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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13h

Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy ft.trib.al/GHcjYlt | opinion

Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy

Predistribution, not redistribution, is needed to close the inequality gap

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Read that earlier, didn't clock it was you, thought it was hilarious, now it makes sense.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

I mean neither should go/have gone, obviously, but in Rayner's case there seemed to be a fairly obvious attempt to avoid many tens of thousands in tax (which might have strayed into evasion) and in Reeves's case, it was a £1,500 license fee, which only applied in certain boroughs.

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LUFCDATA @lufcdata.com · 1d

Happy birthday to Leeds United manager Daniel Farke who turns 49 today.

Many happy returns and hope you enjoy a few slices of cake later, Boss. 🍰

lufcdata.com/daniel-farke | #LUFC

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, absolutely it is. I'm no more interested in that hurting her political day job than I would be an MP getting a speeding ticket, putting interest income in the wrong box on their tax return, or forgetting to renew their drivers licence.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like re-reading Ken Clarke's autobiography (it's pretty good...). The stuff perfectly competent and even brilliant MPs did back in the day that would cause the modern political/media complex to explode.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Also: there's an obvious "high road" here for the Tories, who could gain a lot of credit with normies (like me? I dunno...) by saying, "silly mistake, get on with trying to fix the country like you're supposed to". But they... demanded an inquiry?! ("Low road" is the new normal, I guess...)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly furious that this is getting any traction, and while, say, evicting tenants to put up rents feels like it's a pretty hypocritical and worthy of attention, forgetting to get a licence seems incredibly trivial. It doesn't speak to her status as a politician *at all*.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

As in writing, today's AI highlights how much human work is crank-the-handle, good-enough junk food for the brain. RELATED: linked in today's Overspill email: many podcasts only exist to blot out our thoughts and do ad reads. tthe-handle, hebaffler.com/outbursts/the-hatred-of-podcasting-belden

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 1d

The use of "today's" is discussions of AI feels like it's becoming both important and a dire warning. When people leave it out, it feels like a scene from a movie where people laugh at the fallibility of early robots, only to all die when one finally walks upright and managed to pick up a gun.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

This is quite useful for explaining the difference between today's AI and actual intelligence: it *looks* like a sitcom and it *sounds* like a sitcom, but it is not, crucially, *funny*.

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 2d

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

(Do none of them see he's alluding to Orwell? He *always* misunderstands Orwell's intent, of course, but they've all latched onto the more obvious Tolkein reference because, well, nothing takes down a sociopathic oligarch like correcting their literary metaphor...)

Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Checked in on the "Unfollow Project 2.0" list I maintain. I see lots of ANGRY posts about Elon Musk. I sleep peacefully in my bed knowing that hard Bluesky account holders stand ready to post furious takes on my behalf (even if they're mostly just performing for each other).

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Unfollow Project rule, right there. I've ditched a couple of otherwise worthwhile accounts in the past week for precisely this reason. (In one case, a massive and sustained series of angry posts about the BBC's coverage of that dumb Reform woman... Shouting about it here ain't going to change that!)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I keep trying, but as with everything related to my form, I'm so one-paced that I lapse very quickly into (bad?) old habits. Maybe try a few slower runs using the new form to help bed it in, and then allow the pace to increase? (I am a 15k a week chap with no expertise, so this might be bad advice!)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

"The UK lost its position as the world’s biggest shipbuilder by tonnage to Japan in 1956." 11 years after the war! Hadn't realised Japan had rebuilt quite that fast. (In the UK coal was still rationed and the country was humbled in Suez...)

Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, yeah, global economic forces and all, but it's shocking to go from this: "In the immediate years following [the SWW], the UK was once again producing more ship tonnage than the rest of the world combined" to this...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely history of the decline in UK shipbuilding; like the car industry, it fell foul of chummy marketing, too-relaxed management, and over-zealous unions. TIL all those things had been *advantages* at one point. HT @charlesarthur.bsky.social's Overspill www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 3d

(The corollary is that most writing done in the world today is barely read, if at all. And for stuff no-one's going to read, despite the fact that's been a chunk of my living for a quarter of a century, let the machines at it...)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 3d

Endorse. LLMs made me realise that for the vast majority of writing tasks, 80% is good enough - and not even the best writer in the world can produce 80%-good-enough copy in five seconds. But 85%? Hire an editor. 90%? Hire a writer. 95%? Hire a writer *and* editor just to write the brief.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK

How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 4d

We we have plenty of kids that would qualify for pupil premium, but lots of families won't claim it (because it's seen by many as shameful, we think); but the massive rise in formal diagnoses of SEND/emotional conditions (which many *do* seek) attracts little money, but lots of extra teacher stress.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 4d

There has been a rise in parents requesting formal support for their children ahead of proposed reforms to SEND

New council reports seen by PolHome show sharp increases in families seeking EHCPs, amid fears that they could soon be harder to come by, reports @cjayanetti.bsky.social

Rise In SEND Requests As Parents Fear Upcoming Reforms

Fears over upcoming reforms to the special education needs (SEND) system have led more parents to request formal support for their children, accord...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 4d

Bad takes beget bad takes. Gawd, public discourse is so relentlessly stupid now...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 4d