Thursday 16th October 2025
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Re: Thursday 16th October 2025
Censure motions both failed here today ...
The Socialists want a Wealth Tax which has been in the news for weeks now, to cries of outrage from multibillionaires such as Vincent Bolloré who is only worth some £10 billion but has a wide holding in the very popular rightwing media . Like Bernard Arnault who is seriously rich at around $200bn he is a devout Catholic and missed the bit in the Bible about camels passing through the eye of a needle ..
Reeves wants to tax the 'wealthier' more ... it appears .
Whoops, National Guard versus ICE --
The Socialists want a Wealth Tax which has been in the news for weeks now, to cries of outrage from multibillionaires such as Vincent Bolloré who is only worth some £10 billion but has a wide holding in the very popular rightwing media . Like Bernard Arnault who is seriously rich at around $200bn he is a devout Catholic and missed the bit in the Bible about camels passing through the eye of a needle ..
Reeves wants to tax the 'wealthier' more ... it appears .
Whoops, National Guard versus ICE --
Re: Thursday 16th October 2025
The Hannibal Directive Massacre that the BBC does not want you to know about --
One other thing is that thousands of people streamed across the breached frontier , so highly probable that not all murders were Hamas , as we know that other armed groups existed --
One other thing is that thousands of people streamed across the breached frontier , so highly probable that not all murders were Hamas , as we know that other armed groups existed --
Re: Thursday 16th October 2025
Quick look before my bed !
Those techbros are "emotionallly maladapted psychopaths "
Good discussion earlier on this --
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Van Badham
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... eplaceable
Those techbros are "emotionallly maladapted psychopaths "
Good discussion earlier on this --
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Van Badham
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... eplaceable
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Re: Thursday 16th October 2025
Question Time came tonight from Bishop's Stortford. One of those places I'd heard the name of but had no idea where it was. Judging by tonight’s programme it sounds like another of those soulless London commuter towns that's being expanded by the day. Yuck.
It's probably best to get Matthew Syed out of the way first. You know the saying 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? Someone should tattoo that on Matthew's forehead. Backwards obviously so he can read it in the mirror every day though I suspect he's so dense it still wouldn't sink in. Tonight Matthew wondered aloud why this country is no longer as prosperous and innovative as it was during the 19th century. His answer was 'we don't build stuff anymore'. Really Matthew? So no longer having an empire we can ruthlessly profit from has nothing to do with it? Two world wars completely changing our geopolitical significance has nothing to do with it? Decades of underinvestment and public asset stripping has nothing to do with it? Nah, we just need to build some bridges and we'll be great again. Also Matthew (apparently uniquely he seems to think) has messed about a bit with Chat GPT making him an expert on AI. And guess what his great insight was? Ask it a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer, ask it a smart question and you'll get a smarter answer. Well fuck me sideways Matthew, you don't say. I mean it's not like 'garbage in garbage out' hasn't been a concept in computer science for about 70 years. Yet he sat looking all pleased with himself like he'd pointed out something profound and complained that when he wrote about it in The Times it didn't get much attention. I wonder why. Then he went on a rant about how it could kill us all which amongst other things attributed theories to Einstein that had nothing to do with him and confused nuclear fission with nuclear fusion, he was just chucking all his superficial snippets of knowledge out there hoping to sound clever like I do when I'm pissed. What a dick.
For those of us on the left we had Ash Sarkar. Ash quite rightly warned about the dangers of large language models as opposed to the genuinely beneficial algorithms that are transforming various sciences. (Just for the record both are labelled as AI, neither of them are). Her point was that these glorified chat bots are the next stage of our digital subjugation after social media created and run by the very same Silicon Valley sociopaths, who as she pointed out, won't let their own kids own a smartphone. She also explained to the denizens of Bishop's Stortford and many commuter towns like it that they were having loads of new houses built because people are being priced out of cities by greedy landlords and they need somewhere to go, you can moan about the local lack of infrastructure and gridlocked roads all you like but until the avarice of landlords in our cities is brought under control it's only going to get worse.
For Labour we had Heidi Alexander. Over the course of an hour Heidi showed a glimmer of passion only once. About scrapping planning laws. Laws which are there to protect one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. To protect the rarest of creatures from tiny snails to bats. Miracles of evolution on the only planet in the entire universe we know has life. Yet Heidi (at the behest of Reeves) sees protecting such marvellous, utterly unique things as an irksome drag on growth that make gaming the OBR system more difficult for her chancellor. I honestly have no abusive epithet's powerful enough for the contempt this deserves. Oh yeah and she tried to claim this government is responsible for a 'new town' in Leeds that has been going through the planning process for a decade and bits of it are already built.
For the Tories we had Helen Whately. You know what? Helen actually said something smart. She said we should be teaching kids about how these LLM chat bots are trained, what their biases are. I was briefly gobsmacked and thought perhaps we'd all misjudged her until she began wittering about taking 24 billion out of the welfare budget because it had ballooned due to millions of people claiming for ADHD. She'd already been taken to task in parliament for falsely claiming these fantasy millions of ADHD claimants were also getting free motability cars but it's like water off a ducks back for the likes of Helen. Terrifyingly in this post truth world she and her dwindling band are voice of the respectable right.
For the Lib Dems we had Lisa Smart. Lisa was the Liberal adult in the room. Of course now 'Liberal' once again means to the left of Labour and Lisa seems nice so you're tempted but...the sins of the past and all that.
It's probably best to get Matthew Syed out of the way first. You know the saying 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? Someone should tattoo that on Matthew's forehead. Backwards obviously so he can read it in the mirror every day though I suspect he's so dense it still wouldn't sink in. Tonight Matthew wondered aloud why this country is no longer as prosperous and innovative as it was during the 19th century. His answer was 'we don't build stuff anymore'. Really Matthew? So no longer having an empire we can ruthlessly profit from has nothing to do with it? Two world wars completely changing our geopolitical significance has nothing to do with it? Decades of underinvestment and public asset stripping has nothing to do with it? Nah, we just need to build some bridges and we'll be great again. Also Matthew (apparently uniquely he seems to think) has messed about a bit with Chat GPT making him an expert on AI. And guess what his great insight was? Ask it a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer, ask it a smart question and you'll get a smarter answer. Well fuck me sideways Matthew, you don't say. I mean it's not like 'garbage in garbage out' hasn't been a concept in computer science for about 70 years. Yet he sat looking all pleased with himself like he'd pointed out something profound and complained that when he wrote about it in The Times it didn't get much attention. I wonder why. Then he went on a rant about how it could kill us all which amongst other things attributed theories to Einstein that had nothing to do with him and confused nuclear fission with nuclear fusion, he was just chucking all his superficial snippets of knowledge out there hoping to sound clever like I do when I'm pissed. What a dick.
For those of us on the left we had Ash Sarkar. Ash quite rightly warned about the dangers of large language models as opposed to the genuinely beneficial algorithms that are transforming various sciences. (Just for the record both are labelled as AI, neither of them are). Her point was that these glorified chat bots are the next stage of our digital subjugation after social media created and run by the very same Silicon Valley sociopaths, who as she pointed out, won't let their own kids own a smartphone. She also explained to the denizens of Bishop's Stortford and many commuter towns like it that they were having loads of new houses built because people are being priced out of cities by greedy landlords and they need somewhere to go, you can moan about the local lack of infrastructure and gridlocked roads all you like but until the avarice of landlords in our cities is brought under control it's only going to get worse.
For Labour we had Heidi Alexander. Over the course of an hour Heidi showed a glimmer of passion only once. About scrapping planning laws. Laws which are there to protect one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. To protect the rarest of creatures from tiny snails to bats. Miracles of evolution on the only planet in the entire universe we know has life. Yet Heidi (at the behest of Reeves) sees protecting such marvellous, utterly unique things as an irksome drag on growth that make gaming the OBR system more difficult for her chancellor. I honestly have no abusive epithet's powerful enough for the contempt this deserves. Oh yeah and she tried to claim this government is responsible for a 'new town' in Leeds that has been going through the planning process for a decade and bits of it are already built.
For the Tories we had Helen Whately. You know what? Helen actually said something smart. She said we should be teaching kids about how these LLM chat bots are trained, what their biases are. I was briefly gobsmacked and thought perhaps we'd all misjudged her until she began wittering about taking 24 billion out of the welfare budget because it had ballooned due to millions of people claiming for ADHD. She'd already been taken to task in parliament for falsely claiming these fantasy millions of ADHD claimants were also getting free motability cars but it's like water off a ducks back for the likes of Helen. Terrifyingly in this post truth world she and her dwindling band are voice of the respectable right.
For the Lib Dems we had Lisa Smart. Lisa was the Liberal adult in the room. Of course now 'Liberal' once again means to the left of Labour and Lisa seems nice so you're tempted but...the sins of the past and all that.