Leon Emirali

Former aide to UK cabinet minister. Founder @NostradaAI.

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Regulating AI for young people needs huge care. If government overcorrects, we risk holding back British kids entering a global workforce that will demand fluency in these tools.

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@JAHeale Remarkably accurate.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Alan Clark on Tory associations:

“I find most of them boring, petty, malign, clumsily conspiratorial and parochial to a degree that cannot be surpassed in any part of the United Kingdom”

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Every government with or contemplating a social media ban should invest in this (or others).

The answer was always going to be hardware - not toothless 'bans' that could be easily overridden.

[Ritwik Pavan @ritwikpavan]

NEW: Freckle built a phone for kids with no browser app store social media or YouTube.

It gives 7-to-13-year-olds tools to explore outside while still calling and texting family.

-Discovery Camera identifies birds plants rocks and more
-Quests turn outdoor time into missions
-Bump two Freckles to pair walkie-talkie mode
-Why Chat answers questions in kid-friendly language
-Maps are built for walking biking scooters and skateboards
-Tap to Pay works with parent-set spending limits
-Backed by Reddit co-founder @alexisohanian and Seven Seven Six

Priced at $199 plus $25/month for cellular service. Ships in December.

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@HackBlackburn This is v true

[Tyler Kim @tylertaewook]

Today we’re launching https://t.co/3PmkMcWHNN, a single front door to the federal government.

Instead of opening a bunch of tabs across different agency sites and trying to figure out which information actually matters to you, you can ask America a question and get the relevant answer from across 29,000+ official government websites, with the source and what to do next.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils https://t.co/tMEB6EUmxg, the new online home for the United States of America

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Burnham is the first truly effective political teacher Labour has had since Blair.

[Leon Emirali @LeonEmirali]

This is a good use of AI.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

What really happened after the State Dinner.
The lost Xi camera roll has been found.

[Leon Emirali @LeonEmirali]

Nothing has shaken my tech optimism like watching Toy Story 5 has.

[Adam Cherry @_adamcherry_]

Simply don’t buy it. Bookmark for later.

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Specifics of the policy aside - this is the right attitude.
The general public are really not that great, and we need to stop idolising them. Don't be a Brendan!

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

the uk government's official ai guidance tells civil servants to use gemini flash instead of pro, keep prompts short, and not say thank you to it, for the environment

i do wonder at which point we forked the road. instead of building and using it to automate the work, we write guidance on how to use less of it

we have the attitude of a high school prefect. caring more about the rules than actually doing the work

[Leon Emirali @LeonEmirali]

Listening to @polcurrency. @edballs says the UN trip can’t have gone better for Burnham in “optics terms”. Was he watching the same thing as the rest of us?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Donald Trump says the Chagos Islands deal is a "terrible deal"

"I don't support it... I think it's ridiculous. We were talking about that"

[Jonathan Maze @jonathanmaze]

Here is a somewhat futuristic look at a potential @mcdonalds drive-thru AI. This is a video not an actual demo. And the geofencing technology that recognizes the loyalty members (which they’d opt into) is not in the wild yet. But this is where they’re headed.

Drive-thru AI is being tested in 10 stores. The company says this can take 50 hours of labor out of the restaurant per week.

[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

One of the most attractive qualities of old school Tories is their complete intolerance for ethno-nationalism, because they believe so strongly in individual rights trumping group identity.

It’s why they elected a Jewish leader in the 19th century.

It’s why Churchill was Hitler’s harshest critic.

It’s why they were the first party to elect a woman leader.

It’s why they were the first party to have a non-white PM.

And it’s why the likes of JRM and many others have zero tolerance for the nativism of the populist right.

[Leon Emirali @LeonEmirali]

@adamghaida Presume it’d be bicep band to not cannibalise Apple Watch sales too hard

[Leon Emirali @LeonEmirali]

@Stone_SkyNews Could do with wiping his camera lens too!

[Mark Stone @Stone_SkyNews]

Someone get Britain’s AI minister a microphone ! 🎤

[Politics.co.uk @Politics_co_uk]

🗓️ ON THIS DAY | 21 September

95 years ago, facing a run on the pound, the National Government under Ramsay MacDonald rushed a bill through parliament in a single day to suspend the gold standard

Full History Hub briefing👇🧵