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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 4h

ChatGPT is currently answering all of my verbal queries in Welsh (a known bug, apparently).

I must say, I find the prospect of a Skynet-style hostile superintelligence a little less daunting when it comes in the form of an accidental housewife from Rhyl.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 5h

This matters. It’s also another reason why we should be skeptical about the digital id plans.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 5h

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 5h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

Right-wing commentators claim inequality in Britain is falling. It isn’t. In this video, I expose the real story behind Britain’s growing inequality and why official data is misleading, as well as suggesting what we need to do to tackle this issue. youtu.be/WhFPzDWOQzk?...

Is Britain's inequality really decreasing?

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 14h

Please explain to him the concept of slipping silently into the night.
14 bloody awful years, and they just won't stop talking.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting, I read recently how early discharges were costing the NHS a fortune in rebound patients.
Did popping out a baby suddenly become easier due to advances in science?
Really, what you've just said is, off you go, you're on your own.
Those hip replacement people are now struggling at home.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 15h

I made a knock back comment before, because although this is genuinely a beautiful rendition of that song, if you were living in the 80's/90's with good friends dying all around you, it's hard to listen to. Those memories really hurt.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 16h

That's the first time I've ever sworn on here, and I've been here since invite code.

Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 16h

You don't listen do you? That's that then.There's nothing wrong with Your Party principles, but now you're going to spend the next 3 years defending Corbyn. FFS!!! Who the fuck is your strategist? Cummings?
You should've stuck to changing the discourse on the economy. Bye!

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 18h

You know what's brilliant? Highlander the film, coupled with the song. All young people think they are immortals, the film shows how awful immortality would be.
I'll tell you what else is awful, just like Covid, the government let people die.
Freddie died because the government hated gay men.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 19h

300,000 NHS beds in the 1970's, 103,000 ish today, with 20 million more people, I genuinely don't understand your point of view?

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 19h

You really didn't read my post. OK.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 19h

You really didn't read it did you?
We have 1/3 of the literal beds compared to 45 years ago. Yep! that's really forward looking for a government. Did you not know this?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

Venezuela has called on the UN Security Council for an emergency session over the US military buildup near its waters.

Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 19h

Are you genuinely saying that 1/3 of the beds would be fine, with almost 1/3 more people? Did you even read my post?

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 20h

I think you are listening/reading the wrong economists. Can't help you with that really. There isn't one way to run things, but that's all we've been offered for 40+ years.

Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 20h

I think you need to go further up the thread, because that's kind of my point.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 21h

Frogs are rocking the revolt.

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 21h

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 21h

I know. But we didn't have mass migration in the 1970's. So let the tax cutters explain that?

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 22h

Bit disappointed you didn't mention the 300,000 NHS beds in the 1970's, compared to just over 100,000 now, with a 20 million higher population. Nothing to do with migration, was meant to be modern techniques.
Now it's cutting Drs for AI.
Always do more with less, due to future stuff, not here yet.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 22h

Footballification? How unbecoming.