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Dan Davies
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Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest
I definitely picked the wrong week to give up pointing at things and saying 'the purpose of a system is what it does'
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Joined November 2010
- All this archaeology is fascinating, but I get the feeling that if I were to ask the question "how are we managing to exhume all these things from the permafrost right now" I might not like the answer
- as I keep pointing out, if they are serving literal dog shit, you bet I have got questions about the chicken. "has it been cooked in a separate oven", "are you sure the chicken does not also have broken glass", things of that nature
With our new fiscal lock, never again can a government play fast and loose with the public finances. ft.com/content/51efed…- I just can't stop rereading the Wall Street Journal story which cites numerous witnesses saying Elon Musk is self-medicating with ketamine; surely this fact ought to be mentioned in every other business story about his decision making?
- If your head says Remain but your heart says Leave, remember that one is specifically designed for thinking and the other is a pump.
- when you see a commentator saying that "normal decent people are being slurred as the far right", what you are reading is someone who basically agrees with the rioters but doesn't themselves have the nerve to smash the windows of a phone shop (or who has a nicer job to lose).
- Guys, I want everyone to remember our core values at McKinsey Middle East - there's no "I" in "team", but there's a "sultan" right in the middle of "consultancy"
- guy at the Tortured Poets Department who keeps on calling it the Ministry of Poet Torture even though the reorganisation was nine years ago during the Coalition.
- Can you imagine - can you imagine - if our current prime minister had been found dead drunk and barely able to walk in an airport, separate from his security detail while Foreign Secretary, after the birthday party for a Russian oligarch who he later appointed to our legislature?
- time to resurrect this correct tweet now that Google is apparently rollin' the old dice to decide whether it's going to tell you that you can mix chlorine bleach with ammonia or not.One very easy way to “press pause” on AI is just to make clear developers are liable for things that happen as a foreseeable result of their model and then let the courts sort it out. Toss a few devs in jail for CP charges and image generator funding will go to 0 real quick.
- The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has the opportunity to do something so funny that Tom Lehrer would leap out of the grave to see it.BREAKING: Norway's foreign minister says 'if there is an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant from the Hague Court, we will have to arrest them if they arrive in Norway'
- Replying to @shaunmmaguireno no not even this. what you said was bad enough but even what you wanted to say is still bad. a 15-year-old boy who grew up in Gaza might be a "militant" on your definition but he is still a 15 year old boy who did not want to die. have some humanity will you.
