Tip for politicians: don’t begin every statement with “I am clear”. It sounds stupid and we know by now it means “I am lying”.
The Guardian reports:
Minister orders immigration centre to remove ‘balloon craft’ job ads
A Labour minister indulging in performative cruelty worthy of Robert Jenrick. It is shameful how politicians can always find an alternative to treating people with dignity.
To risk stating the obvious: LLM benchmarks are bullshit not because LLM vendors game them, but because the benchmarks are proxies for general human ability and intelligence. They are in no way proxies for the general abilities of statistical models, even if they weren’t gamed.
Ordered a Chromebook from Amazon. Went to the locker where it was delivered and found an open bottle of Lucozade and a roll of duck tape instead.
This is an interesting read from Ars Technica on the ills of social media and whether they can be fixed.
I am so struggling with IndieWeb syndication that I’m mainly writing in my (analogue) notebook with a comforting Sailor Princess raden pen. I don’t want digital technology to be painful anymore.
The Labour government are making cuts, not making policy. It’s a rerun of the Coalition’s “shrinking the state”. What didn’t work in 2010 won’t work now.
This will come as a shock to Oxbridge PPEs and members of the political class: neoliberalism is an ideology not a description of reality.
Here are some culinarily rules of thumb:
- Use more garlic than suggested
- Use a little more chilli
- Add less salt. You can always adjust
- Bayleaves sweeten cooked tomatoes better than sugar
- Bengali 5 spice (panch phoran) helps with brassicas
- Herbes de Provence fix all white bean dishes.
It is clear that criminal and far-right influencer Stephen Yaxley-Lennon either enjoys the protection of the British state or a rogue group of police and security services officers who presumably endorse his politics.