Tim Winstanley

Cardiac Athlete and parkrun obsessive.

[Tim Winstanley @TimWinstanley]

@MickMickstevo @alexberesfordTV At the time it was a national emergency: a 16-month drought, standpipes in the streets, the Drought Act, a literal Minister for Drought appointed, crop failures, and a measurable spike in deaths during the peak fortnight. But yeah, summer....

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@DavidSacks Taking you at your word - "not a doomsday device," GPT-5.5 matches it, defenders before attackers - the ban fails all three. A US passport doesn't make it safe, and it disarmed the vetted defenders who were Mythos's only users. You've made the case against it without naming it.

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@kimmonismus The problem isn't that gating AI by passport is unfair It's that it's self-defeating: if the model is genuinely dangerous a lunatic with a US passport does identical damage. A foreign ban can't touch the threat they claim to fear. It only works if danger was never the real reason

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@dari1063 @AndrewCurran_ "Too dangerous for any foreign national, anywhere." So the danger vanishes the instant the user holds a US passport? A nationality ban can't fix a capability risk. Either it isn't about danger - or it's the wrong tool, swung hard.

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@infohazard_lol 💯

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@ShippersUnbound Blair's essay has a tell: incapacity benefit ballooning, NHS structure, Whitehall as it is - all partly Blair's inheritance to us. "We did it before" doesn't grapple with why his own government left these where they did. Who's allowed to say that to him?

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@ShippersUnbound @ShippersUnbound on your "every honest sensible person privately agrees" - does that consensus extend to the bit Blair doesn't say, that ministers shouldn't have to come from Parliament? Because that's in the essay and it's the most constitutionally radical line in it.

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@JRWalsh @MonkEmma @Hudsonweather Funny how “I’m just asking questions” always ends at “the world’s climate scientists know the truth but choose to hide it.” That’s not heathy scepticism. Its literally a conspiracy theory

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@JRWalsh @Mcconnor8 @Hudsonweather 1300–1680 is ~380 years not “decades”. And that graph’s blue line is Central England, not global climate. Your graph makes the point -the far right spike shows today’s measured global warming is much faster than past regional wiggles. “Little Ice Age recovery” work.

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@Hudsonweather Dredging. We should dredge. In my day we dredged and it didn't get as hot....ermmmm

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@maxbergmann Europe doesn't lack troops or shells, it's the satellite ISR and air-to-ground targeting that makes those shells land on the right Russian. That's the American contribution worth worrying about and it's the one Europe is quietly racing to replace. Everything else is solvable

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@Microinteracti1 @SenMikeLee Keeps being framed as USA doing Europe a favour. Reality is USA got reserve currency, trade rules, fwd bases, and 75 years where every war happened somewhere else - all for 3-4% of GDP. The post-war era's most successful propaganda. It convinced the beneficiary he was the victim

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@Microinteracti1 @SenMikeLee The one argument Lee leans on hardest, that 'the original threat is gone,' is the single thing the last four years have most obviously disproved. Russia is currently fighting a land war of conquest in Europe. You'd have to actively look away from the map to write that sentence

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@Microinteracti1 The structural case is stronger than you're making it. Trump pressured NATO into 5% of GDP by 2035, got what he asked for and made it politically impossible for a penny of it to reach Lockheed or Raytheon. He sold the allies the gun then poisoned the well.
Art of the deal.

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

Nineteenth-century cities grew fast. Berlin’s population grew twenty times, Manchester’s twenty-five times, and New York’s a hundred times. Sydney’s population grew around 240 times and Toronto’s maybe 1,700 times. Between 1833 and 1900, Chicago’s population grew around five thousand times, meaning that on average it doubled every five years.

Homes were larger and far more affordable. Vast networks of trams, buses and suburban railways were built. Running water, gas, drains and electricity was retrofitted into old fabric. Despite having been built at breakneck speed, cities in 1914 were pretty good places.

How was this achieved? The short answer: vigorous interventionism about streets and drains, state-mandated monopolies for transport and utilities infrastructure, and lightly regulated permissiveness for everything else.

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@nlm53 @LionelMedia

[Richard Holmes 🕵🏻‍♂️ @Richard_AHolmes]

Tale as old as time. Details from our exclusive story below were included in a Sunday Times piece without citation. Now, other media outlets are giving them the credit for it.

These things seem small but they do have an impact. Very frustrating.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I posted this during Trump’s first visit to the UK in 2018. And maybe now 7 years on, you can all finally see it?

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@InterstellarUAP This - I was thinking *exactly* this this morning.

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@nickpopemod Hurty wordies' is doing heavy lifting. He's talking about deepfakes and revenge porn-sexual abuse with extra steps. 'Some speech laws are too broad, therefore don't regulate image-based abuse' doesn't follow.