danny.

I mean, it's good if they banned or curtailed Claude (and only if every other LLM was too), but for all the wrong reasons. But some legislation would be nice at some point rather than the current tactic of letting it run wild. This reaction is... bizarre.

Fair enough - I don't recall the last time I looked it up in a dictionary. Every day is a school day. Gemini says "Nationalism is an ideology and movement holding that the nation—a group sharing common culture, language, or history—should govern itself as an independent, sovereign state. It promotes national identity, unity, and interests," and in fact that seems to be a USA definition whereas it's negative in British English. Although we have exceptions like "Scottish nationalism" which e.g. Wikipedia defines as "Scottish nationalism promotes the idea that the Scottish people form a cohesive nation and national identity.". We'll have to agree to disagree there because I have experienced many people equate flag = racist, the same as I have experience and heard X political group = racism, Y political group = anti semite. I'm not a fan of generalising everybody as something because they have a flag or vote a certain party, it reduces everything to binary stereotypes and assumptions.

I totally agree with you. I made an initial flippant comment though saying that nationalism isn't generally pointed out to be bad from non-white countries. I stand by that, although semantics of what nationalism is plays a part. If you are defining it as "thinking one nation is better than another", I am completely opposed to that, if you use the definition "affection and pride that people have for their country" I don't think anyone should be derided for that. There was certainly sentiment towards the protestors, and some times rightly so. But I am still not convinced we see the same sentiment towards people flying other flags whilst protesting.

Hear criticism of what, Pakistani flags? Lats year there was loads of talk about flags whether on private property or roads. Obviously there were loads of idiots going around painting bins and roundabouts etc and putting them on council property but the sentiment very much seemed like any instance of the St George flag was a bad thing. I think the whole flag has been marred by a link to far right groups like the EDL and it has never shaken.

What a mad thing to say - I hear it from left wing people all the time, both online, in the pub, on my street WhatsApp group etc. that is absolute nonsense I'm afraid. Wherever you live it's absolutely nothing like where I live.

I never hear that, but that's anecdotal of course. It's completely acceptable to put up the Pakistan flag in Leicester but putting up the Union or English Flag is often commented as being racist. I have a huge amount of anecdotal evidence to back up that observation.

But that's your metric and you've segwayed from nationalism to measuring military bases and how that somehow means it's OK for China to be nationalistic.

You know China is a global superpower, right? They have crazy levels of power in terms of their military and economy - they are the second most powerful nation on earth by any metric.

If he wasn't he wouldn't be a muslim - the Islamist position isn't vague: https://www.anic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Islams-Clear-Position-on-Homosexuality.pdf

As a rule - is the country majority white? Then nationalism is wrong. Otherwise, it's good.

Kiesza suffered a broken rib right at the start of the iconic one-take Hideaway video and did the whole thing anyway.

Sounds more like a Lee Anderson move TBH!

Anyway, back to on topic uplifting news for today Belgian telecom provider Proximus cutting 1200 jobs and $25m in external contractors due to AI: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/proximus-cut-1200-jobs-by-2030-ceo-2026-02-27/

Classic taqiyya - unfortunately awareness of Islamic ideology is a lot higher than it used to be and people see right through this.

We've always been like this as a species, the variable is technology.

"White" isn't an ideology though. In the UK - other than forcing people into heterosexual marriages, Islam isn't stopping people from being gay, as you put it - but in many Islamic countries that's a very different story.

That seems more down to the insane house prices than anything. They’ve been out of control for decades combined with stagnation. It really isn't. How familiar are you with the history of Islam and the Qur’an and hadith?

Totally agree, which is where the alliance with Islamic ideology makes absolutely no sense, yet we see it all the time.

Understanding and empathising != condoning. Yes I agree that sovereign countries want to further their own power. It's how the world works. It's not how I would choose to run the world but it's how it is ran.

Fortunately we're going to have a lot of white collar people looking for a job in the near future so that will solve that problem.

I never said I thought that? But I can understand why governments would want to. It's literally an arms race.

If you don't think China is using AI for military purposes... I'm not sure what to say.

Yes, of course! Have you not been following China and AI?!

I'm not right of Lib dem, though. Although they have had my vote every time bar a few forays into Green and Labour (Corbyn era, anyway). It's very tricky to define the political spectrum as everyone has their own definition of it now, and - as I say - the observer's own position adds a lot of bias to that. Yea I think you have that pretty wrong IMHO, as an ideology, Islam is hard-right, so alliance with the left makes little sense. For example its views on women, LGBT, trans etc are in line with extreme- right Christian conservative in the US, Westboro Baptist Church territory.

So the headline is... Governments of competing nations in new AI driven arms war