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There’s a couple that were too US centric today

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It can’t be Thomas anyway. That has 6 letters.

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Nice to see a check and balance finally, eventually performing its basic functions in the US

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As said yesterday. My general opinion is that corporations are on the verge of usurping nation states and tech CEOs will become more powerful and more important than kings, dictators, presidents, prime ministers and general secretaries of communist parties within a generation at any rate.

Right now, I’ve got to say I’d much rather have a constitutional monarchy than an American or French style republic

Worth saying misconduct of public office is an extremely serious offence sort of adjacent to treason and can carry penalties of up to lifetime in prison. This isn’t Al Capone being arrested on a tax technicality.

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Anyone else got problems? Mine is stuck on the Advertisment screen beforehand and can’t go on?

If I were a traditional print journalists regardless of the political spectrum be it Guardian or Daily Mail I’d be rallying like crazy against AI and shilling for any party who wanted to properly regulate it: It will take all their livelihoods away from them.

Related to recent discussion about AI and social media banning to u16s - Definitely worth a watch about social media gets to our brain chemistry

I always thought Lent was a Catholic thing. I saw it as something the Irish did when I was a kid but not the English, Scots or Welsh.

Need to rewatch this one. Actually saw Goldeneye just before Christmas again and some of it is cheesy as hell now but I’d be interested in rewatching TND. A lot of its ideas feel more relevant today than they did in the 90s.

The biggest thing for me is that it’s gone under the radar just how much the big tech companies have cornered the world economy since Covid. It’s massively unprecedented that companies have gotten this big this quickly. The growth of Nvidia and OpenAI the past 3 or 4 years has also been world shatteringly bonkers. It used to be 10 years ago that all these Middle Eastern oil companies were the biggest but they’ve been completely left in the dust by the tech companies since Covid. The Apple Corporation (the worlds most valuable company) is now richer than the country of the United Kingdom as of a couple of years ago (and that gap is only widening and the “magnificent 7” tech companies will all become richer than the UK within a couple of years) and while Bill Gates’ argument was always that companies won’t become more powerful than nations because they don’t have an army - I’m not sure that’s the case given they can control the flow of information and I’m not sure they won’t all have armies in a couple of decades anyway. The only institutions currently big enough to stand up to these corporations are the US, China and the EU - the US is now completely in bed with them because Trump will let them allegedly do what they like as long as he gets his share. China just bans them which an approach I’m starting to sympathise with. The EU actually tries to stand up to them with regulations, huge fines and penalties and Musk and the likes respond by promoting far right parties and endlessly trying to divide Europe. I’ve always been a liberal not a socialist who always broadly believed in the freedom the market brings, but I’m definitely rethinking that a lot now - a lot of the predictions the old left used to make about the market eventually leading to corporations usurping countries as the ultimate form of governance and rule making don’t really feel so pie in the sky to me anymore. AI is only going to accelerate this stuff and give these company more power. I’m starting to think the UK government is kind of powerless now in how it controls stuff like unemployment. We can’t really stand up to these corporations anymore as a national state. But I feel like I’m becoming conspiratorial and tin hatty just writing this stuff, but I’m genuinely starting to believe it

Failed miserably today. On a bad run - 3 failures in a row

Plus if it’s a smaller job people will just ask chatbots how to do things if they don’t have the extra income

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