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If you’re in London or can get to London you do sort of need to go see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge theatre - it is joyous and beautiful and just generally feels magical. I sat in the gallery but it looked like amazing fun standing

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These are the same people who claim that we’re going to replace all the workers with AI. Which is it boys?

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If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 209 comments

I do feel that this has been done across all areas of the workplace to such a degree that we’re losing access to human creativity fostered in those moments of inefficiency

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

What a dreary little world we are creating.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

the NYT reports that AI is great because it is a therapeutic cure for the desire to experience art and hey I think that is just called death

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

To be fair - the AI-bros keep telling everyone that AI is coming for their job so it’s totally reasonable to be afraid of it in a society where losing your job is losing the ability to pay for shelter, food and water (and, for many people, their reason to even exist)

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London is so OVER!

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Ok sun’s out, I’ve got plans to spend time in pub gardens and I’m seeing Midsummer Night’s Dream tomorrow night. Should be a good weekend and I should probably avoid BlueSky for a bit, world will still be on fire on Monday

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Anyone who thinks a Reform-led coalition in the UK won't go down the same route as the US is naïve at best and a fool at worst.

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This is what I think will probably happen in white collar industries. AI can’t do the jobs but it can do a plausible facsimile of them so an executive can argue that those professionals are only need to “touch up” the output and thus pay them less and subject them to gig work

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Requires AI to do what the boosters claim it does which it doesn’t. Yes, over the next few years we’re going to see a lot of “x firm reduces hiring to use more AI” but in 5 years we’re going to see a lot of “x firm hires more graduates than ever” as the compound errors of AI take hold

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I hate liberal American chauvinism

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A sad thing about social media is just how much it is full of people who just need to go outside and enjoy live but are instead radicalising themselves and others into fearing what is objectively one of the best and safest cities not just now but in all of human history.

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Oh look the same garbage language the British far-right uses about London

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The fact we are making ourselves more dependant on US military assistance, not less, is fundamentally insane. We cannot rely on the US as a security partner, how obvious can that possibly be before the UK security establishment takes it in?

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

Very excited by this! Season 1 is truly excellent - if you haven’t heard it do take a listen and then back Joel and Will

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who has been bemoaning the decline of face-to-face interaction especially since covid this might be the only benefit of AI slop?

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Good news lads, looks like Goodwin won't be bothering us in London for a while.

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There's a special breed of Small Town Wanker that pop into London twice a year then whine about it for 363 days. They inevitably visit a tourist trap on a hot Saturday and, from that, believe they are now experts in the lived experience of 12 million people. Matt Goodwin is their patron saint.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

i can not cope with the london doomsterism. it is the best city in the world - sorry

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Cannot understand the “London has fallen rhetoric” from the far-right. It’s certainly got its issues, mostly that it’s ridiculously expensive but this is true of a lot of large western cities. I came back to London because I missed it (Toronto will always be my 2nd love)

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I will say this: I am quite done throat clearing on this subject. The weakest A.I. booster argument is to whine about this point because it allows them to make success a binary "useful or not" rather than "actually capable of anything resembling the nonsense OpenAI and Anthropic promise"

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

In all likelihood the things will go pear shaped on Iran but c’mon it’s not going to lead to WW3.

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77 years ago, the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Dock. Today on #WindrushDay, we would like to invite all our members to join us in reflecting on the vital contribution of the Windrush generation which shaped nursing in this country, and their ongoing fight for justice and fairness.

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I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad. Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly Wild piece:

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I continue to wonder how many of these “stunningly attractive movie star” is “mid” takes come from a lot of these types only exposure to women being though filters so they see completely impossible looking women as “attractive” and anyone else as “mid” (1/2)

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