The government is severely cutting nuclear physics research (among other things)to pay for its AI bet. The money is not massive in terms of government spending, but is existential for parts of the UK… (View Post)

The story first broke last year. Climate change related... https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/tinned-sardines-shortages-loom-as-morocco-supply-non-existent/702375.article (View Post)

Just as well they didn't ask Mike Johnson; he'd have said he wasn't aware of anyone called Putin. (View Post)

Unkind souls might ask which of those four. (View Post)

. That's just babble. If the government allowed licenses for the new fields, industry would develop them at their own expense. There's no argument about that. (View Post)