Very Terry 🔥

Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

People with car boots they close with a little button. Them.

Posted with spelling errors to hammer home the point.

The News Agents @thenewsagents.c... • 5m "It's clear Starmer has learnt from Iraq. Blair does not seem to have done so." Tony Blair has said that Keir Starmer "should have backed America from the very beginning" in the Iran war.

Tony has learned he can bullshit the nation into a disastrous war; refuse to admit to any wrongdoing; get rewarded for it with seats at the top tables of business and government, plus a zillion pounds and a knighthood. Why would he change his mind now?

SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you?
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

I had this for over fifteen years. Finally got over it and was very glad I did, FWIW.

Only if Everton finish fifth and don't get in the CL.

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” r...

Oh hey it's the same cohort that's impressed by LLMs

MOTM for me

To the tune of Prince's "When Doves Cry"

Just under a year ago, I provocatively asked in a title whether Starmer's Labour could be considered far right

Recent events, between Mahmood's appalling asylum seeker policy and Starmer's own appalling comments against Mothin Ali make it sound ever less provocative...

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Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

Key takeaways? You mean locksmiths?

The Open University

The Open University have released a new statement on this issue www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/u...

The final line is bleak and revealing "The current boss, previously a supporter of the Conservatives, was recently made a Labour peer by Keir Starmer, and was appointed as the government’s cost of living champion a month ago."

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New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."

"School wars": Moral panic or self-fulfilling prophecy? The Metropolitan Police say they still haven't encountered a single incident relating to the viral red vs blue school wars trend. So is the threat real? And are parents unduly worried?

I’ve been obsessed with the “school wars” meme, what it says about London, the very real fears of parents, algorithmic school rumours… and why almost no other news outlets have just sent people to stand and see what happened. Here’s where we’ve ended up. www.londoncentric.media/p/school-war...

I used to love Bella Magazine for the one page short story with a twist at the end around this age.

Decided to become an influencer

Minutes played for Liverpool before turning 18.

Working on a newsletter about how much football Rio Ngumoha has played for Liverpool. Should they use him more or should they be careful? Michael Owen played rather more than him before he turned 18...

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I addressed this a decade ago. Did my blog post die in vain? share.google/hDbFtCNdd9h6...

The new year once started in March—here's why For starters, January didn’t exist for the ancient Romans. Here’s how their calendar evolved into our modern system of marking time.

The Roman Calendar didn't observe January and February, so neither should we.

Despite some monumental stuff happening around the world, TFI March!

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For all the others learning Welsh out there!
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

The performance/match reminded me of 90s Liverpool as well!

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

AI doesn't actually take jobs; it is just used as an excuse to avoid backfilling them.

In addition to demolishing organizational knowledge, this also kills off opportunities for junior ICs *and* junior managers to get experience. Instead, all roles are reduced to mindless efficiency hunting.

The government of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian described the killing of the supreme leader as a ‘criminal attack’ that would not go ‘unanswered’.

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