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This is what happens when you only view things through the lens of "political benefit" rather than actually improving people's lives. Scrapping the two child limit would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. That's the benefit!

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There's a lot for us to learn about LLMs. Claude 4's prompt guide notes that when you really want a good output it might help to encourage the model, and provides the example "Don't hold back. Give it your all." We don't really understand how they work, do we. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/buil...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

1 year on. Doesn't time fly.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

You have to give him credit: Starmer is tough on Labour support and tough on the causes of Labour support.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@jonnelledge.bsky.social ‘s newsletter is always worth reading, but this one in particular is very good

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

every now and again I remember that thirty years ago britain and france built the longest underwater tunnel in the world, still not beaten, and the thing that limits how many people we can shove through it is the tiny cellar underneath the train station that we use for security theatre

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Great weekend of train testing completed, all moving us closer to introducing the new trains this year. Here's a photo of one from the depot this morning. They're amazing!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"addicted to hiring cheap Labour" okay great looking forward to the white paper about reforming the funding of social care, and the tax rises necessary to pay for it

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

I'm sure that Labour talking "tough" on migration and making life more miserable for those who do jobs people in the UK don't want to do will result in more Labour votes because Reform will pack their bags and go home and not at all just take a more extreme position

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Coming soon: Labour responds to the failure of its Nigel Farage tribute act by trying even harder to be a Nigel Farage tribute act whilst closing its eyes to the evidence of where that path led the Tories.

submitted 21 days ago • 84 comments

I was in Ottawa last week. I love Canada; a fascinating, beautiful country which always comes across so friendly. Jean Chrétien addressed our meeting and spoke of optimism, resolve and hard work in the future. Looking forward to the results of today's election. 🇨🇦

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The Economist cover today is a huge photo of Farage labelled "The Man Britain Cannot Ignore". He's got here because we've not learned the lesson that the more we pander to him, the stronger he gets. Brexit has been an utter disaster but no one says so. So of course he looks like a winner.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

"Gen AI is early 1900s spiritualism for digital moderns" prediction stays winning

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

"austerity for all except drivers"

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Last year we showed how more than 60% of the donations accepted by Streeting were from companies and individuals with links to private health. He has since bagged a further £58,000 from private health care interests. goodlawproject.org/health-secre...

submitted 46 days ago • 66 comments

i’m gonna hank myself

submitted 49 days ago • 22 comments

when people say this they imagine, like, artisanal carpentry or baking, not eight hours on the manufacturing line adjusting a thousand widgets because you're marginally cheaper than a machine

submitted 49 days ago • 134 comments

Serious mistake by the Economist here. Le pen herself called for a law to ban politicians convicted of embezzlement from public office.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social hey Andrew. The post at 0945 shows 25% for Reform both the areas with elections in May and those that are delayed. Text says "Reform UK were on course to do even better in the places where polling is not happening this year."

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 80 days ago • 1799 comments

I'm twenty lens reviews in now and it's been great fun writing each of them; a mix of discipline to use the lenses (in ways that are appropriate to the lens in question), take photos of the lens and of course write the reviews. It's harder than I thought but a good experience.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.

submitted 84 days ago • 153 comments

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

submitted 83 days ago • 60 comments

Where the hell is Starmer as every other European leader shows they're unequivocally on the side of Ukraine?

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 84 days ago • 233 comments

Proud of Zelenskyy. A repulsive bully tried to extract something from a country at war offering no security in return. That's not something to agree to. He was right to turn it down.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

One of the great tragedies of the current takeover of the US is how weak the media institutions turn out to be.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments