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From what I understand, I don’t think the protocol can support it.
The whole open-protocol, billionaire-proof thing means that all the posts, likes and replies have to be fully public.
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At best Montgomery wasn’t listening, at worst he knew this was coming but thought it would be a fair price to pay for Trumps other policies.
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Absolutely nothing that Trump has done since being elected has been surprising or out of character.
I’ve been surprised how fast he’s moved, but every policy was loudly announced during the campaign.
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To be fair I don’t think Trump has read Art of the Deal either. It might have some good advice that Trump could use right now.
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For example, I just asked ChatGPT why the social security database included people aged 150 and it gave a very credible sounding answer that concluded that “these entries are anomalies rather than active beneficiaries”. I bet Grok would give a similar answer.
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LLMs are a big part of the problem. These are the people who’ve drunk the most of the ChatGPT hype and have the least experience that could identify when it’s providing them with bad answers.
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Boots on the ground is different.
I don’t think any country would agree to provide troops to a military force if they didn’t have a veto on deployment of those troops.
At best an EU Army would be a pool of national armies that would opt-in to requirement. Which is basically what we have now.
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Why would the Hungarian people be against sanctions on Russia? I don’t know, and it’s irrelevant. The Hungarian *government* has delayed and blocked action against Russia since the start.
I don’t think Orban would approve Hungarian involvement in an “EUTO” troop deployment.
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It’s hard to see how an EU army would work (with or without UK membership).
It was hard getting sanctions and financial support past Hungary, no way Orban would support troops.
I think this is just a problem that has to be solved outside of the EU institutions. Brexit isn’t very relevant for once.
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OK, fine.
Military support has been mostly outside the EU frameworks.
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Support for Ukraine has mostly been outside of the EU framework even for countries still within the EU.
I don’t think UK membership would have changed that.
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> ChatGPT is already sounding like a student caught out plagiarising
That’s the core description of the whole exchange. It’s an imitation machine, if you challenge it on plagiarism then it will imitate a student being challenged on plagiarism.
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So when it says it wasn’t trained on your material that was a lie. When you challenged it and it admitted it was, it was still “lying”.
Either statement might have been true, but that’s not why it said it. It’s just saying the sorts of things people say when they’re challenged over lies.
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The key thing to remember when working with these things is that everything they say is made up.
Sometimes the things they make up are true, but it’s the same mechanism either way. It has no concept of lie or truth.
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Only if “everything achieved” was building compute power.
The computer age hasn’t been a golden age because we built lots of chips. It’s what we did with those chips.
Building on that requires us to use the new chips for something good, and I don’t see much sign of that at the moment.
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What percentage of key programs are still funded and functioning?
Because the reporting I’ve seen is that even in cases where the courts have issued waivers, if USAID staff can’t log into their systems then the waivers can’t be processed, can’t release funds, can’t restart the programs.
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Does USAID still function as a meaningful department?
A judge can say that the legal entity still exists, but if the offices are closed, staff locked out and funding cancelled then it’s still closed in practice.
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Two of those corrections need their own corrections.
The correct figure isn’t “up to 1 in 13 illegal immigrants” even in that water area.
As their 1st correction admitted, that includes people with ILR.
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If you’re willing to make a journey that long and dangerous then being stuck on ILR won’t discourage you, so it doesn’t even work for the “cruel to be kind, stop the boats” people.
That just leaves the explicitly cruel? And they’re not going to be happy stopping here when they can go full Nigel.
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Performative cruelty to appeal to a small number of Reform voters who won’t listen anyway.
For the “we’re full crowd”, this is a tiny number of people. For the “they won’t integrate” people this actually makes it worse.
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If our system rewards bus conductors and families less than engineers then the solution isn’t fewer bus conductors.
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So Trump has halted humanitarian aid and asylum to the whole world, but explicitly expanded those benefits for rich, white South Africans?
When someone shows you they are etc.
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There’s that one about shooting Welshmen with a bow from the church tower?
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OK… no doubt about it this time then.
The only thread linking that gesture, the words Musk said and the German national anthem is the Nazis.
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What was the whistled tune that was “too much”?
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Sure, you can’t.
My point was it’s a spectrum between 100% static document and 100% precedent. The US is closer to the document end of the spectrum than the UK.
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Not that a “more written” constitution makes much difference unless people are actually going to use it, as we’re seeing now.
The law doesn’t matter, only the things people do with the law.
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They mean “written in one place instead of having to cross reference 100s of different laws and precedents”.
Which you could argue the US doesn’t have either (what does “under the jurisdiction of” mean?), but it’s closer and there are advantages in making it easier to understand.
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The AI hype bubble got so big that hedge-fund backed DeepSeek realised they could build an OpenAI killer, but that the value of the post-bubble market would be less than what they could make shorting other AI stocks and releasing their model for free.
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There’s the setup for a joke here somewhere.
> Waiter: Table for one Mr Farage?
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Than doesn’t make either campaign the right way to govern.
Would 2015 Starmer have campaigned against a 3rd runway today? Maybe, but it’s possible that at the end of that campaign he might have been happy with the compromise position of 2025 Starmer.
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What’s described there isn’t youth vs age, it’s campaign vs government.
You can’t campaign on “please can we do a bit more to protect the environment”, you’re up against people who are campaigning on “sod the environment, build baby build”.
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It has turned them from investment opportunities that just need a few more $bn to change the world, into businesses.
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This is what 2k looked like in 1948:
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That’s still interesting though.
I think the point was to test the popularity of Trump’s messaging (worryingly high) not Trump’s policies.
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Which means the relationships will be based on fear and favour rather than respect.
Resist and you go on the enemies list. Cooperate and you can dip your snout in the trough.
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I forget how much older he is than he appears.
Regardless, he’s been deep into that corner of the internet for years. Even if he somehow remained ignorant of the nazis his whole childhood, they’ve been a big part of his cultural exposure for decades.
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He may have physically been in SA, but he grew up on the internet. Anyone who spent their formative years on 4chan has the nazis very firmly in their cultural milieu.
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I had no idea the “Ulbricht did nothing wrong” libertarians were that influential a group.
That’s worrying…
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I understand pardoning the Jan 6th attackers. It was wrong, but I can see why Trump benefits from it.
Who benefits from this guy being free? Does it help Trump’s popularity with the crypto bros? Is SBF next?
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I recognise that you feel this way and we want to work with you on resolving those concerns, but it’s important you see the big picture here and transform this account back towards a growth mindset.
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If we’re not ready to call it fascism now then we never will.
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Thankyou for this, made me feel angry but not helpless.
If we’re not ready to call it fascism at this point then we never will.
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AI rot maybe?
There are a few very distorted seeds of truth in there, maybe if you phrase the question to ChatGPT in the wrong way it extrapolates from those fragments and gets “Europe is too small for boats to land”?
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It’s the inverse of hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
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To be fair, I know the woman in the middle is JD Vance’s wife but it’s hard to know who the others are.
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I think all the women are +1s?
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Flags apparently.
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Maybe he’s suggesting export tariffs? Charge foreign buyers buying American goods?
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The thing that worries me about a potential flu pandemic is the age profile.
Some flu viruses are more dangerous for young people than adults.
Much harder to keep society running when you’re trying to isolate everyone under 25.