With the additional and even more obvious corollary that just because you're fighting your own supporters doesn't mean you're right and they're wrong
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With the additional and even more obvious corollary that just because you're fighting your own supporters doesn't mean you're right and they're wrong
The thing cargo cult Blairites don't understand is that Blair didn't say 'It's a political goldmine to start a fight with my own supporters' and work his way backwards from there. He made a virtue of it on those occasions when he *had to* fight his own members
There used to be a guy with a jerk chicken stall down Deptford High Street who did a bit where he went 'Oops, nearly gave you the black-people sauce', before going on to instead give you the (I assume) white-people sauce
Another vindication of @london.gov.uk & councillors across London in implementing proactive policies to cut air pollution across the city, even against wider political pressures. Shows what can be achieved with bold leadership.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pleased with this thoughtful and interesting review of my book:
Good piece on Labour's economic blindspots from @chrisdillow.bsky.social
I'd add another source of ideological/analytical weakness: Labour has as its focus an historical actor - the "hero" Blue Labour working class - who is no longer economic centre stage.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...
Every time some idiot Blue Labour MP comes out championing social conservatism as a core aspect of the party I feel like asking “ok, so which socially conservative beliefs should Labour be upholding?” and getting the response of “oh you know, those ones.”
I’m becoming increasingly radicalised against the idea that a party’s history means anything. Truly why am I expected to care about what the early union movement thought. Is it a good idea or is it not.
one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism
Hello, my name is Keir Starmer. Tony Blair and Donald Trump are shouting at me for not enthusiastically backing a war. I will somehow find a way to finish this week even less popular than I am now
Republican Congressman (quoted in the Times) says,
"the United States always takes for granted, the UK's partnership."
That's precisely the point. No country can take another for granted, no matter how longstanding the alliance.
The Prime Minister is absolutely right to be defending UK interests.
Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition.
I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
I can't explain why, but I am convinced that Bridgerton is somehow evil
title: your ai slop bores me prompt: beautiful man high quality next gen large chest realistic result: pen drawing showing very highly rendered face
wow it works
New Research! This summer I went to 272 'School Streets' in Paris, generating a comprehensive picture of this massive street-pedestrianization program. I cataloged amenities, tracked their development over time, and carried a thermal camera 📸
Thread on the findings 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/0739...
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Buy less candles
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Painting crossings rainbow colour $127000000000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my navy is dying
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
"Mainline conservatism is dying. In the US and UK at least, it is dead.This has been destabilizing to be sure, but let us not waste too much sympathy on it. It caused many harms and ignored many more. We should not fight for a creed that could not fight for itself."
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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About the rule that says sometimes you have to be the asshole. There is no rule. You don't ever have to be the asshole.
Sorry, sorry, I know this is wet, but, after seeing the below tweet, I couldn't get this out of my head until I made it
9. It can reasonably be objected that the starry-eyed advocates of LLMs are themselves cultists. Even some inside the tribe accept that it is so! But too much Bluesky AI discourse reminds me of vintage Dawkins/Harris atheism - taking up the bad intellectual habits of those they condemn. Finis.
5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.
Yeah, I’m reminded of the comparison I had relayed to me: “It’s like going to a gym and using a forklift to lift the weights.”
Weird, it seems like 'anti-immigration' voters are just racists. Who'd have thought. What a surprise.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's a shame the 'I'd give it a minute if I were you' joke was never funny even before it got old, because an AI called My Anus that promises 'complete, polished deliverables' seems like it was made up specifically for that gag
Goodwin's campaign much less successful than Reform suggest
Reform had a path to victory: win a third of the vote for themselves - and hope for a progressive split
They did not do what they needed to do for themselves to make that possible
By-electiion contender only matched national poll%
