I’m not thrilled at the prospect of LLMs being dominated by text from global media platforms/publications owned by the right wing. I’d also like to know what % of policy and/or publicly funded records have been generated by men about/for women … who gets to decide what’s biased?

Spring is sprung 🙌

“Jakarta created a loophole in its goals to phase out coal to benefit the nickel industry…it is allowing new coal power plants connected to smelters as long as they shut down <2050. This has led to new records in its coal consumption and CO2 emissions”. amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

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“The mistake here, and it is one which is particularly prevalent on the left, is to think that progress is entirely dependent on being able to spend lots of extra money.” Astute critique of Labour miserablism by ⁦Andrew Rawnsley⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Timing is everything - with ‘luck’, this makes the site considerably safer from the point of view of all concerned.

Twelve weeks. How much will people be paid if this passes? Why would the state rather than employers pay? Are there figures for the amount of maternity and SSP paid from wk 12-28 in the U.K.? Paid carers leave isn’t, yet, a thing here but … such a pro-enterprise operating model.

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Just 10 streams carry 95% of all river-borne plastic into the ocean. If you want to fix ocean pollution here is a good starting point. Excellent book on the matter by Hannah Ritchie: buff.ly/3xypWw8

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Joe Biden hits US oil drillers with first royalty rate increase in a century on.ft.com/43TPNLb

My wonderful Mum is 75 today 🎉 and proudly sporting her 7+5 badges whilst celebrating another happy return 🥳

To think - some folks stateside are worried about their exploding deficit 💸 whilst half the population prepares to vote for a man whose tax loopholes enabled 350+ large corporates to pay just $562bn in federal income tax on $4trn revenues 2018-22 - an effective tax rate of ~14%.

We have Open Banking.

Why can’t it be offered to benefit claimants and payments from govt paid automatically on the basis of income analysed (rather than declared via endless paperwork) to reflect changing policy/allowances?

HMRC adjusts a person’s tax code based on PAYE data

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On day 58 $silver has printed a DCH leaving very little 'time' to decline into a DCL by breaking below the 10 day MA and daily inclining trend line so expect some significant declines into late next week.

The trouble tends to begin when ‘once in a generation’ changes are applied to macroeconomic forecasting tools / metrics … see: the switch in inflation calculations during the 1980’s.

The deindustrialisation of Germany continues apace...

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If he sacrificed cars but gained peace and the environment for future generations. That would really be something.