If you asked people on the street ‘should luxury flats worth at least a million be given out as social housing’, virtually 100% would say no

My most controversial take: "Ferrari courts controversy by making a car for adults." My own (slighly British) prejudice: I respect luxury cars, GTs and jaunty open-topped two-seaters for raffish chaps in houndstooth jackets with pencil moustaches. I think supercars are stupid.

When was the 1st time something happened that made you think this might not be the country you'd been raised to think & hope it was? Not just something you disagreed with, but that was of a nature, or created a reaction in others, that made you doubt?

In the 20th century, European leftists promised that their ideology would make regular people richer. That didn't happen. So in the 21st century, the pitch has shifted to: "Actually, we'll make you poorer...which is good, because you deserve to be poor." noahpinion.blog/p/degrowth-w…

Teens will get social media curfew and chatbot ban thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel. This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide. I want to thank those involved, including our Armed Forces and law enforcement officers who keep this country safe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class. It's disgusting. I'm fighting to tax the rich so we stop rewarding trading stocks over punching clocks.

NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read — Andy Burnham is planning to move quickly after Makerfield to secure a coronation. His supporters think John Healey’s resignation kills off Keir Starmer’s chances of survival. They think Wes Streeting and Al Carns don’t have the numbers, and that Burnham can quickly get 250 Labour MPs and most of the cabinet to back him. — Starmer insists he’ll fight, but the question is what the cabinet does. Burnham’s supporters want them to tell the PM to agree a handover. Before Healey resigned, Starmer’s allies hoped he could battle on because most of the cabinet would back him to stay. Aides suggest the calculus is changing and Healey’s brutal exit makes it more likely they tell Starmer it’s over. — Even Starmer loyalists are very critical of the PM. They wish he’d been bolder, found the defence money from welfare, net zero or elsewhere, and sacked Ed Miliband. Several allies say they can’t believe Miliband and Shabana Mahmood (who they say privately plotted with Burnham and Miliband to oust Starmer) are still in the cabinet, but Healey isn’t. One says that’s the final evidence of his lack of authority, political judgment and decision-making ability. — Starmer’s relationship with Rachel Reeves has been tested to the limit. Her resistance led Starmer to renege on his Munich speech and overrule Healey and Jonathan Powell. She effectively buried his survival strategy of focusing on security. Reeves allies argue it’s her job to make the numbers add up and if Starmer wanted more money for defence he could have imposed more departmental cuts but was unwilling. — Burnham will not keep Reeves on as his chancellor, despite her allies pitching her to stay. Reappointing her would not be the change he’s promising, one Burnham supporter says. They say they spoke to Reeves around the locals and came away believing she would help them persuade Starmer to go, but she didn’t follow through. — The turmoil is rattling UK allies. European diplomats contacted British counterparts in recent days complaining about the uncertainty over the UK’s defence spending plans, the slow pace of the uplift and Healey’s departure. They’ve also asked for information about Burnham’s plans for foreign policy and defence but got no answer. — If Burnham does become PM he’ll face the same problems. His critics say he’s never uttered a word of substance on defence or foreign policy, shows no interest in it and has no plan. It is not impossible that in the next few months the British PM has to join negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. “Can you imagine Burnham doing that?” asks one official, especially with Powell likely to leave with Starmer. — Starmer’s chaos also distracted from what might otherwise have been a bad week for Burnham. He got away with his WASPI gaffe thanks to Healey. Labour MPs are also critical of his plans on immigration. One aide said his proposal to end asylum hotel contracts and move responsibility for housing migrants to local authorities is amateurish and toxic. — It all leaves Labour MPs in a state of total despair. Starmer looks finished but Burnham has no obvious plan and keeps making basic mistakes that foreshadow another troubled premiership, one said. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour appears to have no other options. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Dear US government, Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people: - Microsoft Teams - SAP - Salesforce - Jira - Outlook Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

This is an explainer about what just happened with Anthropic's Fable 5 (Mythos) & the fed government. It's a cautionary tale about AI & a story of the fed govt's hypocrisy: 1/ Anthropic's Fable 5 (based on Mythos 5 model with 'strict safety' added) was just released on June 9

The Popehat trajectory has been something to watch

The Fable/Mythos export controls are so unexpected, and so leaky at denying access to geopolitical adversaries, that they almost look like a risky pre-IPO PR gamble by Anthropic's friends in government, and a backfiring one at that. Consider: 1. NVIDIA hardware ends up in China easily enough 2. Businesses around the world supply the war efforts of sanctioned states 3. Hacking isn't exactly legal, yet North Korea routinely steals billions 4. Proprietary tech gets stolen by people so deeply embedded and incentivized (see any number of corporate-espionage cases) that no blanket citizenship policy could stop it Basically, it looks like another Singapore situation (Singapore being China's main VPN gateway for, among other things, accessing Western AI models), except now you'd just get a wave of new American residents instead If the market reads this as "the government can evaporate 30–40% of any AI lab's total addressable market at any moment," the upcoming AI IPOs are looking even more interesting