mcdivergence.bsky.social
@mcdivergence.bsky.social
if the government's going to shove unregulated robots into everything, then, on past performance, the big growth sector will be public inquiries.
"Utterly delusional" does not even come close.

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February 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
oh look, it's the tech fetishist crossover episode from hell
January 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
this is in the same week when it's reported that she's intervening in the supreme cour to argue for lower compensation to people who have been mis-sold car finance. this lot are cartoonishly corrupt.
Imagining the brutal takedown Rachel Reeves in Opposition would have delivered had a Tory Minister planned what Rachel Reeves in Government plans.
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"too big to fail" but it's about a plutocracy.
January 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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wow so Starmer has fully banned any criticism of the Trump administration then
EXC: Anas Sarwar has refused to take the opportunity to condemn Elon Musk's salute this week.

The Scottish Labour leader said he wants to 'focus on the issues people care about' and not 'fixate' on 'big personalities'.
January 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
just gonna note that the bulk of the high risk ai system functions that are the focus of the eu's ai act are public sector functions. so it's really themselves that the government are opposed to regulating.
NEW: Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate a UK-EU customs union to boost economic growth

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We’ve got to move on. There are opportunities outside the EU, opportunities like AI, where we have a very different regulatory approach”, she told Bloomberg in Davos
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
'We've got to move on': Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate UK-EU customs union - Politics.co.uk
Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy. Speaki...
www.politics.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Half-expected Biden to preemptively pardon Greenland and Panama.
January 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
this aged well.
January 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
something of a silver lining of trump buddying up with musk that America's long-standing and quite disturbing control over the entire internet seems to now be something that's being talked about a lot more. slight shred of optimism ig.
January 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Facebook's new terms of service allow you to be as transphobic as you like, but you can't call someone a liar.
They have modelled them off the House of Commons.
January 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Absolutely delighted this is opening at last and proud of the work my colleague Cllr Casey has put in to make it happen. @glasgowsnp.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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In Scotland, Santa’s lists are Naughty, Nice and Not Proven
December 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Labour ministers would steal the shirt off your back and tell you to ask John Swinney to buy you a new one.
December 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
a Scottish Labour drama, in three acts:
December 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM
real change is when you need a by-election to fix the by-election.
December 1, 2024 at 5:20 PM
this is what is known as having concepts of plan.
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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This is a really poor decision on the part of Labour. Kishwer Falkner, a plant of the Tory Party originally, has worked to undermine human rights in the United Kingdom since was appointed chief of the EHRC - our main human rights and equality watchdog.
November 13, 2024 at 11:31 AM
referring to terms like "undocumented immigrants" as "campus language" is a lazy way to oppose changes to language by dismissing them as elitist, without actually engaging. you don't need a degree to understand the difference between "illegal" and "undocumented" - that's not why you're "alienated"
There’s a “Dems use alienating campus language” discourse going on; I think it’s basically right. College-educated America — media, boardroom, Dems — does adopt language that other people don’t use and sounds odd to them.

Years ago, the AP replaced “illegal” with “undocumented immigrants.” (1/2)
November 14, 2024 at 7:44 AM