PR agency bod. Interested in media, tech, books, sport, politics, sandwiches. Views and opinions are all my own and quite possibly completely wrong.
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"The new corporate mission of OpenAI is to create an AI powerful enough to build a time machine so we can travel back and prevent ourselves from doing whatever it is we have been doing for the last 3 days."
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
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MOTD with no commentary… if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one saying:
“oh I think that tree might be in trouble. Is it down? It is you know. Some will say it’s entitled to go down there but I I do think it went down rather easily”
then has it really fallen at all?
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Congrats @jelleprins @stefvangrieken and team!
💰 We have raised $5.5M from @IndexVentures, @Kindred_VC and 30+ amazing angels for Cradle.bio, an AI platform to design proteins.
Why? Because designing proteins is the first step towards replacing factories 🏭 and farms 🐄 for a more sustainable future.
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Worth repeating. Take all the tax changes coming in over next few years and:
If your income is < £155k, you lose
If your income is > £155k you win
If your income > £1m you gain more than £40,000
Starting to suspect there are two Nadhim Zahawis like in The Prestige, but they are rubbish at taking notes.
Extraordinary
Nadhim Zahawi today told Boris Johnson he should resign
Tomorrow he's agreed to launch a new economic plan alongside Boris Johnson in a bid to shore up his leadership according to @SkyNews
Today is bewildering by any metric
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The thing about being Paul McCartney is you don’t have to worry about how to follow on after a Springsteen guest stop - because you wrote Let It Be. #Glastonbury
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I will repeat this as long as I have to, when the Supreme Court said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was “unconstitutional”, FDR didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did.
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An unaccompanied 16-year-old Eritrean boy turned up at our youth club this week, just after opening, with some others.
He was a new face so I asked him how long he'd been in the UK and he said: "today".
I said: "what do you mean 'today'?"
He said: "I arrived, just today".
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Just take a minute to read the post below, from a Rail Worker, that gives a different perspective to the hyperbole being flung out by HMG's client journalists...
Three years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise, two years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise. (1/7)
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This is a beautiful long read by @petepaphides, on his father’s sudden death and the music they shared, but this is the detail that gets me:
newstatesman.com/long-reads/…
(no paywall)
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Whoa this is pretty good teapawt.net/th3j35t3r/status/15281…
Makes sense since the UK was doing so well on productivity and growth pre-pandemic…
Not much evidence here of PM’s historic libertarian instincts. Here he is in part effectively arguing that individuals ought not work from home for the sake of big, collective systems like mass transit or city centre commerce, or even more remote ideas like national productivity.
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For what you're about to read, we're truly sorry.
That we're even in this situation is utterly ludicrous.
But the ramifications of inaction are unimaginable.
We *need* your support.
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