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London-based writer. Often climbing.

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  • It's funny because when the stock market was doing great under Biden, Trump said it was because everyone knew he was going to win.

  • The BMA residents conference did pass the motion, but it won't be official policy unless it passes at the annual meeting this year:

    Resident doctors working in the NHS also condemned the supreme court’s ruling on gender as having “no basis in science or medicine”. Medics at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors conference in London passed a motion stating that “attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine”. While the motion was passed at the conference it will not become BMA policy unless voted on at the union’s annual meeting later this year.

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  • The only people who can quit their “pointless” jobs in the name of “moral ambition” are those who are lucky enough to not need them in the first place.

    The article does say exactly that.

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    Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world

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    Naming

  • So many philosophers did this! My favourite is Hegel, who 'rationally' reached the conclusion that German was the best language, Prussia was the best country and Protestantism was the best religion. Nothing to do with the fact that he'd been raised in German-speaking Prussian Protestantism, oh no.

  • This is it. The temptation to slap on reciprocal tariffs is obvious but it's generally self-defeating. Much better to do things this way and free up trade elsewhere.

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    Right approach, IMO. Let America fight its suicidal trade war. The rest of the world can trade freely!

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    Jingye executives were blocked from Scunthorpe plant on Saturday

    Workers feared Jingye executives might sabotage the works, according to a person briefed on events.

    A union source confirmed that police were called this morning at about 8am after Jingye executives tried to enter the Scunthorpe plant. The executives left shortly after.

    The workers locked out the bosses. The police arrived and backed up the workers. Bosses went home. Fucking amazing.

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  • Her instincts are the worst. Imagine being a conservative and not being able to exploit a 'rally round the flag' moment!

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  • The Newer Forest.

    Always makes me laugh that the 'New' Forest is getting on for a thousand years old.

  • Again, you've written quite a long comment, almost none of which is pertinent.

    Music is not math. Some aspects of it can be expressed mathematically, yes, but that's not the same thing.

    Imagining the idea 'I'd like to see an image of a lemming', which is what you've done, does require some imagination. However, the output is not art because the process used to go from your 'prompt' to the image was not a creative one. (Also, this isn't entirely pertinent, but the image output is really bad. If it had been made by a person and otherwise looked like this, I would still say that it was just ugly, bad art.)

    You may well be a creative and imaginative person; I don't know you and I wouldn't want to judge! However, your image of a lemming was not the result of a creative process and so is not art.

  • Current AI is lacking both.

    Only word wrong here is 'current'. AI will never have creativity or craftmanship. It's impossible.

  • You're lazy and talentless, and you like how it allows you to steal the hard work and talent of others.

  • That some, most or all art is partly or wholly derivative of other art is not relevant because the process used by 'AI' does not resemble the artistic process. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet (a work derived from an older play, itself derived from an older myth which itself had been through countless retellings, variations and translations), he did not do what an LLM does, which is approximately to say: 'It's statistically likely that the phrase "to be" will be followed by the phrase "or not to be"'. Putting together statistical likelihoods is not creativity. This alone shows that AI 'art' is not creative and therefore not art at all.

    Additionally, instructing a machine to make things from prompts does not require creativity. Creativity is not 'having ideas'; it's an ongoing process. When you tell an image generator to make an image, you're not asking it to create something, because it cannot do it. You're saying 'Show me the statistically likely output for this input'. Again, this statistical generator is not the same as, nor is it comparable to, the human imaginative process.

  • Yes. It can only exist through stealing the creative work of others.

    Also, it looks terrible.

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    I was quite surprised to see Streeting say this.

  • Yes, everyone here trembles under my tyrannical rule. I try not to let it go to my head.

  • Gosh, how strange. I expected him to say, 'He's a total cunt and I'm only pretending to like him because it's part of my job'.

  • For me number one would be to let trade unions do their job without restriction. In the US I think that would mean abolishing so-called 'right to work' laws as a priority.

  • Yes, it's metonymy, as people have said. You also get it in similar contexts where people will name a building such as 'the White House' or '[10] Downing Street' to refer to the governments of the US or the UK.

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    Labour’s halfway-there planning reforms: It’s one thing to reduce the technical power of the Nimbys; it’s quite another to change their cultural impact.

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  • It's not surprising that he's not been able to exploit people's empathy given that he has literally argued that empathy has gone too far.

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    'Labour types riff on Musk and Milei to impress journalists, not actual voters'

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    Contact your MP about the welfare cuts for the disabled

    OP contains the link to Parliament's official page for how to contact your MP. I'm a Labour supporter but I know these rerorms are a massive step in the wrong direction. I've already emailed my MP about this and I want as many people as possible to do the same.

    The good news is the government has already watered down the worst aspects of the original suggestions. They've also introduced some positive reforms in the green paper which you can read and respond to here. We also know that MPs across the party and even up to the Cabinet are unhappy. This all suggests that further lobbying might be successful.

    Some tips for lobbying:

    • Tell personal stories. MPs are people, too: play on their emotions! They also get a lot of near-identical emails on lots of issues, especially big stories like this one. Personal accounts stand out from the crowd.
    • Be clear what