[Tubby Isaacs]

The less done, the more attractive to the government, I'd think. They don't want their base thinking it's nicer than it was when it was a prison.

[Boiler]

Mr Moorhouse on the short-trousered little cunt's latest wheeze.

There's never a fucking Dalek around when you want one, is there?

[Samanfur]

[Boiler]

Dafuq...?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Another of those brave long term decisions.

As the OP says, this really isn't all that expensive and overdue anyway. I reckon it would have got done if the London mayor were Tory,.

[Tubby Isaacs]

One of the less bad polls for the government, but still under 30%. And Team Common Sense is losing 37-60 to team liberal elite.

[Youngian]

Bagging a global AI conference in the UK isn’t a bad thing then Sunak blows it by elevating Musk who is now lost down the rabbit hole and wants to put chips in our heads.

[Yug]

... You can have a job if you want to have a job, for personal satisfaction, but the AI can do everything.

"...They called it the Prayer - it's answer was law
It's logic stopped war - gave them food..."

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is Sunak advocating for UBI here?

Why don't more people give up regular jobs to start companies? It's a mystery.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

As his father-in-law calls on his Indian employees to work a 70 hour week...

[satnav]

When I was at university in the 1980s I can remember writing an essay about the 'Leisure Society' looking at what people would do when there was less work and more leisure time. Forty years later we are no nearer to a leisure society, many people are still working ridiculously long hours and most people will no end up working into their late 60s. Is AI really going to change this anytime soon?

[Bones McCoy]

When I was at university in the 1980s I can remember writing an essay about the 'Leisure Society' looking at what people would do when there was less work and more leisure time. Forty years later we are no nearer to a leisure society, many people are still working ridiculously long hours and most people will no end up working into their late 60s. Is AI really going to change this anytime soon?

Back in the 1970s, Raymond Baxter presented Tomorrow's World - the BBC's technology showcase programme.
He was forever telling viewers how microchips would reduce the working week and usher in the leisure society.

Also - flying cars.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Also - flying cars.

Sod the flying cars, I want the jetpack I was promised.

[Youngian]

Musk the innovative tech entrepreneur is a fading memory, he’s now an embarrassing prat talking attention seeking nonsense. And Sunak is an even bigger dick playing chat show host hired for a corporate gig to hang onto Musk’s every word.

Almost no new COVID cases in the US by end of April
Reality: Daily cases top 20,000 by end of April

Neuralink will be in human skulls by 2020, it will “solve” autism.

1 million people will live on Mars by 2050

https://thenextweb.com/news/elon-musk-m ... uying%20it.

[Bones McCoy]

Is Sunak advocating for UBI here?

Why don't more people give up regular jobs to start companies? It's a mystery.

Comfortable with failing's a nice luxury; if you have a pile of family money to sustain you.

Or in Rishi's case; the exchequer of a top 10 nation.

[Boiler]

From DM comments on Sunak's fawning. And I thought my brain was broken.

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[Tubby Isaacs]

Twenty three.

[Crabcakes]

From DM comments on Sunak's fawning. And I thought my brain was broken.


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That feller probably thinks he’s breaking the algorithm with his intriguing approach to the spelling of some words. Forgetting, of course, that any half-decent auto-scanning software would use wildcards to catch variants if anyone actually gave a shit and was trying to censor stuff.

The tinfoil hat version of someone saying “you can’t say anything these days without getting cancelled” immediately after saying whatever it is you apparently can’t say these days and not getting cancelled.

[Abernathy]

You know, I’m not even completely sure what “getting cancelled” actually means .

I understand it in the specific context of people with TV shows, stand-up comics, and other performance artistes, but not with respect to Sid and Doris Bonkers suffering “getting cancelled” for saying “darkie”. How does that work ?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bad local election council results last night. Swing LD to Con in Elmbridge, Surrey, apparently on the back of Nimbyism. But still lost where they shouldn't be losing. Small swing from LAB to Con in Trafford, where they nonetheless lost by miles. Lost to Labour in Melton, Leics. Hammered by Labour in Rotherham.

And this beauty. Buckinghamshire hasn't had elections since 2021. On this evidence, the Tories would be fucked there too.