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Is a VPN ban coming? @mullvadnet was right
'We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions'
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told #BBCBreakfast she will outline more details next month about the social media ban on under 16s in the UK - as well as additional restrictions on Virtual Private Networks, curfews and chatbots
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ky…
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Mind blowing
With today's 20% SpaceX pop, Elon made more money today than Warren Buffett made in his entire career
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Staying in many hotels are Europe is like a punishment beating
I remember staying in Copenhagen last year and it was 30c but air con was pathetic (environmental regs)
I'm back in America
My hotel room has:
- AC that goes down to 18°C/64°F but my sensor shows it's 16°C/61°F! Ice cold means perfect sleep
- $100 in free spending on anything full minibar with beautiful products like Norwegian canned salmon with Sichuan peppers (!)
- free water and sparkling water bottles every day, fresh fruit bowl
- daily room cleaning without asking, finished before noon!
- bathroom full of amenities extra amenities you could request during booking like Marvis toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash ear plugs, sleeping mask
- moderately fast wifi (to be honest)
The top European hotel in Netherlands we were in last few weeks for same price:
- AC did not go below 23°C/73°F, and to make it worse windows were locked (for eco reasons)
- empty minibar (for eco)
- no water bottles (the paper said use tap water like the locals for eco, guess what NL tap water is full of PFAS the gov just admitted)
- no daily cleaning, we had to ask for it every day, and when we came back 4pm it still wasn't cleaned, every day (for eco)
- strictly no amenities (for eco)
- unusably slow wifi
America is much more value now for your $ or € than most of Europe
(And ofc Asia too)
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Matt Jones retweeted
Public consultation survey had no clickable 'No' option to disagree with the social media ban, Labour then used this to claim public support.
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As the formula used to set social rents is still anchored to 1999 prices, they've fallen a lot in relative value since.
Social rents are now just 41% of market rents across England, falling to just 33% in London. Hugely distortionary and means massive subsidies for a select few.
Jun 14
The maximum subsidy is meant to be 50%. So is this because the councils - through incompetence or otherwise - are using totally outdated rents as the benchmark? It’s a scandal and bloody infuriating
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Jun 15
If this is right re. Youtube, it is a mind-boggling act of educational self-harm. We are failing our kids if we allow legitimate concerns about social media to seep into how we think about tech more generally.
Jun 14
🚨NEW: Teachers are raising concerns about a ban on YouTube for under-16s as many year 10 and 11 students use the platform to learn and revise GCSE content
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Every argument made for banning social media for under 16s could also be made for banning social media for adults
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We are not a serious country part 4738393
16 questions on u16s social media ban.
1: Why this consultation, and now? To put the voice of the British public right at the heart of public policy.
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Jun 15
Banning YouTube for under 16s makes no sense at all
An increasing numbers of under 50s watch YouTube instead of “normal TV”
As an older millennial I only watch TV for the World Cup, otherwise I only watch YouTube, so I can’t imagine the habits of those under 20 these days
I can only imagine policy is being made by those much older with little understanding of the normal habits of younger folk — there will be a big backlash
Jun 15
My son basically had a crash out at school when his form tutor told him they were going to ban YouTube for him. He is never going to vote Labour now
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Jun 15
One of the most ridiculous features I’ve ever come across
Jun 14
it's insane to me openai expects me to read two answers and pick the best one for their a/b test metrics. just totally data science slop brained.
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Matt Jones retweeted
Jun 14
Meta will spend more on chips this year than Germany spends on defense, but it is failing to catch the frontier. @pietergaricano and @Simon__Grimm argue that for Europe to try to develop a "sovereign AI model" won't fix our AI problem and that a "Buy European" act means paying billions for worse models with more security holes that will slow down growth.
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It’s bizarre that there is social housing where the rent is 80% of the market rate, and in central London, yet no one ever risks discussing it due to the backlash that always follows — and at the same time high earning young people live in house shares with many other people even if they have very good high earning jobs
Jun 14
The council house swapping Facebook groups and websites are very eye-opening. There are 6- and 7-bedroom properties on offer in Zone 2 at ~£750 a month. Private rents for similar properties would be £6,000 . Enormous subsidies are being distributed in the worst possible way.
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Jun 14
Allowing 16 year olds to vote in elections but banning them from social media at night time is totally incoherent
Jun 14
NEW: Starmer will announce an ‘Australia plus’ teen social media ban on breakfast TV tomorrow
- Expected to include the same 10 apps as Aus: TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram among them
- ‘Romantic’ chatbots banned
- 16 17 yr olds will have a curfew
thetimes.com/article/631af41…
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Jun 13
Stamp duty is why I won’t move flats.
Jun 13
The stupidity of, and damage done by, stamp duty is being recognised by more and more people. I’ve said it before and l’ll say it again: any govt which cared about economic growth and people’s welfare would abolish it.
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Jun 14
Our schizophrenic government is giving the vote to people it doesn’t trust to be on social media in the evening.
Jun 14
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban
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The most popular magazine of the Labour Party doesn't think AI is important... Your job is to get people to understand why this stuff is important
Jun 13
Hard for people who work in or around this stuff to conceive of, but most people in Britain do not give a fuck about AI, you may as well ask why aren’t the BBC writing about the latest update to Microsoft Excel
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