Ian johnson

Moral puritanism at its finest. Can't have kids getting hold of non-state approved knowledge.

Surely Google is next because kids can type in any search phrase and turn "safe search" off

After everyone has fallen over backwards to ensure that far right protestors are given every excuse and to tell everyone that they have "legitimate concerns"

Only hate and bigotry are considered "legitimate concerns" that need endless hand-wringing and mollycoddling of those protesting. Anything about seeing other people as human, compassion, equity, protecting the environment are all to be vilified by politicians and media

They fall under a separate agreement, the lesser known Shrove Tuesday Accord(ian)s

You're not busy hype-coding with it?

We can now have LLMs have those arguments for us, then summarise the arguments for us to digest, then summarise the summaries

I have a friend who is really into AI, I think I frustrate him by my complete and total lack of enthusiasm for it.

The ChatGPT 5 announcement has him very excited. I'm biting my tongue a lot right now

We are living in the consequences of Thatcherite / Neoliberal economics that have been around for most of my life. Labour are willing converts. You can't escape a situation using the mindset that got you into it.

Seems to fit in with the book I'm reading about how Scarcity warps how we think

😂 is it good for displaying Hex numbers?

I want to do Conic Sans at some point (we if the letters were painted onto the side of a cone but viewed in 2D

Why is it that my first thought is that whatever Reeves gives with one hand she takes away more with the other? (Probably to fund another Minister's performative cruelty to one or more groups of vulnerable people )

Make all adults take regular critical thinking tests in order to use computers.

I kind of expected that they would still be neoliberal economically but would be slightly to the left of the Tories and invest a bit more, increase tax burden on the richest a bit, but on social issues I didn't expect them to adopt a Reform-esque rhetoric and policy platform

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

Normalizing unidentifiable masked figures picking up children at school is more worrying than saying "please don't conceal your face while picking up your child" - to me anyway

As per the rule I have now watched it on repeat about 10 times

Daily Mail headline: Migrants who cross the Channel into the UK 'are 24 times more likely to go to prison than Brits'

Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄

This was initially published in
@thetimes
and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc

Let’s take a look….👀

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The other thing you'll start seeing is non-devs using AI to "vibe code" something they need and they that will have management wondering why they need developers at all.

Is AI the new excel?

This is a concentration camp.

Call it Alligator Auschwitz, because that's what it is.

This is America. Never forget and never forgive the people who allowed this to happen.

Sources close to the Labour government tell me that the current analysis is that these results confirm they are too lefty-liberal and must go further to the right. They are frantically searching for more vulnerable groups to punish via "tough choices ™️" and are even considering merging with Reform

YouTube video by Larry & Paul Working People Should "Lower Expectations" - #BrokenNews

😲SHOCK: Working People Should "Lower Expectations" - in latest #BrokenNews report.

Please share this vital update.

Feels like this Labour government is campaigning for Reform at this point

(I also think opinion polls should be banned as they warp the minds of politicians who end up chasing the polls and they are often too shallow to properly represent views on highly nuanced/complex issues)

Yup, the ratchet system. The right wing gets in, moves things to the right, the left wing party then gets in and stops things moving back to the left (or in Labour 's case just carry-on moving right, but pretending to feel sorry about the "tough choices" they are making)

It really feels like the Democrats are playing a different game to the Republicans. They are still acting as if these are normal times. (Sadly Labour seems to be going the same way)

The basic political game of "don't be in charge when bad things happen". Trump agreed the withdrawal with the Taliban and Biden just followed through on the deal

"what do you mean, asking for Grok to be trained on more data? It is trained solely on 4chan and 8chan? That's the only data that I trust... And to be honest, that 4chan is a bit too lefty for me" Musk in a few years

He didn't get that Gattaca was a cautionary tale, did he? People labelled from birth as having an illness that hasn't, and may never, become a real issue.

How does this prevention service work? Micromanaging your life from birth because there is a 60% chance of having a condition?

"Honey", honey?, "your honour" should be
Oh-no, honey, honey
Honey, honey, no words can save me
Oh-no, honey, honey

I've never said it before
Now I'm thrown for ever more
I've made such a cringey scene
Now I'm a courtroom meme
Oh, this makes me dizzy

We did the hugely complex Elizabeth line in 13 years, tunnelling under London, "threading the needle" at two Tottenham Court Road, and tracking building movement at mm precision. We can't muster even that energy for the rest of the country

One idea, timed exams using software that locks down the computer but gives access to popular LLMs and records all prompts and responses. The examiner marks the content and critical thinking they use to get to that content.

Candidates can choose to not use AI and are just marked on content

It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think.
But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together....
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