edwardbird.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Absolutely nothing in this story is reassuring: the more the models learn to reason, the more they're inclined to deceive. But fascinating www.economist.com/science-and-... From The Economist

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Corruption.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer Keep yourselves and each other safe

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

submitted 9 days ago • 117 comments

Blairite triangulation just isn’t working. Voters want a party that actually believe in something and delivers on it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Column, on the spectacularly bad-faith/ideologically contorted White House demands the "free speech protection" be a factor in UK-US trade talks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

submitted 16 days ago • 811 comments

Excellent thread.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 19 days ago • 1647 comments

Perhaps this is all a cunning plan to see off Russia by having Putin laugh himself to death.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms. NO. People suffering cuts in benefits; NHS queues; crumbling infrastructure whilst the richest rewarded. Mustn't capitulate to Trump's bullying. archive.ph/AjYc7

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem How about starting by rejoining the EU?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Corruption. Plain and simple. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The US economy drove globalisation, offshoring of factories, and jobs. Almost no US sector is set up for the change back and companies will be unlikely to leap to change partly because Trump changes his mind so often and because Democratics will likely reverse it all in four years time. Disaster.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

All the Democrats in the US have to do is say that when they are next elected in four years time they will reverse all Trumps tariffs. That will sink him below the waterline. No company is going to build a manufacturing base back in the USA when in four years time it will cease to be competitive.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

Are the US about to enter the Liz Truss phase of blowing up your own economy?🥬

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Social media companies desperate to avoid regulation and tax.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Money corrupts, and money in politics corrupts completely.

submitted 30 days ago • 160 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 198 comments

Fingers crossed for the rule of law: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is what corruption looks like.

submitted 31 days ago • 2829 comments

John Keker of Keker, Van Nest & Peters’ message to big firms wavering or scared: Stand up. Don’t just be scared for yourself—be scared for the entire situation, for the rule of law, and for the role of lawyers in this democracy.

submitted 34 days ago • 204 comments

Terrific reporting by @nytimes.com. Shame the British media can’t expose this for themselves. Will only fuel suspicion that Farage and his Brexit gang are - and have always been - a Putinist front

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

Not sure why the erroneous sharing of key information via Signal to a journalist is so shocking. After all they probably mainline the information to the Russians already.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The ABA is concerned by the U.S. government's cutoff of legal services for unaccompanied children. Read the full statement here: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 40 days ago • 115 comments

The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?

submitted 43 days ago • 47 comments

WMO has just released its flagship #StateofClimate 2024 report. Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years. On an almost daily basis - extreme weather is causing major economic and social disruption. wmo.int/news/media-c...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Cracking comment piece by @philipnye.bsky.social on what has been going wrong at the ONS and what needs to change. It's essential for good policy making that the ONS gets its house in order www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/offi...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

This is what the entire neoliberal project has been about: eliminating the "social wage," including retirement. Capitalists want to make us solely reliant on whatever job they want to exploit us at. Otherwise: die. What we're fighting for is life - not working until death. wapo.st/3DKAX0I

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments