Marius Comper @bluegod

In the pursuit of knowledge. International Editor @NewsNowUK grokipedia.com/page/Marius_Co… London, UK Joined July 2007

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen

2 hours ago

Our sanctions are working. They are weakening the economic foundations of Russia’s war effort. Today we double down. With a 21st package. Covering energy, banks & crypto, trade including fisheries and visa for Russian soldiers ↓

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Sam @Discoplomacy

4 hours ago

Working with LinkedIn, the British Government has published a snapshot of entry-level hiring in the UK. Key points: • “The data here does not support simple narratives. Entry-level hiring is not collapsing relative to the market. But within it, the composition is not uniform: information-processing roles are weakening while relational roles grow, the skills employers want do not match the skills candidates offer, and knowledge sectors have been loose enough for long enough that employers can be much more selective.” • Of the 38 UK entry-level occupations above LinkedIn’s minimum hiring threshold in April 2026, 30 are declining and only 8 are growing. • The steepest fallers, Accountant (–29%), Graphic Designer (–28%), Software Engineer (–27%), Data Analyst (–15%), and Legal Assistant (–14%), all involve processing, organising, or producing structured information. Most of these are also roles where AI tools have become most visibly capable in the past 2 years. Yet at all seniority levels combined, these same occupations do not appear among the weakest performers. The weakness is specific to the junior tier. • In Engineering, entry-level has fallen to -19% while senior sits at -10%, a 9-percentage-point gap. This is new.

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Mohan Pargaien IFS🇮🇳 @pargaien

12 hours ago

Pretty sure the first human to invent the needle just plagiarized the Common Tailorbird. 🤫 #tuesday #tuesdayspecial

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Bryan Jones @bdkjones

13 hours ago

Any developer with fewer than 2M app installs can now get frontier-level model performance in their app. For free. Integrated with the existing FoundationModels API. That ought to be the headline out of WWDC.

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The fact Zelensky always meets the King when he comes to London and His Majesty is the British official with the strongest relationship with Trump and greatest ability to influence him is a testament to the Royal Family having become more influential in our foreign policy since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. But even in the Foreign Office very little is known about how the King formulates his views on foreign policy and how his foreign affairs team works in his private office.

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Backstage @Backstagebs1

21 hours ago

The fact that “Baba O’Reilly” was created by a simple switch on an analog organ is just so fucking cool. always assumed it was a synth patch. Human creativity and analog gear will always remain undefeated

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold

10 hours ago

“A response that could be a paragraph in a textbook is a failure.”

sam henri gold @samhenrigold

10 hours ago

this is fairly noisy but here’s a dossier of every system prompt embedded in various iOS 27 binaries. gist.github.com/samhenrigold/4…

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comrade jake @ComradeJak3

19 hours ago

It's amazing that even 120 years ago people ascribed "I can has cheeseburger" dialect to cats

PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller

3 days ago

Postcard from 1902.

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kasra @kasratweets

16 hours ago

oh my god he's right lol. it looks like a regular topology textbook with standard diagrams except every few pages you just have a random full-page drawing??

Andrei @TheUntranslated

24 hours ago

I've heard this is the most weirdly illustrated maths book

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Rahul Sidhu @rahul

23 hours ago

One of the most prolific criminals in all of San Francisco tells @adam22 that “crime in San Francisco is over with” because of Flock cameras + drones. He complains that he can’t even do drivebys anymore. It’s simple: when the risk of getting caught is too high, crime plummets.

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Marius Comper @bluegod

9 hours ago

@whippletom Amazing.

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Tom Whipple @whippletom

16 hours ago

The government CV writing service translated employment experience "being Long John Silver's Parrot" as "Shoulder-Based Communications Adviser — Maritime Entrepreneur (18th Century)". So it has Linkedinese down pat. It also had this recommendation for my references:

Tom Whipple @whippletom

16 hours ago

I tried the government's new AI "Jobcentre in your pocket" chatbot. Could it write me a CV? It could. It also suggested that I should consider employment law and whether I've been discriminated against. Key detail: I'm a parrot.

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Amir Efrati @amir

10 hours ago

👀 your worst work day is probably still 10x better than this xAI staff's worst day

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Signal @signalapp

17 hours ago

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026…

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Jonathan Richie @JRichieTX

18 hours ago

UPDATE: New World Screwworm is no longer contained to Texas. USDA says that the infested dog announced earlier today lives in Lea County, New Mexico and will be reclassified as the first detection in that state. And now a goat in Gillespie County, TX, has also been confirmed.

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Jeff Stein @jstein_star

17 hours ago

SCOOP: Trump blindsided AI leaders when he said he’d be meeting them to discuss taking equity stakes in their firms "I actually have a meeting scheduled in the very short, in the very near future,” Trump said This was news to the firms, sources say ... notus.org/technology/tru…

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta

20 hours ago

$18bn is a gross underestimate. We estimated capital spending on polysilicon and solar manufacturing capacity in 2023 alone at well over $100bn and reportedly it was common for local governments to pay for and build the entire factory with firms just bringing in the machines.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells

2 days ago

“The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.”

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Bojan Pancevski @bopanc

23 hours ago

Nord Stream is suing Lloyd's for €580 in damages from the destruction of the pipelines; the insurers say war is not covered. The insurers' lawyers are using my reporting & @ronzheimer pod to argue that they should not be paying anything to the Russians dropbox.com/scl/fi/n92ip2q…

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

19 hours ago

Oh you think your country's election results are pretty close? Try Peru at 93.9% counted

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prinz @deredleritt3r

19 hours ago

Public statements on timelines to full automation of AI R&D, which could also be viewed as the start of RSI: - Dario Amodei (Anthropic), writing in January 2026: we may be "only 1-2 years away" from the current generation of AI autonomously building the next - Anthropic, Frontier Safety Roamap: "plausible" that AI systems could automate AI R&D, "as soon as early 2027" - Jared Kaplan (Anthropic), quoted in March 2026: fully automated AI R&D "could be as little as a year away" - OpenAI: target a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028 - Jack Clark (Anthropic): believes there is a 30% chance of no-human-involved AI R&D by year-end 2027, and a 60% chance by year-end 2028 (and if it fails to occur by year-end 2028, it will be because "we will have revealed some fundamental deficiency within the current technological paradigm")