. Shame. So does the dead person’s family.

We can discuss what appropriate custodial sentences are, but I cannot understand how we have tariffs that allow someone who did this to drive again, let alone do so this decade.
You’ve been permitted to operate a potentially deadly machine under sufferance! You’ve proved you can’t use it safely!

Direct trains to Frankfurt, Cologne and Aachen would be great. Don't see what's gained by pretending an *8 and a half hour* direct service between London and Berlin is ever going to happen.

We sharing our English devolution maps are we?

Can’t complain about the Harrying of the North these days.

Because of Yoke.

Even if it doesn't really affect sentencing, it is imo actually one of those things where what you call it matters.

Unironically do think we need an updated legal definition of treason to cover behaviour like this (in addition to e.g. travelling to join IS).

Because it’s going to be a when. People have been sold on the lie that LLMs function in a way that they simply do not. And no amount of explaining this seems to be working.

Watching news reports on the Post Office scandal, and seeing nobody be held accountable in a situation where the computer code CAN be forensically examined at every level, it does seem to me that we urgently need legislation regarding liability for when the AI wedged into important systems fails.

Think this may need tuning if it doesn't categorise me as a nerd.

Got Wilson and Heath totally the wrong way wrong too iirc.

Oh they got this all screwed up.

The historical precedent is that it's a very hard genie to put back in the bottle, short of major change in the actions of Israel that can only come from internal politics. Short of that public pressure will eventually catch up to the diplomatic position in Western states.

I don't think the political class has quite caught up with the extent to which, particularly among the young, Israel now occupies a very similar space to a section of popular culture that South Africa did in the 1980s.

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| Peace in our times, |
| Ceasefire |
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Oh, they got this all wrong

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| Peace in our times? |
| Cease. Fire! |
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I am fundamentally a simple man, all I want is for the Voyagers to be cut down into scrap metal.

Have the displeasure of travelling on Crosscountry today, 4 coaches with dozens standing of course.

I hope they launch an autocoup, this title has such humble dictator vibes.

Not last weekends but I have had a few pleasant afternoons in Wetwang.

My new favourite kind of trainspotter is the guy right now at York station with a bottle of beer and accurately, hilariously, abusing trains for their specific failings...

"Everybody knows you stink of piss and you can only run on diesel! Everybody hates you, you daft c-!"

Map of the historical Holy Roman Empire.