Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor

Marc Andreessen, egg shaped bald skull

guy smiling in a conehead cap

easy halloween costume: Marc Andreessen

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

It’s a city that’s never let me down.

Damn just realised I moved to London about 20 years ago to start my Masters Degree (paid for mainly on credit cards) and never left.

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Brass hat need big AI box

Re-upping this based on latest gossip from the front.

Maybe it’s TV? Whenever I watch performances live I am moved when I am sure I would find stuff presented to me via media cringe.

Christ does he expect allies to adhere to his rules too?

I wonder if he realises or understands the consequences of that attitude being mirrored back at US forces in future wars?

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

The problem isn't that we lack evidence. It's is that we've yet to develop the political will to do anything re: radicalization. Politicians benefit from the virality of outrage. Platforms profit from the engagement spikes that anger, fear, & conspiracy generate. So we muddle along while Rome burns.

Episode 18: Goldeneye Podcast Episode · Kill James Bond! · 12/10/2021 · 1h 56m

Astonishing timing. Am currently literally listening to:

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Turns out there are albums I cannot listen to anymore without waves of emotive nostalgia which include Entroducing by DJ Shadow and Ten by Pearl Jam. Bit of a shame that.

Writing a research proposal is hard. Like can’t you just divine what I mean when I’m waving my hands around and say yes?

I think I’m moving into my ‘crying inside and stockpiling’ era

I’m guessing you can buy your way out of surveillance in this future.

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

HOW IS THIS STILL NEW NEWS?? Christ alive Facebook has been part of the far right pipeline for years.

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Introducing Vibes -- a feed of expressive AI-generated videos from artists and creators in the Meta AI app. Create and remix videos with leading models and music for free.

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

Look I don’t know what you expected would happen when the most annoying company commander you’ve ever met was made Defense Secretary

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media:

Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

Enjoying the dying liberal order in the U.K. trying to rally itself around ideas dead a decade ago with more empty words and no intent to change anything at all.

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Gosh and also darn

Wait. Hang on a minute. Aren’t you a Hammers fan??

i have serious reservations about assigning a state-nexus to any given network of SIM farms for the same reason i am always skeptical whenever some company announces an intrusion and says “WELL THEY TOTALLY COULDVE GONE DESTRUCTIVE” while the compromised machines are at best OT-adjacent

Yes, I guess it’s just that it might once have been a platform for talking points across to MSM viewers across US networks, or even just to GOP voters but now it’s to a very specific, very online sub genre of TikTok, Facebook and Reddit users who might not even be American!

It does set up an interesting situation of Trump performing for specifically online domestic politics in a forum which is set up for old school “performative” foreign policy