Are these Russian political operatives in the room with us right now?

As I understand it, the backstory is this:

1. The Reform Party just started accepting crypto donations.
2. Reform are predicted to stomp on Labour in the next election, leading to the greatest loss of Parliamentary seats of any party in the history of Britain from over 400 to under 20 in one election cycle.

So Labour are banning crypto donations because it will hurt their political opponents.

Just par for the course for the globalist authoritarians who run the party of government workers.

Excellent:

"In the US, the two major parties are indistinguishable in intent, that is, to keep their jobs."

Attacks by President Trump cause many people in government to avoid saying what they actually think. They don't want to lose their jobs.

Technology is moving ahead very fast!

I'm pretty sure Starlink is already blocked inside Russia.

I'm in the same situation as you (embedded C and real-time Linux kernel programming), and last year I got handled exam results that were *very* obviously written by chatgpt. When I asked the university about what the policy about this was, the answer was "there is no policy about AI" so I was disgusted to have to give grade 'A' to ChatGPT. And this year there's been no policy change so I expect the same, and I can tell already the students are far from being as good as last year.

For most of my early life, Intel was about process engineering, not CPU engineering. They were usually a year ahead of other manufacturers so even if their CPU design was lacklustre they could win on the manufacturing process.

Then they lost the lead there and now their problems with CPU designs have caught up with them.

Intel sacking white men and replacing them with DIE hires was widely discussed over the last decade, along with predictions of the inevitable end result. Which is now clear to everyone.

That wasn't *all* I said, but it is apparently as far as you read. But let's stay there for now. You apparently disagree with this, whnich means that you think that LLMs are the only kind of AI that there is, and that language models can be trained to do things like design rocket engines.

No-one I know on the right want to spy on everyone's phones.

It's a government thing, not a left/right thing. Governments want to spy on everything all the time because they're authoritarian scumbags, regardless of whether they claim to be left-wing or right-wing.

I mean, it's not a right-wing government pushing Digital ID in the UK. It's a left-wing Labour government who claim to be the socialist party of the working man and have been trying to force ID cards on the British people for the best part of thirty years now. Nor is a right-wing EU government pushing software to spy on every private message.

I think I'd rather be nuked than starved.

A couple of hundred years ago a big volcanic eruption threw masses of dust into the atmosphere and blocked out the sun to the point where there was famine over much of the planet because many food plants couldn't grow.

Now the tech bros want to do that artificially because they're so smart they know exactly how to control the weather.

They're going to kill us all.

That's what I just said.