Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.

I would laugh if I didn’t live here.

The figures are the averages for the full trial period.

So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.

Yeah, that’s it. It’s already a legal requirement for employers to check eligibility for work. But the dodgy ones know they can get away with not bothering, because there is so little enforcement of the laws we have.

Claiming ID cards will do anything to reduce migration is nothing more than an excuse to further expand the surveillance state.

From 16 a British person can bear much of the responsibility of an adult (with some caveats) but receives none of the political rights in return. That’s always seemed incongruous to me, that someone can say, start a family, but have no say over their future.

It certainly seems much bigger change than messing with the edges, I don’t think any extension of the franchise could be seen as minor.

It think it’s an important step in the right direction, but yes we do need to go a lot further in other ways also.

The war in Ukraine seems quite real, and so does America’s growing isolationism and taste for autocracy. In a visibly more unstable and divided world, a greater focus on defence is sensible.

How we are going to pay for it however is another question.

I think it will be fairly narrow in scope, with both sides of the Atlantic trying to spin it into a big win, which they both need right now.

However it wouldn’t surprise me if Keir has managed to create a deal to the UK’s detriment in a misguided effort at maintaining the “special relationship”.

It feels like both are waiting, or even relying on, for the other to implode.

These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.

I think it’s uncertain for now. A majority of 6 votes is still a win but it’s also an incredibly unconfident win.

Runcorn is supposed to be the kind of place Reform keep being tipped to sweep but even in a byelection they’ve only managed a win by a hair’s breadth.

Reform seem to have a lot more work to do to win over voters to reliably take seats at a general election.

Of course, there’s still 4+ plus years for Labour to lose more voters also.

In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

Already happening sadly, and not by accident either. It’s not just about rolling back trans rights, it’s about dragging us back to narrow and restrictive ideas of sex and gender in general.

The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

If you had one of these when the TV came out in class, you were a god:

A tale as old as time. Before Ethernet cables we were running phone extension cables through the house to connect up the modem to the only phone jack.

Beanus likes beans!