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  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 54,430
    @Andy_JS

    Penalties it will be!
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109
    Andy_JS said:

    Ronaldo seems to have been playing for about 20 years. I don't know what the correct figure is.

    22, at least
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 32,212
    Just catching up with this.

    An expose on the BBC regarding Israel. The Labour Party are not guilt free here either.

    https://youtu.be/BCTlKkUWKXk?si=PgakFqtC7HQMqs52
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    Portugal win.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 54,430
    Portugal beat Spain 5-3 on penalties!
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 55,047
    edited June 8
    Always good to see Spain lose, even if it means Ronaldo bags another trophy...
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 30,117
    Uriah Rennie, first Black PL referee has died aged 65 (!).
    O tempora o mores.
    Was a magistrate as well.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0mr7xlmkxyo
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 55,572
    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    "Undocumented" would appear to be the politically correct spelling of "Illegal".

    It's a little more complicated, because there are whole classes of people whose legal status is ambiguous. It's easy to say that a Honduran who crossed the border illegally into Texas, and is now living in Houston is an illegal immigrant.

    It's more complicated when we start talking about adults who have lived their whole life in the US, and have a Social Security number, etc.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
  • MustaphaMondeoMustaphaMondeo Posts: 310

    Rachel Reeves: I did well at school but I’m here for the girls who didn’t

    Her critics say the chancellor has no clear vision, but she tells our political editor that education is her true mission

    https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/rachel-reeves-i-did-well-at-school-but-im-here-for-the-girls-who-didnt

    Reshuffle incoming?

    That would be quite in interesting way of stage-managing that move.
    I think it's just to advertise her pitiful increase in education spending incoming this week
    On balance so do I, but this is another way of looking at it. Reeves goes voluntarily, feathering her own nest in the education department before she does. Poor Bridget Phillipson if so (oh dear how sad never mind).
    Even SKS isnt enough of a turd to allow her to present the first spending review for 4 years then quit and reward her with another job
    Indeed he can't possibly reshuffle her now for some time so I think its Miliband for the chop
    Don't tease.
    Fried green Milibands
    I think he's actually loony enough to defect to the greens if he gets sacked. I also don't see where he could be moved. Perhaps promotion to Foreign Sec?

    I don't actually know how you get rid of Miliband, except give him some vastly important sounding but meaningless job 'UK environmental emissary to the UN' or something and have him private jetting around the world (something loved by all environmentally inclined politicians) haranguing people about CO2.
    My MP Clive Lewis is another potential Green. I could see a small group jumping if Polanski wins. Not if Ramsey and Chowns win though, they are ecology party 1983 leaders
    These folk should just join the SWP, rather than trying to turn the Green Party into the SWP.
    The Greens are certainly becoming something not
    really Green. The Ecology party was Green

    Well, the Cons aren’t really Conservative, Lab aren’t really Labour etc etc.

    Yeah.

    I think I had to accept that tackling the climate and biodiversity emergency which is my personal priority also meant we needed to tackle inequality and poverty of opportunity. Both of which hugely undermine the trust we need to work together effectively.

  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    Roger said:

    Leon said:

    Roger said:

    Cookie said:

    Roger said:

    carnforth said:

    Roger said:

    A Spanish winner and an Italian the closest ever runner-up in the longest match possibly ever in Paris and each gave their winner and loser speech in English. That's our contribution. we really must rejoin this gang. it's madness being out

    Tough competition, but possibly your silliest post.
    I understand things look different from the bright lights of Carnforth
    No, your comment made no sense. Some Italian people / Spanish people can speak good English, therefore we ought to be in a political union with them? By that logic we should also be in a political union with the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, India, South Africa ... half the world, really.
    There might be valid reasons for wanting to be in a political union with the EU. But what you've just highlighted isn't logically one of them.
    Wouldn't you like Sale to be able to be fully integrated with Paris Madrid and Florence with your kids able to live and work in any of those places with the ease they could the Stretford Arndale Centre?

    Well watching Roland Garros reminded what things were like just a few years ago and what they could be now. We each have our own advantages. We have the most popular language Paris and Florence are the most beautiful but we could freely share in them all.

    Being in France reminds me of that daily . It's a big beautiful melting pot of shared cultures.
    If things are so great on mainland Europe why is almost every EU country veering to the hard or far Right, forcing the mainstream parties to try and outlaw them in desperation (and, I suspect, failing, in the end)?

    You literally live in a corner of France that voted Le Pen so hard, she won in the First Round

    A hard right Europe could appeal to people like me, I am not sure why it should appeal to many of the leftier types on here, or indeed you
    At this time of the year I'm reminded what an amazing and beatiful place France is. . The film festival is in Cannes. The Grand Prix is in Monaco. I get on my scooter and I'm in Italy in 40 minutes. People are coming from all over the world. Nowhere outside of Venice is more photographed. The place is heaving. The harbour is full of boats. The galleries are full of school kids.

    We were part of it .We're not now. I never see the right-wingery. I see young Irish waiters and waitresses and a lot of non French Europeans working there. Just not English. We are missing out and it's sad.
    Are we supposed to just forget that 41% voted for Le Pen at the last election?
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,662

    Just catching up with this.

    An expose on the BBC regarding Israel. The Labour Party are not guilt free here either.

    https://youtu.be/BCTlKkUWKXk?si=PgakFqtC7HQMqs52

    Most of it well known by now. What the Hell even is an organisation Lawyers for Israel?

    Hopefully when this is over we might discover who is who and who has been infiltrating who starting with the BBC
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,662
    Andy_JS said:

    Roger said:

    Leon said:

    Roger said:

    Cookie said:

    Roger said:

    carnforth said:

    Roger said:

    A Spanish winner and an Italian the closest ever runner-up in the longest match possibly ever in Paris and each gave their winner and loser speech in English. That's our contribution. we really must rejoin this gang. it's madness being out

    Tough competition, but possibly your silliest post.
    I understand things look different from the bright lights of Carnforth
    No, your comment made no sense. Some Italian people / Spanish people can speak good English, therefore we ought to be in a political union with them? By that logic we should also be in a political union with the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, India, South Africa ... half the world, really.
    There might be valid reasons for wanting to be in a political union with the EU. But what you've just highlighted isn't logically one of them.
    Wouldn't you like Sale to be able to be fully integrated with Paris Madrid and Florence with your kids able to live and work in any of those places with the ease they could the Stretford Arndale Centre?

    Well watching Roland Garros reminded what things were like just a few years ago and what they could be now. We each have our own advantages. We have the most popular language Paris and Florence are the most beautiful but we could freely share in them all.

    Being in France reminds me of that daily . It's a big beautiful melting pot of shared cultures.
    If things are so great on mainland Europe why is almost every EU country veering to the hard or far Right, forcing the mainstream parties to try and outlaw them in desperation (and, I suspect, failing, in the end)?

    You literally live in a corner of France that voted Le Pen so hard, she won in the First Round

    A hard right Europe could appeal to people like me, I am not sure why it should appeal to many of the leftier types on here, or indeed you
    At this time of the year I'm reminded what an amazing and beatiful place France is. . The film festival is in Cannes. The Grand Prix is in Monaco. I get on my scooter and I'm in Italy in 40 minutes. People are coming from all over the world. Nowhere outside of Venice is more photographed. The place is heaving. The harbour is full of boats. The galleries are full of school kids.

    We were part of it .We're not now. I never see the right-wingery. I see young Irish waiters and waitresses and a lot of non French Europeans working there. Just not English. We are missing out and it's sad.
    Are we supposed to just forget that 41% voted for Le Pen at the last election?
    I would. She lost.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 78,040

    "Undocumented" would appear to be the politically correct spelling of "Illegal".

    Not really true in the US context.
    They're overlapping sets, but not the same thing.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 30,117
    It's Reichstag Fire time..
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,758

    viewcode said:

    I've had a few whiskies with my wife on the Caledonian Sleeper leaving Euston (yes, London does have a railway station) and then retired to our sleeping compartment to have sex there - pre kids - before waking up, very hungover, in Edinburgh Waverley the next morning.

    Does that count?

    I realise this is missing the point even by my standards, but the RSS Conference is in Edinburgh this year and I was thinking of taking the Caledonian Sleeper to get there. What is it like? Is it difficult to sleep?

    Thus thread should help:

    https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caledonian-sleeper.176365/

    Over 17,000 posts!

    TLDR: Avoid the berths at the end of the carriage over the bogies.
    Very useful, thank you sir. :)
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,875
    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    Oddly, my experience has some somewhat the opposite. The very 'hardcore' engineering/science programming - the AI nails. The vague 'low end' stuff is where it struggles. "Do a linear regression and fourier transformation and ...." 100% nailed. The "Well, I'd like it a bit more.. you know... like... what's in my head?" - 100% not nailed. And that's often what we call 'low end'.

    This old Big Train sketch often comes to mind :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEBtpWQ7x8&t=1s

  • FF43FF43 Posts: 18,098
    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    TCS software engineers aren't necessarily low end. TCS offers scale. If you want 10 engineers with skills in XYZ in the next two months we can provide those to you. The engineers are paid salaries not far off European levels.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,875
    Andy_JS said:

    Roger said:

    Leon said:

    Roger said:

    Cookie said:

    Roger said:

    carnforth said:

    Roger said:

    A Spanish winner and an Italian the closest ever runner-up in the longest match possibly ever in Paris and each gave their winner and loser speech in English. That's our contribution. we really must rejoin this gang. it's madness being out

    Tough competition, but possibly your silliest post.
    I understand things look different from the bright lights of Carnforth
    No, your comment made no sense. Some Italian people / Spanish people can speak good English, therefore we ought to be in a political union with them? By that logic we should also be in a political union with the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, India, South Africa ... half the world, really.
    There might be valid reasons for wanting to be in a political union with the EU. But what you've just highlighted isn't logically one of them.
    Wouldn't you like Sale to be able to be fully integrated with Paris Madrid and Florence with your kids able to live and work in any of those places with the ease they could the Stretford Arndale Centre?

    Well watching Roland Garros reminded what things were like just a few years ago and what they could be now. We each have our own advantages. We have the most popular language Paris and Florence are the most beautiful but we could freely share in them all.

    Being in France reminds me of that daily . It's a big beautiful melting pot of shared cultures.
    If things are so great on mainland Europe why is almost every EU country veering to the hard or far Right, forcing the mainstream parties to try and outlaw them in desperation (and, I suspect, failing, in the end)?

    You literally live in a corner of France that voted Le Pen so hard, she won in the First Round

    A hard right Europe could appeal to people like me, I am not sure why it should appeal to many of the leftier types on here, or indeed you
    At this time of the year I'm reminded what an amazing and beatiful place France is. . The film festival is in Cannes. The Grand Prix is in Monaco. I get on my scooter and I'm in Italy in 40 minutes. People are coming from all over the world. Nowhere outside of Venice is more photographed. The place is heaving. The harbour is full of boats. The galleries are full of school kids.

    We were part of it .We're not now. I never see the right-wingery. I see young Irish waiters and waitresses and a lot of non French Europeans working there. Just not English. We are missing out and it's sad.
    Are we supposed to just forget that 41% voted for Le Pen at the last election?
    If we don't just conveniently forget, then quite a lot of press hacks might have to stop opining about the 'far right' in the UK while they swan off to France and phone-in how idyllic it is for the rest of summer.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 55,572
    Trump is not taking any risks with Prince Harry.

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1931820853165199518

    A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    Nigelb said:

    "Undocumented" would appear to be the politically correct spelling of "Illegal".

    Not really true in the US context.
    They're overlapping sets, but not the same thing.
    America law enforcers and politicians keep using the term 'alien' and every time I have to take a second to rethink that this is nothing to do with one of Leon's obsessions and they actually just mean illegal/undocumented migrants.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 5,593

    Trump is not taking any risks with Prince Harry.

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1931820853165199518

    A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

    The same President who incited a mob to attack Congress and is now allegedly so worried about “ mobs”.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 55,572
    FF43 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    TCS software engineers aren't necessarily low end. TCS offers scale. If you want 10 engineers with skills in XYZ in the next two months we can provide those to you. The engineers are paid salaries not far off European levels.
    The reason they're not far off European levels is that the Europeans' salaraies are suppressed because of competition with Indians.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    So, now I have to gen up on the Posse Comitatus Act.

    Trump voters have a lot to answer for.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 78,040
    This seems to be a crazy decision by the court. Micron's appeal was just denied.
    What do PB's tech bros think ?

    Discovering the Crown Jewels: Irreversible Harm in the Digital Age
    https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/46295.html
    Micron Technology has petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to reverse a discovery order requiring the company to produce 73 pages of its most sensitive source code in paper form to Chinese state-owned semiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC). The case, In re Micron Technology Inc., presents significant questions about the enforcement of protective order terms and the consideration of national security concerns in patent litigation discovery. The dispute centers on YMTC’s request for printed copies of source code from Micron’s “150 Series Traveler Presentation,” which apparently describes the company’s most technologically advanced 3D NAND semiconductor products and contains code that fewer than a dozen of Micron’s 50,000+ employees have access to. Micron is seeking to turn this into a national security and competitiveness issue based upon the fact that YMTC was only founded in 2016 but has already become the global leader in 3D NAND flash based upon strong support from the Chinese government. The company is also listed in the “Entity List.”..
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    Gavin Newsom
    @GavinNewsom

    I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command.

    We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.

    Rescind the order. Return control to California.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 32,212
    Roger said:

    Roger said:

    Cookie said:

    Roger said:

    carnforth said:

    Roger said:

    A Spanish winner and an Italian the closest ever runner-up in the longest match possibly ever in Paris and each gave their winner and loser speech in English. That's our contribution. we really must rejoin this gang. it's madness being out

    Tough competition, but possibly your silliest post.
    I understand things look different from the bright lights of Carnforth
    No, your comment made no sense. Some Italian people / Spanish people can speak good English, therefore we ought to be in a political union with them? By that logic we should also be in a political union with the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, India, South Africa ... half the world, really.
    There might be valid reasons for wanting to be in a political union with the EU. But what you've just highlighted isn't logically one of them.
    Wouldn't you like Sale to be able to be fully integrated with Paris Madrid and Florence with your kids able to live and work in any of those places with the ease they could the Stretford Arndale Centre?

    Well watching Roland Garros reminded what things were like just a few years ago and what they could be now. We each have our own advantages. We have the most popular language Paris and Florence are the most beautiful but we could freely share in them all.

    Being in France reminds me of that daily . It's a big beautiful melting pot of shared cultures.
    And again I remind you of your erroneous vote in 2016.
    Not only was my vote not erroneous my profession voted 97% Remain. Pretty remarkable. About the only pleasing thing that happened that day
    My mistake. Explained earlier. I was responding to Leon embedded in your post. Apologies.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,237

    Gavin Newsom
    @GavinNewsom

    I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command.

    We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.

    Rescind the order. Return control to California.

    Selective belief in states rights as usual in the US.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 78,040
    I see Trump has just sent 20k APKWS rockets, ordered by the Biden administration for Ukraine, to the Middle East.

    They were designed as a cost effective solution for shooting down the hundreds of Shahed drones Russia is using every day to target civilians.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    edited June 8
    edit
  • rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    edited June 8

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    "The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing"

    Maybe helps to explain why there have been so many successful cyber-atatacks recently.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 78,040
    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179

    Anthony
    @AnthonyCabassa_
    ·
    1h
    HAPPENING NOW 🚨: THOUSANDS of ANTI ICE Protestors are currently marching in Downtown Los Angeles for a third day in a row, to protest ICE raids in the county.

    This is the largest number of protesters I’ve seen in years. Police and national guard on location.

    https://x.com/AnthonyCabassa_/status/1931831695361339507
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    edited June 8
    "NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors to maintain supply

    Just 2% of the population keep the nation's blood stocks afloat by donating regularly, the body said. Donors are defined as regular if they have donated in the last 12 months."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98p0pj7dypo

    I'm one of the 2%, my last donation was on Thursday. I can never understand why more people don't do it, especially when you get a free cup of tea along with some biscuits and a sticker.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,758
    edited June 8

    So, now I have to gen up on the Posse Comitatus Act

    Honestly, really? Tut, tut. :)

    West Wing: https://youtu.be/841qG6VM0UI?si=8WiTFjf_lY1jTu3I&t=84

    (It's also in "White House Down" but I can't find it)
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    Darwin award entry?



    “This is not what we voted for,”


    ‘Inhumane:’ Latinas for Trump founder condemns White House immigration crackdown

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article308111995.html
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435

    Darwin award entry?



    “This is not what we voted for,”


    ‘Inhumane:’ Latinas for Trump founder condemns White House immigration crackdown

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article308111995.html

    That is a bit stupid it has to be said.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    viewcode said:

    So, now I have to gen up on the Posse Comitatus Act

    Honestly, really? Tut, tut. :)

    West Wing: https://youtu.be/841qG6VM0UI?si=8WiTFjf_lY1jTu3I&t=84

    (It's also in "White House Down" but I can't find it)
    West Wing or The Wire? Which was the Greatest Of Them All? So hard.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,758
    edited June 8

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    ...AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI...
    Can confirm. I've become competent-ish in two languages due to AI. It's reduced my learning curve to weeks/months instead of months/years.

  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 66,179
    Nigelb said:

    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317

    I'm shocked I tell you etc that the latest 'miracle' 'wonder' drug has side effects that are only just being found out.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 35,435
    edited June 8
    I never believed that taking drugs was a good way to lose weight for the great majority of people. (There will be some exceptions for people with particular medical conditions).
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,758
    Nigelb said:

    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317

    Question 1: ...compared to what?
    Question 2: "twice as many" is an insufficient comparator. Is it 2/1000000 compared to 1/1000000, or 2/10 versus 1/10? The magnitude is important.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 55,572
    https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/1931840646773715068

    I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command.

    We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.

    Rescind the order. Return control to California
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109
    viewcode said:

    Nigelb said:

    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317

    Question 1: ...compared to what?
    Question 2: "twice as many" is an insufficient comparator. Is it 2/1000000 compared to 1/1000000, or 2/10 versus 1/10? The magnitude is important.
    https://xkcd.com/1252/
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    What need is there for humans to make porn, when computers will make it so much better?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    FF43 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    TCS software engineers aren't necessarily low end. TCS offers scale. If you want 10 engineers with skills in XYZ in the next two months we can provide those to you. The engineers are paid salaries not far off European levels.
    The reason they're not far off European levels is that the Europeans' salaraies are suppressed because of competition with Indians.
    That competition exists whether the Indians are working in Bonn or Bangalore.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    Trump is not taking any risks with Prince Harry.

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1931820853165199518

    A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

    It's a manufactured confrontation that benefits Trump and Newsom, and harms everyone else.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,758
    rcs1000 said:

    viewcode said:

    Nigelb said:

    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317

    Question 1: ...compared to what?
    Question 2: "twice as many" is an insufficient comparator. Is it 2/1000000 compared to 1/1000000, or 2/10 versus 1/10? The magnitude is important.
    https://xkcd.com/1252/
    Oh, i am so going to use that in work... :)
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 55,572
    PB's favourite Waymos are getting victimised by rioters.

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1931872459676069939

    It appears that agitators called several Waymo self-driving autonomous cars to the site of one of the demonstration in Los Angeles, before vandalizing and burning them for absolutely no reason.
  • vikvik Posts: 477
    edited 1:25AM
    rcs1000 said:

    Trump is not taking any risks with Prince Harry.

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1931820853165199518

    A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

    It's a manufactured confrontation that benefits Trump and Newsom, and harms everyone else.
    It's extremely depressing.

    We needed very large peaceful protests against Trump. A re-creation of the very large peaceful protests in the early years of Trump's first term.

    We instead got a riot by a relatively small number of people.

    It's so sad that people don't understand that peaceful protest is way way more powerful and effective than engaging in violence.
  • vikvik Posts: 477
    Here's an example of an effective peaceful protest that actually got a person released from Immigration Detention:

    Carol (Ming Li Hui) is from Hong Kong and has been living in the small town of Kennett, Missouri for 20 years. She arrived on a temporary visa that expired a long time ago & is living illegally in the US. After she was taken into Immigration Detention, her town organised a campaign to get her released:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/missouri-immigrant-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.wnhk.om0AIRsc2EdG&smid=url-share

    Faced with this campaign, Trump backed down a few days ago & released her from detention:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/carol-missouri-migrant.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk8.Mofb.4NK_Qg-IoGdu&smid=url-share

    I wish more people understood that burning cars won't get anyone released from detention, but organising peaceful campaigns and protests can be incredibly effective in getting people released.

    It was a peaceful campaign & legal pressure that got Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040

    Andy_JS said:

    Ronaldo seems to have been playing for about 20 years. I don't know what the correct figure is.

    More than 20. He’s 40 now
    Ronaldo was at Man Utd 20 years ago.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040

    Republicans against Trump
    @RpsAgainstTrump
    ·
    19m
    BREAKING: Donald Trump stumbles climbing Air Force One steps.

    So Kamala is President now? Seriously, if it were not for Biden, there'd have been more focus on Trump's age and lapses during the election campaign last year.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    Foxy said:
    Don't tell me there's two of them.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    Which means in a few years there will be a problem filling high end programming jobs. Contrast with medicine where young doctors' first jobs could be done easily by nurses, or in the operating theatre even by inanimate objects – hold this and try not to faint.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    What need is there for humans to make porn, when computers will make it so much better?
    There is a clip (which I'm too lazy to look for right now) of Jimmy Carr telling a heckler who is a "moving image" graphic designer that his job will be replaced by AI on a smartphone. If even comedians are joking about it...

    Mind you, there are also reports of using AI to write jokes, so...
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,109

    rcs1000 said:

    nico67 said:

    TimS said:

    https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1931796302985388438

    Excl: New research says businesses could save up to £11k in tax by hiring Indian workers under Labour's trade agreement.

    Comes as the Treasury admits it DOES have an estimate of how much the tax agreement will cost us - but is covering it up

    The Indian trade deal double contributions agreement furore is possibly the most concocted, ridiculous, 2020s furore that the furore mongers of the 2020s have yet cooked up.

    Actual far right types, who usually object to single taxation let alone the double sort, suddenly deciding double taxation on the same income is AOK because of where the double taxpayers come from.
    We have this type of agreement with many countries. Of course as you said the pearl clutching is because of where the workers are coming from .
    We don’t have those agreements with any countries with the equivalent of Infosys or TCS.
    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.
    Which means in a few years there will be a problem filling high end programming jobs. Contrast with medicine where young doctors' first jobs could be done easily by nurses, or in the operating theatre even by inanimate objects – hold this and try not to faint.
    I don't think that's necessarily true: I think it's that the skillsets needed subtly change.
  • MJWMJW Posts: 2,021

    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    What need is there for humans to make porn, when computers will make it so much better?
    There is a clip (which I'm too lazy to look for right now) of Jimmy Carr telling a heckler who is a "moving image" graphic designer that his job will be replaced by AI on a smartphone. If even comedians are joking about it...

    Mind you, there are also reports of using AI to write jokes, so...
    Bit of a stretch calling Jimmy Carrr a 'comedian' given he could quite easily be replaced by a machine that repeated politically incorrect jokes with a quizzical look drawn on its front in order to pretend it's all ironic.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    MJW said:

    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    What need is there for humans to make porn, when computers will make it so much better?
    There is a clip (which I'm too lazy to look for right now) of Jimmy Carr telling a heckler who is a "moving image" graphic designer that his job will be replaced by AI on a smartphone. If even comedians are joking about it...

    Mind you, there are also reports of using AI to write jokes, so...
    Bit of a stretch calling Jimmy Carrr a 'comedian' given he could quite easily be replaced by a machine that repeated politically incorrect jokes with a quizzical look drawn on its front in order to pretend it's all ironic.
    Carr is reinventing himself as a self-help guru. Watch his crowdwork clips on YouTube and every now and then he pauses the comedy to dole out advice.

    And btw that is another change. Comedians used to post their live sets on YouTube (actually their fans used to do this and eventually the comics gave up and followed) but the latest fad is simply to post their banter with the crowd, which means they do not need to write as many new jokes.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    British Council ‘may have to to close in 60 countries’ amid cuts to aid budget
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/08/british-council-spending-plans-may-close-in-60-countries

    So much for Britain filling the soft power gap left by America.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,040
    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,530
    rcs1000 said:

    Trump is not taking any risks with Prince Harry.

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1931820853165199518

    A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

    It's a manufactured confrontation that benefits Trump and Newsom, and harms everyone else.
    As I feared, though so far the protests have been relatively peaceful. This is a high stakes game, and while Trump has the initiative for now, it is a bit of an arm wrestle. This could easily go very badly wrong for the Perp President.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,718
    @kentremendous.bsky.social‬

    The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.

    https://bsky.app/profile/kentremendous.bsky.social/post/3lr5dhkq35k26
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,875
    edited 5:25AM
    viewcode said:

    Nigelb said:

    First of the serious side effects reported for the weight loss drugs.

    More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration
    https://x.com/davidasinclair/status/1931694041890017317

    Question 1: ...compared to what?
    Question 2: "twice as many" is an insufficient comparator. Is it 2/1000000 compared to 1/1000000, or 2/10 versus 1/10? The magnitude is important.
    It's a retrospective cohort study and the comparison is with untreated controls. It's a big study with 130 000 patients over 66 years old.. The controls were matched for other known risk factors. There been a similar finding of doubling of risk of non arthritic ischaemic optic atrophy. On the other hand there are known cardiovascular benefits.

    The problem with retrospective cohort studies is the selection and matching of controls. We can match for known risk factors, but not for unknown ones. So for example it's a safe bet that the Ozempic patients are more obese (otherwise they wouldn't be prescribed it) and it is possible that the association is with that or a related factor (lipid levels, obstructive sleep apneoa etc) rather than the ozempic itself. A prospective study is needed to identify these. There is one under way, expected to report in 2027.

  • TazTaz Posts: 18,765
    vik said:

    Here's an example of an effective peaceful protest that actually got a person released from Immigration Detention:

    Carol (Ming Li Hui) is from Hong Kong and has been living in the small town of Kennett, Missouri for 20 years. She arrived on a temporary visa that expired a long time ago & is living illegally in the US. After she was taken into Immigration Detention, her town organised a campaign to get her released:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/missouri-immigrant-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.wnhk.om0AIRsc2EdG&smid=url-share

    Faced with this campaign, Trump backed down a few days ago & released her from detention:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/carol-missouri-migrant.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk8.Mofb.4NK_Qg-IoGdu&smid=url-share

    I wish more people understood that burning cars won't get anyone released from detention, but organising peaceful campaigns and protests can be incredibly effective in getting people released.

    It was a peaceful campaign & legal pressure that got Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador.

    I’m afraid, just like with the summer riots here, some people just like a ruck with the cops.
  • TazTaz Posts: 18,765

    PB's favourite Waymos are getting victimised by rioters.

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1931872459676069939

    It appears that agitators called several Waymo self-driving autonomous cars to the site of one of the demonstration in Los Angeles, before vandalizing and burning them for absolutely no reason.

    Are we moving into ‘mostly peaceful’ territory here ?
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,600

    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19

    Good morning, everyone.

    First I've heard of digital ID cards, which sound like a hellish thing.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,875
    Taz said:

    vik said:

    Here's an example of an effective peaceful protest that actually got a person released from Immigration Detention:

    Carol (Ming Li Hui) is from Hong Kong and has been living in the small town of Kennett, Missouri for 20 years. She arrived on a temporary visa that expired a long time ago & is living illegally in the US. After she was taken into Immigration Detention, her town organised a campaign to get her released:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/missouri-immigrant-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.wnhk.om0AIRsc2EdG&smid=url-share

    Faced with this campaign, Trump backed down a few days ago & released her from detention:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/carol-missouri-migrant.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk8.Mofb.4NK_Qg-IoGdu&smid=url-share

    I wish more people understood that burning cars won't get anyone released from detention, but organising peaceful campaigns and protests can be incredibly effective in getting people released.

    It was a peaceful campaign & legal pressure that got Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador.

    I’m afraid, just like with the summer riots here, some people just like a ruck with the cops.
    And some police like a ruck too.

    Here they are shooting an Australian reporter with a baton round, seemingly deliberately.

    https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lr5amqrwlc2j

    And here mounted police beating a guy lying on the ground.

    https://bsky.app/profile/mensie.bsky.social/post/3lr5ilfu34c2g

  • eekeek Posts: 30,230
    edited 6:09AM

    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19

    Good morning, everyone.

    First I've heard of digital ID cards, which sound like a hellish thing.
    I d heard of the id cards - what I haven’t heard is about any issues with the One Login system which really should have been focus of the article.

    And I’m at a loss as to what is wrong with the digital id scheme, if you need to show your id or prove your right to do something it will make things rather easier. It’s not like the police will stop you and ask to see your id without a valid reason which seems to be the thing people hate
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 14,616

    MJW said:

    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Those are the jobs that are first going to be eliminated by AI. Low end programming roles are literally the first to go.

    The are lots of programmers out there who barely know what they're doing, AI won't do their job but it will act as a force multiplier. One mediocre coder will have the output of 10 using AI. I think it's likely AI will do to programmers what computers did to typists; they'll still exist, but in lesser numbers.

    On a related tangent, I've been experimenting with AI models running locally on a PC for image generation for a while now, and oh boy new models like Flux (developed in Germany, of all places) are going to gut a good many visual industries. Lots of artists will need to learn new skills. Stock photography is going to die quickly, too.

    And porn sites think age verification laws are their biggest threat, but I have bad news for them on that one. Locally hosted image AI is going to eat them alive when people figure out it's free and there's no need to hand over ID.



    What need is there for humans to make porn, when computers will make it so much better?
    There is a clip (which I'm too lazy to look for right now) of Jimmy Carr telling a heckler who is a "moving image" graphic designer that his job will be replaced by AI on a smartphone. If even comedians are joking about it...

    Mind you, there are also reports of using AI to write jokes, so...
    Bit of a stretch calling Jimmy Carrr a 'comedian' given he could quite easily be replaced by a machine that repeated politically incorrect jokes with a quizzical look drawn on its front in order to pretend it's all ironic.
    Carr is reinventing himself as a self-help guru. Watch his crowdwork clips on YouTube and every now and then he pauses the comedy to dole out advice.

    And btw that is another change. Comedians used to post their live sets on YouTube (actually their fans used to do this and eventually the comics gave up and followed) but the latest fad is simply to post their banter with the crowd, which means they do not need to write as many new jokes.
    They post the crowd work because that’s different at each show. The jokes in the set are the same each night and they don’t want those online because then people won’t need to come and see the show.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 31,614
    ...

    British Council ‘may have to to close in 60 countries’ amid cuts to aid budget
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/08/british-council-spending-plans-may-close-in-60-countries

    So much for Britain filling the soft power gap left by America.

    One of the biggest 'cuts to the aid budget' we've seen implemented in recent years is the fact that the aid budget is used to pay for asylum accommodation in the UK. If one assumes the money was previously being spent helping the genuinely needy, that re-allocation will have caused the abandonment of many of the world's most vulnerable people, in favour of hotels for fighting age men. We haven't heard a peep about it from PB's defenders of the aid budget though strangely enough.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,249

    NEW THREAD

  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 14,616

    ...

    British Council ‘may have to to close in 60 countries’ amid cuts to aid budget
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/08/british-council-spending-plans-may-close-in-60-countries

    So much for Britain filling the soft power gap left by America.

    One of the biggest 'cuts to the aid budget' we've seen implemented in recent years is the fact that the aid budget is used to pay for asylum accommodation in the UK. If one assumes the money was previously being spent helping the genuinely needy, that re-allocation will have caused the abandonment of many of the world's most vulnerable people, in favour of hotels for fighting age men. We haven't heard a peep about it from PB's defenders of the aid budget though strangely enough.
    “Fighting age men” is such a tedious dogwhistle. You don’t describe men of a certain age that way in any other context.

    We don’t say, “Fighting age men elected as Reform councillors are now in charge of children’s and adult services at Leicestershire County Council”, or “England’s football team of fighting age men beat Andorra 1-0”.
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,530
    eek said:

    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19

    Good morning, everyone.

    First I've heard of digital ID cards, which sound like a hellish thing.
    I d heard of the id cards - what I haven’t heard is about any issues with the One Login system which really should have been focus of the article.

    And I’m at a loss as to what is wrong with the digital id scheme, if you need to show your id or prove your right to do something it will make things rather easier. It’s not like the police will stop you and ask to see your id without a valid reason which seems to be the thing people hate
    Not being able to prove you are human while online is becoming a serious problem. Digital ID solves this problem, and the benefits are huge while the risks, so far, are very small. It is long overdue that the UK takes the threats in the online world a lot more seriously.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 54,430
    Taz said:

    PB's favourite Waymos are getting victimised by rioters.

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1931872459676069939

    It appears that agitators called several Waymo self-driving autonomous cars to the site of one of the demonstration in Los Angeles, before vandalizing and burning them for absolutely no reason.

    Are we moving into ‘mostly peaceful’ territory here ?
    Trump
    Admiring
    Zealot
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,943
    Cicero said:

    eek said:

    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19

    Good morning, everyone.

    First I've heard of digital ID cards, which sound like a hellish thing.
    I d heard of the id cards - what I haven’t heard is about any issues with the One Login system which really should have been focus of the article.

    And I’m at a loss as to what is wrong with the digital id scheme, if you need to show your id or prove your right to do something it will make things rather easier. It’s not like the police will stop you and ask to see your id without a valid reason which seems to be the thing people hate
    Not being able to prove you are human while online is becoming a serious problem. Digital ID solves this problem, and the benefits are huge while the risks, so far, are very small. It is long overdue that the UK takes the threats in the online world a lot more seriously.
    The problem with ID cards isn't the ID cards.

    The problem is the insane requirement that every government database be linked up, and access provided to everyone who asks. *Without* segregation of data.

    So, under the ID card scheme that was beginning to be implemented, a contractor, working for the council on fly tipping, could see your NHS records.

    Yes, they really specified the system that way. So that "administrative friction" wouldn't slow down "necassary work".

    When they realised there was a problem, the response was that data for "Important People" (decided by the government) would be segregated in a separate database with limited access.

    ID cards without this bullshit would be fine.
  • eekeek Posts: 30,230
    Cicero said:

    eek said:

    Digital ID cards could be Starmer’s poll tax
    ...
    The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail. The system was being accessed and modified by staff and contractors without the required level of security. Parts of the system were being developed in Romania, a fact that had eluded top management at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

    “It’s Horizon all over again,” one global security expert told this newspaper in April, referring to the notorious Post Office computer system. Of the 39 requirements in the National Cybersecurity Centre’s cybersecurity checklist list CAF, One Login still only meets 21.

    But instead of taking the warnings seriously, One Login’s senior management at GDS turned on the messengers who had brought them the bad news, dispersing the independent risk and cybersecurity team that first raised the issues. One Login’s management subsequently began to mark their own homework.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/08/digital-id-cards-could-be-starmers-poll-tax/ (£££)

    Paywalled but you should be able to read it via this ‘gift’ link:-
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/292dadc29ac6aa19

    Good morning, everyone.

    First I've heard of digital ID cards, which sound like a hellish thing.
    I d heard of the id cards - what I haven’t heard is about any issues with the One Login system which really should have been focus of the article.

    And I’m at a loss as to what is wrong with the digital id scheme, if you need to show your id or prove your right to do something it will make things rather easier. It’s not like the police will stop you and ask to see your id without a valid reason which seems to be the thing people hate
    Not being able to prove you are human while online is becoming a serious problem. Digital ID solves this problem, and the benefits are huge while the risks, so far, are very small. It is long overdue that the UK takes the threats in the online world a lot more seriously.
    I know - the actual complaints I’ve seen come from people of colour who seem to feel they will be randomly picked on by the police to show the card.

    While that may be an issue the reality is the police are going to be picking on you anyway so the card or lack thereof is in reality irreverent to your complaint.

    And as I pointed out last week I’ve three times done identifying and authenticating customer stories for banks. The Austria and Bulgarian one for in branch was show id card, compare to photo and click yes.

    The uk one was a 45 point flowchart of if buts and maybes
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