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  • Statement from Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

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  • He certainly did! One of their flagship policies was to mandate that all primary schools are on at least the fourth floor of buildings, in order to raise standards in education.

  • Statement from Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

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  • The only evidence of "deal making" is that's one of the excuses Labour have thrown out for losing (in third place!) a seat they have held for a century and as recently as 2019 got 67% of the vote. Galloway and Your Party didn't run but there has been nothing public about the Greens doing any sort of deal to get them to stand down.

  • Statement from Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

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  • Apparently the Muslim community turning out in large numbers to vote for white woman running for a party lead by a gay Jewish man is sectarian politics now. Good to know.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • I'm not saying its anything other than morally repugnant, obviously, but in the example of a password with billions or trillions of combinations and where you can check the answers given torture pretty obviously is better than guessing.

    That's not a scenario that is ever likely to come up, and wouldn't be justifiable even if it did, but pretending it wouldnt be effective is ridiculous.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • Torture can be a useful way of extracting information if you have a way to instantly verify it, which actually makes it a good analogy to LLMs. If I want to know the password to your laptop and torture you until you give me the correct password and I log in then that works.

  • Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations [California]

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  • Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

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  • Or, just do what most other democracies do and don't use machines at all. There is nothing about putting an X in a box with a pen and then having them counted by people under observation then leaving the bits of paper in an archive that needs improving. Your country is rich enough that it can afford a few thousand people hours every few years to do some counting.

  • Just saying

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  • While grid interconnections help, there is still a problem of weather not drastically changing at country boundaries. So for example Europe currently looks like this:

    and has looked pretty much the same since the start of the year.

    So very little solar production is going on anywhere, that leaves wind as the only active intermittance source, so places that have a lot of wind production like UK and Denmark use all the wind they produce, and countries that make less power from wind and more from solar have nowhere to import significant amounts from.

    You need either dispatchable power (gas/nuclear) or long term grid scale storage (multiple weeks worth) to make a power grid work. Currently the latter is prohibitavely expensive so the former is needed.

  • And on this birthday too, fahhha!

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  • Thats normal procedure for non-violent crimes (this wasnt about rape/abuse/trafficing), arrest them, interview them, release on bail while they go through all the material they took in the search while he was in the nick.

  • 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman

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  • Im not misunderstanding at all, but do you really think governments make multi-billion dollar purchaces without having technical experts go over things with a fine tooth comb. Again if only one customer nation, of which there are dozens, found something like this or if it was ever used, it would wipe out the entire export market for US high tech weapons, why would they do that when they have effective soft power ways of achiving the same thing?

  • 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman

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  • Do you honestly think that all the countries buying these planes havent inspected them? Even if they were incredibly well disguised the chance of them being discovered would essentially stop the US from selling military hardware abroad again as it would be hard proof that they couldnt be trusted.

    There is no reason to do that when, as others have pointed out, they can just restrict access to parts, updates and mission planning software.

  • Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken'

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  • That must come as news to the French that they arent allowed to do what they do in NATO.

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • But also:

    Google is still up 100% from where it was may last year, even taking that drop into account.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • LCoE is a partial metric at best, it tells you nothing about how useful the energy is produced. For comparison a nuclear bomb produces an LCoE of about ~30cents/kwh but that doesnt make it a good energy source to power a grid with.

    When you are adding intermittent sources to a most despatchable grid, sure LCoE tells you most of what you need to know, as displaced more expensive sources just throttle down slightly. But once you get into significant fractions of energy (~1/3 or more) just having expected joules created / cost to build is not a particularly useful metric for an intermittent power generator.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • Gosh, I didnt realise I was supposed to be sleeping from 3pm until 9am in winter. Good to know

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • Search results have been degrading for a lot longer than LLMs have been a thing. Peak usefulness for them was around a decade ago.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • CO2 doesn't vary much in concentration by how close you are to an emission source unless you are literally sucking air out of a tailpipe. You might get a 10-20% increase in the centre of a city instead of the countryside, hardly enough to make up for being somewhere with so much energy coming in that they frequently have to curtail it (which could then be used for this instead).

    This isnt CCS which cheaply turns CO2 into an inert form of carbon, its an expensive process for turning CO2 into a very useful form.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Sure, but you cant store that electricity as electricity. IMO this is most interesting as a energy storage technology, so the comparison isnt what that gasoline would do in an ICE car compared to an EV, its to what it would cost compared to battery storage (or compressed air or whatever other technology) to store a few weeks of output on the order of months. The big advantage I see here is that unlike those other technologies capacity is dirt cheap to build, its just a metal tank. So whenever a renewable plant would curtail its output it can instead redirect to creating gasoline to burn when the renewables arent producing much electricity.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • I wonder is a scaled up version of this could work for grid-scale medium length storage. Smoothing out weeks of dunkleflaute is the main blocker to going to a primarily renewable grid. Gasoline is a lot easier to store than hydrogen and large scale gasoline generators should get close to the efficiency of natural gas peaker plants.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Miliband's clean jobs plan wins over the unions

    www.newstatesman.com /politics/uk-politics/2025/10/ed-milibands-clean-jobs-plan-wins-over-the-trade-unions
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    What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

    www.prospectmagazine.co.uk /politics/70966/what-is-a-reactionary-centrist-does-uk-have-them