Habits I stole from ADHD people who are actually doing well. Not "cured." Just no longer at war with their own brain. None of these are "wake up at 5am." Promise. 1. They dont trust their memory. At all.

There were many Tory MPs who looked on in horror at the Heath government and were happy to wield the knife to be rid of him in 1975. Most Tory MPs cannot give an account of what went wrong in 2010-2024 because they don’t really think that anything did. These are not the same.

KATE DUGGAN IS CEO OF TUSLA — HOW ARE VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN STATE CARE BEING TARGETED, DRUGGED AND RAPED BY ORGANISED GANGS ON HER WATCH? An exclusive report in today’s Mail on Sunday by Debbie McCann reveals that organised criminal gangs are targeting vulnerable girls in State care, inviting them to “parties” where they are plied with alcohol and drugs before being sexually exploited and raped by predatory men. The report follows the disturbing High Court case of a 14-year-old girl in Tusla care who gardaí believe is being subjected to “horrifying” sexual exploitation by multiple men. Despite the court ordering that she be placed in special care, Tusla told the court that it could not immediately provide her with a bed. Just 15 of the State’s 26 special-care beds were reported to be open because of staffing shortages. Researcher Ruth Breslin of UCD’s Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute (SERP) told the newspaper that the 14-year-old’s case is not isolated. She said organised criminal networks are deliberately targeting some of the most vulnerable children in State care. According to Breslin, gang members can discover where residential care facilities are located and target girls living there. In some cases, girls are collected in cars and taken to “parties” in private homes or hotels where groups of men are waiting. Alcohol and drugs can be involved, while some men allegedly provide drugs or money to other predatory men as “payment” for sexual access to the girls. Breslin said some of the men meet through online forums or dating apps. She warned that the scale of the problem may not be fully appreciated and said research had identified another similar case involving a child in State care. The Mail on Sunday also reports that Garda sources are dealing with cases involving teenage girls and boys in State care who are being “escorted” after being targeted through dating apps. Some female minors are reportedly being drawn into sex work to pay debts, while boys can also be victims of criminal exploitation. The newspaper links the issue to wider concerns about child trafficking. It cites a previous case involving a 14-year-old girl trafficked to Ireland from West Africa, abducted by a criminal gang from her emergency accommodation within minutes of arriving in State care, and later found locked in a brothel where she had allegedly been forced to work as a sex slave. Tusla CEO Kate Duggan told the Mail on Sunday that the agency was aware of concerns about exploitation and said there is intensive engagement with An Garda Síochána to ensure the safety of young people. A spokesperson for Minister for Children Norma Foley said the Minister was “deeply concerned” about criminal gangs targeting vulnerable children and highlighted the serious risks faced by children in the care system. The report raises a stark issue beyond the shortage of special-care beds: vulnerable children already in the care of the State are being deliberately targeted by organised criminals for sexual and criminal exploitation, with serious questions about whether the existing system is capable of identifying, protecting and safeguarding them before further harm occurs. Credit Mail on Sunday

Heard from a neolab friend: “Even if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.

A cynic could think that this is the point - to demonstrate the UK doesn't have jurisdiction over the rest of the world's web services from an inside-out perspective and so paving the way for far more draconian outside-in measures, such as a great firewall

A friend of mine had to do a 15 minute interview about his job, income, previous rental history, etc, in order to *view* a flat. Luckily for him, he has a well-paid job, has lived in England all his life, and an impeccable rental history. I feel bad for people who don't.

But we need to be careful. PAYE paid by banks is *ten times* both bank taxes. So if bank tax pushes highly paid jobs out of the UK, that could cost more than any tax increase raises.

Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of Ukrainian children have been forced into Russia and this boot-licking spiv rolls out the tongue once more for “humanitarian” Putin. Infamy

A realistic scenario is that, after flooding the world with cheap manufactured goods, China will flood it with cheap tokens. (You can’t really export electricity unless you turn it into tokens. And China is the electrical superpower of the 21st century.)

Chinese local governments as shopping malls is such a brilliant analogy. You want to attract anchor tenants or firms for their spillover benefits. Originally coined by Chinese economist Steven Cheung and referenced in Lan Xiaohuan’s book How China Works: pekingnology.com/p/chinas-la…

Images appearing to show the Pink Panther rioting in France have gathered millions of views across social media, but they’re actually AI. Read more on the protests: bbc.in/3VZi2YS

The usefulness of Amazon’s 6-page memo has been nuked by AI-generated text (employees sit in meetings suspecting text is AI and tune out). Suspicious memos tagged as AI;DR (AI, didn’t read).