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My vibes-based but strongly-held opinion: 🪖 The Soviets, Pinochet, Mobutu and Mussolini would have loved AI. 🎖️ The Khmer Rouge, English Puritans, Nazis and Falangists would have hated it. ojusher.medium.com/chatkgb-what...

ChatKGB: what would the Soviets have made of AI?And other what-ifs from the history of tyrannyojusher.medium.com

This excellent question from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has been playing on my mind, so I've had a go at thinking through what various horrible dictatorships would have made of AI. ojusher.medium.com/chatkgb-what...

ChatKGB: what would the Soviets have made of AI?And other what-ifs from the history of tyrannyojusher.medium.com

It's now over 18 years since there was a government department led by a Welsh MP (Hain, DWP) and over 16 years since there was a Scottish MP (Darling, Treasury; Alexander, DFID). I know there's a lot going on, but I think this is genuinely insane if you care even slightly about the union.

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The thing with these freaks like Dominic Cummings and all his imitators is that they've never had a real job, so you could stick a Salesforce or Looker Studio dashboard on a big screen and tell them all about the "PhD physicists" who had developed it and they would be impressed.

This posts your Trophies directly to your National Record of Achievement

Reviewing dozens of job slopplications today. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

This is ridiculous, but there’s also a ridiculous loophole. Fly to Dublin on your EU passport. You’re then in the common travel area and can continue on to the UK without checks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rulesThe dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policywww.theguardian.com

This is art.

This is a really excellent question, and I think the answer is that they would have loved it, for reasons that are not a great compliment either to Soviet economics or to AI.

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

My controversial take is that Euston Station really doesn't deserve the hate. With more sympathetic shop frontages inside, the mezzanine removed and some clutter cleaned up, it could actually be a pretty classy space.

Idea: companies should only be allowed to present AI-generated text to customers if they use a font that clearly indicates you’re talking to a robot

Is drug dealers advertising on Google Maps a new thing?

If they could bring it forward to 12 July then it would make it 7 PMs in 10 years.

@gwr.com If your service is running an hour late and the previous two were cancelled, how about you open the ticket barriers rather than wasting even more of everybody’s time, eh? You’re going to have to delay-repay everyone anyway.