James Southern

I like to think if I got into an argument with Alan about trade I would continue foolishly driving into the abyss so other people get to enjoy it. I dunno that I would though? Anyway you should get to enjoy it:

TIL if you do a local ubuntu server install with SSH password authentication allowed so you can log in once with password over LAN, ubuntu writes it to a file called 50-cloud-init.conf which overrides sshd_config so subsequently setting "PasswordAuthentication no" in sshd_config doesn't do anything

yeah. my general thesis is that a lot of people have never had or given themselves the opportunity to be bad at things that other people can see and evaluate

A Sunday walk in warm sunshine. Out to Lower Swanwick and down the river to Warsash. 4 October 2026. #walk #walking #hamble

If only there had been some clue...

Up to 16.2 million people misled. Ofgem’s “warning” was a 1-in-20 cold day plus the loss of key infrastructure – a scenario it called very rare, and a deal will address the risk anyway. Repost and help us fight press disinformation.

The UK is set to lose £31bn in tax revenue while the illicit finance summit is delayed yet again. Our APPG members @steffanaquarone.bsky.social and Lloyd Hatton MP have warned that dirty money has real consequences for public services and national security. taxjustice.uk/blog/illicit...

Great to see MPs on here and a worthy cause. Incoming Lapel Mic chat from @katebevan.com in 3..2..

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

I should buy more government bonds.

GM. We are going to win. An internet where 4 corporations wall us all into their surveillance state and make us pay rent forever is just incompatible with human flourishing. The only question is how long it takes everyone propping up history's worst billionaires to figure this out.

So you can one shot this plugin for firefox, I wasn't even intending to do that. Just talking to Opus on the web and off it went. Someone who is not about to go to sleep should do a proper job on this.

more than anything I think it's a glaring tell of the newspapers recognizing and shamelessly pandering their last reading base namely old wealthy assholes

The most interesting thing here is tales from meta that really suggest we’re gonna see some wild stuff.

Because (alas I did not write this--the greatest IPE banger of all time).

These guys will do anything to kill reform. They're partisans. They don't give a damn that FPTP is mangling our electoral system or that it could hand total executive control to Nigel Farage. They just care that a few times a century Labour has a majority. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Is this GS trying reverse psychology??!

With friends like these, Europe is very alone.

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

That's a good question - and would be very plausible that people who don't socialise much in person and live lives online are disproportionately likely to answer online surveys.

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reminder: you do actually live at the dawn of artificial life and denying this won't save your worldview from collapse

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

These are all one story

Speaking purely personally, I do not see how I could argue I was using X for some "greater good" of advocacy when the main principles behind X these days are the a antithesis of basic rights, respect, freedoms and democracy. The ROI just doesn't pay off in making that particular devil's bargain. 4/

I thought this for a while but… You can accept a world of change! Nothing is going to be fixed for a while. But people can accept wars and even horrors beyond that. You can too But you must have agency or you’ll be lost. Take every day as it comes and make a better future. AI can help here.

Cmon someone has got to make a video of this thing being in a fender bender, breaching the compressed air and then demolishing a whole block of flats with an animal rescue shelter too.

Genuinely taken aback that this comment came from a *Labour* MP. Setting aside the 'debate' around women's only spaces this is basically saying the very *sight* of a trans person might upset her mum? Maybe Tonia could reassure her mum the trans person is just *another human being* and not a monster

Always worth bearing in mind that the markets are not the economy (as a general rule, not as specific comment on now). By the time the 10 o'clock news tells us we're out of a recession, the markets have been rising for 6 months in all likelihood. (& e.g. UK mkt bottomed day before lockdown imposed)

Go look at this list if we want MPs to get off X there has to be something for em here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Good to see this.

lol what?

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social i have unfollowed you and 404 media as a result of this. it’s really disgusting and an abuse of your position. an abuse on the part of 404 should they stand behind it. i’m just genuinely disgusted totally beyond words. ew ew ew.

Is this it? The Big One? Or all back to normal by lunch time? Global AI sell-off deepens as Asian markets tumble - as.ft.com/r/fd66cd03-b...

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

"Buy American AI so it will hack your systems and steal your data, but you will have no legal recourse, because AI broligarchs are under Trump's protection and above the law." Also not a very good sales pitch.

This is what keeps me aligned to be fair? I don’t want to give the scientists the satisfaction.

Kemi Badenoch can’t be trusted to regulate AI because she’s a script kiddy at heart.

Well we have all been told to have a few extra meals canned food in the cupboard…

My totally amateur guess of a foreigner (I'd love to hear British comment) is that BoJo is evil in the classic "old boys club" sense, "down with the proles, fuck the piglet". Still evil, but not necessarily up to full scale treason, Farage-style. So "old chap Lebedev", yes, but hard no to Putin.

X has had more time to figure out how to cook brains without them leaving…

@chickabiddybex.bsky.social seems like one for you!