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@chapofwessex @realhansard He literally joined the Pakistan army 💀

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@baylissbaghdad @QCMetellusPius They don’t even bother checking how the government/law defines it

https://t.co/APS6mcyiG6

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This is not true even by the government’s own definitions.

If it were you’d be able to say something ridiculous like “Poles are part of the ethnic majority of Britain”, which is why they are different in the ONS census.

Acas even explicitly says this! https://t.co/iAkCq4B3yb

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This is not true even by the government’s own definitions.

If it were you’d be able to say something ridiculous like “Poles are part of the ethnic majority of Britain”, which is why they are different in the ONS census.

Acas even explicitly says this! https://t.co/iAkCq4B3yb

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

@JoeMarkham5 “White” is an ethnicity. English is a nationality

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@emergenteffects Reminds me more of Liz Truss than Starmer, just a slow motion left wing version.

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The Falklands will be defended by Kosovars called Tonibler

[kos_data @kos_data]

🇽🇰🇬🇧 Kosovo recognizes the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) as part of Great Britain.

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Why am I having to do mandatory DEI training on George Floyd and Roe vs Wade in the year of our lord 2026. And for a British company no less!

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@bharattaxoffice @bnzchr They should instead campaign to bring back behaviour and upkeep conditions for social housing tenancy (which were common up to the 70s). No antisocial behaviour, upkeep gardens etc.

Wouldn’t be race based but would improve things a lot.

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@juice8882 @UKChange Friendly media pumping out 10 AI written pieces at 6am everyday so no one else can say anything

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Looks like the sad event is going to be used to push for more media censorship, again

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

QED- what on Earth was the public interest in this?

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@AscendedYield In theory it could be done through rising productivity rather than infinite Boriswaves but we all know that’s not going to happen

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TLDR he's just cherry-picking speculative figures (like the MAC Fiscal Impact of Immigration report which is 60 years of projection based on one year of observation) and ignoring the past 25 years of actual reality on immigration.

But apparently this time it'll be different.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

New post:

"The myth of the 'Boriswave'"

The online right claim that the immigrants who arrived between 21-24 will bankrupt the country.

This isn't true but they've created a mainstream panic that could lead us down a dangerous path.

(£/free trial)

https://t.co/U2yrvavUtj

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@MrGray212 @HuddsPrsrvtnSoc @MythoYookay Economic inactivity rates:

White Brits in Wales: 24%
Pakistani/Bangladeshi in London: 31%

https://t.co/t9mVHrcQMZ

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@HuddsPrsrvtnSoc @MrGray212 @MythoYookay And that’s only for people with jobs - if you corrected for economic activity the difference would be even starker

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@MrGray212 @HuddsPrsrvtnSoc @MythoYookay …yes?

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Karpathy talked about the race to an LLM “cognitive core” - where models have less baked in knowledge but more capability/intelligence.

https://t.co/IdcdqIYCBl

Given he’s now at Anthropic I wonder if this is what they’re working on and trying out with opus/sonnet 5.

Though if it is I think they’ve got the balance wrong, they’re not very usable right now.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing.
Its features are slowly crystalizing:

- Natively multimodal text/vision/audio at both input and output.
- Matryoshka-style architecture allowing a dial of capability up and down at test time.
- Reasoning, also with a dial. (system 2)
- Aggressively tool-using.
- On-device finetuning LoRA slots for test-time training, personalization and customization.
- Delegates and double checks just the right parts with the oracles in the cloud if internet is available.

It doesn't know that William the Conqueror's reign ended in September 9 1087, but it vaguely recognizes the name and can look up the date. It can't recite the SHA-256 of empty string as e3b0c442..., but it can calculate it quickly should you really want it.

What LLM personal computing lacks in broad world knowledge and top tier problem-solving capability it will make up in super low interaction latency (especially as multimodal matures), direct / private access to data and state, offline continuity, sovereignty ("not your weights not your brain"). i.e. many of the same reasons we like, use and buy personal computers instead of having thin clients access a cloud via remote desktop or so.

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@londinburgh Services/service broadly defined - she’s ordering the station staff around for ages before she decides to walk! The power trip of the sunflower lanyard class.

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In a way this is similar to the Jason Arday case. If you incentivise certain behaviours you will get more of them!

Unfortunately second order consequences seem beyond the ken of anyone involved in policy

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Absolutely nothing will prepares you for what this wheelchair user does when the chairlift at a train station doesn’t work.

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@londinburgh That’s definitely true although the materialist in me thinks that is all downstream of getting free money and services

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@realhansard The BBC one day after Jo Cox’s murder

https://t.co/Qkn2JBiZdW

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@jewndahalfmen Highest fertility rate in the OECD