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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
Reposted by Colin Elves
'The success rate of prompt injection attacks, as reported by AI developers, has been falling slightly over time, but when given ten tries, attackers can still successfully execute such attacks about half the time'
internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
Second Key Update: Technical Safeguards and Risk Management
This Key Update examines developments in technical approaches to general-purpose AI risk management, from training models to refuse harmful requests to watermarking AI-generated content. Since the pub...
internationalaisafetyreport.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
'The success rate of prompt injection attacks, as reported by AI developers, has been falling slightly over time, but when given ten tries, attackers can still successfully execute such attacks about half the time'
internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been earning some extra Christmas cash delivering parcels and letters for Royal Mail, and here’s what I’ve learned:
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been earning some extra Christmas cash delivering parcels and letters for Royal Mail, and here’s what I’ve learned:
I’m not saying Jesus was like AI, but it is worth remembering that Jesus was also persecuted for his radical ideas and yet the legacy of those ideas is 100% positive in every way and in that way Jesus was like AI.
There are no concerns with AI, that’s like saying Jesus had some problematic ideas.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I’m not saying Jesus was like AI, but it is worth remembering that Jesus was also persecuted for his radical ideas and yet the legacy of those ideas is 100% positive in every way and in that way Jesus was like AI.
Remember guys and gals: being a Sensible Centrist™️ means *only* thinking in binary terms - and the only acceptable binary when it comes to Big Tech™️ and Big Money is the positive pole.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Remember guys and gals: being a Sensible Centrist™️ means *only* thinking in binary terms - and the only acceptable binary when it comes to Big Tech™️ and Big Money is the positive pole.
Reposted by Colin Elves
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
I agree it shouldn’t be number one (it leaves me wondering if they swapped it an Airplane! By mistake) but you’re never going to agree with the rankings in any of these lists. Taking the list a a whole though, I think it’s a good list.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I agree it shouldn’t be number one (it leaves me wondering if they swapped it an Airplane! By mistake) but you’re never going to agree with the rankings in any of these lists. Taking the list a a whole though, I think it’s a good list.
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Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
“My beloved working class”
Can he hear himself?
He sounds like a comic character in a PG Wodehouse novel.
Can he hear himself?
He sounds like a comic character in a PG Wodehouse novel.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“My beloved working class”
Can he hear himself?
He sounds like a comic character in a PG Wodehouse novel.
Can he hear himself?
He sounds like a comic character in a PG Wodehouse novel.
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"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
Bib Iger too huh?
It’s funny how all these corporate leaders, who are so so good at leading that they have to be paid $tens of millions each year or they’ll take those unbelievable leadership skills elsewhere, always seem to move together like sardines, all jumping on the current bandwagon together
It’s funny how all these corporate leaders, who are so so good at leading that they have to be paid $tens of millions each year or they’ll take those unbelievable leadership skills elsewhere, always seem to move together like sardines, all jumping on the current bandwagon together
Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
Disney eyes a future where users help shape the story
Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Bib Iger too huh?
It’s funny how all these corporate leaders, who are so so good at leading that they have to be paid $tens of millions each year or they’ll take those unbelievable leadership skills elsewhere, always seem to move together like sardines, all jumping on the current bandwagon together
It’s funny how all these corporate leaders, who are so so good at leading that they have to be paid $tens of millions each year or they’ll take those unbelievable leadership skills elsewhere, always seem to move together like sardines, all jumping on the current bandwagon together
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The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
Pasta on a pizza? Pizza pasta?
Carb on carb?
Carb on carb?
My town is too small to be specific to it but I'll give you another cursed Midwestern invention:
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Pasta on a pizza? Pizza pasta?
Carb on carb?
Carb on carb?
Can someone help an old guy who’s been married a long time understand what has changed in the last 11 months such that a straight man having a girlfriend makes that guy gay?
I don’t understand all this new terminology you young folks are using.
I don’t understand all this new terminology you young folks are using.
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Can someone help an old guy who’s been married a long time understand what has changed in the last 11 months such that a straight man having a girlfriend makes that guy gay?
I don’t understand all this new terminology you young folks are using.
I don’t understand all this new terminology you young folks are using.
Noah Smith
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Noah Smith
WTF?!
I thought BlueSky is supposed to be secure, but here they are just boasting about having cameras in my house?!
I thought BlueSky is supposed to be secure, but here they are just boasting about having cameras in my house?!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
WTF?!
I thought BlueSky is supposed to be secure, but here they are just boasting about having cameras in my house?!
I thought BlueSky is supposed to be secure, but here they are just boasting about having cameras in my house?!
Obviously none of it is a surprise, hostile foreign governments such as Russia and China were already using social media to run agent-provocateur accounts aimed at politically destabilising the west, even before Elon came up with a way to reimburse them for their efforts.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Obviously none of it is a surprise, hostile foreign governments such as Russia and China were already using social media to run agent-provocateur accounts aimed at politically destabilising the west, even before Elon came up with a way to reimburse them for their efforts.
Just gave my daughter ‘the lecture’*
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just gave my daughter ‘the lecture’*
Every middle class black man I know has impeccable taste in clothing and is always well groomed.
They seem to be as conscious of how they look as nearly every woman I know - I suspect it’s because they are aware (consciously or not) that they are under constant observation and judgement.
They seem to be as conscious of how they look as nearly every woman I know - I suspect it’s because they are aware (consciously or not) that they are under constant observation and judgement.
Just the other day, I saw someone say they are glad young black men are "wearing quarter zips" and putting away "Jordans," which they say are associated with "ratchet behavior." One should be careful about equating black culture with "ratchet behavior," as they are not one and the same.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Every middle class black man I know has impeccable taste in clothing and is always well groomed.
They seem to be as conscious of how they look as nearly every woman I know - I suspect it’s because they are aware (consciously or not) that they are under constant observation and judgement.
They seem to be as conscious of how they look as nearly every woman I know - I suspect it’s because they are aware (consciously or not) that they are under constant observation and judgement.
Brits will be familiar with this process as we have done Brexit which has always been presented as a similarly shocking and impressive endeavour, yet it remains largely uncommented on how it entirely failed to deliver any of the outcomes promised, largely delivering the opposite.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Brits will be familiar with this process as we have done Brexit which has always been presented as a similarly shocking and impressive endeavour, yet it remains largely uncommented on how it entirely failed to deliver any of the outcomes promised, largely delivering the opposite.
Note from my producer:
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Note from my producer:
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
Does anyone have contact details for Lord Glasman?
I would like advice on how to turn my habit of weird and inappropriate puns into a successful career as a political guru.
I would like advice on how to turn my habit of weird and inappropriate puns into a successful career as a political guru.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Does anyone have contact details for Lord Glasman?
I would like advice on how to turn my habit of weird and inappropriate puns into a successful career as a political guru.
I would like advice on how to turn my habit of weird and inappropriate puns into a successful career as a political guru.