[Wendy] 'Hall—a Royal Society fellow...—told attendees she had come from BBC Radio 4’s Today programme where she was asked what AI would look like without women.
She said her response was that it would be “like Grok”, Musk’s highly criticised AI chatbot.'
Of the 752 GPs who replied, 212 refused a sick note or weren't prepared to say.
So people are going to their GP - who is neither qualified to diagnose, nor equipped to treat MH conditions - and almost a third say "no".
Of course, the BBC headline doesn't reflect this.
Okay first eff that guy but also to affirm what you/Emily were saying - it’s not slower to use the library or to talk to a librarian to find information on a topic you’re interested in. Men would rather roll around in their own ignorance and bring about environmental collapse than go to a library!
![A screenshot of a substack post:
Wright: I mean, what I’ve found valuable is, if there’s something I just know nothing about — I mean, like, theories about why Rome fell or something — I find it a much more efficient way to just get a sense for the landscape, because, you know, it’s like having an actual expert that you can interrogate, and—
Bender [like Hanna, shaking her head vigorously]: No, no, there’s no expert there, and you’re not getting a sense of the landscape.
Wright: I don’t know — it’s closer than any other option I have. I definitely can’t summon—
Bender: Oh, go to the library! Talk to a librarian!
Wright: Yeah, but it’s so much slower! It’s so much slower!
Bender: Oh dear, you have to go out in the world and talk to people, like, you’re missing out on so much there, and on top of that you’re getting a fake view of a fake landscape.
This is such a striking and revealing exchange.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m4fvxlyv4gqpugzszzp4cjxf/bafkreidpg3hbiuwdutekccpiimit6ap73nwd4x4dqwdlcao2hrppttniui)
A screenshot of a substack post: Wright: I mean, what I’ve found valuable is, if there’s something I just know nothing about — I mean, like, theories about why Rome fell or something — I find it a much more efficient way to just get a sense for the landscape, because, you know, it’s like having an actual expert that you can interrogate, and— Bender [like Hanna, shaking her head vigorously]: No, no, there’s no expert there, and you’re not getting a sense of the landscape. Wright: I don’t know — it’s closer than any other option I have. I definitely can’t summon— Bender: Oh, go to the library! Talk to a librarian! Wright: Yeah, but it’s so much slower! It’s so much slower! Bender: Oh dear, you have to go out in the world and talk to people, like, you’re missing out on so much there, and on top of that you’re getting a fake view of a fake landscape. This is such a striking and revealing exchange.
He finds it objectionable that Emily told the podcast host to... go to a library to get more verifiable information about the fall of Rome?
"Ministers want to make it harder for inquests to pass verdicts of unlawful killing, which have been crucial in getting justice for women who committed suicide after suffering abuse."
I don't think anyone expected Labour would change course after its electoral drubbing but this is 🤯
Everything is gender, because I do see this happening to professional/expert women a lot. At least some of this is ‘surely you, a woman, can’t be right when this LLM is saying otherwise’
The reason the media are going after Zack Polanski:
His opposition to Israel's genocide & Iran war
The media is not your friend
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
EU "very keen" on Israel cooperation despite public fury, says internal paper electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
I don’t know, if I spent all my time online claiming that a group of people were so terrifying and dangerous that they should be excluded from public life and any space I am in, I wouldn’t spend money to willingly go to a concert with up to 10,000 of them
Yet another piece that bangs on about "DEI" in shameless ignorance of that fact that the thing he's complaining about in the UK context is called "EDI", thus strongly suggesting he doesn't, in fact, know what he's talking about.
Labour: "The UK is putting women and girls at the heart of everything that we do."
Also Labour: "protect abusive men who push women to suicide"
Eric & Don Jr. are turning the Iran war into a family business.
Trump starts war.
Trump bans foreign drone rivals (DJI).
Sons merge their golf co with Powerus to sell 10k drones/mo to the Pentagon.
Their own bank brokers the deal.
The ultimate conflict of interest.
An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement
Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.
Why is it that “left wing” always needs to be added, and “right wing” does not? She’s the deputy PM, without adjectives.
Spain’s left-wing Deputy PM Yolanda Díaz has hit out at the EU’s leadership for being weak on the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.
*See also The Guardian political ‘journalists’
Why are these people so fucking weird? "I'm going to infiltrate a concert by buying a ticket and go along to listen to music I don't know just so I can farm anger on the CSAM site"
What's the actual point here?
Not sure I'm going to buy that they're all so terrified of trans people anymore, given they turned up to a stadium with thousands of them.
Do you reckon, just maybe, they might be motivated by animus towards trans people, rather than a mere belief in "biological sex"? Who's to say.
We have written to Wes Streeting over the fact that his decision to pause the trial seems to have been based entirely on a letter whose author has now been recused due to bias.
They're doing post-9-11 "why do they hate us" style takes from the cockpits of bombers.
Elad Simchayoff on twitter: I interviewed two Israeli Air Force pilots who are part of the operation in Iran. When I asked what it felt like to enter Iranian airspace for the first time, one of them said: “You find yourself thinking, what do these people, so far away from us, actually want from us? They have a huge and beautiful country. Right now full of snow and lakes. Truly a very, very beautiful place. What do they want from us, this small piece of land? It’s such a strange feeling.”
A surprising number of Israelis seem to have already forgotten that they're the ones who started the war.
It’s priced in
I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.
'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
““This horrific crime represents a continuation of the violations committed by the RSF in the White Nile,” said Dr. Razan Al-Mahdi,…adding that the paramilitaries attacked several civilian facilities in the past two days, including a student dormitory and a power station.”
India may not like doing business with China. But a solar farm imported from China can supply electricity for decades, while a cargo of LNG imported from the United States is burned up in days.
