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I now start to wonder if the "legal threats" were anything more than a flimsy excuse

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Well this piece certainly delivers and the last par is 😬

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work The new review has led to a ban for HRT through the NHS England system under the age of 18.

Absolutely excellent article here from @erininthemorning.com summarising, in plain terms, the terrible methodological failures of this evidence review.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-nhs-en...

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster

Rabbit by marriage

"Subverting the way public or state institutions exercise their powers, in order to further ideological goals"

I look forward to the government crackdown on Sex Matters

You realise that whole thing was a stitch-up by the Sun, right?

I'm in a Tory seat that is so safe that it wasn't even close to changing hands at the last election despite the incumbent being a Johnson fan.

The MP is a GC who congratulated Streeting on the puberty blocker ban.

Not sure that writing to my MP is going to move the needle

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Boosting for visibility

And this is the anti-trans logic loop:

1. demand evidence

2. design reviews that cannot find evidence

3. cite absence of evidence as justification for withdrawing care

4. use withdrawal of care to prevent generation of new evidence.

It's what the Reagan administration did to trans folks.

Is this why it was anonymous?

This is not how you would review the evidence if your top concern was the health and safety of these children.

Fair enough. I remember similar arguments against rooftop vs utility- scale solar. Of course utility scale is more cost effective per MW, but the argument iirc was that adding DERs has much better effects on the grid that aren't captured.

(Also, price should constrain but not dictate policy!)

a chart showing that. There's almost no impact on productivity for firms, the vast majority showing either no impact or a very, very small impact, less than 5%,

The impact of "AI" on productivity over for large firms over the past 3 years (US, UK, DE, Aus) according to NBERS

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www.nber.org/system/files...

This is both an interesting discussion and a bad way of looking at it.

We need heat pumps and offshore wind to get to net zero. So the answer has to be both/and, not either/or.

The assumption seems to be that we should only spend money on the most cost-efficient single way of cutting CO2e.

thought the name rang a bell and though he's poshified himself - once upon a time he was "Craig Dillon" - I interviewed this guy back in 2019 as he was doing social media for MPs in a vaguely interesting way - crucially, he seemed entirely normal back then! yet another radicalisation case

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.

This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.

The study underpinning this played one particular trick.

Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

I dip in to GB News and Talk because it's important to see what they are saying and getting away with.

My impression is that both are pushing the boundaries of "acceptable discourse" well beyond the limits.

Stuff like this has become normal, and it's frightening.

The distribution of letters in English words.

Sorry, my mistake. He's such a fossil I assumed he was dead. But we live in the age of monsters

I believe this can happen. I just think the points of contact with reality are few and far between.

To take a trivial example, I don't think anyone can look at Tesla's stock valuation and think that fundamentals always matter

Blanchard was gay? Why am I reminded of Streeting

SQUID BREAK

This NHS policy-based evidence-making is becoming more and more transparently corrupt.

Presumably it's the AGPs which are the predators, if we're doing Blanchard's bullshit typography

If the whole market is trading on vibes based shit, you can't beat it by doing what you think is correct. Keynesian beauty contest innit.

everything in the world is incredibly fucked and there are daily heartbreaking preventable tragedies because the world is run by demented ghoulish pedophiles which induces a feeling of powerlessness, but on the bright side, the absurdity is *really* funny. A+ tier bit right here.

No words. Good ones, anyway