My favourite ever bit of Newsnight was Emily Maitlis describing Anna Soubry as "the real opposition" over the top of Soubry saying the words "i'll be supporting the government". Client journalism in the service of power
youtu.be/nAZKdVrk0Do?si=dwhz…
Hannah’s extraordinary and exceptional journalism is a class example of what will now be lost @BBCNewsnight . The irony is how hard and how often @bbcnewsnight had to fight other parts of the bbc to be alowed to make risk taking , policy changing , award winning journalism.
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The Times endorsement of Johnson as Tory leader is here archive.ph/b8XbA Their election endorsement of him is here archive.ph/EQDOk Their election campaign coverage - deep Johnson page-one suckjobs and an absurd terror campaign against his opponent - is all online.
@seanmcarroll started listening to your pod recently. s'good, thanks! something you said has been playing on my mind, that it was "clear that e.g. chatgpt can pass the turing test" (paraphrasing from memory) and was struck by your casual certainty about it
assuming we turn off all the "I am an AI Language model" responses - I still can't imagine it fooling either of us in anything other than very constrained interactions (e.g. very short times) or by being inattentive / not engaging (which would become a sign in itself eventually)
Amazing. You have to “generate” it before you can spend it. By whizzing your arms around really fast I think. I am a large and important money understander
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Enjoying all these amusing chatgpt confabulations and this reminds me of a phrase (maybe Rodney Brooks??) from 30 years ago re: AI researchers getting excited about a chess engine:- "Making a brilliant chess move isn't a very intelligent thing to do if your house is on fire"
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I knew the outline but it blows my mind that, presented with the hilariously corrupt Conservative Party while doctors, teachers and coppers were banging on newspaper doors telling the hacks disaster was imminent, they instead chose to buy a tin of tartan paint. As a shock expose.
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I’m aware my output used to be wider than “It’s like this because key people would burn everything rather than let it be different” but it seems to me like the single most important feature of Britain today. There’s no hope of anything better while these people stay employed.
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Here is Shut Up And Dance speaking about the dance/rave scenes in the late 80's and early 90's
And how they way of taking breakbeat's from hip hop and speeding it up to rave tempo, helped create what became known as breakbeat/hardcore
And the origin of this track and it's title
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It helps to understand Starmer’s Labour as basically an elite project with very little buy-in from anyone except for the press and some of the very dumbest FBPEs. This is what they have to offer you.
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breaking NDA here but i think it’s important you should know: i work in social media at National Grid and we’ve just hired this big team to comb through twitter and if you’re saying stuff about how easy it is to live without central heating we put your house on the power cut list
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Knock yourselves out lads, but I am not lifting a finger to help people who stridently prioritised fucking me over and telling the Murdoch papers that I am a piece of shit, that they hate my guts and they want me to fuck off, with catastrophic results we see around us.
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The best-case scenario here is a swift transition to the startlingly vicious and unpleasant opposition, whose key priority has from day one been jumping through whichever hoops the Times and the Sun hold out for them. You can imagine exactly what tests those papers will set now.
