I'm afraid with that level of narcissism, more attention only feeds the beast. It never satisfies.
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I'm afraid with that level of narcissism, more attention only feeds the beast. It never satisfies.
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
Even using the term "hallucination" is attributing a kind of spurious personhood to them. It's simply error.
Scaling will not fix the "hallucination" problem, which is not a flaw but at the heart of how LLMs work--there is no fix. Chatbots are faulty products that are wrong between 37 and 94 percent of the time. Would you buy a product with this record--here kid have a calculator but never to trust it.
As a survivor of domestic abuse, it's important to get this message out there for anyone who is still living in an abusive relationship that might have a secret phone, the message is "turn your phone off so it's not found" spread far and wide folks www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Well I don't know about her, but I certainly am, with the prospect of those lunatics getting into power
YOU'RE an insomniac? Just think how it feels to be us, Andrea, with the prospect of you lot getting anywhere near power.
"Oh to be in England now that Nigel's there"
More evidence that our society is in collective psychosis.
Every day's a good day for tax lawyers
You're welcome 😉
"This is where the party ends I can't stand here listening to you and your racist friend"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLi...
Just been listening to They Might Be Giants for the first time in ages. God I love those guys. I also can't imagine anything as unadulteratedly whimsical and joyous coming out of the USA nowadays. On balance I'm glad I grew up when I did.
Americans are weird about gardens. You can't do what you want with your front garden. You also can't hang your washing out for fear it will cause real estate prices to tumble. Denying yourself the exquisite pleasure of freshly line-dried bed linen is deeply sad, in my view. That's not living.
Important: Despite claims by British politicos, the Euro Convention on Human Rights cannot be set aside - to do so destroys the Good Friday Agreement. This is the Irish govt making this v clear. Were the UK to try, Ireland would be backed by the EU & Canada & UK would prob be subject to sanctions.
Can't see EU or Canada sanctioning the UK, unfortunately. In the grand scheme of things, given the situation with Ukraine, perceived solidarity is a stronger priority.
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Rise up America 🇺🇸
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/4/hea...
Huge respect for these vets who are speaking out. They see the danger.
A Kennedy woman would have been given a lobotomy
Do you mean about being perceived as inappropriately dressed? I felt a lot of sympathy with her about that, too. I know from personal experience that clothing is a kind of class shibboleth that can be used against you. But she has money and that gives you choice.
...at least if this photo is anything to go by.
Herzog's dad, Chaim Herzog, was Irish by birth and upbringing. His grandfather, Yitzhak Herzog, was Chief Rabbi of Ireland, a good friend of Eamonn De Valera and a fluent Irish speaker, known as "the Sinn Féin Rabbi". He's moved far from his social-democratic roots in the Israeli Labor Party.
I feel sorry for her too, but she's in a vicious game. I don't know the ins and outs but it seems unlikely to me she was badly advised by three separate tax consultants. She needed to make absolutely sure, and she didn't.
Laurie Magnus: Rayner acted "in good faith", had "the intention to pay all appropriate taxes", "was twice informed in writing" that the lower rate was due, "sought quickly to correct the mistake", "acted with integrity", but didn't seek expert advice. That was a mistake. But I find this much worse⬇️
This seems to be an unpopular opinion on here but Angela Rayner should have known better. All the "she's a working class woman so maybe she was naive" is pretty patronising stuff. And I say that as a working-class woman. She was the frigging housing minister!
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And tofu and soy products generally. Don't forget those.
Hahaha! Now I'm wondering if it was done deliberately in reference to this....
An earlier version of this article amusingly mixed the Duchess up with Princess Michael of Kent, "child of Empire" (Hapsburg) and friend to oligarchs, whom the Queen apparently referred to as "our Val" A very different sort of person. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They evidently chewed through their restraints and got out for the evening
This is horrific. But somehow not as horrific as the real thing.
Oh my God
I missed this. Good for them. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
One of Boris Johnson's ageing groupies has defected to Reform and this is somehow headline news.
Make Battenbergs Great Again
Putin playing a long game.
They all drain into the same sewer in the end.
Linehan has put himself in the position that if he ever admits he's made a mistake in any of this or wrong in any way, he has to admit to himself that he's thrown away his career, wife, home and kids for absolutely nothing. He has a certain type of male arrogance which means it'll never happen.
Looks really delicious!
The word meathead could have been invented to describe RFK jnr *Shudders*
Pity is a more appropriate response. Unfortunately there are a lot of them and they all vote
Sounds like a plan
The look of absolute horror on the sleb journalist's face tee hee Good on Hugh
All of it should be self-evident. Instead, the rational warning voices are dismissed as "alarmist" and corporate-compliant media ensure that people stay asleep. The denial is terrifying to witness, but the reality will be worse to live through. Thanks for warning us anyway.
I joined Aaron Bastani for this wide-ranging discussion on capitalism, imperialism, ecological crisis and what the future may hold. Have a look and see what you think --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...
You have only to consider how many women's deaths Kennedy men have been responsible for to think that putting a crank like RFK jr in charge of public health might be a bad idea. Arrogance and reckless endangerment is how they roll.
Jaw dropping murmuration of thousands of sanderlings tonight. Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless. We are going to defeat them. Together 💜 Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc #birds
The white knightery of a lot of men tends to be a thinly veiled control strategy. I've seen it before, believe me.
No. The silence is overwhelming.
Farage getting told a few home truths .. Scummy little man ..
It's the MAGA agenda. Specifically the theme Vance expounded upon when he turned up in Munich and laid into all those European leaders. They're all in lockstep, all pushing the same narrative.
I'm starting to think there's a conspiracy amongst the fucking UK media to get Nigel Farage elected Prime Minister.
And this is what happens. Selective coverage to make Farage look like the statesman he'd like to pretend to be. Give this shit a platform and he'll simply use it, aided and abetted by a complicit UK media.
Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
That is amazing. But she was amazing.
If Starmer gave a shit about human rights, having a decent and harmonious society, and sticking up for the vulnerable, he wouldn't be busy chasing Farage down the gutter. It's quite simple. Trying to out-fash the fash leads to oblivion. Everyone is telling him this - why is he not listening?
Beginning to conclude the same thing. I really do not know what other conclusion to draw. They cannot be that policially inept, surely.
Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.
Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.
I wonder whether a single man at this meeting looked around him & thought "Hmmm... Something seems not quite right here... but I can't quite put my finger on it." 🤔 This reminds me of a Saudi Arabian conference on Women's Health a few years back. 100% men there, as well. 🤬 Still: PARTY MUSIC FREE!
I don't think they care. And they all have that in common: putting personal ambition before the common good. If rabble rousing will get them personal power, that's what they will do. They all call themselves patriots. As far as I can see, none of them cares about having a decent civil society.
Clegg is such a cunt
I mean, why go for the fake fascist when you can have the genuine article? That's what Starmer and Cooper need to get through their thick skulls. People crave a powerful, resonant moral alternative, and a powerfully made case for that alternative. Stop circling the drain with the other dregs.
Here's the thing: people, including the fascist cohort, can smell inauthenticity like a freshly groomed terrier can sniff out day-old fish guts. The result will be utter contempt - of the kind I am increasingly thinking Keir Starmer deserves.
The public conversation surrounding migration and refugees in this country - in many countries - is thoroughly toxic, and getting worse, and we hear very little about why people choose to undertake such dangerous journeys. This is one of those stories, and it's worth a few minutes of your time.
Excellent.
Let's get these hideous old racists before the courts.
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race" - Albert Einstein
How touching - he's keen to make sure his racism scans.
He does it because with all the hate in England getting amplified he thinks it's OK. Starmer needs to give his head a wobble, wake up and condemn this climate of hate. If you seek to ignore the fire in the kitchen your whole house burns down.
Mainstream parties need to unite to deal with the threat from the far right. It is an existential threat. I don't care what shade of the political spectrum you identify with: get your head out of your arse. The far right will only gain an electoral majority in this country if it is allowed to.
What's needed for the far right to seize power is a moral collapse. That's what we're seeing with the complete breakdown of civil discourse and morality in the media. Some people evidently think it's worth it, but it is and will be catastrophic for this country.
The polling results on Reform UK are terrifying. On current projections they'd be returned to the HoC with a majority. Let's not beat about the bush: Brexit let the genie out of the bottle and Farage and his goons now feel unstoppable. The failure of media in this country is accelerating it.
The media is actively and deliberately driving this. Farage would be nothing without the wholesale support of UK media.
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
Our society is in a basic sense "selecting" for psychopathy. There has been an inversion of values and a collapse of collective moral imagination, accelerated by globalisation. Meanwhile globalised media are anaesthetising us to this reality and its consequences.
Your government is exporting armaments to Israel that are being used to kill Palestinian civilians, including children, medics and journalists at a grossly disproportionate rate. That makes your government complicit in war crimes. This must stop. www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...
Keir Starmer and the other war-crime-complicit supporters of Israel should be forced to watch this interview with Nick Maynard on a loop. This is first-hand testimony of the atrocities Israel is covering up. Be warned - not an easy watch, but absolutely necessary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECT...
Oh that will not be a problem
You think the contagion won't spread here?
I've been enjoying the bonkers and subversive aspects of UK festivals this summer. There's a real cultural/social strength there, it seems to me.
This is superb
Yes, they are being hollowed out.
Yes, simply handed over no questions asked
I suspect he'll die in office. Peter Thiel will certainly be hoping so.
Trump will never go to jail.
Thiel is an incredibly dangerous person. He's also, de facto, a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Brunel is listed on flights logs to Epstein's island on 25 occasions. He is known to have visited Epstein at least 70 times while Epstein was in prison in 2008. That's not a friend, that's a business associate. Went into hiding after Epstein's death. Died by "apparent suicide" in a Paris prison.
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
This is genuinely shocking. It's also a statement of intent.
Yes. In my view, the clickbait argument does not fully explain it. The BBC has been circling the gutter with the rest of MSM for some time now, standards-wise. But they have also platformed Farage on their flagship political discussion show 38 times. That's not a ratings bid. It's systematic.
Judging by the state of this headline, they already have.
Apocalyptic certainty: 70% if emissions are not drastically reduced within about a decade. 25% even with significantly lowered emissions. That presupposes no other unexpected CO2/methane jokers in the pack. And Nigel Fucking Farage still dominates headlines. I despair.
Does this mean Lebedev will finally fuck off?
David Frost eliciting this statement from Richard Nixon was considered a huge "gotcha" at the time: "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal". But that's when there were still standards in public life and a sense of ethical boundaries. Now look at us.
A narcissist already has a loose grip on the truth. A lifetime of lying to themselves & everybody else ensures that. A narcissist in cognitive decline still believes their version of reality applies, but their ability to make it sound convincing gets weaker & weaker. As they age, they are exposed.