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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 18h

I’d go with “No Kings - or if you do have a King it should be within a constitutional framework which limits their role to managing the transfer of democratic power and ceremonial duties”

But thats why they don’t let me print the t-shirts.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 21h

No, keep giving interviews to the Express.

Just start every interview with “Do you think I should be deported? No, just Zarah then. Why her?”

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 21h

“Should we raise taxes, cut spending, or borrow more money?

No, we should define what ‘more’ means and borrow another 1% of GDP.”

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 2d

Or medicine

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 4d

Looking at it another way, AI has a business case where it replaces jobs.

If the AI is replacing Mr Beast with videos that cost £1 to make, that’ll be wildly profitable.

If it’s replacing someone posting memes for their 20 friends then those people were making that content for free. It’s all cost.

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe. It’s certainly been a successful model for the rest of the internet.

I can see that the dog/wedding cake video attracted enough eyeballs to pay for itself through ads.

I don’t know how you pay for that right the way down the pyramid to a video of a celeb wishing your uncle happy birthday.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 4d

There’s not enough money in social media to support it.

All the use cases of “generate a video of your dog ruining your wedding” are great PR.

They’re burning money on it though. If people had to pay the true cost of generating those videos then usage would drop to almost nothing.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 4d

I guess the behaviours that people have been describing as “king”-like are really more “mad king” behaviour.

Historically followed by “former king”, and then the limits on executive power.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 5d

War, on drugs?

Like war (strutting around in camo hurting people who can’t fight back) but also while taking loads of ketamine.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 5d

“All paychecks come from the leader, without him there is no government” goes a further than most monarchies (or at least it tends be something Kings say right before the revolution).

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 5d

The focus on Trump makes me feel a bit sick, but it might also be the only thing that makes the peace deal stick.

For better or worse this deal is directly, personally, Trump’s. Breaking it would be a personal insult to him.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 6d

I think that’s basically the point isn’t it?

The old adage of “people become more right wing as they get older” doesn’t really work if it’s more to do with those milestones and the age people are marrying/buying/having kids gets older.

This approach takes that age factor out of the equation.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 6d

Radical left vs conservative (small c) left.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 6d

Give it a couple of months.

Even Altman has started to acknowledge that AI’s pricing isn’t sustainable. The flood of dog videos will slow down once people are paying the actual costs.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 7d

Well sure. But who wants to be the cancel pay checks to the military?

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 7d

It’s only a brilliant idea if you can fund it.

Badenoch can get away with just vaguely waving a “civil service cuts”, but Reeves will have to actually explain where the £11bn is coming from.

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 9d

“Pro-rights”?

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 10d

What would these days?

At one point I would have said including some copyright materials, but the AI companies don’t care about that.

Are there still enough guardrails in the AI tools to block a “Dolly describing how to build a pipe bomb” prompt?

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 10d

Mental health spending is quite a bit more than that. £14.9bn in 24/25.

Not sure that sort of lookup is a great use of Gen AI.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 10d

I’m really hoping there is, and if there is then the “welcome to the LibDems” strategy is going to be very important to keep Farage out.

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 10d

That’s going to be the big question of the next ~3 years.

Do people like Jenrick actually represent the remaining parts of the Conservative Party, in which case some form of alignment with Reform seems inevitable.

Or is there a core in there that would reject that?

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 10d

There are a lot of pre-2016 conservatives who would make more sense with the LibDems than they ever did under Johnson’s party.

The LibDems can take a purist approach to them, but that just leaves those people isolated while Reform mops up the right and wins the next GE.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 13d

Ukraine is famously a major grower of sunflowers, with the war leading to a global shortage of sunflower oil. *Sun*flower oil -> solar power -> renewable energy.

Obviously.

noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 13d

We don’t have good data on it. There was some data collected until 2020 which suggested 50-75k visa holders per year who didn’t have a recorded exit.

That’s an upper limit, the actual number of overstays will be lower than that.

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noscholar.bsky.social @noscholar.bsky.social · 13d

I’m less concerned about where they’ll go, more about who they are.

We got about 50k irregular arrivals last year. Assuming she’s going to reject and deport every one of them (morally horrendous), that’s maybe 250k.

Who are the other half-million?

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