Planetf1
@planetf1.cherrybyte.me.uk
Brighton and Hove, UK
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Software Engineer, IBM Research (Quantum + AI Agents)
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@planetf1 on Twitter, Instagram, threads, mastodon. Social
Software Engineer, IBM Research (Quantum + AI Agents)
https://linktr.ee/planetf1
The next budget could be a gift for conservatives IMO - it may open up a new space which can distinguish from reform - if they are capable of taking it. The battle for labour will be to demonstrate changes are justified, fair, progressive & lead to results , and to avoid left leakage to greens
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The next budget could be a gift for conservatives IMO - it may open up a new space which can distinguish from reform - if they are capable of taking it. The battle for labour will be to demonstrate changes are justified, fair, progressive & lead to results , and to avoid left leakage to greens
For the majority of the time as a kid I was very near the sea. Less so at uni, and then for years lived maybe 15km away which was too far. Now close again, and I think I'd struggle to live away from the coast. Something about that freshness and openness
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For the majority of the time as a kid I was very near the sea. Less so at uni, and then for years lived maybe 15km away which was too far. Now close again, and I think I'd struggle to live away from the coast. Something about that freshness and openness
True, though it's fair to say it's becoming clear all parties make impossible promises. Not good for 'trust' in politics.
EXCL: The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of next election, PM's chief secretary Darren Jones tells me 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
True, though it's fair to say it's becoming clear all parties make impossible promises. Not good for 'trust' in politics.
Odds on middle earners getting worst hit? Easy targets.
Includes this line 🤔
Downing Street insiders are talking openly about an imminent rise in income tax. “You don’t exactly have to be a genius to have worked out we’re doing it".
More in our weekend read on how No 10 is buttering up Labour MPs to avoid backlash
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Downing Street insiders are talking openly about an imminent rise in income tax. “You don’t exactly have to be a genius to have worked out we’re doing it".
More in our weekend read on how No 10 is buttering up Labour MPs to avoid backlash
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Breakfasts at No 10: buttering up Labour MPs to avoid a budget backlash
Downing Street has been preparing MPs for going back on its manifesto pledge and raising income tax
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Odds on middle earners getting worst hit? Easy targets.
been trying to use #microsoft #loop for around the last 9 months. It's not a team thing (though we do have office 365). Mostly just my notes from meetings.
Meh.. getting fed up with constant auth popups, some lost data, can feel a bit clunky at times.
Should I go back to onenote, or apple notes?
Meh.. getting fed up with constant auth popups, some lost data, can feel a bit clunky at times.
Should I go back to onenote, or apple notes?
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
been trying to use #microsoft #loop for around the last 9 months. It's not a team thing (though we do have office 365). Mostly just my notes from meetings.
Meh.. getting fed up with constant auth popups, some lost data, can feel a bit clunky at times.
Should I go back to onenote, or apple notes?
Meh.. getting fed up with constant auth popups, some lost data, can feel a bit clunky at times.
Should I go back to onenote, or apple notes?
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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If government excuses were included in GDP, our economic woes would be over. But what we really need to hear from the Chancellor is action – especially on Europe.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If government excuses were included in GDP, our economic woes would be over. But what we really need to hear from the Chancellor is action – especially on Europe.
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
LibDem already have this policy. Maybe lab will come around. less sure on right. But it’s caused so much damage and crucially has destroyed hope. Having flexibility, options, in a much larger unit can mitigate other challenges and allow new ideas to flourish. brexit took that away for many. criminal
Student, "How would you, if in power, create closer relationships with Europe?"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
LibDem already have this policy. Maybe lab will come around. less sure on right. But it’s caused so much damage and crucially has destroyed hope. Having flexibility, options, in a much larger unit can mitigate other challenges and allow new ideas to flourish. brexit took that away for many. criminal
When will we (as a country and with broad political
Consensus) understand the self-harm Brexit caused
Consensus) understand the self-harm Brexit caused
“Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” ~AA
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When will we (as a country and with broad political
Consensus) understand the self-harm Brexit caused
Consensus) understand the self-harm Brexit caused
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this is LITERAL VIOLENCE if you were born in the 60s, too.
Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
this is LITERAL VIOLENCE if you were born in the 60s, too.
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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A majority of people (56%) now say they don't trust the US, compared to 40% in the weeks following Trump's re-election in November 2024. And the EU is now seen as Britain's most reliable partner, according to the YouGov poll, commissioned by campaign group Best for Britain.
NEW: British people's trust in the United States has collapsed in the year since Donald Trump took office according to @bestforbritain.org latest research:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
British people's trust in the US has collapsed since Donald Trump was elected
A year on from Donald Trump's shock victory, most people in Britain now say they don't trust the US - a massive drop from last November
www.mirror.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A majority of people (56%) now say they don't trust the US, compared to 40% in the weeks following Trump's re-election in November 2024. And the EU is now seen as Britain's most reliable partner, according to the YouGov poll, commissioned by campaign group Best for Britain.
What a horrendous, scary, potentially deathly situation for those onboard the train last night carrying a vicious attacker.
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
What a horrendous, scary, potentially deathly situation for those onboard the train last night carrying a vicious attacker.
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Oh Palantir again... Peter Thiel the billionaire owner bankrolled JD Vance rise to be Vice-president.
🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Oh Palantir again... Peter Thiel the billionaire owner bankrolled JD Vance rise to be Vice-president.
I wish I could just block paywalled article links, since I can’t access them, quoting them just gets frustrating! (yes a simplistic view ….)
November 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I wish I could just block paywalled article links, since I can’t access them, quoting them just gets frustrating! (yes a simplistic view ….)
Of course it’;s a balance between new ideas/future and experience so **LETS THINK ABOUT THE BREXIT EXPERIENCE** and where the ideas came from … !!
An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."
Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe
Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Of course it’;s a balance between new ideas/future and experience so **LETS THINK ABOUT THE BREXIT EXPERIENCE** and where the ideas came from … !!
my work week is suitably ended with a 'colima stop' ;-)
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
my work week is suitably ended with a 'colima stop' ;-)
Been busy today at work then meetup, but I can only assume it was DNS or BGP?
Massive #Azure outage knocks out Microsoft 365 and Xbox - what we know so far www.zdnet.com/article/mass... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social
You know, maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be putting so many of our tech eggs into so few hyper-cloud baskets.
You know, maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be putting so many of our tech eggs into so few hyper-cloud baskets.
Massive Azure outage knocks out Microsoft 365 and Xbox - what we know so far
No, it's not just you. Several Azure-based services are down.
www.zdnet.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Been busy today at work then meetup, but I can only assume it was DNS or BGP?
It’s been the year of linux on the desktop my entire career… and yes I’ve used it, and it is so much better these days. I suspect it will come down more to when MS loses it (and maybe they’re there)
Inside Canonical's plan to make Ubuntu 26.04 the Linux desktop that finally goes mainstream www.zdnet.com/article/insi... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social
What Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, and his VP of Engineering for #Ubuntu, plan for the next major Ubuntu #Linux release.
What Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO, and his VP of Engineering for #Ubuntu, plan for the next major Ubuntu #Linux release.
Inside Canonical's plan to make Ubuntu 26.04 the Linux desktop that finally goes mainstream
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth and VP of Engineering Jon Seager share their vision for Resolute Raccoon.
www.zdnet.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It’s been the year of linux on the desktop my entire career… and yes I’ve used it, and it is so much better these days. I suspect it will come down more to when MS loses it (and maybe they’re there)
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Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
What a surprise
The UK has surpassed US in VPN use. Just a few months into the disastrous roll-out of the Online Safety Act, the UK the number one G7 nation for VPN downloads and one of the fastest growing VPN markets in the world.
It's competitors? Repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Singapore.
It's competitors? Repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Singapore.
VPN usage is exploding in the UK — here's how it compares to Europe and the US
The UK has become one of the world's top VPN-using nations, and the trend is accelerating
www.techradar.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What a surprise
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What I think this demonstrates is 3 things (1) This mass deportation policy is wildly at odds with public opinion in general, and with opinion of many sensible Tory voters, members & MPs (2) Many ppl defending the policy didn't know what was in it (3) Informing and pressuring them therefore works
Are the Tories now rowing back on ILR?
Last week Badenoch's spokesman said Katie Lam's comments were "broadly in line" with the party's stance
Now a party spokesperson says it's “subject to an ongoing internal review” following a widespread backlash
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Last week Badenoch's spokesman said Katie Lam's comments were "broadly in line" with the party's stance
Now a party spokesperson says it's “subject to an ongoing internal review” following a widespread backlash
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Tories in turmoil after deportation backlash | The Observer
Conservative immigration policy is in flux after shadow minister Katie Lam's controversial comments
observer.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What I think this demonstrates is 3 things (1) This mass deportation policy is wildly at odds with public opinion in general, and with opinion of many sensible Tory voters, members & MPs (2) Many ppl defending the policy didn't know what was in it (3) Informing and pressuring them therefore works