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…cos they had no time. They needed to move onto allowing Dario Amadei, CEO of Anthropic, to spout **absolute bullshit**, unchallenged by Amol Rajan.
You invited a booster on, #r4today, and you didn’t bring a sharp object anywhere near his absurd AI bubble
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…behind this, of course, is the sound of social democracy failing. BP is under pressure to provide “better returns”, and ‘renewables’ are just not profitable enough (see Brett Christophers’ analysis).
The interviewee blamed hedge funds in a hand wavy way, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that goes deeper, to pension funds, which need a return of 6%+ to remain viable, in an economy struggling to realise 1% growth.
But none of this is ever discussed, even in passing, on #r4today
An #r4today interview this morning with a former head of strategy at BP, about the fall in BP’s profits from £11bn in 2023 to a mere £7bn in 2024
in which one can hear the sound of capitalism failing. It has *no answers*. It just shrugs its shoulders and effectively says “nope, big business is incompatible with a liveable planet, oh well, it’s down to governments”
Oh no not another toad closure ('boom boom' Bazil Brush)
One of if the best reasons I've heard for one.
#toadclosure #biodiversity #wildlife
#amphibians #froglife #r4today
BBC News - Bath's Charlcombe Lane to close for six weeks to allow for toad breeding - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lv97jyl66o
BBC NewsBath's Charlcombe Lane to close for six weeks to allow for toad breedingVolunteers will patrol the route every evening to help toads, frogs and newts to cross safely.
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…Re where is the kindling coming from: a Musk or a Trump, or the broad systemic structures we prop up daily?
It’s both, right?
As part of its focus on Holocaust Memorial Day, #r4today had an interview with Miguel Berger, Germany’s Ambassador to the UK.
Katya Adler pointed out that despite Germany’s excellent programme of education about the Holocaust, the AfD is on the rise.
But *why* education is proving an insufficient bulwark against systemic instrumentalisation was not asked 
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@zoejardiniere.bsky.social It was such a weird interview, wasn’t it. Manchester buses wouldn’t usually get such a high billing on the programme. Robinson hijacking the entire second half of the interview to talk about rape gangs, presumably because that’s the right-wing culture war de jour, showed the REAL reason for the booking. #R4today
#r4today really is a funny place, isn’t it?
“But do the people really want upgraded public transport, though?” They ask
The only question they can come up with about improvements to Manchester’s transport services. Go on, say what you really mean, Nick, “aren’t buses woke?”
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Nice of Wes Streeting on #r4today to cite Conservatives, Lib Dems and Reform being part of “cross-party talks” in his endeavour to come up with a social care plan, and to ignore every other party.
If relative to Reform’s 5 MPs, you have 4 more (SNP), 2 more (Sinn Féin), the same (DUP), or 1 fewer (Plaid Cymru and Green), you don’t exist I guess.
Thanks Wes
The Home Office accepts that its policies to “smash the gangs” results in people taking flimsier & more overcrowded dinghies across the Channel.
This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Names and faces of people who ...
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…but on #r4today, Labour say they’re going to get the UK economy “firing on all cylinders”.
So dishonest.
So impossible too
Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.
This morning in lying to the electorate has consequences:
Ed Miliband doing a good job of countering Nick Robinson’s adversarial questioning on #r4Today but only having to because of how dishonestly the ‘renewable’ energy (power) debate is framed and because it’s Robinson’s job to be amorally dishonest too.
Negative GDP growth figures that were always far more probable than the vacuous promises made by Starmer and Reeves to get elected.
Sigh
I heard minister Matthew Pennycook on #r4today refer to 'under-performing scrubland'.
Spoken like a true property developer, sir!
What you labelled 'under-performing' is actually a valuable habitat for numerous species.
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I might as well piss into the wind, but here's my complaint to @BBCRadio4. I'll await the copy-and-paste response they usually send.
It makes me sad because I love the BBC, I defend it to the hilt, and consider it excellent value for money. But their skewed news values are increasingly hard to ignore.
Unbelievable. If you want a glimpse into the BBC’s baked-in conservatism, here was the lineup on @BBCRadio4’s “The Westminster Hour” last night:
- One Labour MP
- One Conservative MP
- One prominent Reform supporter
- A writer for the Daily Mail
This isn’t a one-off. Since the election, I’ve kept track and right-wing media outlets / thinktanks are SEVEN TIMES MORE LIKELY to feature on the panel than left-wing ones.
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Coming from rural France, I've always been slightly puzzled by how posh British farmers (those seen on the news, at least) seem to be (accents, clothes, etc) #R4Today
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…a tiny clue on #r4today this morning, where Reeves’s budget was described as something like “the biggest budget outside of a national crisis”.
There it is: capitalism does not see the crisis. Because it will not look.
It cannot look. Because to look leads inexorably to the admission that it is fked.
Another puerile conversation on AI chaired by Nick Robinson on #r4today.
“Won’t AI be doing all the work in 10 to 20 years time?” Robinson asks an NHS radiologist, blithely drawing an implied exponential of ‘improvements’ through growing climate instability, biosphere destruction and resource wars.
Going on about greater efficiencies in the NHS. Ah yes, hundreds to thousands of processors running in a power-sucking data centre is “more efficient” than a human brain running on 20W