Ian Stronge
@ianstronge
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#AI #LLMs
'Printing presses don’t think - but printing has radically reshaped human culture...
LLMs might similarly make the transmission of information more “efficient,” greatly enhancing discovery. Equally...
our intellectual culture risks degenerating into a monochromatic sludge of cheery mediocrity, as LLMs inculcate a kind of lowest common denominator of what has already been said'
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/chatgpt-is-an-engine-of-cultural
'Printing presses don’t think - but printing has radically reshaped human culture...
LLMs might similarly make the transmission of information more “efficient,” greatly enhancing discovery. Equally...
our intellectual culture risks degenerating into a monochromatic sludge of cheery mediocrity, as LLMs inculcate a kind of lowest common denominator of what has already been said'
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/chatgpt-is-an-engine-of-cultural
#AsylumHomelessUK
'The scale of the current crisis as to where and how to provide accommodation for asylum seekers can be viewed through a succession of High Court planning law cases over the last year or so. This blog post simply seeks to gather the cases in one place...
I usually end with some flippant closing comments but not today. Behind each case lies much human misery.'
https://simonicity.com/2024/01/14/accommodating-asylum-seekers-some-recent-planning-law-cases/
'The scale of the current crisis as to where and how to provide accommodation for asylum seekers can be viewed through a succession of High Court planning law cases over the last year or so. This blog post simply seeks to gather the cases in one place...
I usually end with some flippant closing comments but not today. Behind each case lies much human misery.'
https://simonicity.com/2024/01/14/accommodating-asylum-seekers-some-recent-planning-law-cases/
Mix weak characters with a weak #LegalSystem
#Justice squeezed out
How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice
12th January 2024 The Post Office Horizon scandal is both simple and complex, straightforward but also difficult to grasp in all its interconnected detail. The essence of the scandal is, of course,…
#SoftwareMessups
'Fortunately, common sense prevailed in our case because of management’s willingness to listen and learn, and a corporate approach was adopted with the in-house development of a replacement system, which was publicised as an updated version of the original rather than a completely new system. Reputations and jobs saved, as well as a much-improved service'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/post-office-scandal-calls-for-reflection-and-justice
'Fortunately, common sense prevailed in our case because of management’s willingness to listen and learn, and a corporate approach was adopted with the in-house development of a replacement system, which was publicised as an updated version of the original rather than a completely new system. Reputations and jobs saved, as well as a much-improved service'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/post-office-scandal-calls-for-reflection-and-justice
#HousingIsEasy #RedVienna
'Funded primarily through a hypothecated tax on luxuries such as champagne or horse-riding, the inaugural phase of socialist-governed “Red Vienna” saw 65,000 socially rented apartments shoot up within the city'
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-social-housing-secret-how-vienna-became-the-worlds-most-livable-city
'Funded primarily through a hypothecated tax on luxuries such as champagne or horse-riding, the inaugural phase of socialist-governed “Red Vienna” saw 65,000 socially rented apartments shoot up within the city'
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-social-housing-secret-how-vienna-became-the-worlds-most-livable-city
'Casey makes it clear how well government can work when a priority is set, the prime minister is behind it, and those on the frontline have a clear set of goals and know how to achieve them. And also, how government can fail when a law is passed but there’s no focus regarding its implementation, or when ministers don’t talk to people whose lives are affected by their policies'
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/06/fixing-britain-with-louise-casey-review-self-help-scottee-pet-classics-new-years-eve-colin-murray
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/06/fixing-britain-with-louise-casey-review-self-help-scottee-pet-classics-new-years-eve-colin-murray
1990s wars in the former #Yugoslavia
Comments add more detail:
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/01/06/the-kosovo-war-25-years-later-bosnian-prelude/
2/3 parts so far:
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/01/08/the-kosovo-war-25-years-later-the-serbian-ascendancy/
#honoursUK does not signify virtue... or even 'success'
https://www.counterfire.org/article/kitson-failed-boot-boy-of-empire/
https://www.counterfire.org/article/kitson-failed-boot-boy-of-empire/
