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🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

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Why taking the World gig was an embarrassing mistake, why I’m turning down the money, and what I REALLY think of the Sam Altman’s crypto Orb. youtu.be/eDsSg-Xm1ms

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There are fewer better illustrations of how the world has changed in the last 20 years than seeing the corporate class pivot from defending IP rights to the hilt (because they made stuff and sold it) to explicitly attacking them (because now they just sell access to things other people make).

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My latest article is free to read on Substack. It examines the relationships between deregulated free zones, corporate hegemony, and public services. Infrastructure is under attack by politicians working hand in hand with the asset classes. No one voted for this. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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🚨BREAKING -- Jeremy Corbyn has introduced a Bill for an independent public inquiry into the UK government's involvement in the Gaza genocide.

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hi i'm ben your ai chatbot

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Interesting stuff via @tante.cc. "The new Foundation 'Expectation Fail' has just started their first call for projects against Tech Fascism. 10 "scores against tech fascism" can get 1500-7000 EUR each to work on this sadly very current topic". Details here: lnkd.in/eRmx58vK

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One minute of UK government minister Chris Bryant suggesting in Parliament that there is currently uncertainty around what UK copyright law says about AI training. There is not. Commercial generative AI training on copyrighted work without a licence is illegal in the UK.

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Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

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"The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next."

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A dream position in beautiful Norway working with great people! Apply!

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Freeports and Home Working: A Corporate Con Job That’s Screwing Over Britain’s Workers—But There’s a Way Out What is job displacement, and why is it happening despite Starmer saying he's fighting for working people? My latest article is on Substack, please subscribe open.substack.com/pub/european...

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Sharing an opportunity with our Young Community just got easier! Use our new form to share events, tickets, jobs, courses, gifts and more! Head to arts-emergency.org/share-an-opp... to get started 🎉

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"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

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can we skip to the part of A.I. where it becomes a forgotten moment in time, like 3D TVs or livestrong bracelets?

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Ceci n'est pas une leader

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A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book. www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...

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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

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Yet again Guardian overlooks Zone Fever. £64 billion of public money is being spent on 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports over the next 25 years. I will continue to highlight why free zones are stealth killers of the commons, they are a costly and inefficient policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Raising Awareness About Free Zones: A Triad of Political Support (Tories, Labour, Reform UK) and the EU State Aid Conflict Some of you know that I write a lot about the dangers of Freeports and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the UK. Thread publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cm...

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This winter I finished writing a full-length choral requiem for the Sycamore Gap tree, called The World Tree. The Finnish composer Matthew Whittall is setting it to music now. Premieres in Helsinki in November—sung by Helsinki Chamber Choir—then 🤞 travel to UK. www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

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The solution will come from the grassroots, from those invested in structural change, from the alternative infrastructures we build together @artsemergency.bsky.social

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Remember, you can sign up to our mentorship scheme here: ndhumanities.com/mentorship-s.... Deadline extended to 14 May!

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"Seven days after fighting an election on a promise to cut spending and waste, the Reform County Councillor for Newark West has resigned which will result in the triggering of a by-election that will cost taxpayers thousands of pounds"

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💡 💡 ⚡ 🧊 !! Inspired by this great new piece on how much water "AI" uses, I have a start-up idea that just zapped me on the head like a lightning strike. It blends modern AI with pretty ingenious historic techniques. 🧵 1/n www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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The Conservatives' "two-tier tax" claim over the UK-India trade deal is nonsensical. We already have such deals with numerous countries. It's only for some short-term workers. It means companies aren't paying into 2 parallel social security schemes at the same time. And the deal's reciprocal.

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I have to keep this brief as I have actual work to do, but this TBI report on local govt efficiencies created with AI is an absolute masterclass on being just vague enough to get away with a lot big statements that are almost impossible to verify. institute.global/insights/pol...

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Pour augmenter les salaires, le nouvel oracle de la classe politique et du patronat s'appelle Antoine Foucher. Après un livre, il a désormais écrit des bouts de loi prêts à l'emploi.

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THREAD: As India launches strikes against Pakistan tonight, misinformation is rapidly spreading online. I'll fact-check viral falsehoods in this thread. This video, viewed over 660,000 times, shows Israeli air strikes on Gaza in October 2023. It's unrelated to Indian strikes tonight.

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🚨 Meta wants its 1 billion+ users to befriend its AI chatbots. Why? AI chatbots can be extremely manipulative and foster dependency, giving Meta full control over its users. Shocked? Read on:

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Published some notes on Microsoft's phi4-reasoning model, an 11GB download (via Ollama) which may well overthink things... it produced 56 sentences of reasoning output in response to my prompt of "hi" simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/p...

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Shouted out @404media.co on this on NBC News Now this morning

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Podcast seeking producer:

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Astronomical Costs for Taxpayers as the Tories and now Labour leech public money to subsidise companies in 86 deregulated Free zones. Now let’s talk money—your money. By 2024, the government has spent £19.78 billion on 12 deregulated Freeports and SEZs. Thread

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Hahaha

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LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL This should be on every UK News channel www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

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🔴Private Correspondence Reveals How David Cameron Helped Old Etonian School Friend Fast-Track COVID Testing Firm Emails released to Byline Times reveal the close connections between senior Conservatives and those prioritised for multimillion pound COVID contracts bylinetimes.com/2025/05/01/d...

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New dataset SHADES probes LLM stereotypes across 16 languages and 37 regions, moving beyond English-only tools. It reveals models often reinforce biases, sometimes fabricating justifications, underscoring the need for multilingual bias detection. 🩺 💻 #MLSky

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"She points to the decimation of youth services – in England, there was a £1.1bn cut in funding between 2010 and 2021. The internet has filled this void. 'The boys I speak to are usually 14 to 19 and some have never had a conversation about consent before'." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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COMMANDING performance by @pimlicat.bsky.social in front of the Commons C'tee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WILq...

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