Anj 💙 😷 Covid-19 is in the air

European and citizen of the world trapped on a small and now insignificant island.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

It's an old table of mine from prob 2022. Plan 5 for 2023 starters has lower interest, but the other terms are far worse than its predecessor so it shifted the pendulum towards the individual paying more the state less (the 44p & 19p are govt's own numbers from the time)

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Irish politicians are avoiding questions about Aughinish. Patrick O’Donovan refuses to answer my calls. The refinery is in his constituency

He says the Russian owned plant is not connected to Russia’s war machine, without showing evidence. They want this to blow over. It won’t

[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

City of London transparency survey launched ➡️ https://t.co/XgYq1et3Ev

[#WASPI Campaign @WASPI_Campaign]

The Government has vast resources on its side. We have right & plenty of determination on ours. But we need your help. Read our latest legal update here. Please donate & share our Crowdjustice fundraiser too. #WASPI #JusticeForWASPIWomen
https://t.co/Unq0XH7aCh

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Campaigners have expressed “deep concern” over a ruling by the Supreme Court that could “fundamentally” alter the lives of hundreds of thousands of disabled people who rely on the health and social care systems.
https://t.co/IHBJaSidCr

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

NEW - Tommy Robinson - A Life in the Day

I had the pleasure of working on this with little Tommy.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

After 2021 scandal Lex Greensill banned from UK company directorships for 9 yrs.

Left £1.6bn debt.

Greensill can control offshore companies, trade with UK.

Former PM David Cameron was adviser, secretly lobbied to get public money for Greensill.
https://t.co/3foESLIBQT

[Anj 💙 😷 Covid-19 is in the air @LarocheCS]

https://t.co/NLvnFCjwsM

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"

https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

👉NEW -- Parliament could hold vote to ban Israeli soldiers from UK

by @martinrw

Amendment tabled by Jeremy Corbyn would prevent the entry of soldiers from foreign countries subject to war crimes investigations
https://t.co/cVtHwvjknc

[#WASPI Campaign @WASPI_Campaign]

Over 3m #WASPI women have been brushed aside by the government. Many ,many of those MPs stood beside us pledging their support. This shameful rejection will not be accepted and we now have to challenge them in court. Read our latest legal update,share our appeal and please donate to help us finally get justice. Thank you.
https://t.co/azZsZ8O57y

[Anj 💙 😷 Covid-19 is in the air @LarocheCS]

@nickdearden75 @mattprescott 💪🏻👌🏻

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

We’ve filed the court papers. We don’t believe the government acted legally when it ripped up NHS price controls at the behest of Donald Trump and Big Pharma. They must bring this deal to parliament.

https://t.co/N17O1pMXJM

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Today, I sat down with President Zelensky

Last year, Trump told him he had no cards & to say thank you. Now, the US just asked Ukraine for help. The tables have turned.

Out tomorrow 7pm EST 🔥❤️🇺🇦

[Anj 💙 😷 Covid-19 is in the air @LarocheCS]

@aurumfinancial @HowToAI_ Borh ChatGPT ans Claude It made a hash of doing a multi card credit card balance transfer scenario

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

turns out AI models cannot do math.. even grade school math. the kind a 10-year-old solves.

Apple published a devastating study that exposes a massive illusion at the core of artificial intelligence.

they took the standard math benchmark (GSM8K) that every AI company uses to brag about how smart their model is.

first, they just changed the names in the word problems.. the models' performance fluctuated for no reason.

then, they changed the numbers. the performance immediately dropped.

but then they ran the test that broke everything.

they added one single, completely irrelevant sentence to the word problem. something like: "By the way, 5 of the apples were green."

A human 10-year-old ignores the green apples and solves the underlying math.

the AI didn't.

across every state-of-the-art model, performance collapsed by up to 65%.

the AI blindly grabbed the irrelevant number and tried to shove it into the equation. it didn't know why it was doing the math. it just saw a number and assumed it was supposed to use it.

there is no genuine logical reasoning happening under the hood.

we are deploying these systems to run our finances, analyze our legal documents, and make complex strategic decisions.

but the models don't actually understand the logic they are spitting out.

they just know what a smart answer is supposed to look like.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The DWP is secretly testing sweeping new rules – described as a “recipe for disaster” – on disability benefit assessments, which will reduce the influence of healthcare professionals and hand greater responsibility to civil servants.
https://t.co/I1PdYgjlRd

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Ex-Prince Andrew & his family had 12 properties, owned by the Crown Estate or the Royal Household, acc to the National Audit Office

3 of those properties he sub-let - the report doesn’t say how much he got in rent, but Palace sources suggest he rented them to staff or retired staff & the amount was only enough to cover running costs.

Whatever the amount, it went to directly to Andrew rather than the Crown Estate, which would pay its profits back to the Treasury

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

Marco Rubio acknowledged that Ukrainians are fighting effectively.
Now imagine what Ukraine could have achieved if every promised weapon had arrived on time — or arrived at all.