Andrew Jones

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Pathetic

[Dave Ward @DaveWardGS]

BT made £1.3bn, gave £750m to shareholders and the CEO got £3.5m.

We have members using foodbanks.

Today BT announced £400m profit for 1/4 year.

Tomorrow our members strike for the first time since 1987 and have been subjected to extreme intimidation.

RT if you back them.

[Brendan May @bmay]

I have no words.

[D&D Beyond @DnDBeyond]

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[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

Billy Joel's 'We didn't start the fire' really hits this week when you get to the line "TROUBLE IN THE SUEZ"

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

8. It should go without saying, but for those at the back:

🛑Anyone accused of a criminal offence has the right to a fair trial.

🛑It’s not a fair trial if the prosecution has lawyers and the accused does not.

🛑Legal aid rates are fixed by government well below market rates.

[Alanah Pearce @Charalanahzard]

hey george u up

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

Boris Johnson has touchingly praised the two immigrant nurses who stood by his bedside for 48 hours at the height of his illness

here is a reminder of some of Vote Leave’s anti-immigration rhetoric from 2016

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Night night everyone

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Requiring Commonwealth ex-servicemen to pay thousands in visa fees to remain in the country they risked their lives for seems about as wrong as a thing can get. What am I missing?

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Why don’t you pay to open enough courtrooms so that they don’t have to spend 2 years waiting for a trial?

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

BREAKING: Tories begin arduous task of sorting out nine years of the Tories.

[Dr Dom Pimenta MD @DrDomPimenta]

If you don’t believe a 4-year old boy would have to lie down on an A&E floor then this thread is for you.

1) The four hour target for patients to be seen, treated and transferred hasn’t been met in years and is at its worst ever.

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Wondering how the fuck we get truth back again.

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

Online, Britain is now having precisely the sort of filthy, chaotic, lawless, money-driven election that some of us have been warning about for years. https://t.co/qoW5vYlL7w