Shaming to the Met and all involved.
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Shaming to the Met and all involved.
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Since you ask, it was absolutely astonishingly good. Officially high on JD.
Louche
Going to @fretwork.bsky.social John Dowland fest at Milton Hall later. It's a great month for Dowland stans www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Think it's been a while once she was invited. It's a kind of Graham Linehan story but with Trump derangement syndrome.
You laugh, but I actually used to live like this (just the two stacks against the hallway wall) and it was dangerous.
Still battering away at the patio doors of sanity.
Louise Mensch exchange with the Pope on X
This is what we're all missing on the other side.
Standard of discourse in UK politics these days could hardly be poorer.
This war has been brought to you by Anduril/OpenAI and Palantir/Anthropic
Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.
The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
A lot of this seems to come down to competitors and regulators not following their lead. Oh well, they say, a race to the bottom it is
In explaining why Anthropic has abandoned its “we won’t release it until we’re convinced it’s safe” policy, Karnofsky writes as if 2023 is ancient history; maybe it is in AI terms forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DGZNAG...
One of the things that surprised me when looking at ms from the 1500/1600s recently was how straightforward the language is once you get past the non-straightforward scripts. Speaking of which, www.transkribus.org is a brilliant tool.
Here's a great Sunday thing: how far back can you go before English prose becomes partially/completely unintelligible? www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own "safety stack" and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
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Fairly obvious that this was going to happen if you read OpenAI’s submission to the AI Action Plan but still: what a shower of shit
OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...
#Palantir is suing the Swiss online magazine #Republik for their critical reporting – A good opportunity to talk about what kind of company it is, says one of the journalists:
digit.site36.net/2026/02/23/p...
Now I know 😹
This is a great example of setting the record straight! Is Charles I the penultimate arrest, then, or are there any others after 1650?
Fuck, I'm so sorry. What a gorgeous boy.
"We should work out how to test how powerful this thing is getting because the tech is advancing very quickly" sounds like a pretty legit concern to me. There are differences between the major US labs on this and between management/employees.
BEREFT now that AKOTSK is done for the year :(
The Department of Defense is threatening to designate Anthropic, the maker of Claude, a "supply chain risk." @alanrozenshtein.com explains why the Pentagon is considering the determination, its consequences for Anthropic, and why Congress should act instead.
Trying to set intelligence agencies on journalists by Putin-jacketing them seems to be part of the playbook for a certain kind of UK centrist shithead www.theguardian.com/politics/202...