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Good job this time they spelt United correctly...

I reread the "five points" that lead to rejecting the Euro in the first place and it is essential "mortgages". As always the UK population cares only about one thing. I don't think the independence / influence the ECB question will ever resolve as the tabloids can magnify any minor negatives

Isn't everyone like "Who? Newt Gingrich? WTF?"

Peak AI when congress members skeet matrices... If you click the "thinking..." portion you would see if this is really downloaded from Llama or just made up some numbers on the spot...

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The fact that a platform of this importance is not built in house on open source is truly astonishing. Total failure of statecraft in favour of a bit of money

This will accelerate aging as immigrants are younger and have more children (per number compared to the total population). Possibility of a doom loop

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Not sure the enthusiasm is there as it was in 2004 - people don't forget Brexit - CEE is in a much better place - There are more destinations not just three - A lot of places tolerant if you only speak English and not natvie

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But neither the Euro or Schengen are serious economic matters (negatively) so we are talking about political tradeoffs and that is tabloid populism land. You can't argue about benefits with someone who is unable to objectively assess the situation.

Both have FOM. You can't sell anything FOM related and the EU won't ever budge on that (they would have already done if they would)

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The fact that it is still only 55/45 against Brexit after 10 years will dissuade EU from agreeing to anything. All they need is another populist government and we are back where we were...

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was this out of the blue? I suspect the rags didn't have time to wind up the pensioners as with the fuel allowance. They certainly didn't watch his speech.

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The world is run by the oppressive dictatorship of Early Birds... The ideal time to wake up is 9:00am...

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does the Swiss version include FOM? I don't see any move on any form of that until the populism problem is dealt with. Once UK's immigrants went home and there will be worker shortages everywhere the public will change their mind. GL persuading the EU that this time we are serious.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The said thing about all these Russian psyopsnis how obvious they are.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How do we know it's AI and not just a general recession? Is there an objective measure of output (and that it doesn't decline along with job loses)?

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe the UK is not a target for economic migration any. Boris wave was driven by events, apart from that the only time masses arrived when they were encouraged by policy. The only reason immigration is a topic is populists and the tabloids.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In general I think they are stopping development because they are running out of money, not because of the safety. We know they don't care about safety already.

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These models are deliberately trained to be unsafe. "persistent" in their terminology. All the hacks are exploiting bad security practices, it's not like they are finding zero day exploits. Everyone should have reinforced their security posture long ago, but now it is inevitable.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Companies/institutions that avoided upgrading their atrocious IT processes will be finally forced to do it. The government can easily introduce measures around this and use that as a base of trust.

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also that rich people will not save you. They use you when you are useful and then throw you under the bus when it suits them.

You should watch the movie "Yesterday" as a horror/tragedy

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I have no idea why anyone wants to extend Heathrow, it is already a nightmare place to navigate.

Does he know how to properly eat a sandwich? Narrow elections are decided by the tabloids... Like Browns bigot-gate...

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Should have replied to the post you replied to.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Millionaire = you have a house in London. 2/3 of 1% are employees, 10% even more so. HNWIs we are talking about here has tens of millions of wealth. They practically do not pay any tax proportional to their wealth. Employees don't go anywhere and can't avoid paying taxes.

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- When's the party in the next village? - Day of the patron saint? - Ok, let's name the village after them so no need to remember. - Saint<very common first name>? - No, too many will have the same name - <Big land feature>saint<very common first name>? - Perfect, we are done

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes between 9/11 and Iraq war spiced with dotcom bubble. Those were the days!!

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a lot of 80/20 manual issues in every business process which eats up most resources. This is the reason a lot of them are not automated in the first place. And when they do regardless that leads to enshitification.

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I dare you to say "you are right to push back on this" to an exec after you hallucinated some facts in the presentation. (just kidding, you'd get fired for things AI regularly does)

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Annoying tourists is the duty of all Londoners...

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

flatmate: "Yo, Big G, your mum is at it again about you in the rags"...

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is illegal to track an adult without their consent... Also "he has no idea" -> promptly writes it in the effing Times...

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Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is also illegal given he is an adult. (parental relationship is irrelevant) If you have Google Family switched on on your kids phone it explicitly goes through an offboarding once they turn 18 if the _kid_ doesn't consent...

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everyone needs to obey GDPR already if they touch EU citizens data

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Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Rescue Party" (1946)

I remember a scifi where an alien hive minded collective reaches Earth just to find it abandoned and based on a homing signal they find the entire population emigrating in an orderly convoy of spaceships. And they freak out exactly for the reason you mention.

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How is this different from uploading the paper to ChatGPT?

Laszlo Sragner @xlaszlo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

> "we use the same expression to mean absolute commitment and utter refusal" Which is?

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That's right. The Huggingface escape is entirely a function of shoddy environment. BTW they are running "persistent" models, which sound like FM models deliberately without appropriate guard training. Essentially paperclip maximisers.