ilmar

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Not living in the happiest country in the world.

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bouie singlehandedly forcing this site to implement features that make it usable for anyone with more than a few hundred followers

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The finalp1r.es Morning. There’s really not very much going on in terms of Arsenal news today, but obviously all eyes will be on Berlin later for the final of Euro 2024. Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka will start for England as they face Spain. Arsenal’s two senior…

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Good. Because anyone telling you that our broadcasters should ditch their out of date funding models and emulate the sexy 21st Century streaming platforms clearly hasn’t looked at how all those sexy 21st Century streaming platforms are getting on right now.

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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"At some point – possibly not til after a leadership contest, but soon – the Tories are going to realise with a jolt quite how little influence an opposition really has." Thoughts on the election result now the dust has settled.

The dust settlesjonn.substack.com This week: the Tories are out at last – but what did the election tell us? Also: on the ontological status of Middlesex; and the world’s fattest parrot.

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Euro 2024: Ollie Watkins sends England to the finalp1r.es Morning. England are through to the final of Euro 2024, after a late goal from Ollie Watkins saved us all from more extra-time and possible penalties. To be fair, the first half was by some distance the best Gareth Southgate’s team have played in the…

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Euro 2024: Spain make the final as France underwhelm againp1r.es Morning all. So Spain are through to the final of Euro 2024 last night after a 2-1 win over France. A rare moment of quality from Kylian Mbappe saw him cross for Kolo Muani to head Didier Deschamps’ side in front, but Spain equalised via an incredible…

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Oh wow Sam Neill is an Iain M. Banks fan! Awesome! I knew he was a hoopy frood. amp.theguardian.com/books/articl...

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Look what I found while packing. Published 1988. #dnd Nostalgia :)

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I've decided that trains are a good example of how Finland and Britain differ. Just got back home after three weeks travelling with London underground, LNER, TransPennine Express, Northern Rail 🇬🇧; VR 🇫🇮. Also North Yorkshire Moors Railway 🚂

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This Frasier / Columbo comic has no right being as absolutely fantastic as it is

columbo, joechouinard.comjoechouinard.com

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard

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It's also objectively very hilarious that one of the first proper things Bernadotte does as king of Sweden is: 1) Assess that the biggest risk to the country is Napoleon 2) join the allies 3) create the strategic plan that does Napoleon in

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Right. Like, look how long it took banks to have their own paypal-style apps, or even online banking. Phones coming with a crypto-wallet app was rare and bespoke. Big players are usually slow to move, and buy startups to catchup. But here *every* platform and major site is pushing AI *first*

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#russia attacked the British NHS again, putting in harm's way 2M patients: "Six NHS trusts and scores of GP practices in SE London ... have been struggling to deliver many types of care normally to patients since Russian hackers infiltrated and rendered unusable the IT system"

Cyber-attack on London hospitals to take ‘many months’ to resolvewww.theguardian.com Exclusive: NHS source says clarity needed on how Russian hackers gained access and whether records are retrievable

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Sure, Rishi Sunak is diminutive, but soon he will also be very far away

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I mean, even Nigel Farage turned up for the D Day stuff. And his side lost.

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I have an essay in this month's Prospect on the things that aren't being said in the election and the reasons for their absence. (Allergy advice: contains Brexit). www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ele...

Britain, the puerile politywww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are complicit in the farcical performance that debases every British election campaign. It is a mode of politics hopelessly inadequate for the challenges that we face—and ...

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The Game of Thrones franchise just makes me wish we could get a big budget prestige fantasy TV show that doesn’t constantly throw disturbing shit at you. Give all that money to the people who made Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

A Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series would fit the bill.

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Newsletter: Tech's hyper-growth era is ending. Almost every major web platform has seen traffic declines since 2021, and the industry is getting desperate as it realizes there aren't any massive new markets left- and generative AI isn't the next big thing. www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

The Rot-Com Bubblewww.wheresyoured.at If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday. The noxious growth-at-all...

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A lot of people who work in Actually Useful Generative AI/ machine learning have long thought you can't fix the hallucination problem and it only gets worse, which seems to be playing out.

Yeah, it’s been startling to see how these new generative AI tools appear to have actively degraded from when we all first started being able to use them last year.

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The Economist: Ukraine gradually gains upper hand in Crimea battle With numerous strategic assets in Crimea now vulnerable, Ukraine is effectively leveraging its aerial capabilities. www.economist.com/europe/2024/...

In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russiawww.economist.com The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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I love how when we first got the internet, Wikipedia was an "unreliable source" and now it's one of the last remaining websites that's actually fact checked

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Katherine Alejandra Cross

So wet that the water companies immediately started dumping raw sewage in him.

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This is great news. The HPV vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by 90%.

HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer caseswww.bbc.co.uk England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.