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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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I say this with genuine sincerity - I really, really hope you’re right in your cynicism and get to tell us all you told us so. But truthfully, AI scares the living bejesus out of me.

Haha: I can only assume it was dodgy Google AI results before I just checked Wikipedia. Apparently he died about 20 years ago as well, feck me

I had a similar thing with Alan Ball recently too. Could’ve sworn 100% he died about a decade ago, I can even remember the headlines about the youngest of England 66 winning side dying. Only to google him and find he’s very much still alive.

Ok thanks. Then the explanation for the purple category is:

I understand purple after I saw the category but we really need a way to do spoiler tags to be able to discuss it

Elon Musk seems to have a weird fascination with Rupert Lowe so you can imagine everyone in the UK is going to get bashed over the head with pro-Restore Britain stuff on twitter for the next 3 years.

Definitely more feeling Reform are running out of steam

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Seems like everyone failed today though. Was a tough one

I was just listening to latest Rest is Politics podcast and they made a good point - at what point does Starmer need to start telling the public this rift in the world order is something different and the biggest we’ve faced since 1945? And at what point does he need to stop reassuring the British public and actually be honest and say “actually, we should be a little frightened?” and at what point does he need to say this is the age of the biggest radical shifts in thinking about our core philosophy of how we fundamentally want to be governed, or what it fundamentally even means to be a country since 1945 rather than dicking around the edges with tax and immigration policy? I don’t know. It’s an age of grand ambitious foreign policy and fundamental shifts in society like we haven’t seen in 80 years and I don’t know if Starmer is the right man for these times, because it’s so hard to know whether he’s buying himself time or whether he’s even woken up to the seriousness of America’s radical shift towards us yet. Love them or hate them, I can’t have seen big personalities like Churchill, Thatcher or Blair dithering around like this at a time like this.

Seems like everyone’s struggling with the blue and yellow categories today. There’s some brutal red herrings there today.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg36pknpl5o UK Police framed man for murder, new evidence suggests Imagine sitting in prison for 23 years after being framed by the police, jeez