So Ive been through the press in France Germany Italy and Spain and none of them have reported on the world changing events surrounding Greg Wallace.
Do they understand nothing ?
Rather a sadly dismissive post. If a rather forward camp man pulled his todger out, his modesty covered only by a sock, because he thought it might attract your interest, I suspect you would be quite justifiably outraged. Is there a difference?
when did he have his todger out, the fantasies are escalating
Apparently he didn't it was covered by a sock. My mistake.
The thing is that these sorts of actions are on an escalating ladder. Today it is "todger out", but what about tomorrow or next week? When does flashing no longer satisfy and so the perpetrator moves up to assault or rape or murder?
Are we supposed to wait until it gets really, deadly serious?
Jermaine Jenas's feet didn't touch the ground for "sexting".How the hell did Wallace keep his presenting role after claims were made about his behaviour in 2018? Moving on from your point this was only a handful of years after Savile. I am not suggesting a parallel, however it does seem blind eyes remain blind to national treasures.
We're setting the bar very very low if Greg Wallace is a national treasure. I don't mean to join the pile-on here. He was no worae a broadcaster than many. But he's hardly Joanna Lumley.
Our local Masterchef finalist insists that he is utterly charming and better than anyone else at putting people at their ease when trying to deal with the stress of the Masterchef kitchen.
My wife says we are to cancel our TV licence if he is kicked out.
What I am fascinated by is who thinks constantly talking about how you like to do your shagging to every person you meet is what they want to hear? He sounds like Jay from the Inbetweeners when made to his 50s.
We should have a sweepstake on which male celebrity of a certain age comes out to support Wallace and scuppers their career.
Given a load of journos stuck their neck out for Huw Edwards, I think the "I knew nothing" will be the response this time.
Jermaine Jenas has to be pissed, they threw him under the bus for some flirty texts with women who either were interested in real life (but were a junior on a programme he presented) or said well it was my job to flirt with such people. It seems his crimes were he overstepped the mark when they said no with some more texts of oh come you know you want to. Obviously the fact he was willing to cheat on his wife makes his scummy, but quite different to Gregg Wallace who it seems you meet and all he wants to talk about / show his meat and two veg.
The notable thing about Wallace was how quickly celebrities/ex-colleagues who'd come across him were to slag him off - even before some of the more damaging allegations. Rod Stewart was straight out the gate.
Not sure about colleagues but most football fans couldn't stand Jenas.
If you're either well liked or are seen as really important - then people in will try and defend you until it becomes untenable. If not, lots will be waiting for the chance to stick the boot in.
Higher ups at the BBC clearly liked him as he got lots of gigs beyond football. But football fans don't like a lot of the current presenters e.g. Danny Murphy isn't exactly popular. Alan Shearer on commentary, you can hear the groans from outside pubs as you walk past.
England is now a country where we are legalising assisted suicide and criminalising saying nice things about porridge. Pro-death but anti-death-by-chocolate. Stupid government.
The porridge banned under the policy is that with added sugar, ergo junk food. The list looks pretty sound to me.
It doesn't to me. The whole premise just seems overkill to me if you end up having to distinguish between the good and bad porridge. I'm not libertarian, but that's such a level of detail that just seems over the top for government. It's not like the definitions of acceptable or not will remain static.
It’s really not. Garbage like Ready Brek etc are processed junk food. Oats are natural ingredients that are rightly exempt from the ban. Like the difference between tea leaves and Liptonice.
If we care that much about people making an unhealthy choice then really should just go ahead and ban us from doing unhealthy things, if advertising it is bad so is eating it.
Eating it is bad for you but so are many things. The difference is that we are advertising this garbage to children, who then nag their parents for it incessantly. Same principle why supermarkets stopped putting racks of sweets by the tills.
Those two don't sound the same to me. A screeching child begging for a sweet when you are at the till and just trying to complete your purchase and get out the store? Sure, I can see parents giving in just to shut the little brat up without making a scene.
But kids nagging to get Ready Brek? Probably not even at the store (yes, some will be with the parent at the shop, but not all), and so the power of the nagging carrying over from home? I'll grant I only hear it second hand, but I do think parents should have the ability to resist that.
And many many kids are up past 9pm anyway (I was from around 7 years), so this is only a half measure anyway, plenty of kids will still see ads.
So Ive been through the press in France Germany Italy and Spain and none of them have reported on the world changing events surrounding Greg Wallace.
Do they understand nothing ?
Rather a sadly dismissive post. If a rather forward camp man pulled his todger out, his modesty covered only by a sock, because he thought it might attract your interest, I suspect you would be quite justifiably outraged. Is there a difference?
when did he have his todger out, the fantasies are escalating
Apparently he didn't it was covered by a sock. My mistake.
The thing is that these sorts of actions are on an escalating ladder. Today it is "todger out", but what about tomorrow or next week? When does flashing no longer satisfy and so the perpetrator moves up to assault or rape or murder?
Are we supposed to wait until it gets really, deadly serious?
Jermaine Jenas's feet didn't touch the ground for "sexting".How the hell did Wallace keep his presenting role after claims were made about his behaviour in 2018? Moving on from your point this was only a handful of years after Savile. I am not suggesting a parallel, however it does seem blind eyes remain blind to national treasures.
We're setting the bar very very low if Greg Wallace is a national treasure. I don't mean to join the pile-on here. He was no worae a broadcaster than many. But he's hardly Joanna Lumley.
Our local Masterchef finalist insists that he is utterly charming and better than anyone else at putting people at their ease when trying to deal with the stress of the Masterchef kitchen.
My wife says we are to cancel our TV licence if he is kicked out.
What I am fascinated by is who thinks constantly talking about how you like to do your shagging to every person you meet is what they want to hear? He sounds like Jay from the Inbetweeners when made to his 50s.
We should have a sweepstake on which male celebrity of a certain age comes out to support Wallace and scuppers their career.
Given a load of journos stuck their neck out for Huw Edwards, I think the "I knew nothing" will be the response this time.
Jermaine Jenas has to be pissed, they threw him under the bus for some flirty texts with women who either were interested in real life (but were a junior on a programme he presented) or said well it was my job to flirt with such people. It seems his crimes were he overstepped the mark when they said no with some more texts of oh come you know you want to. Obviously the fact he was willing to cheat on his wife makes his scummy, but quite different to Gregg Wallace who it seems you meet and all he wants to talk about / show his meat and two veg.
Jermaine Jenas and Huw Edwards worked directly for the BBC, whereas Gregg Wallace worked for independent production companies with whom the BBC had no involvement other than buying programmes.
Technically most of the BBC output isn't made by them these days, often made in conjunction with independent production companies / BBC studios.
Jenas I think was rather unfortunate that his scandal was revealed in the midst of all the Huw Edwards stuff, there are plenty of people who have done a lot of worse and still working at BBC.
England is now a country where we are legalising assisted suicide and criminalising saying nice things about porridge. Pro-death but anti-death-by-chocolate. Stupid government.
We will presumably try to prevent the bad kind of suicides, and the bad kinds of porridge, to have a nicely nuanced position.
At least we can probably all agree if we imported american breakfast cereals that would be both very unhealthy and possibly a form of suicide.
I’m still getting over the shock that kle4 considers “three slices of toast and Vegemite” a suitable dinner
It was a particularly poor and lazy day in fairness.
Though a toast heavy diet works well for me when I decide to lose weight, every couple of years or so (though a nutritionist would probably balk at it as a suggestion). Egg on toast and some paprika? Good stuff.
Isn't poached egg on toast what Mrs Thatcher used to serve to those working late at Number 10?
She whipped it up personally? Talk about being hands on.
England is now a country where we are legalising assisted suicide and criminalising saying nice things about porridge. Pro-death but anti-death-by-chocolate. Stupid government.
You can’t grasp the difference between porridge oats and a processed sweetened breakfast snack that contains porridge oats…?
So Ive been through the press in France Germany Italy and Spain and none of them have reported on the world changing events surrounding Greg Wallace.
Do they understand nothing ?
Rather a sadly dismissive post. If a rather forward camp man pulled his todger out, his modesty covered only by a sock, because he thought it might attract your interest, I suspect you would be quite justifiably outraged. Is there a difference?
when did he have his todger out, the fantasies are escalating
Apparently he didn't it was covered by a sock. My mistake.
The thing is that these sorts of actions are on an escalating ladder. Today it is "todger out", but what about tomorrow or next week? When does flashing no longer satisfy and so the perpetrator moves up to assault or rape or murder?
Are we supposed to wait until it gets really, deadly serious?
Jermaine Jenas's feet didn't touch the ground for "sexting".How the hell did Wallace keep his presenting role after claims were made about his behaviour in 2018? Moving on from your point this was only a handful of years after Savile. I am not suggesting a parallel, however it does seem blind eyes remain blind to national treasures.
I ask again when did the fantasy that he had his tadger out appear, what crackpot came up with that one.
It was in the Daily Mail so it must be true. I linked it earlier, but I can't be arsed to do so again. You'll have to scroll back or Google Gregg Wallace, sock.
From that story: Now US officials have urged Americans to use encrypted messaging apps to minimise the chances of China intercepting their communications.
Yet still we have grandstanding MPs demanding encryption is prohibited. And police forces celebrate convictions gained by hacking organised crime groups.
That's the dilemma. Who are they good guys and who are the bad guys varies with context.
From that story: Now US officials have urged Americans to use encrypted messaging apps to minimise the chances of China intercepting their communications.
Yet still we have grandstanding MPs demanding encryption is prohibited. And police forces celebrate convictions gained by hacking organised crime groups.
That's the dilemma. Who are they good guys and who are the bad guys varies with context.
And of course the biggest weakness is what apps you have on your device and what permissions they have been given....it is often the way in which security services have got information on people, they didn't hack VPN / secure messaging, they just got an app onto the device which has permissions to capture on device activity.
Now of course none of these popular Chinese owned apps have absolutely any history of dodgy things with regards to excess data collection.....
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
The porridge banned under the policy is that with added sugar, ergo junk food. The list looks pretty sound to me.
It doesn't to me. The whole premise just seems overkill to me if you end up having to distinguish between the good and bad porridge. I'm not libertarian, but that's such a level of detail that just seems over the top for government. It's not like the definitions of acceptable or not will remain static.
It’s really not. Garbage like Ready Brek etc are processed junk food. Oats are natural ingredients that are rightly exempt from the ban. Like the difference between tea leaves and Liptonice.
If we care that much about people making an unhealthy choice then really should just go ahead and ban us from doing unhealthy things, if advertising it is bad so is eating it.
Eating it is bad for you but so are many things. The difference is that we are advertising this garbage to children, who then nag their parents for it incessantly. Same principle why supermarkets stopped putting racks of sweets by the tills.
Not eating is also pretty bad for you.
People who completely cut it out have pretty high near term morbidity.
News: Top Biden aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons, an extraordinary step to inoculate potential Trump targets from prosecution.
At issue: whether to err on side of protecting figures like Fauci, Schiff and Cheney in case Trump pursues them - as Biden did w his son - or avoid any suggestion of impropriety by handing out pardons such individuals are not seeking
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
The porridge banned under the policy is that with added sugar, ergo junk food. The list looks pretty sound to me.
It doesn't to me. The whole premise just seems overkill to me if you end up having to distinguish between the good and bad porridge. I'm not libertarian, but that's such a level of detail that just seems over the top for government. It's not like the definitions of acceptable or not will remain static.
It’s really not. Garbage like Ready Brek etc are processed junk food. Oats are natural ingredients that are rightly exempt from the ban. Like the difference between tea leaves and Liptonice.
If we care that much about people making an unhealthy choice then really should just go ahead and ban us from doing unhealthy things, if advertising it is bad so is eating it.
Eating it is bad for you but so are many things. The difference is that we are advertising this garbage to children, who then nag their parents for it incessantly. Same principle why supermarkets stopped putting racks of sweets by the tills.
Not eating is also pretty bad for you.
People who completely cut it out have pretty high near term morbidity.
Just eat air.
People consume over 28 lbs of air each day, which is more than five times the amount of other nutrients.
However, 90% of the air people breathe is from indoors, which can be considered "junk air"
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
"There is no collection of words you could put on X, formerly Twitter, that wouldn’t upset someone. You could write, “I’m enjoying a lovely sunset across Dorset this evening”, and someone would reply, “Not so lovely if you suffer from Sunset Aversion Dorset Syndrome, actually Mark! Have a thought for SADS sufferers in future, please! I thought you were better than that!”
This happens across the internet, the things that provides a service for people who can get angry about anything at all. I expect there’s a gardening forum, where someone can write, “Now is the ideal time of year to plant your geraniums.” And the first reply will be, “That shows how much YOU know about flowers! I’ll tell you what it’s the right time of year to plant a tree up: your arse.”"
The porridge banned under the policy is that with added sugar, ergo junk food. The list looks pretty sound to me.
No it isn't. Either you can't read or you are lying and hoping no one will check.
The Government page says:
“Breakfast cereals including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, muesli, porridge oats and other oat-based cereals.”
It makes no mention at all of added sugar.
Read the story more carefully. Why have you got into this bizarre habit of jumping down my throat recently? It’s unlike you.
This means healthy versions of products – including porridge products with no added sugar, salt or fat, and unsweetened yoghurt products – will not be subject to the ban.
Nope. You are wrong. Read the actual Government guidelines I linked to. Or are you too stupid or dishonest to do that? They make no mention of 'added sugar'. They simply say porridge oats.
"Examples of category 3 products may include:
granola muesli ready-to-eat cereals porridge oats, including instant porridge and other hot oat-based cereals"
And yes, I will continue to accuse you of lying as long as you continue to lie.
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
And if not careful this slop will get fed into the latest training datasets for LLMs....and in 2028, Chip son of Neil was pardoned....
A new weight-loss jab will be rolled out on the NHS in England - but it could take 12 years for everyone to receive it, the NHS drugs advisory body says
I just happened to search for: "Jack the Ripper and Lord Lucan" in case there was some sort of weird connection between them.
Google AI informed me that "Both Jack the Ripper and Lord Lucan are connected to Salisbury, England, and are well-known crimes in Victorian and modern history."
Sounds interesting, I thought. What was the connection with Salisbury?
It turns out to be: "Salisbury hosted a true crime conference that explored the city's connection to these crimes, along with other well-known crimes."
Not exactly what I was expecting, but that's how AI thinks. Certainly gave me the wrong impression for a moment.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
England is now a country where we are legalising assisted suicide and criminalising saying nice things about porridge. Pro-death but anti-death-by-chocolate. Stupid government.
We will presumably try to prevent the bad kind of suicides, and the bad kinds of porridge, to have a nicely nuanced position.
At least we can probably all agree if we imported american breakfast cereals that would be both very unhealthy and possibly a form of suicide.
The vast majority of the food consumed in the US is over-processed garbage, something that most Americans were unaware of before the recent election.
The message is now slowly getting across to them, that an awful lot of packaged American food is full of ingredients banned in the UK, EU, and Canada. Breakfast cereals are indeed some of the worst offenders, as unlike sweets they’re often incorrectly thought to be the healthy option.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Also see last week’s JRE podcast with Marc Andreessen, almost as scary and covering a lot of similar subject matter.
A lot of the “deep state” stuff has long been dismissed as conspiracy theory, but these two guests bring the receipts and show that it’s simply a case of the mainstream media ignoring (or being told to ignore) what goes on. US government agencies have a long history of covert funding of policy-based organisations to achieve their goals.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
"He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington."
Is he unaware of some of the open source models? I think the latest open source coding ones are better than anthropic or open ai.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Also see last week’s JRE podcast with Marc Andreessen, almost as scary and covering a lot of similar subject matter.
A lot of the “deep state” stuff has long been dismissed as conspiracy theory, but these two guests bring the receipts and show that it’s simply a case of the mainstream media ignoring (or being told to ignore) what goes on. US government agencies have a long history of covert funding of policy-based organisations to achieve their goals.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
"He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington."
Is he unaware of some of the open source models? I think the latest open source coding ones are better than anthropic or open ai.
The usual way is by excessive regulation creating high barriers to entry. Sure you could run your own open source AI model for your personal use, but can’t offer anything public-facing without needing a lot of compliance. Buying AI services from Microsoft though, that’s $10.99 a month and takes three clicks of the mouse.
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Also see last week’s JRE podcast with Marc Andreessen, almost as scary and covering a lot of similar subject matter.
A lot of the “deep state” stuff has long been dismissed as conspiracy theory, but these two guests bring the receipts and show that it’s simply a case of the mainstream media ignoring (or being told to ignore) what goes on. US government agencies have a long history of covert funding of policy-based organisations to achieve their goals.
Thank you, most kind
I’m currently spending about 20 hours a week in the car for work, mostly in rural areas of crap radio reception. The podcast playlist is getting excessive!
They are stark raving mad, of all the crap food around they pick porridge, total nutters.
Is porridge commonly advertised to children?
It seems to me that the ban is on 'breakfast cereals', and it's the Metro who have translated that into granola, mueseli, and porridge - but the sort of cereals that are actually advertised to kids are, er, slightly different...
I think you have misunderstood. It is not a question of whether it is advertised to children. It is a blanket ban on advertising these products before 9pm or at all online. It doesn't matter who they are directed at, they will be banned. The full list is found on the Government website and explicitly includes granola, mueseli, and porridge along with Tea and Coffee - but not alcohol.
I'm interested in the Starmer, STARMER, STARMER !!! attack lines, especially given that the "healthy" or not healthy" scoring system is vintage 2011 aiui. Speaking as somebody who is forced to be interested in nutrition, it's a fascinating summary system.
Black Belt Barrister has gone somewhat loopy again, acknowledging about 5 times that this is a subject he knows nothing about, and has not researched properly, so he is not giving any real information, but he is giving an OBJECTIVE report as a LAWYER.
Yet his whole shtick is to go and imply that a pre-school breakfast by a provider organisation incorporating a bagel is somehow problematic because bagels are on the "do not advertise online before the threshold" list. When the association only exists in his head.
It adds up to be heathly. Then ... BUT IT'S GOT JAM ON IT in the picture.
It's like the opponents of the ULEZ insisting the Mayor's electric vehicle is some sort of double standard.
A festival of silos, and the outrage-bots of Clacton jumping up and inchoately in the comments for exactly the same reason they jump up and down every time they breathe. To paraphrase Marvin the Paranoid Android, if they stopped shouting there would be a danger their brains might turn themselves on.
He's turning into the Daily Express, and the comments are a found poem.
There are two separate points here on the actual legislation (ignoring the party political stuff as I suspect this started well before the election)
1. I object on principle to the idea of banning adverts based on someone's idea of what is or is not healthy. particularly given how far the scientific opinion on that has shifted over the last few decades. 2. Accepting that the Government does want to play Nanny state, the proposed list is incoherent garbage. Including such staples as porridge and calling it junk food is just plain stupid. And including Tea and Coffee but excluding alcohol - which is the only one of these items that is actualy illegal to sell to kids - is just wildly idiotic.
The list opens up the whole process to justified ridicule
Soon after the ban we’ll wonder why we were ever dumb enough to allow junk food to be advertised to children. Virtually everything on the list is garbage.
Tea? Coffee? Porridge? Ravioli?
You have a very strange view of garbage. Mind you, you have avery strange view of most things so I am not exactly surprised.
I don't think any of it should be banned out of principle of free speech.
However there has to be some misrepresentation going on surely here to suggest tea and coffee? There's no sugar or calories in plain tea and coffee?
I assume it's "coffee drinks" as opposed to actual coffee, eg bottled drinks that can have the equivalent of many spoons of sugar in them, that are on the list?
Not that anything should be.
We talked about this previously on here and looked at the research for things like sin taxes. The most effective approach was encouraging manufactures to reformulate products rather than sugar tax / advertising bans. The instant coffee in a can products for example often have stupid amounts of sugar (even today) which really isn't necessary.
The trouble with that is it penalises the responsible. I was never a heavy consumer of soft drinks, but I used to enjoy the odd glass occasionally. Now it's basically only full fat Coke (at outrageous prices) available that doesn't taste foul because of the artificial sweeteners.
Effectively banning products which I used to consume perfectly responsibly because others have no self control is wildly unfair and profoundly wrong.
That said, I dread to think who gets pleasure from eating cheap ready meals...
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
The Prime Minister will on Thursday unveil his “plan for change”, a document about 40 pages long spelling out his priorities for office.
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
The suggestion is that the Biden-Harris administration were targeting more regulation on the crypto industry. Trump’s pick for chairman of the SEC announced yesterday, Paul Atkins, has been an advocate of cryptocurrency.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
Top tip: don't listen to Joe Rogan. There are far better, and more informed, commentators out there on any topic he covers.
Sad to see you promoting him after what he said about Ukraine...
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
"He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington."
Is he unaware of some of the open source models? I think the latest open source coding ones are better than anthropic or open ai.
The usual way is by excessive regulation creating high barriers to entry. Sure you could run your own open source AI model for your personal use, but can’t offer anything public-facing without needing a lot of compliance. Buying AI services from Microsoft though, that’s $10.99 a month and takes three clicks of the mouse.
The current AI players *want* extra regulation - for new players. Which is why many of them have been playing up the 'dangers' of AI, even whilst taking their models further and further into the territory they claim is 'dangerous'. This is because they realise, once you steal the data, these things are relatively trivial to set up, and they do not have any particular magic sauce. If anyone is allowed into the market place, their tech might get overtaken by something more novel.
So they say: "Look, this tech is really dangerous. New players might be doing nefarious stuff. But not us - we're the good guys, which is why we're warning you."
What substance is there behind bitcoin.? It seems like pyramid selling to me and will eventually crash and burn.
A lot of electricity consumption and computer chip purchases, plus shedloads of what a company might call ‘goodwill’ in their accounts - and others might call branding, wings and prayers.
The number of coins is finite, and the amount of computing power required keeps increasing, so it probably lasts until a quantum computer can hack the blockchain.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
It's a new Ed stone
No ot isn't. 2 reasons:
1) the targets are specific with numbers attached, rather than the platitudes on the Edstone.
2) Starmer is in government, Miliband was not.
This is Starmers attempt at delivering. He believes that this is the course to re-election, and more importantly to fix the British malaise. I don't think he has done his sums on the NHS, in particular the staffing and building requirements. Even if the money can be found, the people and buildings cannot.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
No idea. I was asleep and woke up to Jimmy Carr signing autographs.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
Youtube left on autoplay for a few hours can go down some very weird rabbitholes - which it will keep trying to push for days until it eventually realises you’re not interested.
I was doing some research on the new AirPods last weekend, and now YT is convinced I want to watch hundreds of hours of video about headphones and earbuds. My wife already bought them and they’re under the tree, all YouTube can possibly do from here is make me resentful on 25th that I chose the wrong ones!
Just eat what you want, but vary and moderate your desires where possible.
You'll take more years off your life by worrying about what you're eating, and be unhappier. Most diets are just fads designed to take your money and make you unhappy.
That's easy to say, but not as easy to do.
We've rapidly moved from a state that existed for hundreds of thousands of years - relatively, or very, scarce food and intense physical activity to get it - to one where there is a large surplus of food, particularly food stuffed with sugar, an industry determined to sell as much food as possible, and sedentary working lives.
Put like that it's perhaps surprising that the obesity stats aren't way worse.
In particular a craving for high energy salty foods.
Obesity is a worldwide issue, rampant in the urban areas across Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Laissez-faire on diets isn't working, just look around next time you are in a High St or Supermarket.
Indeed. We eat a pile of utter shite in this country – and feed it to our children. Most 'low-fat' food is processed rubbish. Everything that comes in a box is laced with sugar, masquerading to be actual food. Ready meals are riddled with additives.
LOSE THE LANDFILL PACKAGING.
We are a sad nation of fussy eaters.
People need to learn to cook. And eat actual food. Meat, veg, fish, dairy. Actual food. Ban the junk 'food' advertising at all times. Adults are as bad as kids.
With you and dropped a like, but disagree with the advertising thing.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
No idea. I was asleep and woke up to Jimmy Carr signing autographs.
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
It's the gangsters and grifters currency of choice. Which is why he has proposed weakening the regulation (taking it out of the hands of the SEC moving it to CFT) and creating a US crypto reserve (to shore up value in times of need).
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
No idea. I was asleep and woke up to Jimmy Carr signing autographs.
Oh dear. What a way to start the day.
Yesterday some mewling at the bedroom door woke me up at 2.30. I got up to find the kittens had filled their two litter trays with poo. And had pooed *four* times in various places on the carpet. I managed to clean it all up without waking anyone else in the house, then wetvacced the carpet during the day.
How can two kittens poo at least six times overnight?
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
Youtube left on autoplay for a few hours can go down some very weird rabbitholes - which it will keep trying to push for days until it eventually realises you’re not interested.
I was doing some research on the new AirPods last weekend, and now YT is convinced I want to watch hundreds of hours of video about headphones and earbuds. My wife already bought them and they’re under the tree, all YouTube can possibly do from here is make me resentful on 25th that I chose the wrong ones!
I am surprised they haven't fixed that issue with the YouTube algorithm. If people are watching product review type videos there is no way after the 4-5 one they want to watch any more. It seems like something that should be easy to include in the algorithm as it is a very specific type of video (while also being popular content on YouTube).
What substance is there behind bitcoin.? It seems like pyramid selling to me and will eventually crash and burn.
A lot of electricity consumption and computer chip purchases, plus shedloads of what a company might call ‘goodwill’ in their accounts - and others might call branding, wings and prayers.
The number of coins is finite, and the amount of computing power required keeps increasing, so it probably lasts until a quantum computer can hack the blockchain.
But BTC is not the only cryptocurrency. Others (like Ethereum) have also risen since the election. It is a family of pyramid scams that feed off the initial success of BTC.
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Proportion of children in England who are “ready for school” at the age of five is above 75%.
Bit of an odd one.
Watching SkyNews paper review last night, I was struck by how many times Kevin Maguire mentioned the fact that Starmer was going back to copy the Blairite/Brown policies like increasing police numbers on the beat which he gleefully annouced the Conservatives ditched during their austerity drive, no word of the economic reality of the austerity legacy that Labour government left them back in 2010.
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
No idea. I was asleep and woke up to Jimmy Carr signing autographs.
Oh dear. What a way to start the day.
Yesterday some mewling at the bedroom door woke me up at 2.30. I got up to find the kittens had filled their two litter trays with poo. And had pooed *four* times in various places on the carpet. I managed to clean it all up without waking anyone else in the house, then wetvacced the carpet during the day.
How can two kittens poo at least six times overnight?
They secretly hoard the poos during the day in an undisclosed location and scatter them about while you sleep.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
No idea. I was asleep and woke up to Jimmy Carr signing autographs.
Ah, okay, if it were me I would have had a look in my history to see what it played.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
The list is slightly odd. The NHS target is very specific and ambitious and the sort of target Blair era was very keen on, then there is vapid we will give you a police officers name and things the government really can't control very well like guarantee on increasing disposable income / fastest growth in the G7.
The kids being developed when they first attend school, maybe they are going to go combination of Sure Start reboot combined with Cameron scheme of an army of people intervening with families directly from very early age, where the money comes for that is another matter.
It is quite clear they haven't done their homework before the GE, otherwise you wouldn't need 6 months, 487 reviews been setup and 27 reboots before you come up with these things.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
Proportion of children in England who are “ready for school” at the age of five is above 75%.
Bit of an odd one.
Watching SkyNews paper review last night, I was struck by how many times Kevin Maguire mentioned the fact that Starmer was going back to copy the Blairite/Brown policies like increasing police numbers on the beat which he gleefully annouced the Conservatives ditched during their austerity drive, no word of the economic reality of the austerity legacy that Labour government left them back in 2010.
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
Actually Labour left an economy in recovery that was flatlined by George Osborne's Plan A austerity. You might remember Ed Balls' flatline hand gestures.
Whether Labour's relaunch is about policy or presentation is left as an exercise for the reader.
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
Youtube left on autoplay for a few hours can go down some very weird rabbitholes - which it will keep trying to push for days until it eventually realises you’re not interested.
I was doing some research on the new AirPods last weekend, and now YT is convinced I want to watch hundreds of hours of video about headphones and earbuds. My wife already bought them and they’re under the tree, all YouTube can possibly do from here is make me resentful on 25th that I chose the wrong ones!
I am surprised they haven't fixed that issue with the YouTube algorithm. If people are watching product review type videos there is no way after the 4-5 one they want to watch any more. It seems like something that should be easy to include in the algorithm as it is a very specific type of video (while also being popular content on YouTube).
I could probably write out 1,000 words from memory of Apple v Bose v Sennheiser v Sony earbuds right now, I definitely don’t want every other video I watch to be yet more about them!
I assume YT don’t want to ‘fix’ the ‘problem’ precisely because they’re such popular videos, and they’d face yet more comment videos from the ‘creators’ saying that YouTube is broken (for the creators) and they might need to get a proper job.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
It's a new Ed stone
No ot isn't. 2 reasons:
1) the targets are specific with numbers attached, rather than the platitudes on the Edstone.
2) Starmer is in government, Miliband was not.
This is Starmers attempt at delivering. He believes that this is the course to re-election, and more importantly to fix the British malaise. I don't think he has done his sums on the NHS, in particular the staffing and building requirements. Even if the money can be found, the people and buildings cannot.
It is a hostage to fortune. Most people won't give a shit unless they experience their lives getting better and when they fail to hit these, as they probably will, journalists and interviewers will trot them out and use them as a stick to beat the govt with.
What substance is there behind bitcoin.? It seems like pyramid selling to me and will eventually crash and burn.
A lot of electricity consumption and computer chip purchases, plus shedloads of what a company might call ‘goodwill’ in their accounts - and others might call branding, wings and prayers.
The number of coins is finite, and the amount of computing power required keeps increasing, so it probably lasts until a quantum computer can hack the blockchain.
But BTC is not the only cryptocurrency. Others (like Ethereum) have also risen since the election. It is a family of pyramid scams that feed off the initial success of BTC.
It's a pyramid scheme, but an unusually long-lived one.
It may expand for some time yet before the inevitable collapse.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
D'y'know, that might be the first Joe Rogan podcast in history that I want to listen to: got a link plz?
Entirely by coincidence, I listened to my first Joe Rogan podcast tonight, but fell asleep and have just woken up having churned through umpteen other videos served automatically by YouTube.
We’re the videos YouTube served you the sort you would have watched or was it’s ‘algorithm’ all over the place ?
Youtube left on autoplay for a few hours can go down some very weird rabbitholes - which it will keep trying to push for days until it eventually realises you’re not interested.
I was doing some research on the new AirPods last weekend, and now YT is convinced I want to watch hundreds of hours of video about headphones and earbuds. My wife already bought them and they’re under the tree, all YouTube can possibly do from here is make me resentful on 25th that I chose the wrong ones!
I am surprised they haven't fixed that issue with the YouTube algorithm. If people are watching product review type videos there is no way after the 4-5 one they want to watch any more. It seems like something that should be easy to include in the algorithm as it is a very specific type of video (while also being popular content on YouTube).
I could probably write out 1,000 words from memory of Apple v Bose v Sennheiser v Sony earbuds right now, I definitely don’t want every other video I watch to be yet more about them!
I assume YT don’t want to ‘fix’ the ‘problem’ precisely because they’re such popular videos, and they’d face yet more comment videos from the ‘creators’ saying that YouTube is broken (for the creators) and they might need to get a proper job.
I don't think it works for YT either, because your recommend fills up with just headphone reviews and the users doesn't click anymore. One of the secret of TikToks success is it gives the user just enough of the same before moving them onto something different, thus keeping them engaged.
What substance is there behind bitcoin.? It seems like pyramid selling to me and will eventually crash and burn.
A lot of electricity consumption and computer chip purchases, plus shedloads of what a company might call ‘goodwill’ in their accounts - and others might call branding, wings and prayers.
The number of coins is finite, and the amount of computing power required keeps increasing, so it probably lasts until a quantum computer can hack the blockchain.
But BTC is not the only cryptocurrency. Others (like Ethereum) have also risen since the election. It is a family of pyramid scams that feed off the initial success of BTC.
It's a pyramid scheme, but an unusually long-lived one.
It may expand for some time yet before the inevitable collapse.
That's the cleverness of the scam, really. You have to zoom right out before you can see it.
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
It's the gangsters and grifters currency of choice. Which is why he has proposed weakening the regulation (taking it out of the hands of the SEC moving it to CFT) and creating a US crypto reserve (to shore up value in times of need).
Hugo Rifkind in The Times has once again written an interesting and topical article
Elon and his buddies, Trump and Farage, share a disdain for the blob, for existing management structures and norms.
The difference between Trump 2.0 and the Brexiteers is that Musk clearly articulates what comes next, after you smash the existing structures to rubble.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
That NHS target is truly ambitious. The NHS Confederation estimates that will require a 50% increase in activity and need to be spread over outpatients, diagnostics and theatres.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
It's a new Ed stone
No ot isn't. 2 reasons:
1) the targets are specific with numbers attached, rather than the platitudes on the Edstone.
2) Starmer is in government, Miliband was not.
This is Starmers attempt at delivering. He believes that this is the course to re-election, and more importantly to fix the British malaise. I don't think he has done his sums on the NHS, in particular the staffing and building requirements. Even if the money can be found, the people and buildings cannot.
It is a hostage to fortune. Most people won't give a shit unless they experience their lives getting better and when they fail to hit these, as they probably will, journalists and interviewers will trot them out and use them as a stick to beat the govt with.
As they did with Sunak.
Yes, not the sort of public pledge that should be made without the necessary preparation.
Not a new one either. Streeting made it during the campaign.
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
It's the gangsters and grifters currency of choice. Which is why he has proposed weakening the regulation (taking it out of the hands of the SEC moving it to CFT) and creating a US crypto reserve (to shore up value in times of need).
That will go well, just wait until Bob Diamond hears they're underwriting crypto, there'll be a stampede of bankers
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
It's the gangsters and grifters currency of choice. Which is why he has proposed weakening the regulation (taking it out of the hands of the SEC moving it to CFT) and creating a US crypto reserve (to shore up value in times of need).
Depending on who you believe, the US government supposedly holds several billion dollars in Bitcoin, mostly confiscated from criminals over the years.
There was a bill presented earlier this year to set up a ‘strategic reserve’ which didn’t go anywhere, but would fit with the US administrative state’s desire to be able to manipulate such markets at will.
News: Top Biden aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons, an extraordinary step to inoculate potential Trump targets from prosecution.
At issue: whether to err on side of protecting figures like Fauci, Schiff and Cheney in case Trump pursues them - as Biden did w his son - or avoid any suggestion of impropriety by handing out pardons such individuals are not seeking
That is outrageous. What is the world coming to if Trump can't exercise petty vendettas against people he doesn't like? Trump doesn't like an awful lot of people so does that suggest an awful lot of pre-emptive pardons?
I wonder if that will stretch across the water. Eric and Elon despise the traitor Starmer and want him replaced by Nigel. After the coup does Starmer get transported to Terra Haute to await his trial. Elon has already demanded Labour Ministers and MPs report to him in the US for their unfair imprisonment of the Farage Rioters.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
Proportion of children in England who are “ready for school” at the age of five is above 75%.
Bit of an odd one.
Watching SkyNews paper review last night, I was struck by how many times Kevin Maguire mentioned the fact that Starmer was going back to copy the Blairite/Brown policies like increasing police numbers on the beat which he gleefully annouced the Conservatives ditched during their austerity drive, no word of the economic reality of the austerity legacy that Labour government left them back in 2010.
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
Actually Labour left an economy in recovery that was flatlined by George Osborne's Plan A austerity. You might remember Ed Balls' flatline hand gestures.
Whether Labour's relaunch is about policy or presentation is left as an exercise for the reader.
No way are you getting away with that whopper of a lie about the state of the UK debt and deficit finances when Labour left power in 2010!
1.Thank you to all the posters on here that gave me a crash course in economics in the last three of years leading up to that GE, sadly too many of them no longer post here on the site!
2.I just want to remind you of the now famous Liam Byrne note left for his successor David Laws in the Treasury after the 2010 GE result when the Conservatives and Libdems created their Coalition government... "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck!"
Named Police Officer Increased Household Disposable Income NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks Build 1.5 million new homes Decarbonise the electricity grid
Proportion of children in England who are “ready for school” at the age of five is above 75%.
Bit of an odd one.
Watching SkyNews paper review last night, I was struck by how many times Kevin Maguire mentioned the fact that Starmer was going back to copy the Blairite/Brown policies like increasing police numbers on the beat which he gleefully annouced the Conservatives ditched during their austerity drive, no word of the economic reality of the austerity legacy that Labour government left them back in 2010.
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
Actually Labour left an economy in recovery that was flatlined by George Osborne's Plan A austerity. You might remember Ed Balls' flatline hand gestures.
Whether Labour's relaunch is about policy or presentation is left as an exercise for the reader.
No way are you getting away with that whopper of a lie about the state of the UK finances when Labour left power in 2010!
1.Thank you to all the posters on here that gave me a crash course in economics in the last three of years leading up to that GE, sadly too many of them no longer post here on the site!
2.I just want to remind you of the now famous Liam Byrne note left for his successor David Laws in the Treasury after the 2010 GE result when the Conservatives and Libdems created their Coalition government... "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck!"
And I would remind you that Liam Byrne's note was intended as a joke in homage to Reggie Maudling's message to the incoming Jim Callaghan: Good luck, old cock, sorry to leave it in such a mess.
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
We’re joining forces with @OpenAI to advance AI solutions for national security. America needs to win. OpenAI’s models combined with Anduril’s defense systems will protect U.S. and allied military personnel from attacks by unmanned drones and improve real-time decision-making.
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Mike Benz is scary as hell on this and many similar subjects, the extent to which the US government is funding academia and startup companies to push a certain agenda.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
That’s quite the MSNBC hit piece, he must be doing something right.
It may or may not be a 'hit piece', but if it is correct, then you've been listening to some rather dangerous rubbish. Which may explain your weird position on some things...
The porridge banned under the policy is that with added sugar, ergo junk food. The list looks pretty sound to me.
No it isn't. Either you can't read or you are lying and hoping no one will check.
The Government page says:
“Breakfast cereals including ready-to-eat cereals, granola, muesli, porridge oats and other oat-based cereals.”
It makes no mention at all of added sugar.
Read the story more carefully. Why have you got into this bizarre habit of jumping down my throat recently? It’s unlike you.
This means healthy versions of products – including porridge products with no added sugar, salt or fat, and unsweetened yoghurt products – will not be subject to the ban.
Nope. You are wrong. Read the actual Government guidelines I linked to. Or are you too stupid or dishonest to do that? They make no mention of 'added sugar'. They simply say porridge oats.
"Examples of category 3 products may include:
granola muesli ready-to-eat cereals porridge oats, including instant porridge and other hot oat-based cereals"
And yes, I will continue to accuse you of lying as long as you continue to lie.
Who liked this post? What on Earth is wrong with you? Read the guidance.
Why do Trump and crypto go hand in hand? It has shot up since the election.
It's the gangsters and grifters currency of choice. Which is why he has proposed weakening the regulation (taking it out of the hands of the SEC moving it to CFT) and creating a US crypto reserve (to shore up value in times of need).
Hugo Rifkind in The Times has once again written an interesting and topical article
Elon and his buddies, Trump and Farage, share a disdain for the blob, for existing management structures and norms.
The difference between Trump 2.0 and the Brexiteers is that Musk clearly articulates what comes next, after you smash the existing structures to rubble.
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But kids nagging to get Ready Brek? Probably not even at the store (yes, some will be with the parent at the shop, but not all), and so the power of the nagging carrying over from home? I'll grant I only hear it second hand, but I do think parents should have the ability to resist that.
And many many kids are up past 9pm anyway (I was from around 7 years), so this is only a half measure anyway, plenty of kids will still see ads.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2v5z0wvwzo
Time to
panic buystock up for Christmas. Bonuses all round for the Guinness marketing department.Jenas I think was rather unfortunate that his scandal was revealed in the midst of all the Huw Edwards stuff, there are plenty of people who have done a lot of worse and still working at BBC.
At least we can probably all agree if we imported american breakfast cereals that would be both very unhealthy and possibly a form of suicide.
Yet still we have grandstanding MPs demanding encryption is prohibited. And police forces celebrate convictions gained by hacking organised crime groups.
That's the dilemma. Who are they good guys and who are the bad guys varies with context.
Now of course none of these popular Chinese owned apps have absolutely any history of dodgy things with regards to excess data collection.....
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/02/tech/china-pinduoduo-malware-cybersecurity-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html
Under the plan, the Prime Minister will promise that every neighbourhood will have a named “bobby on the beat” to contact, with a focus on tackling anti-social behaviour.
There will be a new promise to raise real national disposable income before the next general election, a pledge designed to ensure the public feels the proceeds of any economic growth. Downing Street insisted that Sir Keir’s existing target to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 group of nations was not being sidelined by this new metric for boosting living standards.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/04/sir-keir-starmer-will-not-make-new-immigration-pledge/
It sound rather like the Sunak reboot.
People who completely cut it out have pretty high near term morbidity.
https://x.com/jmart/status/1864421315165179945
News: Top Biden aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons, an extraordinary step to inoculate potential Trump targets from prosecution.
At issue: whether to err on side of protecting figures like Fauci, Schiff and Cheney in case Trump pursues them - as Biden did w his son - or avoid any suggestion of impropriety by handing out pardons such individuals are not seeking
Named Police Officer
Increased Household Disposable Income
NHS will meet its target of carrying out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks
Build 1.5 million new homes
Decarbonise the electricity grid
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-aims-to-galvanise-government-with-six-new-pledges-880j8lzjh
Can't find the 6th in the article.
People consume over 28 lbs of air each day, which is more than five times the amount of other nutrients.
However, 90% of the air people breathe is from indoors, which can be considered "junk air"
"There is no collection of words you could put on X, formerly Twitter, that wouldn’t upset someone. You could write, “I’m enjoying a lovely sunset across Dorset this evening”, and someone would reply, “Not so lovely if you suffer from Sunset Aversion Dorset Syndrome, actually Mark! Have a thought for SADS sufferers in future, please! I thought you were better than that!”
This happens across the internet, the things that provides a service for people who can get angry about anything at all. I expect there’s a gardening forum, where someone can write, “Now is the ideal time of year to plant your geraniums.” And the first reply will be, “That shows how much YOU know about flowers! I’ll tell you what it’s the right time of year to plant a tree up: your arse.”"
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/mark-steel-calling-all-trump-supporters-we-need-you-on-bluesky-3406782
"Examples of category 3 products may include:
granola
muesli
ready-to-eat cereals
porridge oats, including instant porridge and other hot oat-based cereals"
And yes, I will continue to accuse you of lying as long as you continue to lie.
https://x.com/kfile/status/1864347278770626693
Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil.
The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened.
“ Esquire regrets the error.”
BBC News - NHS gets 12 years to roll out new weight-loss drug
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y5zl99vro
At which point we will be on ChatGPT 27
Google AI informed me that "Both Jack the Ripper and Lord Lucan are connected to Salisbury, England, and are well-known crimes in Victorian and modern history."
Sounds interesting, I thought. What was the connection with Salisbury?
It turns out to be: "Salisbury hosted a true crime conference that explored the city's connection to these crimes, along with other well-known crimes."
Not exactly what I was expecting, but that's how AI thinks. Certainly gave me the wrong impression for a moment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qz9g59v4o
https://x.com/anduriltech/status/1864390729516327375
I wonder if this is why so many of their ethics / AI safety lot have quit over the past couple of months?
Shoppers back to using cash to budget, say retailers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el81lenq1o
Proportion of children in England who are “ready for school” at the age of five is above 75%.
Bit of an odd one.
The message is now slowly getting across to them, that an awful lot of packaged American food is full of ingredients banned in the UK, EU, and Canada. Breakfast cereals are indeed some of the worst offenders, as unlike sweets they’re often incorrectly thought to be the healthy option.
What’s the current “ready for school” percentage?
Apparently the "ready for school" is to a metric of a child's development.
He said it’s clear that there will only be allowed to be a very small number of large AI companies surviving, so that they can be carefully kept in line by the many tentacles emanating from Washington.
I think that many of those working on ethics or coming from a point of view of AI altruism, are quickly becoming disaffected by the way the industry is moving.
Also see last week’s JRE podcast with Marc Andreessen, almost as scary and covering a lot of similar subject matter.
A lot of the “deep state” stuff has long been dismissed as conspiracy theory, but these two guests bring the receipts and show that it’s simply a case of the mainstream media ignoring (or being told to ignore) what goes on. US government agencies have a long history of covert funding of policy-based organisations to achieve their goals.
Is he unaware of some of the open source models? I think the latest open source coding ones are better than anthropic or open ai.
Mind you, I am not helping myself by not entering.
Effectively banning products which I used to consume perfectly responsibly because others have no self control is wildly unfair and profoundly wrong.
That said, I dread to think who gets pleasure from eating cheap ready meals...
"Steve, yah get Sarf London, Dave, yah get Norf. Wat, there's outside London? Pete, it's all yaars up past Watford Gap..."
https://www.nhsconfed.org/publications/achieving-18-week-standard-elective-care#:~:text=The new Labour government has,to 2 million a year.
There is a big drive on for productivity in my Trust. It's clearly being driven from the top down, but it simply isn't going to be enough physical and personal infrastructure to deliver those sorts of numbers. It takes a while to physically build the outpatients and theatres needed and to recruit and train the people. More administrators are needed too to track people on the 18 week pathways.
https://x.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1864367383571243480
Sad to see you promoting him after what he said about Ukraine...
You can't polish a turd.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/553a85f1-b2e9-4c8b-8e2b-45e4650a2fce?shareToken=9966dd0a6b8d24d1045146d54c588fd6
So they say: "Look, this tech is really dangerous. New players might be doing nefarious stuff. But not us - we're the good guys, which is why we're warning you."
The number of coins is finite, and the amount of computing power required keeps increasing, so it probably lasts until a quantum computer can hack the blockchain.
1) the targets are specific with numbers attached, rather than the platitudes on the Edstone.
2) Starmer is in government, Miliband was not.
This is Starmers attempt at delivering. He believes that this is the course to re-election, and more importantly to fix the British malaise. I don't think he has done his sums on the NHS, in particular the staffing and building requirements. Even if the money can be found, the people and buildings cannot.
I was doing some research on the new AirPods last weekend, and now YT is convinced I want to watch hundreds of hours of video about headphones and earbuds. My wife already bought them and they’re under the tree, all YouTube can possibly do from here is make me resentful on 25th that I chose the wrong ones!
Romania election interference: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq18w507dko
How can two kittens poo at least six times overnight?
But it all feels like Starmer's team are trying to find previously successful Labour policies on the hoof in an attempt to try to deflect from the current negative political narrative that suggests Starmer and his team arrived in Downing Street with no strategic policy plan at all after they dishonestly now try to distance themselves from the clear claims they did make and have now reneged on during the GE campaign while having no clear plan to govern on a salient range of issues they did not campaign on!! They are now desperately trying to emulate the more successful policies of the Blair/Brown government without either the political or the economic backdrop that will allow them to successfully fund and deliver them now.
The kids being developed when they first attend school, maybe they are going to go combination of Sure Start reboot combined with Cameron scheme of an army of people intervening with families directly from very early age, where the money comes for that is another matter.
It is quite clear they haven't done their homework before the GE, otherwise you wouldn't need 6 months, 487 reviews been setup and 27 reboots before you come up with these things.
Whether Labour's relaunch is about policy or presentation is left as an exercise for the reader.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2d0x1098o
One for @Sunil_Prasannan who can now explore stations without rising from his armchair.
I assume YT don’t want to ‘fix’ the ‘problem’ precisely because they’re such popular videos, and they’d face yet more comment videos from the ‘creators’ saying that YouTube is broken (for the creators) and they might need to get a proper job.
As they did with Sunak.
It may expand for some time yet before the inevitable collapse.
Elon and his buddies, Trump and Farage, share a disdain for the blob, for existing management structures and norms.
The difference between Trump 2.0 and the Brexiteers is that Musk clearly articulates what comes next, after you smash the existing structures to rubble.
The Brexiteers famously had, and have, no answer.
Trump does.
Very, very, very rich people in charge.
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/at-least-musks-blunt-about-billionaire-populism-wtj9hqc8h
Not a new one either. Streeting made it during the campaign.
There was a bill presented earlier this year to set up a ‘strategic reserve’ which didn’t go anywhere, but would fit with the US administrative state’s desire to be able to manipulate such markets at will.
I wonder if that will stretch across the water. Eric and Elon despise the traitor Starmer and want him replaced by Nigel. After the coup does Starmer get transported to Terra Haute to await his trial. Elon has already demanded Labour Ministers and MPs report to him in the US for their unfair imprisonment of the Farage Rioters.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/21/musk-to-summon-british-mps-to-the-us-to-explain-threats-to-american-citizens-uk-riots
This Mike Benz? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/michael-benz-rising-voice-conservative-criticism-online-censorship-rcna119213
NEW THREAD
1.Thank you to all the posters on here that gave me a crash course in economics in the last three of years leading up to that GE, sadly too many of them no longer post here on the site!
2.I just want to remind you of the now famous Liam Byrne note left for his successor David Laws in the Treasury after the 2010 GE result when the Conservatives and Libdems created their Coalition government... "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck!"