Alex
@adn2017.bsky.social
China, AI & Politics with a bit of sport. Repost ≠ endorsement
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Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
A quick google informs me that after this surge, Australia provides about 4% of our beef imports, and our beef imports are about 25% of our consumption. So this headline is basically saying “anger as 0.6% becomes 1% of total” and I’m not sure that’s particularly justifiable
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
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this is a beautiful homage by my friend and colleague Claer Barrett to recently-departed FT reader Bruce Dalton, which she read at his funeral last week
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is a beautiful homage by my friend and colleague Claer Barrett to recently-departed FT reader Bruce Dalton, which she read at his funeral last week
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Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pledges to cut regulation are constant unless there's just been a disaster/failure. Then everyone calls for more regulation.
The constants of British policy over my life:
- pledges to cut red tape/regulation
- talk of a ‘contributory welfare system’
- calls for more ‘on the beat’ police officers
The cyclical one: a pledge to cut backroom health/education staff & promises of more support staff to free up frontline staff
- pledges to cut red tape/regulation
- talk of a ‘contributory welfare system’
- calls for more ‘on the beat’ police officers
The cyclical one: a pledge to cut backroom health/education staff & promises of more support staff to free up frontline staff
Nostalgia time for policy geeks - the Red Tape Challenge is back!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Pledges to cut regulation are constant unless there's just been a disaster/failure. Then everyone calls for more regulation.
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He'll be the first non-white Deputy PM.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
He'll be the first non-white Deputy PM.
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Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.
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Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
August 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
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UK regulation of the internet continues to be mind-numbing stupid.
Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.
Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.
August 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
UK regulation of the internet continues to be mind-numbing stupid.
Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.
Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.
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To everyone saying "the left shouldn't just roll over in the face of public opinion" my (I thought obvious) point is that you'll have a better chance of a getting a hearing on the risks if you acknowledge that a lot of people get some benefit out of it rather than just sounding entirely anti.
August 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
To everyone saying "the left shouldn't just roll over in the face of public opinion" my (I thought obvious) point is that you'll have a better chance of a getting a hearing on the risks if you acknowledge that a lot of people get some benefit out of it rather than just sounding entirely anti.
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I'm sorry, "you are writing the prompt wrong" is just not a persuasive response here
August 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I'm sorry, "you are writing the prompt wrong" is just not a persuasive response here
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CNN: #Taiwan detains three current & former employees of #TSMC for alleged theft of key technology trade secrets
TSMC produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductor chips needed smartphones & artificial intelligence ( #AI ) applications to weapons #台灣
edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/a...
TSMC produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductor chips needed smartphones & artificial intelligence ( #AI ) applications to weapons #台灣
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Taiwan detains TSMC staff for alleged theft of key technology trade secrets | CNN
Taiwanese authorities have detained three current and former employees of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for allegedly stealing trade secrets...
edition.cnn.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
CNN: #Taiwan detains three current & former employees of #TSMC for alleged theft of key technology trade secrets
TSMC produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductor chips needed smartphones & artificial intelligence ( #AI ) applications to weapons #台灣
edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/a...
TSMC produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductor chips needed smartphones & artificial intelligence ( #AI ) applications to weapons #台灣
edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/a...
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Sadiq Khan campaigned for years promising London great things if London had a Labour mayor while the UK had a Labour government.
London voted overwhelmingly for Labour, and so far has been relentlessly punished for doing so. Make it make sense.
London voted overwhelmingly for Labour, and so far has been relentlessly punished for doing so. Make it make sense.
August 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Sadiq Khan campaigned for years promising London great things if London had a Labour mayor while the UK had a Labour government.
London voted overwhelmingly for Labour, and so far has been relentlessly punished for doing so. Make it make sense.
London voted overwhelmingly for Labour, and so far has been relentlessly punished for doing so. Make it make sense.
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Really on radicalisation from @samfr.bsky.social. One big factor Sam touches on that we notice a lot is the decline in “come off it” moments and rise in “you’re so right” moments. In real life has more the former, online more of the latter. bsky.app/profile/samf...
New post:
"The Radicalisation Spiral"
Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it?
With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Radicalisation Spiral"
Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it?
With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The radicalisation spiral
Why does it happen and can it be stopped?
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Really on radicalisation from @samfr.bsky.social. One big factor Sam touches on that we notice a lot is the decline in “come off it” moments and rise in “you’re so right” moments. In real life has more the former, online more of the latter. bsky.app/profile/samf...
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“AI watchers daren’t look away for a moment such is the pace of progress. My concern remains that as a country, a society, and in many…companies, we in the UK are still under-estimating the speed of AI progress, and the profundity of its implications.” cassiai.substack.com/p/what-did-y...
What did you do in the AI Revolution, Daddy?
Pre-GPT-5, Post AGI? For too many, hope is the largest part of their AI strategy. We are still under-estimating the speed of AI progress, and the profundity of its implications.
cassiai.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“AI watchers daren’t look away for a moment such is the pace of progress. My concern remains that as a country, a society, and in many…companies, we in the UK are still under-estimating the speed of AI progress, and the profundity of its implications.” cassiai.substack.com/p/what-did-y...
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The Mona Lisa of shithousery
england led for one [ONE] minute of the knockout stages
July 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Mona Lisa of shithousery
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Also bravo Baroness Sue Campbell who transformed our Olympic team and then transformed our women's football team. Extraordinary record.
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Also bravo Baroness Sue Campbell who transformed our Olympic team and then transformed our women's football team. Extraordinary record.
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Is Michelle Agyemang English? Is Ian Wright English? Yes they're fucking English. The loser racists can all fuck off.
Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!
July 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Is Michelle Agyemang English? Is Ian Wright English? Yes they're fucking English. The loser racists can all fuck off.
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They were wrong then. They’ll be wrong again.
July 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
They were wrong then. They’ll be wrong again.
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If Serco win a contract to run a generic "high potential" training scheme it will be dogshit. Everyone knows that. But "procurement best practice". It's so dumb.
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If Serco win a contract to run a generic "high potential" training scheme it will be dogshit. Everyone knows that. But "procurement best practice". It's so dumb.
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I know there'll be people shooting this down, but in the last week you've had:
1. A front page editorial in People's Daily
2. Xi Jinping
3. Qiushi, the CCP's official journal
All pointing at the problems of oversupply in the economy, with a focus on price wars
1. A front page editorial in People's Daily
2. Xi Jinping
3. Qiushi, the CCP's official journal
All pointing at the problems of oversupply in the economy, with a focus on price wars
July 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I know there'll be people shooting this down, but in the last week you've had:
1. A front page editorial in People's Daily
2. Xi Jinping
3. Qiushi, the CCP's official journal
All pointing at the problems of oversupply in the economy, with a focus on price wars
1. A front page editorial in People's Daily
2. Xi Jinping
3. Qiushi, the CCP's official journal
All pointing at the problems of oversupply in the economy, with a focus on price wars
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“Oversupply has caused some industries to fall into ‘involutionary’ competition… forming a negative feedback effect.”
A rare (although less so this week) public admission that excess capacity is driving self-defeating competition
A rare (although less so this week) public admission that excess capacity is driving self-defeating competition
July 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“Oversupply has caused some industries to fall into ‘involutionary’ competition… forming a negative feedback effect.”
A rare (although less so this week) public admission that excess capacity is driving self-defeating competition
A rare (although less so this week) public admission that excess capacity is driving self-defeating competition
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Xi is *this* close to saying "overcapacity". On the tip of his tongue!
China needs to “lawfully regulate enterprises’ disorderly low-price competition, guide companies to improve product quality, promote the orderly exit of outdated production capacity”
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China needs to “lawfully regulate enterprises’ disorderly low-price competition, guide companies to improve product quality, promote the orderly exit of outdated production capacity”
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s Xi singles out ‘disorderly low-price competition’ for attention
Officials have favoured a vaguer term – “involutionary competition” – but president cut to the chase at top-level economic meeting.
www.scmp.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Xi is *this* close to saying "overcapacity". On the tip of his tongue!
China needs to “lawfully regulate enterprises’ disorderly low-price competition, guide companies to improve product quality, promote the orderly exit of outdated production capacity”
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China needs to “lawfully regulate enterprises’ disorderly low-price competition, guide companies to improve product quality, promote the orderly exit of outdated production capacity”
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.