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Before politicians and media get themselves into a mess. Let me clarify. For most Muslims, Sharia means living ethically, praying, and giving to charity. Any councils are advisory and are not above the law and are no different to Jewish Beth Din courts that have existed in the UK since the 1800s.
Come on, @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social or whoever still works at the BBC Cld you maybe, like a real news channel, report news that do NOT involve either #Shitler or #Frogface? You throw out Breaking News alerts when either of them sneezes but if NATO threatens to invoke Art 5 of the Charter - nothing😡
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
Not that brilliant, really.
I especially like how he claims the role is just endless drudgery behind the scenes keeping things on an even keel, and then acts as if removing the role would also somehow make all that work just ... disappear, and not need to be done any more.
With the greatest of respect, if the appeal to authority on a topic is that he did something adjacent 42 years ago, I'm not really going to put much faith in that. Like, I've been grey a decade and a half now and I was five when the experience he claims is relevant ended.
If he doesn't show up dressed like that North Korean state news reader, I will be very disappointed.
Why is misinformation about paracetamol on the front page of every news outlet, without a mention of the fact it's misinformation?
I just don't agree that the government is inherently hamstrung in how it can use the bully pulpit to direct the conversation. It IS running the country, & that inherently means it's doing a lot of things! Talk about those things! Things you've done! Things you're doing! Things you're planning to do!
I think it's fair to separate typos from literacy, but yes, I did smile at that when I saw it.
It doesn't have to be new policy magicked up out of thin air. It can also be just the stuff the government is doing and/or making progress on. It's shown ZERO interest in telling people about that and is instead busy grasping for Farage's coattails on immigration letting him set the agenda.
Am beginning to wonder, given how ridiculously short each of Mandelson's prior periods of disgrace have actually been, whether they're just holding it open for his next return to the front line.
Plus Truss' policy wasn't really made up on the hoof, it was the implementation of an ingrained ideological belief.
False dichotomy. There are a multitude of possibilities other than "meekly sit back and do nothing" vs "policy disaster", as I'm sure you well know.
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.
Name one thing Lisa Nandy has actually done at DCMS. The failure to fire her at the two reshuffles in the last month was treated as a punchline to a bad joke, but it's way more serious than that.
I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.
No, he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today, but that is a "look at the state of him now" problem, not a "look at the state of the world now" problem.
And therefore you will ..... ??
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
Would be quite nice if this one were to actually launch properly unlike the last two British attempts.
continues night after night with Moscow raining down ACTUAL, LITERAL DESTRUCTION onto offices, hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, shops and utility facilities across the whole of the sovereign territory of Ukraine. That Putin was not literally laughed out of there is part of the problem. /End
It is imperative that we note here that "the destructive actions of the west", as described there by Putin, amount to "giving the Ukraininans some, but by no means all, of the weapons necessary to defend themselves from Russia's illegal invasion of its sovereign neighbour. An invasion that /
Counterpoint: Until the west shows any sign of doing literally anything apart from huffing at each other indignantly, Putin is not in fact playing a dangerous game at all.
Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.
If this weren't so important for democracy, it would still be embarrassing, but as it is, it's rank abdication of responsibility.
Easier than, say, if you're literally the government, with all the resources that entails at its disposal?
Gah can't even type DOJ any more
Hmm.... More likely the former looking at the length? 👀 Trump/Donald FOJ Redaction Windsor/Andrew
No, he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today, but that is a "look at the state of him now" problem, not a "look at the state of the world now" problem.
It's the one lesson that has been learned from "£350m a week" - the number doesn't matter.
Cheater! :P
Can't get past waldo :( :(
This really is the press unironically running a survey that finds "people want more policy not theatre" as a further excuse to cover more theatre and less policy.
Yeah the mass migration over the last 250 years has been very problematic for the Australian people.
Oxford Brookes now the best university in Oxford
The grand old University of Oxford just straighforwardly surrendering the concept of knowledge and settling for ~vibes~ instead.
What additional security and privacy is necessary in an education environment than in any normal commercial or private environment where someone might be using ChatGPT? Or, put another way, what security and privacy compromises are built in to public access ChatGPT because you're not worth it?
I wish I could repost this a hundred times.
I feel like a madman pointing this out but the plausible, real world explanation for the marked uptick in work visas after 2019 is quite simply that in the previous year, the UK blew up its entire labour market by getting rid of FOM, on which it was intrinsically and inherently dependent.
Britain: we have foreign people doing jobs Britain: dont like it Britain: *bans all the people doing jobs without visas* Britain: *suddenly needs people to do jobs* Britain: *hands out work visas to people to do those jobs* also Britain: HOW in the HELL did the NUMBER of work visas JUMP so HIGH
i realise i'm just sitting her yelling at the news but this is such a breathtakingly insulting way of framing this. people are not angry at the *pictures* from Gaza. the pictures show genocide. people are angry about genocide. we're not dogs wagging our tails at pictures of sausages.
The inability to swipe to answer/reject calls and snooze/stop alarms in Android 16 is definitely winding me up and feels like such a backwards step.
A bit fourteeny there.
Embarrassing sycophantic coverage of Charlie Kirk's funeral on the BBC. Why!?
THIS is why I get annoyed. We are three people, working out of a basement, while holding down full time jobs. It took us UNDER TWO MINUTES to sum up the framework within which the Jimmy Kimmel suspension sits, and begin the conversation *with what he actually said*. How can it be beyond BBC News?
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein
Did... did you get an LLM to read it for you?
For sure they're equally plausible! Do you just read that and... like... completely ignore the caveats and implicit subtext?
Yes, even the vested interest paper, optimistic as it is given who funded it, recognises the problem.
Sure. But this is a factor of how you approach it. If you're fully on board with LLMs, then by default you'll read this as positive, whereas if you're scared by the offloading of critical decision making onto LLMs that is already happening, the inability to stop it hallucinating is a big red flag.
Not really. Even if you boil the entire paper down to your selective quote from the conclusion, it's admitting that there are inherent factors that are causing hallucinations and, in what can only be described as motivated reasoning, stating some combination of weighting could control for it better.
As ever, I remain entirely open to the idea that AGI is possible. But it's not coming from LLMs. It's like saying "let's put bullshit artists in control of everything because they've convinced us they have all the solutions, what could possibly go wrong?" Wait
What, the OpenAI paper finishes with the OpenAI researchers saying "oh but there's definitely a chance we can save OpenAI's product's reputation if we just tweak the weightings more?" Say it ain't so.
lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter
AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED
"Now, give me that Nobel Peace Prize"
🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.
Today after the men's short program at the Olympic Qualifying Event (The first competition that Russians have been present for since their ban) Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak had a bag of his belongings torn open and stolen. It contained gifts from his fans all of which were taken.
the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents
When most of the rest of twitter were *ALSO* from the current political media class, this problem was mostly just annoying, but now they are mostly Nazis and right wing AstroTurf bots, and it's breaking the entire Anglosphere (at least) that these addled journos treat the consensus there as truth.
Honestly, the current political media class has lived its entire professional life judging what's important from the trending page of twitter. They can't understand how to function outside it.
entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
it's not even just what he says, I don't rally understand how looking at this guys face isn't triggering a widespread "Hans, are we the baddies" moment, fucking look at the guy
PEOPLE I'M SITTING NEXT TO A DOG ON THIS PLANE THIS IS THE BEST PLANE EVER
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.” Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?” Fuck you, BBC.
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
I WAS JOKING
Every single one of them thinks they can get ahead by sucking up just that bit more. Not one single principle to share between them.
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Jesus apparently not IFR certified
Seriously, why though? You're not fighting the good fight on behalf of truth. The algorithm is rigged to not show your posts, and if you do happen to go slightly viral despite that, you get brigaded into next week by fascists. There is no upside to putting yourself through this.
Why are you still there?
in retrospect it may have been a mistake to bet our national space exploration ambitions on a drugged-out maniac and his big dumb metal rocket www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
I really do think you're over-selling the importance of Your Party. I dearly, DEARLY wish there was a future for the left beyond the labour party, but even for the couple of months YP existed it was never going to be them.
This is, on the face of it, ample evidence of why your party was never going to succeed - because it was full of idiots who couldn't tell what was in their own best interests.
Talking about this was how he ended up riffing on "the great Hannibal Lecter" during the campaign wasn't it
I am fighting the urge to use AI tools really for this reason.
That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.
He cut his teeth at the Times with the Red Box podcast, then on Times Radio.
On the commentary, they were saying that Piastri was at the back of the queue, why did they red flag that lap? The rest of them could have completed times.
Russian MiG-31s flew into Estonian airspace and approached Tallinn before Italian jets were scrambled to intercept them. They should not be intercepted—the only way to stop the provocations is to do what Ankara did a few years ago near the Syrian border: shoot down the jets.
Curtis Evans is 65. He's a Marine veteran. He volunteers for the congressional campaign of @katmabu.bsky.social. He was protesting against an ICE detention facility. He's the subject of this photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social, which should be at the least nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Semper Fi
I'm quite cross with myself for not trying harder to try to learn that stuff as a teenager - it was all over the trade press but it felt out of reach and a bit like dinosaur tech.
The people who configured, customised, tweaked stuff as these companies grew haven't just left the company, they've left the workforce, and in some cases they've left the land of the living.
And this is why so many banks were still using COBOL systems in the run up to Y2K. I would imagine many still are even now
I've been trying to think of another example where something so reliably goes wrong every time yet people keep paying the same consultants to keep on doing it, and I really can't. The packages are so complicated and get into so many nooks and crannies of a business, migrating is just *very hard*.
There was a time where it seemed like literally everyone hated SAP and yet literally everyone was using it, and it felt like ... there's probably a learning point here somewhere?
Hahaha yep
Basically a monolithic corporate finance system, but all the big ones have modules that bleed into other areas, customer relations, workflow, learning management, compliance. Once an ERM vendor gets their hooks into your organisation, extricating yourself to move to a different one is very hard.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Yet again, this requires people to actually stand up and defend this. Trump has not had the legal authority to do half the things he's done, but both Congress and the Supreme Court have shown zero inclination to do their jobs, and so on he goes.
James.
It's their version of the flags going up in England, isn't it. Objection to this madness will be salami sliced and each person objecting will be challenged as if they hate THIS ONE FLAG/STATUE about to go up, while pretending that erecting them everywhere is not a power move.
Putin is paving the way to his country's destruction. The sooner it comes, the better.
This would be the underage teenage mother?