Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic and one of the most influential figures shaping the development of advanced artificial intelligence, has published an essay titled The Adolescence of Technology. The essay is rambling and in desperate need of a decent edit, but its core message repeats its title. As...
There's a new craze in bookshops around the UK...
...namely placing Boris Johnson's new memoir next to other books on lying and/or Brexit damage - or even alongside toilet paper and cat litter...
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No great surprise to see #JeremyClarkson being incredibly rude to #VictoriaDerhyshire’s perfectly reasonable questioning on #Newsnight over the #farming / #InheritanceTax issue. His performative howling about the #BBC was desperate. Happy enough to take their shilling for decades, as I recall.
Pay your bloody taxes.
There's a very weird but common misconception that people on disability benefits are somehow a "drain on the economy." But 100% of that money will be spent, on things like rent, mortgage, insurance, food, clothing, and so on. That's money that immediately goes to business owners and, if those business owners aren't hoarding wealth, will cycle through the rest of the economy.
Drains on the economy are where money stops moving, like, for example, when it reaches wealthy billionaires.
Example of the “Welsh Not” technique, ftom mid-20C Japan.
Attached: 1 image Photo below shows a Ryukyuan (native Okinawan) child forced to wear a sign reading “I spoke in dialect” b/c he spoke Okinawan. Such punishments were a common tactic Japan used to eliminate native languages from the Okinawan islands and replace them with Japanese. #japan #unseenjapan #languages #indigenous
Mae sylwadau'r Prif Weinidog, sy'n awgrymu agor y Gwasanaeth Iechyd i breifateiddio fel a roddwyd ar waith gan y Torïaid yn Lloegr, yn destun pryder mawr iawn. Dylai ein gwasanaethau cyhoeddus aros yn nwylo'r cyhoedd.
The First Minister's comments, which suggest opening up the NHS to privatisation as has been seen under the Tories in England, are very concerning. Our public services should remain in the public's hands.
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