The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

"man these Romans were so stupid, not realizing they were poisoning themselves with lead & stuff"

The PM said we should expect a "painful" budget. But a strong economy needs investment not more spending cuts. You wouldn't cross your fingers + hope a patient recovers before you treat them - it's just as misguided to wait until our economy is thriving before we invest in it.1/5

This is one of the very worst economics explainers I have ever seen. Fatuous, economically illiterate garbage. Government finances are not like a household’s. No to cuts.

Had #Grenfell Tower been a luxury apartment block housing wealthy people, I'm pretty sure that the prosecution and conviction of those who enabled the disaster would have happened by now.

When for instance Owen Jones goes on TV he is always titled "activist" or "left wing". This is never the case with IEA spokespeople or other hard right organisations. Therefore subconsciously this portrays them as common sense & neutral. This is what we call manufacturing consent

Our GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan

Seeking to influence political outcomes via freebies, goodies and donations = good Seeking to influence political outcomes via protest and grassroots campaigning = bad We need a refresh of our entire political class. They simply don’t get it.

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

Trump's win should act as a warning to the Labour government: If we fail to address deep-rooted inequality and the cost of living crisis, we risk leaving a void that can be filled by the far-right. When people feel ignored, they look for alternatives.

For the amount of people they’re upsetting, labour may as well have done stuff which was actually transformative. As it is they’ve alienated pensioners & farmers for seemingly very little political or financial gain

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The tax is bringing in revenue, hence why they haven’t got rid of it. ‘Of 236,000 millionaires and billionaires in Norway, the relocation of 30 – while substantially higher than in previous years – still amounts to a mere 0.01% of Norway’s millionaire and billionaire population.

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Rather than just “saving” the steel industry, nationalising it to then (probably) sell it back cheap to the private sector, the UK government should be thinking about how to “transform” it. Interesting lessons in Germany where the public bank (KfW) provided a massive loan to the

UK tech secretary Peter Kyle has embraced the ‘Adapt or Die’ AI booster mantra. This is incredibly misguided. Government is telling citizens they must use exploitative technology that it is widely accepted will replace many of their jobs - or risk getting “left behind”.

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

Yes, that's because you own two homes.

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government theguardian.com/commentisfree/…