Can’t help feeling that humanity is pumping an almost unimaginable quantity of resources into making machines “smarter” and how we’ve failed to come remotely close to investing in our fellow humans in this way - imagine the knowledge and art we could have if all humans were allowed to fully flourish

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Author Sally Rooney can't sell her books in the UK, academic Andreas Malm can't enter the UK, but there's nary a peep over Dame Claire Fox's prominent conference, Battle of Ideas, attended by many MPs, with a single bookstall from Oldspeak, a bookshop that almost exclusively sells fascist propaganda

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You'd never imagine from this that there are opposing views on how much we should spend on welfare. The need for cuts is simply presented as a given. This is as bad as the BBC's "maxed-out credit card" nonsense of a few years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Some of us still remember when an NFT company launched with the most accidentally appropriate name ever because they didn't run it past any British people www.indy100.com/viral/nft-co...

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Oh, that sounds familiar...

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