Targeting boats is likely in breach of the law anyway. But the addition of perfidy specifically puts US civilians around the world at additional risk.

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If xAI and Musk had reacted to these events swiftly and with the seriousness they demanded then no one would be suggesting bans.

But Musk repeatedly treated it as a joke, and no one can have confidence that xAI will make any effort to minimise these harms.

Just so glad that whatever team it was won whatever trophy that was!!

In the Minnesota case, here is the memorandum of law backing their TRO motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Boyfriend and I both audibly boo’d when the content warning for episode five of Heated Rivalry didn’t include the usual “scenes of a sexual nature” line. But what a brilliantly wholesome episode it turned out to be 🥲

I had forgotten that entirely. Her one intervention being calling for the BBC DG to go over Glastonbury somewhat wiped what went before from my mind.

Genuinely, yes: had a great rep for campaigning, was known as ambitious, particularly on localism but also foreign affairs. If she was so uninterested in this job I’d have thought she’d have a good chance of chairing the select committee. But instead she’s taken a gig and just done *nothing*.

Isn’t there some old Roman concept along similar lines?

Good point!

I think if she cared *remotely* about her job she'd have got motivated by something more than a few bits of bad press ages ago. Truly impressive levels of checked out, for a given value of "impressive".

“Which minister is responsible for Ofcom?” is a question that should be answerable in two words, instead of just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They seem to have handed it to Kendall, who tbf is doing better with it. But adds more to the relentless confusion with this government as to who is supposed to be responsible for what.

Heroic journalism, we thank you