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The Guardian view on ChatGPT search: exploiting wishful thinking | Editorial

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 14h

"progress is not an ethical principle. The danger is not machines being treated like humans, but humans being treated like machines." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Editorial: Hyping AI’s utility is part of a commercial push to get users to cede authority to machines

The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype | Editorial

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian's editorial voice has regularly and critically examining both the social structures and the technological systems behind AI. eg The "deployment (of AI) must not be structured in a way that entrenches dependency and hollows out public capacity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Editorial: The UK’s plans seem to outsource sovereignty for phantom efficiency. Public services provide the data and power while US tech giants reap the rewards

The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself | Editorial

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 14h

"The genius – and danger – of capitalism is that it can’t stop chasing another win. To prevent that, Minsky thought, required not moral restraint but institutional redesign." >> The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Editorial: Warnings about inflated tech stocks suggest investors never learn and central bankers learn too late

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

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 20h

Blair and Clegg, the ex-DPM who at the time was a senior executive at Meta, invited leaders of six tech companies to dine with Poppy Gustafsson, who was the government’s investment minister responsible for persuading firms to invest in Britain.

from @robevansgdn.bsky.social + me

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 2d

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
>> Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 2d

Most Britons don’t fall into the neat camps of “NIMBY” or “YIMBY”. They want both: to build but also to protect the countryside.

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 2d

no thanks paul will look

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal, the first phase of US President Donald Trump's plan to end a war in Gaza that has killed more than 67,000 people and reshaped the Middle East reut.rs/48RrstN

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio.

The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization.

Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing.

The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

The Schiff-Kaine resolution is up for a vote in the Senate today.

This resolution aims to strip President Trump of his constitutional authority to protect Americans by authorizing military strikes against narco-terrorists, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies. This is dangerous — it puts our children, citizens, soldiers, and allies at risk.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4d

Senator King pressed Army GC nominee on justification for strikes in the Caribbean.

Nominee cites:

1) Article II
2) POTUS designation of cartels as "terrorist organizations" and "non-state armed groups"
3) Invokes OLC's "nature, scope, and duration" test for whether mil action amounts to "war" 1/n

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 4d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 4d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 4d

@adamtooze.bsky.social argument is institutional, not mechanical. Change expectations by changing the policy regime rather than by fine-tuning yield curves. Honestly the man's done the hard yards on this stuff. Read Wages of Destruction. Then Crashed. It's masterful stuff.

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 4d

eg “Investment-led growth means either inflation or austerity”. Wrong. "Investment-led growth" is about raising the productive capacity of the economy. Also with slack or when investment creates supply (as in energy transition), you can expand output without the austerity trade-off.

Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 4d

Jeez. Critics of Tooze's piece get it wrong. They want to treat “growth” as a function of aggregate demand, when @adamtooze.bsky.social is about changing composition and institutional structure of demand. It’s not about a marginal stimulus; it’s about state-led transformation of investment regime

Badenoch defends Jenrick over comments that he ‘did not see another white face’ in Birmingham – UK politics live

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 4d

Labour West Midlands mayor Richard Parker says Jenrick's comments were racist because he focused on colour to make negative point about Handsworth - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Conservative leader suggests remarks in Guardian report could have been taken out of context and he was ‘making an observation’

Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia | Randeep Ramesh

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 4d

“Labour cannot fund the transformation it promises, because it refuses to rewrite the rules that make transformation impossible” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Starmer and Reeves need a fresh approach to enact their vision, and I have a plan for that, says Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian’s chief leader writer