they're mainly sucking up to the trump administration and its tech oligarchy, but they probably do largely believe some of this nonsense.

anyway, ironically, we gave europe £8 million the other week to play with the supercomputers.

if the government's going to shove unregulated robots into everything, then, on past performance, the big growth sector will be public inquiries.

maybe I'm weird, but I do not want a robot that will, in ten years time, read too much into the twenty-odd tweets I wrote about Rory Stewart annoying me this afternoon. I expect that I'll be wholly capable of doing that myself.

decades from now, you would be better off reading about the history of crypto marketing and going to therapy if you're still that hung up on it.

this would not enlighten you, because you are not an atomised individual explainable by the excerpts of thoughts that you choose - for whatever reason - to put out into the world. you are susceptible to external influence and you can't put your brain in a status update.

oh look, it's the tech fetishist crossover episode from hell

obviously meant "supreme court", oops.

and still the commentariat act like Starmer is a paragon of the rule of law who just really wanted to be AG. fantasy land stuff.

an intervention premissed in part on an argument that a £30 billion or so award would undermine confidence in uk regulation. and an announcement that boosted the most exposed lender's value by 4%.

oh, and she sacked the head of the CMA for not indulging her regulatory capture.

this is in the same week when it's reported that she's intervening in the supreme cour to argue for lower compensation to people who have been mis-sold car finance. this lot are cartoonishly corrupt.

"too big to fail" but it's about a plutocracy.

wow so Starmer has fully banned any criticism of the Trump administration then

I'm drawing some negative inferences from their position here, ngl. prepare for post office scandal part 2: electric boogaloo.

anyway, they're more broadly living on cloud cuckoo land.

the big money ticket for ai companies is ultimately going to be shoving chatbots at everyone and feasting on government contracts. to deliver these sorts of things, that the uk government is reluctant to make rules about - a fact that it claims as a selling point.

(it's mainly about high risk systems, there's also some things that are banned and some obligations regarding all systems, but)

it's not even that they disagree with the particularities afaict. labour have walked back on their pledge to legislate and are largely doing a wait-and-see thing.

Annex III.

ai is the only thing they mention in the article where they want to go their own way to attract investment. investment in, um, judicial robots with sloppy rules?

just gonna note that the bulk of the high risk ai system functions that are the focus of the eu's ai act are public sector functions. so it's really themselves that the government are opposed to regulating.

that last bit is absurd. it'll all be grand because Vance will want to punt him?

Half-expected Biden to preemptively pardon Greenland and Panama.

this aged well.

this might be because I'm paying more attention to people talking about it. but what is a chicken and what is an egg?

(I think it's both)

only slight, bc the reason it's being talked about a lot more is that it's going to get a lot worse. yay.

something of a silver lining of trump buddying up with musk that America's long-standing and quite disturbing control over the entire internet seems to now be something that's being talked about a lot more. slight shred of optimism ig.

I can excuse bigotry, but I draw the line at unparliamentary language.

Facebook's new terms of service allow you to be as transphobic as you like, but you can't call someone a liar.
They have modelled them off the House of Commons.

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in: eye of a needle
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think you'll find it's "woah-oh" actually.

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(also out: where I shall see myself)

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