Mentally photoshopping Starmer sitting in his dugout in the pouring rain staring at his tactics chart
Brain droppings from an ST6 Psychiatrist in East London, working in a memory service and dementia inpatient unit. I mostly end up talking about the news.
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Mentally photoshopping Starmer sitting in his dugout in the pouring rain staring at his tactics chart
Ben Starr is an MVP as Dorian and his many variants
They could call it……. Challengers
Have eaten at this lovely Moroccan restaurant on both of my recent visits. maps.app.goo.gl/QQMh31xhsF8N...
What am I to make of LLMs as a Psychiatrist? On one hand, they might make some of my admin tasks a bit easier. On the other, they amplify delusions and have been linked to psychotic murder-suicide.
It turns out AI sycophancy is a major problem when the person’s ideas that ChatGPT is encouraging are suicide or in this case a murder-suicide. There will need to be major changes in safety protocols across the industry and I’m curious how Open Source LLMs will address this problem.
Maybe not. I wonder why Rishi Sunak didn’t, though? Seems exactly his sort of thing.
Goosebumps. Gregory Horror Show.
If full-fat Windows is humming along underneath, is it really going to be any more power efficient?
I've just spent a week and several million pounds at the Edinburgh Festival. Here are a few types of comedians I think, with every respect, we have enough of now.
Apparently pretty significant? Especially if you have an image in your signature. Though Gen AI makes a mockery of that.
"While the number of independent schools still rose slightly over the same period, from 2,421 in January last year to 2,456 in January this year, the increase would likely have been higher were it not for the introduction of VAT on school fees ..."
Ooh, it’s that last sentence that made something click for me.
I would add that Disco is not exceptionally long by gaming standards. Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate, Red Dead 2… yes, those are part-time jobs. (though you may find yourself making the time once you get sucked in!)
I was going to make the same comment. Of course, there is too much excellent art out there for any one lifetime, but IMV too many people have completely cut themselves off from a whole medium! Non-gamers can still carve out a space for exceptional games.
Thank you for a bit of outer London representation (where people with kids tend to actually live!)
I don't think licensing is the right approach but I do think that sellers have a moral responsibility to do a bit of due diligence on their customers, especially with more complex pets. When we adopted our parrot, we had a home assessment and an interview with the rescue charity.
Absolutely huge for the Skong community
... after 14 years of life under the Government they wanted
I wonder what the name recognition of Javier Milei is among the general public?
"According to the government, almost half of the working-age population — about 18mn people — are not saving anything for their retirement. Only one in five of the self-employed are saving into a pension, down from half in the late 1990s." "Yikes" doesn't cover it!
Am I just a heavy sleeper or was it not as bad as feared? I was braced for a proper thunderstorm!
"We have to entertain the notion that Trump is a moderating influence on a movement that will become much more doctrinal once he is gone. He approaches the world through personal relations, which are malleable, not ideas, which aren’t. on.ft.com/46eU139
Not sure! The article says "pay", I paraphrased as salary.
Article says he's donating his salary to his charity, to be fair.
I have definitely had it in my head that a million million is somehow a legitimate "alternative" definition of billion. Until I think: no, it definitely isn't! So this is interesting.
Well that's a relief. I do tend to assume the worst of anyone with a checkmark on X these days.
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj.bsky.social Read more:
Ah fair
Funded childcare hours tbh?
What are the rules about this? If a journalist is WhatsApping with an MP, say, is it generally accepted that they would not want comments made in that context to be attributed?
I wouldn't pay a penny for it, but I admit that I stuck it on while doing the washing up yesterday. Probably not a sustainable business model...
If the Central Line programme is fully funded, what else explains all the delays? The reduced timetable was an emergency measure and was only supposed to be temporary.
This is, for me, where the Nazi/fascist parallels work best. ‘Good’ people did nothing as the awfulness escalated because they were justifiably terrified of getting their heads kicked in or killed. It’s about comparing similar points in the process as opposed to comparing end days with early ones.
I always thought that the exclusion of Microsoft from FAANG back in the day demonstrated a blind spot.
Dinosaur mini-golf! I've not heard of that before? Where's that?
The strange thing about Walthamstow, having lived there, is that there is a very small area - basically one street, Orford Road - that is properly gentrified? (Most yuppies I know have instead settled in nearby Leyton or Leytonstone)
Ah, got it. 😉
To... reject every single FOI request?
Is Central Line Improvement Programme already fully funded?
London has expressed disappointment in the lack of funding for infrastructure projects. Is it better news on London council funding, then?
But, strikingly, absolutely nothing on what the Conservatives would do for public services; what would they cut and allow to deteriorate further?
Yes, agonising. I suppose the argument on the other hand is: if we had taken advantage of 'ZIRP', would we have known when to reign it in - or risked being hammered when the tide went out?
Every so often I remember that interest rates were below 1% for 12 years. I realise this is not "news". Nor is it news that, during that decade-plus, we failed to use the potential of dirt-cheap borrowing to invest in infrastructure projects that we belatedly realised we desperately needed. Hmph.
Impressively this may well end up costing more than the original policy due to increase take up of the pension credit after the original announcement (H/T @stevewebb1.bsky.social)
Jeremy Bowen spells out the problem for Israel trying to deny war crimes: its own ministers have admitted to them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Where are the underwhelming series of Partridge?!
What a damning indictment of the legacy of austerity, from this IFS video: all public services, except schools, were performing worse on the eve of the pandemic than they were in 2010. www.youtube.com/live/SCqRbpg...
Interesting that it's a poll of "abundance" versus "populism" as, as an outsider, this slogan sounds pretty populist?
"It’s a chaotic bunfight. There’s no strategy or plan. It’s seemingly random what is getting funded." Not a hugely reassuring vignette of the inner workings of Government... on.ft.com/43HhQ1H
The promise of democracy for those who built it wasn't that it would make them richer. It was that it would make power answerable to the people. It would protect voters against tyranny, recognise the equality of all citizens, uphold human dignity and amplify the voices of ordinary people.
Maybe you don't need 20 Funko Pops, maybe just 2 this year.
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Is there precedent for a third party being so popular, so early in the cycle? (genuine ignorance) Could one argue that this is a uniquely volatile environment in which everything could still change?
Sounds not-unreasonable in isolation, but yet more tax and spend complexity in a system that is already the messiest in the world.
They can, but some of the lyrics might go over their heads
Have we just found a new toad?
Call me naïve but I think that Labour should do what they sincerely think is best for the country and after 5 years the public can tell them whether that was good enough 🤷♂️
Okay, and: don't have the misfortune to preside over a global inflation surge.
🚨🚨 Excellent piece by @chrisgiles.ft.com making a very substantial case for #brexit's failure on its own terms (it's the economy stupid!) and why this experience should be sufficient reason in itself for not following down the same path. /1
God this is endlessly sad. If you don't understand that a core aspect of friendship is someone who can choose not to be your friend, you are missing something very important in your life.
Yep, this is me. The war on microplastics is a losing one but seems sensible to limit exposure where we can. Plastic water bottles are another one.
Any thoughts on the by-election in Hainault, Ilford North?
Just incredible
god this is so comically awful it actually made me burst out laughing, what the everliving fuck
Why are we not doing this? Never seen a more "no brainer" policy. Even people who are the most strongly opposed to immigration tend not to object to top scientists coming here.
... and now you're even older... and now you're even older www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIR...
"This is a pointless conversation for the benefit of an unseen audience as we all already know everything"
Incredible how a) American Online this is and b) largely irrelevant to local government spending of which the vast majority is on social care.
This is far from the most acute issue facing early career resident doctors now. Postgraduate training posts are now so oversubscribed - largely due to a lowering of the barriers to overseas applications - that recent graduates are scrambling over available posts wherever they may be.
I’ll admit, I thought you had a print of Theresa May’s portrait on a t-shirt
Reminder that the term 'silent majority' originally referred to the dead.
It was worth the closer look! 😆
The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money
Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably
I want to see a photograph of this man specifically clutching his head in front of an all-red stock terminal.
Series 1 Episode 1 of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe (2010) coined the term 'Moneygeddon', which has stuck in my mind ever since. Bring him back!
Seems as good a tactic as any 🥴
Lots of very understandable focus on the negative economic consequences for the UK of what the US is doing (direct impact of tariffs on exporters, indirect hit to largest trading partner, tighter financial conditions as equities fall, increased uncertainty). We shouldn’t miss the (genuine) upsides:
It’s one supply chain, Michael. How long could it take to recreate? 2-3 months?
"With so much at stake — and our own markets plunging — isn’t it finally time to stop arguing about fish?" I hope a rapid reset of our trading relationship of the EU is one silver lining of this crisis. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Not to mention Trump.
A small silver lining that, MAGA cultists aside, the American public across party lines seem pretty on the ball about the real implications of Trump's tariff policies.
lot of people don't know this
Sure. I just mean what is the economic rationale of erecting further trade barriers? We (ex-US countries) can't control what they do, but why do we have to retaliate? How does that serve our interests?
Can anyone explain why countries feel compelled to retaliate to these tariffs, other than "an eye for an eye"? I'm sure there is an economic rationale, but I can't quite grasp it. The risk of a vicious cycle seems high, especially with Trump.
Comedy is legal now, but not at the expense of dear leader.
Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.
From the nation that brought us the Marshall Plan, we now have this proposal for the “Trump Plan” for #Ukraine. Where the Marshall Plan embraced enlightened self-interest by America, the Trump plan is predatory, and basically an extortion bid against the people of Ukraine. 1/7
🧵 1. The new official poverty stats came out at 930 Astonishingly bad numbers confirm the UK is in the grip of a building crisis of penury www.gov.uk/government/s...
If this were an *actual* war this opportunistic photoshoot would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Folk who know their history will remember that it was initially the brown shirts of Ernst Röhm who smashed their way through dissent while the rest of the state sat back and appeased it.
Hey, this is a nice little thing in the Spring Statement: "Higher-earning parents will soon be spared the hassle of having to file a tax return to pay back child benefit [and] will be able to do it through their payslip instead". www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
"She has much left to do in the autumn if she is to avoid this government going down in history as one that did not quite enough to avoid being an awkward interregnum between those of Rishi Sunak and Nigel Farage." With Biden's loss to Trump in mind, this is chilling. on.ft.com/4livcsi
It's rather "sticking plaster politics", isn't it?