Great news that Speaker Mike Johnson is putting the crucial Ukraine aid package before Congress. The Ukrainians desperately need air defences now.

Evolution of Deano Fashion on ‘Love Island’ - 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

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This is appalling

Hope they call it LlamasWithHats

New: Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell has been arrested (again)

🆕 on Air Street Press: we delve into the murky world of frontier model economics, asking whether bigger, badder, and faster really is the future for most applications.

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NEW: One of the UK’s most high profile A.I. start ups Stability AI announced a round of layoffs last night. More to follow

.Liz Truss: “We are in the ludicrous position of importing fracked gas from the US that has been liquified to-180 C but refusing to frack ourselves. Meanwhile, the British are paying twice as much for our energy as the Americans.”

The Spectator's 2024 internship scheme is now open.

We don't ask for CVs as we think that system is stale and unfair. We anonymise applications.

It's the fairest - and perhaps toughest - internship scheme in journalism. spectator.co.uk/article/the-sp…

I first went to a talk in London about the possibility of China trying to take Taiwan by force in 2016. An ex-Admiral. There were 8 of us in the audience. He said no-one else seemed to have noticed, or was actively trying not to notice.

He was right.

warontherocks.com/2024/04/china-…

Pretty alarming assessment from someone who led the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence until last summer. 'Xi’s most critical choices reflect a march to war....All strategic war preparation indicators are brightly lit' warontherocks.com/2024/04/china-…

This made me chuckle, Eamonn Butler.

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'Projected global warming has fallen by a third in the last decade' is a good news story that in my experience not a lot of global warming-concerned people have heard and internalized

Oh my god. 😂

GPT-4 uses the word “delve” so much because many of the RLHF’s (reinforcement learning human feedback) workers for GPT-4 were Nigerians who use the word “delve” a lot more relative to other countries.

So GPT-4 writes like an educated anglophone African.

Skinny jeans were truly a blight on mankind

More progress towards a new model of medicine in which a wide range of data could be combined through AI to help assess an individual’s health

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Profit is moral. It’s the prize for a supermarket that keeps the shelves full, builds and renovates stores, and invests in complex logistics systems that improve productivity and keep down prices.

Me in ⁦City A.M.⁩: cityam.com/lets-be-honest…

New Ipsos poll

Lab 44%
Con 19%
Reform 13%
LD 9%
Green 9%

Worse Tory result in the history of Ipsos polling going back to 1978.

Sunak rating now as low as Major and Corbyn at their lowest points.
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…