Emily.

My aunt - who is in her 70s - rang me to ask about Zack Polanski.

She never goes on the internet unless she absolutely has to. I mentioned Zack to her the last time we spoke.

Today, she rang me to ask about him and said "he's everywhere atm! on every channel!" 😆

Join The Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign Reading for fun transforms lives, but we’re losing the habit. A stellar group of authors — from Ian McEwan to Marian Keyes — agree with us: it’s time to act

Not a fan of The Times but I ❤️ this campaign as declining reading habits and literacy gives me existential dread www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...

“According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, reading for pleasure has a greater impact on a child’s academic success than their socioeconomic background.”
Yes, and it builds capacity for empathy and critical thinking.

Todays player of the match was our #7 Lauren Ramage. Lauren was instrumental in the middle of the park today, chased down every ball and assisted 2 goals from some fantastic through balls. Well done Lauren 🩵💜

A win on the road today against a good Dumbarton side 🩵💜

YouTube video by Antony Jones Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

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For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot. Smashing windows! TRAs are such thugs. Amazing picture of Lisa Marie. #FiLiA2025.

For Women Scotland retweeted. Ministry of Tartan. @MinistryTartan. 💚🤍💜 Today in 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst gathered a group of ladies together at her home. And The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was born! A women-only organisation that vowed to be politically active and to use "deeds, not words."

The people being angry at it are hypocrites too.

I mean look at this, retweeting a post about the suffragettes while being angry at a kind of protest the suffragettes would have done.

MESSAGE FROM THE ACTIONISTS We'd like to express our gratitude to those who have shown their explicit support. Especially in this atmosphere, we are glad to know that so many recognise the value of direct action. We are also so happy to see that our actions got the reaction we wanted, and would like to take this moment to remind the reader that FiLiA's bio-essentialist view of 'feminism' harms cis and trans people alike and only serves to uphold the patriarchy. To the trans people and allies reading this, we keep ourselves safe - not the state, not the police, but we as a community. Death before detransition. -BASH BACK

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I reeeallllllyyy want to see the data breakdown by gender and age for ChatGPT use in dating.

My anecdotal experience as a millennial is that in general, men seem much more willing to talk about / brag about using ChatGPT than women. But again, this is anecdotal!

Shoplifting is justified for Brits living in poverty, says Green Party's new hard-left leader Zack Polanski - and he says he would do it himself if he was poor

He’s right

3/ When was the last time you heard a politician talk seriously about our constitution or what the courts actually did? It’s always either attacking the court or performative deference.

Telling the truth is bold.

2/ The court’s (rarely reported) main justification was that the legislation contained glaring mistakes made by the very eminent* lawyers who drafted it.

Zack is right to point this out. This is bold politics.

* more eminent than the supreme court judges if you ask me

The status of FWS vs Scottish Government in media discourse is so interesting because so many people are suddenly pretending to believe that a court ruling determines reality. If the case had gone the other way they'd be screeching about woke judges.

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

What amazes me is the disconnect people have. They're rabidly pro-reform, but love to talk about how bad trump is.

They seem to miss the concept that they want to vote for his rather sad looking tribute act

Cognitive dissonance is off the scale.

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

She says SNP ministers because she doesn’t want to acknowledge that’s the government she’s talking about, that money has to come out of the budget and there’s no Rowling fund pals

This is your tax money btw

Be part of overturning a system rigged in favour of the super-rich

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What will Douglas Ross' Right to Addiction Recovery Bill do as key concern raised Douglas Ross’s proposed legislation would embed a right to recovery for those diagnosed with an addiction in law.

Douglas Ross's Right to Recovery Bill will have its stage 1 vote this week. But the well-intended legislation, which would give those with an "addiction" or "dependency" on alcohol or drugs a right to treatment, could exacerbate Scotland's drug death crisis.
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STV News. Wealth tax on ten richest Scots 'could lift 30,000 children out of poverty'. A tax of 2% levied against those with assets worth £10m or more could bring in £492m a year from Scotland's ten richest families, study finds.

In Scotland two families own more wealth than 1.3 million people.

We're one of the wealthiest countries in history, but that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a tiny few.

That's why a wealth tax on the super-rich is supported by an overwhelming majority of Scots.

Just remembered the chump who had a go at me on here last night for buying books online because he didn’t understand that The Bookseller wasn’t Amazon. :-D

I have a legal question that seems like there is an obvious answer that I'm missing.

Are trans people still protected from sex discrimination under Art 14 Human Right Act 1998?

My understanding is the FWS definition only applied to the Equality Act 2010.