John Stabler

The "small government" people hyping and investing in this scam will soon be crying about how the SEC didn't save them. youtu.be/vS2zr4_PMtQ?...

I'm not going to stan for the pope; the leader of a morally deficient cult. Just because he's throwing shade on an idiot vice president, he doesn't magically become cool. Let me know when they reverse position on human rights in respect of reproductive, gender, sexuality, contraception etc

Because the market price of oil isn't the result of a blockade, but who is doing the blockading... Too many stupid people in charge and too many stupid people voting for them.

Daily Mail really scraping the barrel for anti-Labour stories.

always a good sign www.wired.com/story/openai...

I'm wondering how fans of The Invisible Hand of The Market currently feel about the US equity markets. There's always going to be some level of insider trading. But the confluence of political insiders and vibes-based trading is putting pension funds at risk.

Oh look, a fossil fuel company gas-lit the government, strung it along to get subsidies and is now throwing a tantrum because of regulations. www.politico.eu/article/ener... No more money for Drax. Boot out the stupid politicians that fell for the carbon capture scam.

Last week, Farage was demanding a ban on "mass religious observances" in public spaces and described Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square as "provocative" and an attempt to "intimidate and dominate" UK society. This week, he's defending the "free speech" of a multimillionaire who celebrates Hitler.

Lebanon is one of the most surprising clean energy stories in the world. Solar went from <1% of electricity in 2020 to nearly 30% by 2024. Not because of policy - because the state grid collapsed and people installed rooftop solar out of sheer necessity.

What is unsaid: The poor were told to hate immigrants, LGBTQ, other poor people and educated experts. Because the elite knows that people would rather blame others than take responsibility themselves. Americans have always had the power to change their lives for the better, but failed.

Microsoft admits that #ai LLM chatbot is more like a stage show psychic / medium than an expert. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Zod also prioritises loyalty (what's with all those demands for people to kneel?) But he'd be way more competent than the current muppet.

We're fortunate enough to have solar, battery, heat pump and an EV. We're able to take advantage of the @octopus.energy Agile tariff. Tomorrow we'll get paid to use electricity.

You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.

The US screwing up a war on the Middle East, an AI bubble and massively over-priced tech sector. I'm going to do my part in calling BS and shorting the US stock market into the stone ages.

They've watched Top Gun 2 too many times.

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

This is why US boots on the ground is getting more likely.

That doesn't sound like a country that's close to doing a deal.

Elon is a loser.

To borrow a metaphor from Stewart Lee: Like two rats fighting over a courgette that has fallen into a urinal. capacityglobal.com/news/134bn-o... #ai #openai #tesla #musk

Boomer: “it seems like everyone your age is on antidepressants for anxiety and depression” Me: “yeah for reference I spent most of my 20s in a global pandemic and every presidential election i’ve been old enough to vote in has had donald trump on the ballot”

Hydrogen was a scam created by fossil fuel companies. Useful-idiot petrol-heads pushed it because they didn't like EVs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have we considered the OpenAI / US gov partnership is an attempt to increase the chances of a bailout that makes no rational financial sense? @edzitron.com

FFS

If only the US had functioning regulators and wasn't in the pocket of tech grifters. So many crypto and tech bros would be in prison for fraud, stock price manipulation, etc Sadly the corruption goes right to the top, so nothing will be done about it. The bubble will pop and they'll scuttle away.

(Micro)Strategy employing the old Martingale Method.

Ian is also right: this is the absolute WORST SCANDAL to rock a British government since.... well... since.... ummm.... since the last Conservative government under Boris Johnson. bsky.app/profile/iand...

"I've huffed so much of my own supply that facts don't matter".

People pinning their hope to the Epstein files to expose and unseat #Trump. As if a DOJ controlled by him would release damaging evidence. One thing can turn the GOP against him: the economy. Tariffs, AI & crypto failure, dollar destruction & inflation. It won't just be anti-ICE on the streets.

Mississippi Burning. Great film based on a true story. Back when the feds were the good guys.

It's six years today since Britain left the EU. I wrote this on Brexit day in 2020, about the strategic dilemmas to which European membership had once been the answer and that would now reopen once Britain left. I'd stand by most of it today. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2020/01/brex...

If you're asked to do something immoral or unlawful, you resign. If you just follow orders then you get held accountable too.

Uncritical AI churnalism. macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...

If this happens, it will make literally everything better. All of it. Everything in the world. @nigella.bsky.social in our living rooms every Tuesday throughout Autumn - genuinely life-changing stuff.

Bent coppers should always be dismissed. They do not serve the law or public safety. Gross misconduct is gross misconduct. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The slop from generative AI is worthless garbage. Undressing and trolling is one of the few features that has demand. If X removes this feature, the deplorables will lose interest. This is one of the big problems with the current crop of Gen AI products: solutions in search of a problem.

Shocking PR regurgitation from the BBC. Tenuous story of a winner to promote Omaze at the end. Wife who ignored husband becomes multi-millionaire - BBC News share.google/ideOTOwqPGtk...

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If he's acting president of Venezuela then perhaps they can indict him and issue an international arrest warrant?

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

The tranq'd-up Stay Puft Marshmallow Man renamed his site "X". We shouldn't be surprised.

The guy literally renamed it to the Department of War. This should have been a big clue.

Why are so many people reposting this graphic without checking for a real source?