Building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.
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“The British are modern barbarians camped out in the relics of an older and superior civilisation to whose beauties they are oblivious.” - @culture_crit (deleted tweet)
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Wide body planes should be made so that the cockpit can be broken into as a safety feature.
My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
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AI slop can teach us to recognise 'mode collapse' elsewhere. RLHF pushes LLMs toward tasteless patterns. It's been over optimised. Same for chain restaurants, influencer content, and algorithmic pop.
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Vibe-coded military intel may soon be on par what's available to mid-tier government military bureaucracies.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Not yet confirmed, but some people are working on a virtual situation room (with live views of Tehran) that the entire world can join to follow the U.S.-Iran conflict - hopefully by the weekend.
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Nothing to see here. Just the worlds most despotic regime building a skyline to rival any western democracy. Certainly doesn't mean anything.
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It's so simple. Today's thriving places are keeping tax low, attracting high income workers (certain US states, Singapore, UAE, Thailand, etc). High tax regimes drain high income workers in a mobile world.
heard you. third drop is live. +10 countries.
ALT Left column lists newly available countries (Brazil, Greece, Estonia, Australia, Singapore) with note "+5 more"; right shows a muted tax calculator breakdown.
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Why don't all desktop applications all have tabs by default? Spotify for example, when you want to follow several musical threads at once.
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Are ethnically non-British people welcome in right-wing politics? I'm henuinely surprised how popular the etho-nationalist position seems on twitter. Is this real?
What is the point of Reform UK if not to reassert the right of the British people to sovereignty in their own homeland?
It increasingly looks more interested in saving the current dismal order than overturning it. Their slogan may as well be “Real Yookay has never been tried”.
The campaigner in question is probably a decent chap, but he is not British, and he should not be involved in British politics in any capacity. That he is is an insult to the host population.
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You're smart Sam, what fooled you? Biggest tell was Keir promised "highest growth in the G7" but never followed "by doing X, Y and Z."
No one genuinely pro-growth thinks that skin deep. This is the politics equivalent of "leveraging AI synergies for holistic solutions".
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Never seen a better argument for restricting voting by age or income.
The Green Party platform is literally primary school politics. Promise loads of free stuff to idiots and say someone else is going to pay for it. 🤦
A massive majority among the under 50s for the Greens. Wow.
They have a huge opportunity between now and next May’s elections, and next Summer too, to define themselves with the vast majority of the public.
Ask yourselves hard questions. Don’t seek easy answers!
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Where accounts are first used is probably the best approximation for fake accounts if VPNs can trick live-location and newly created profiles.
A one time mask-off in the meantime!
How accurate is this location tracker? How often is it updated? I left the UK for the USA four years ago, so I’m surprised it’s still showing me as UK based.
That said I’m generally thrilled at the increased transparency, foreign botnets belong in the trash
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Turns out you can beat British capitalism with bread queues and gulag. The USSR, famed for impoverishing its people, outpaced modern British growth in every equivalent period until its collapse 1991.
The USSR did it with 5-year plans. The UK’s on year 17 of no plan.
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"Walkable street" in Pintrest gives you surprisingly little of beauty and intricacy compared to "building design" or similar. Have we sacrificed real urban design for fancy skyscraper renders?
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In other words we, America, can't solve social problems.
The solution to obesity was ultimately technological, not social.
The solution to Covid was ultimately technological, not social.
The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological, not social.
Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social?
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