Jenni Hislop

Stick your Palantir app
Where the sun doesn't shine"
👇

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

I suppose it's impressive that Starmer managed to maintain the correct moral and political position for all of ten minutes. Some kind of record.

Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

"we live in a weird world where everyone can look at that polling, and they can ask themselves How does it work to campaign saying ‘Vote for me, my party in government is so bad I think my leader should resign’ - and open newspapers which all just say *Actually, this is brilliant*."

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the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

Ofcom, Ofgem and Ofwat do exactly the opposite of their purpose.

Allowing the billionaires to regulate themselves, and punish themselves with joke fines.

readxl

Maybe a third state visit?

#r4today

UK governments are like - Hey there's this company Palantir which is owned by an American political extremist who wants to destroy democracy, Let's give our NHS data to him. Oh look, his friends in the White House are trying to destroy NATO. Well, we'd better give him our military data as well.

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@royalstatsoc.bsky.social

"Painfully accurate"

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That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.

Nature is healing.

MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’ Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’

“Layla Moran, who chairs the health select committee, said: “The only thing more surprising than Trump’s tween-level temper tantrums is the UK government’s naive belief that his administration is a good faith actor”
Weak, isolated Brexit Britain
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Healthcare not wealthcare.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

If only we had a party in government with a big enough majority to do something about this.

Why Are Governments Racing to Implement AI Without Protecting Citizens?
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Reeves says the money for Scotland is being paid "because Anas Sarwar asked us to”.

and when deciding what Scotland’s financial needs are did the Chancellor also engage with our elected Scottish Government or just her pal

Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us.

Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.

ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code – R Works This post explains the basics of ROC curves using simple code and intuitive explanations.

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Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations.

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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

#Poem

In all fairness, some statistical methods are so much fun that you should be allowed to write exactly one paper whose entire motivation is "we wanted to apply this pretty cool method to some data we had lying around"