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Well said John Healey.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/11/john-healey-resigns-as-defence-secretary-labour-starmer/

John Healey has resigned as defence secretary over Sir Keir Starmer’s defence investment plan (DIP).

He has accused the Prime Minister of failing to “meet the moment” over his long-delayed proposal to boost the military.

Sir Keir is expected to set out details of the plan as soon as tomorrow, but it is thought to have been watered down following a row between No 10, the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury.

In a letter to Sir Keir, Mr Healey said the defence investment plan “falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at a dangerous time”.

He added: “Without a DIP that meets the moment in this way, I am being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe.”

Wow. Starmer and Reeves are finished.

Savage and he’s not one of the usual suspects

And an excellent motive for resigning, even if it's fake. Total plausible deniability.

Why AI output is getting dumber.

Paper published in Nature, by Oxford, Cambs, Imperial researchers.

https://x.com/heynavtoor/status/2064797676475187520

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

I said here that this would happen many months ago. Sorry to gratuitously advertise my own foresight, but if I don't nobody else will.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5844328/us-china-data-centers-foreign-influence

The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters

China isn't funding a thing, there are enough NIMBYs hating them without being paid.

It's nice to think that everyone with an agenda you dislike is being paid but reality is most of the time people simply like things as they are..

I think it's hard to say, what we do know is that using bunch of bots to produce clickbait and boost clickbait produced by other people is something that has been done very frequently by various people, and seems to have really good ROI. This doesn't contradict the fact that people are also inclined to like this stuff organically, they target messages that people will like.

What we know about AI datacenters is that there's very strong opposition to them based mainly on something that's totally fake (water usage). We also know that people are often using AI to make viral images to get people mad about AI.