Tony Yates

Penn's refusal is especially significant in light of Wharton Board member Marc Rowan's work on the compact and his advocating for it in the New York Times

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Read this and then I think you’ll agree that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell should not have one day of peace the rest of her wretched life www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked

JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…

See 1970s and 80s discourse on the 'Japanese' and 'Swedish' models. A disease that only affected social scientists rather than actual people, granted.

idk about you but Bluesky crashes on my iphone a few times a month. Never on the desktop.

I didn’t know this !

It stumped me. I’m not a wizard but I’m not rubbish either. I won’t be trying again unless absolutely necessary.

Yebbut you will by pcs with it on already

This feels like it will inevitably end up with scammers hijacking the AI so that the computer empties its owners' bank accounts

500, ten thousand per cent, a million per cent

Leaving aside the much discussed downsides of injecting AI into everything... for people like me prone to RSI, having wide ranging control over your computer via voice would be quite helpful as I could cut down on keystrokes.

Prediction: MS and Apple pushing their OS' into AI is going to create a market opportunity for Linux as an AI-clean alternative, which most people will use via intermediaries pre-packaging it up to help normies avoid impromptu computer science studies involved in installation and maintenance.

Relatedly, why would it ever be efficient to have algorithms that can solve any problem from scratch rather than embodying prior learning and figuring out what's new about the new situation. [That is how we work, for instance].

Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

like basically everyone who works in software I embody this tweet and do not under any circumstances want to talk to my computer

I’m going to be so, so mad if I actually have to switch to Linux on my gaming desktop

I know Linux is generally Fine for gaming these days, but come on

eg, ok, very clever for a video model to recognise and solve a Sudoku puzzle, but, so what. There are Sudoko solvers already. And the point of the puzzle is to do it yourself. This is a trivial thing for me to pick on, but just to illustrate the point.

AI video: more than just “slop” The next big thing in AI may be pictures, not words

Interesting piece explaining what generative AI video models can do and might be able to do, but it's detached from discussion about whether such a thing would ever be useful given that these tasks can be done another way. www.economist.com/science-and-...

The Shutdown Shitshow As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The task of keeping inflation expectations low is not helped by Trump trying to undermine Fed independence, eg by bullying Powell, appointing his toadies [Miran] and trying to sack Lisa Cook.

There are invite codes for Sora? Are there earnest brokers handing them out on X?

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

The “guardrails” didn’t really hold in Trump’s first term. He broke through many, and accelerated abuses in 2020.

Beat impeachment, removed inspectors general, and after losing reelection attempted a coup. Failing to recognize that as guardrails crumbling, not holding, was one cause of complacency.

To commemorate the appearance of the former Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Annabel Denham, here is the ecstatic response of Matthew Lesh – Head of Public Policy at the IEA – when Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled his mini-budget.

#politicslive

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

Ed Davey vows to defend Bank of England against Farage's threats We will defend the Bank of England’s independence from Nigel Farage’s Trump-style threats. Britain’s economy must never be a political plaything.

Ed Davey vows to defend Bank of England against Farage's threats

If you insert 'black or brown' before the word "migration" in the headline, it begins to make more sense.

How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country? What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia

"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"

I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

People who come here to work have to feed, clothe and entertain themselves. So they buy goods and services here that are supplied by others. Also they don't necessarily substitute for 'British workers' [whatever that means] and may complement them.

Labour encouraging xenophobia and the lump of labour fallacy. There are not a fixed number of jobs to be allocated between 'British workers' [nice dogwhistle there] and those who come here to work.

This thread has surfaced some fruitcakes as fruity as Matty himself.