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Today’s London Standard has a big report on how the capital “isn’t working”. It blames immigrants, especially Muslims, and the lack of “White British”. It asks “if there’s a minimum number of natives” at which London must give it up its status as the UK capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...

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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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The NYT published a piece on AI this week in which two of the country's highest paid technology columnists demonstrated they have zero understanding of this foundational concept outlined by Katie below

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Mass doomerism from American liberals strikes again.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

You don't have to let the Mail and some weirdo thinktanks and Spiked magazine set your policy priorities! You just don't! If you're the government you can literally just tell all those people to go fuck themselves! In fact, that's sort of your job!

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.

submitted 22 hours ago • 60 comments

Why, though? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

Kathleen Stock turning into a firebreathing anti-choice campaigner is one of those things that was in retrospect both entirely predictable but is also just so funny to witness

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The Ministry of Justice scrubbing LGBT, race and gender from its diversity policy isn’t neutrality it’s erasure. You don’t protect marginalised people by pretending they don’t exist. This isn’t progress. It’s a warning sign, and we should all be paying attention!!

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Anyone who cares enough about the ECHR for it to decide how they vote will not suddenly support Labour because of this.

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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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'A senior LCC source told Spotlight that loyalist transition is on course to be concluded this autumn, with an announcement of the complete dismantling of all paramilitary structures' is a very good joke. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Under the 'foreign born' definition of migrants that the Telegraph and Goodwin have been pushing, Douglas Carswell is an immigrant.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"Whats this line item?" "Counterintelligence, sir" "It says they bought over 10,000 pizzas in FY25?" "Yes, sir"

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Some good, on the ground reporting from Ballymena here. Worth noting that the 'Regeneration Groups' appear to have fulfilled the role normally filled by the lesser spotted 'Community Worker'. www.thejournal.ie/ballymena-an...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

There is a real retro feeling to this: Stormont Minister publicly reveals where burnt-out families from Ballymena have been moved. The inevitable happens. Respond with outrage at the suggestion that he might have some responsibility.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I pitched a documentary about the cultural impact of the most popular single disc of media ever sold, Grand Theft Auto - cos it beats Thriller and ABBA Gold and everything - and was told that Radio 4 had already made a documentary about computer games a few years ago.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

imagine, every day people with billions of dollars wake up and *don't* fund a $650 million adaptation of the Aubrey and Maturin books. how do they even sleep at night.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

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A full decriminalisation of abortion in the UK is needed. Now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

You'd get laughed out of the room at undergraduate level if you said 'I'm going to define 'non-white British' as anyone with a parent born abroad in my study'. But Goodwin still gets to use his academic credentials as a gloss for his bigotry.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

OUP published my first book and did a fine job of it. The involvement of professional human people at every stage did not strike me as a luxury or something that could be easily disposed of.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

'The mother of an ISIS Beatle...20 Caribbean nations demanding reparations...' is straight out of The Day Today

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

More than 70 threats or attacks on journalists in NI since 2019 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Constitutional monarchies stay winning, I guess.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment