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• Post #3972675

  Richard Herring re-releasing his Binface interview from about a year ago in honour of the by-election in Clacton. Worth a watch if you didn't see it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nNWo7yYfg #binface #countBinface #clacton

• Post #3891012

  Burnham has been made leader of the Labour party then. No other candidates got the required number of nominations so it's a coronation. He has a few things to say. He's proud. The party is united, he says, and now they'll put that power of unity to give people hope back. And he is ready to build on Kier's foundation. Thanks Kier, for all the NHS work and renters rights and rebuilding the nation's reputation (??). He does like to name-check all the various towns and unions...

• Post #3855254

  Burnham removing Mahmood from Home Secretary is great. Being an authoritarian monster, she belongs on the back benches not anywhere near the seat of government. 👂️👈 Wait, I'm hearing that she's to be the chancellor instead? Well, um. Oh. Okay. Promoting Shabana Mehmood to chancellor seems to be the most weak dumb move Burnham could possibly make. She's authoritarian and fiscally inexperienced having shown no sign she understands what money is or how investment works or what a fis...

• Post #3329073

  OBrien on the radio thinks that its okay to ban kids from Youtube even though their exam revision videos are on youtube, because the revision videos will just end up somewhere else. He thinks though that the suicide encouragement and terrible anorexia mutual support will not simply end up somewhere else I guess. 🤷‍♂️ "No downside to this at all" he reckons. 🤣 "Nobody sensible can be against this ban" This is what irks me most. The absolute refusal to see any issues at all...

• Post #2811276

  Richard Murphy has a good story here about why the coming crash will be the biggest ever, and caused by OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX. Because these 3 IPOs are about to happen, and be massive, they will immediately and right away take up a large fraction of the S&P and Nasdaq stock indexes. That means all the fund managers who run funds tracking the S&P and Nasdaq will have to buy enough of those 3 companies to make them a large fraction of the funds. Selling everything else to...

• Post #2811275

  People are saying the public are massively uninformed because they think migration is going up even though actually net migration has gone down so much it's frankly a threat to the economy. But the people don't think the way the statisticians think. When they are asked "Is migration going up" they say, "Yeah, sure, lots of extra migrants are turning up every year." And they are NOT wrong. Net migration is still a positive number. The number of immigrants in the coun...

• Post #2811274

  Went to see the Super Furry Animals at Brixton Academy. Missed this band over the last, what, 15 years since they last played? Banger after banger. One of those bass rumbles felt like the building was shaking, earthquake alerts. The classic SFA song has some sweet jangly guitar tune going on then two verses in you feel something weird and electronic in the beat and then the wall of noise and beeps and booms hits you in the face. Love it. Power-ranger helmet, furry suits, flashing lights and...

• Post #2330058

  Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon. The thing to understand about the corporate public messaging systems is that they do not exist to let you publish or to talk to people. That is not the point of them. That's at best just the bait laid to lure you into their trap. They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's why Threads exists, that's why Blockchain Inc invested to keep Bluesky running. Only...

• Post #1608223

  Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist. It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics. He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people. He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it. But this is his website. The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple. It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reaso...

• Post #1047853

  But the idea here is to keep kids safe! No: the idea is to assign identity to every user and try to monitor and control the internet though corporate means. That’s the only reason we’re talking seriously about the laws that government and capital are trying to pass. That lobbying money is not being spent to protect kids. The Epstine-class oligarchs doing this don’t give a damn about your children’s safety let alone some useless counter productive methods of ensuring it. I don’t trust the go...

• Post #924879

  Okay, okay, I get it. Thanks Mozilla. I'll give Vivaldi a try at the weekend. Seesh. https://stateof.mozilla.org/ #mozilla #firefox

• Post #770420

  Protectionism in the US heading in an interesting direction as The US bans foreign made internet routers Which is particularly interesting because there aren't any US made internet routers really, certainly nothing like the number required for keeping all Americans online. Routers are mostly insecure due to company negligence with updates and bugs which has nothing to do with nationality of course. American companies are just as likely to fail to spot a buffer overflow or abandon customers...

• Post #770419

  My hobby this week is deleting Google Off My Phone. So I Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel Six. No blog posts for years then two in one week! It seems to do most of the things I need from a phone these days, if only because of how I'm already deliberately not using Google for address/calendar/email and instead try and do most stuff with self-hosted web-services. Means if I have a browser I have most of what I want already. Graphene here is going to work for me except for: Organic Maps i...

• Post #730174

  With the eight week improv course ending last week, I timed it well to start a new group with a new set of eight sessions this week. The Free Association seem more serious than Hoopla. They have 50% longer classes for a start. Three hours rather than two. More instruction and notes rather than just positive encouragement. Clearer aim even from the early levels. More like a classroom than a playground. First couple of sets of eight at Hoopla are just aimed at getting you to lose your decorum a...