Hydration break.

BBC: “What was your screen time?” Student: “Nine hours.” BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”

Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement. He had a trigger warning. “I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.” Students braced to boo. Instead, he flipped it. “I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.” The story: He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts. Less power than a laptop charger. AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities. His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all. The lesson: “A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.” Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency. It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience. The takeaway: Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?” Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?” Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking. These aren’t soft skills anymore. They’re the moat. Build the tech. Use the tech. But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection. “Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

RT @b_judah: Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how…

This is wild—and likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. theatlantic.com/technology/2…

Private Eye:

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I’ll be unveiling my ai art of a sleeping lion draped in a Union Jack in front of Big Ben being woken up by a little girl saying ‘we need you its time to wake up’ while some stirring music plays in the background shortly. Very pleased with it actually.

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts. You voted against banning fire and rehire. You voted against day one sick pay for workers. You said the minimum wage was too high for young people. Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions. You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

Farage goes full Trump - We did win Gorton and Denton. Blames those pesky foreigners for actually losing. #ReformUK #FarageUK

I'm not a some overt supporter of Starmer, but if you want to see how manipulation and misinformation works on this platform, @toryboypierce's post here can be used as an exemplary example of disingenous, misleading BS. The data he is referring to is 25 year data. When Starmer took office debt was 99.5% of GDP, today it's 94.2% of GDP. That's actually a fall of 5.3%. The UK is the world's 5th largest economy, recently upgrading from 6th. Debt is not increasing, and the UK is not a third world country - far from it. Andrew takes 25 year data and attributes poor performance to one of the few Prime Ministers during that era who actually reduced debt to gbp. Do we wonder why the working man on the street has been made to hate Starmer with all this utter BS circulated by these compromised grifters?

May God release me from AI images of Nigel Farage on Question Time

On Friday, the Ukraine War will have lasted 1569 days - longer than the First World War

Never have I ever sat down at my laptop so fast, in order to triple check our Claude workspace settings. For which I am sole admin - IMAGINE 😱

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

You had 14 years in power. In that time the UK lost a third of our refining capacity and two refineries. We inherited the closure of Grangemouth which began when you were Secretary of State. And you never met the industry for 13 years. On your record, I’d sit this one out.

Oswald Mosley, Lee 1918: Elected Conservative MP, Harlow 1922: Elected Independent MP, Harlow 1923: Re-elected Independent MP, Harlow 1924: Stood for Labour, Birmingham Ladywood. Narrowly lost by 100 votes 1926: Elected Labour MP, Smethwick 1932: founded British Union of Fascists

In the scrum around Starmer’s should he stay or should he go premiership, some of the details of Jess Philips resignation have been ignored. She left she said because Starmer was dragging his heals on legislating for software that would effectively scan everything sent on your phone. “The technology exists to stop children being able to take naked images of themselves” as she put it. This important article by @ReclaimTheNetHQ explains just how insane and insidious this proposal was.

Finally, after exhausting every other option, Britain is ready for chaos with Ed Miliband.