Made of Triangles
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Artificial Construct
Tinkering with Android OS Stuff again
Tinkering with Android OS Stuff again
I see the Government plan to tackle the cost of living by reducing the cost of fixing a trial
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I see the Government plan to tackle the cost of living by reducing the cost of fixing a trial
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Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
Zero is almost exactly the right amount of gratitude for Trump's 'efforts' to find an equitable peace agreement to settle the Russian invasion of Ukraine
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Zero is almost exactly the right amount of gratitude for Trump's 'efforts' to find an equitable peace agreement to settle the Russian invasion of Ukraine
There are three sorts of SW engineering I think, none is superior or requires more cleverness (just different skills) to the others but they require slightly different ways of thinking about things. 1/
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There are three sorts of SW engineering I think, none is superior or requires more cleverness (just different skills) to the others but they require slightly different ways of thinking about things. 1/
Paraphrasing an old programming joke:
Any political problem can be simplified by ignoring one caveat and ignoring one trade off until you have a simple, popular policy that doesn't work.
Any political problem can be simplified by ignoring one caveat and ignoring one trade off until you have a simple, popular policy that doesn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Paraphrasing an old programming joke:
Any political problem can be simplified by ignoring one caveat and ignoring one trade off until you have a simple, popular policy that doesn't work.
Any political problem can be simplified by ignoring one caveat and ignoring one trade off until you have a simple, popular policy that doesn't work.
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1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
Isn't a 0.2% quarterly rise, when compared to a 3.6% annual inflation rate in practice an unexpected *fall* in real terms?
It's not good, but I don't think it's a rise greater than a reasonable person might have expected?
It's not good, but I don't think it's a rise greater than a reasonable person might have expected?
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Isn't a 0.2% quarterly rise, when compared to a 3.6% annual inflation rate in practice an unexpected *fall* in real terms?
It's not good, but I don't think it's a rise greater than a reasonable person might have expected?
It's not good, but I don't think it's a rise greater than a reasonable person might have expected?
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We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
One of the stories about the 7/7 bombers that I recall, possibly incorrectly, was that they were not that radical until they spent lots of time in a room talking to each other and feedback-looped themselves into being terrorists
Which is far too similar to the way people interact with AI Chatbots
Which is far too similar to the way people interact with AI Chatbots
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One of the stories about the 7/7 bombers that I recall, possibly incorrectly, was that they were not that radical until they spent lots of time in a room talking to each other and feedback-looped themselves into being terrorists
Which is far too similar to the way people interact with AI Chatbots
Which is far too similar to the way people interact with AI Chatbots
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
New: I can confirm hasty US-Russia proposal being pushed to Ukrainians via Dmitriev-Witkoff to Umerov. It would amount to Ukraine’s capitulation, with people familiar saying it’s Kremlin’s maximalist demands.
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
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That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
A country where Sadiq Khan can lead London, Humza Yousaf can lead Scotland, and Rishi Sunak can lead Britain is a country where the racists had *lost*. So much of this vicious bile has come directly after that and almost no one seems to draw the connection
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
Surely there can only be one median voter?
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Surely there can only be one median voter?
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If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
Whatever they end up with, double it and you have a working estimate of when I might consider labour worthy of governing again.
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Whatever they end up with, double it and you have a working estimate of when I might consider labour worthy of governing again.
It's telling that Farage is not particular about which national leaders he's willing to collude with to damage the UK.
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's telling that Farage is not particular about which national leaders he's willing to collude with to damage the UK.
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A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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Everything is marketing and marketing is going to destroy the world
what the actual fuck is wrong with American journalists?
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Everything is marketing and marketing is going to destroy the world
Theory: Older people have trouble with technology not because it's complex or alien but because it is more often than not shit and they haven't been interested enough in it to learn the various strategies and techniques people use to get around the shitness.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Theory: Older people have trouble with technology not because it's complex or alien but because it is more often than not shit and they haven't been interested enough in it to learn the various strategies and techniques people use to get around the shitness.
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Seems unfortunate. Who could have predicted this?
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Seems unfortunate. Who could have predicted this?
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Seems very Tim Davie to resign in disgrace over something the BBC got right.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Seems very Tim Davie to resign in disgrace over something the BBC got right.
I don't think it's healthy or accurate to think of AI or any algorithm as 'deciding' or 'choosing' or otherwise having agency.
They follow a chain of inevitable logic according to decisions made (often unwittingly) at the time they were designed or their training material was selected.
They follow a chain of inevitable logic according to decisions made (often unwittingly) at the time they were designed or their training material was selected.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don't think it's healthy or accurate to think of AI or any algorithm as 'deciding' or 'choosing' or otherwise having agency.
They follow a chain of inevitable logic according to decisions made (often unwittingly) at the time they were designed or their training material was selected.
They follow a chain of inevitable logic according to decisions made (often unwittingly) at the time they were designed or their training material was selected.
I wonder how the 'we all hate reform' strategy looks if the polling narrows closer to 2029 and all the modelling suggests a hung parliament
Can't help feeling that 'stop Reform' rather relies on Reform looking like they might win - Reform *and* Labour 'losing' might be a lot of peoples ideal result
Can't help feeling that 'stop Reform' rather relies on Reform looking like they might win - Reform *and* Labour 'losing' might be a lot of peoples ideal result
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I wonder how the 'we all hate reform' strategy looks if the polling narrows closer to 2029 and all the modelling suggests a hung parliament
Can't help feeling that 'stop Reform' rather relies on Reform looking like they might win - Reform *and* Labour 'losing' might be a lot of peoples ideal result
Can't help feeling that 'stop Reform' rather relies on Reform looking like they might win - Reform *and* Labour 'losing' might be a lot of peoples ideal result