CEO from #Anthropic on #bbcr4today frothing about doing #AI fast enough to beat "the authoritarians"
I mean, it's worrying when powerful people don't know what goes on in other countries, but it's bloody terrifying when they appear to have no concept of what is going on in their own
Also #AmolRajan being embarrassingly credulous 🙄
Horrified to hear #bbcr4today casually referring to further 'regime change' re #Iran - are they wilfully ignorant, captives of #FossilCapital - or both? #journalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Via #LindyLi @ 5:41 on July 09, 2024
Did a 2 am‼️ interview with #BBC News for #BBCr4today
We will NOT remove #Biden, especially right before the #RepublicanNationalConvention
Stop undermining Biden and doing Trump’s dirty work for him
President Biden is our nominee and I support him. Who’s with me? 🇺🇸
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I have been working hard to keep Biden’s donors and supporters on board, reminding them of the #ExistentialThreat #Trump poses to our beloved American #Republic
The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think.
Bill McGuire in the Guardian.
@caitrionaGalway @BackFromTheDud #bbc, #bbcr4today and #bbcpm do exactly the same - put them forward as reliable trustworthy people. The latest approach is the BBC says the #idf is looking into it (ie they can’t simply lie this time) and that’s the last you hear about it
Great piece on @BBCRadio4 (@BBCRD) / #BBCr4today!
#evanDavis schools #LauraTrott of the #treasury in basic #economics on #bbcr4today
She has a meltdown. #RishiSunak #ukpolitics #ukpol #ToriesOut #treasuryMinister
@Helenmackin heard that too, Nick was pretty good today! Nice one Nick #bbcr4today
@ProjectFearlessness Casson was so good on Radio 4 Today programme this morning. Reassuring to hear such sense spoken, and realise that there are still some grown ups in politics.
#BBCR4Today
On #bbcr4today we learned that 80% of the Israelis murdered by Hamas etc showed signs of torture. Palestinian human rights activist Nour Odeh indignantly refused to condemn Hamas for its murder spree. Hope not to hear from her again. Meanwhile Tzipi Hotovely, Israel's ambassador to UK, evaded responding to questions about accounts of shelling of dispaced Gazans in Khan Yunis in the south.
I appreciate that what follows is a value judgement, and not an impartial journalistic comment, but here goes...
England's defence secretary is a fucking imbecile.
#GrantShapps #MishalHusain #Israel #Hamas #terrorism #BBCr4Today #Ofcom
#JeremyBowen visited a kibbutz subjected to atrocities and for some reason today on #bbcr4today decided to report as little as possible on that. He makes a virtue of reducing the distance between journalist and event so I wonder if this kibbutz visit was not his choice and he took back control by not reporting on it. I see a qualitative difference in how he reports atrocities depending on whether Israelis or Palestinians are victims. I'll listen later to see if I'm wrong.
Actually it's Tice who's obsessed - with gender policing. Imagine leading on that, of all the things going wrong in this country #ReformUK #bbcr4today
On out-of-control climate change, Rishi Sunak is behaving like the panic buyers who stripped the shops bare during Covid. He's grabbing the emissions for the Conservative Party to give to voters. The rest of us, now and generations to come, can go to hell. He has no future thinking beyond the #GE2024 #bbcr4today
Plenty of evidence that more people take active travel if the cars go slower. Win for health, win for costs, win for not getting knocked over. Craig MacKinlay (Conservative MP for South Thanet) doubts motorists are capable of restraining themselves. He's wrong. Lucy Straker from the Brake campaign was very persuasive #bbcr4today
However I know, because I doorknock, that the facts alone will not convince local motorists. Racking my brains.
Conservative election strategy for #GE2024 is going to be that Labour is waging a war on motorists. Need to prepare and it needs to be persuasive #bbcr4today
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall was a frustrating listen on today's #bbcr4today. The failure to engage with other harms to chickens than physical, which slower growth won't end. And the absence of reference to plant-based proteins as the most viable alternative. He ends up supporting indoor chicken farming.
Could you return to this @BBCRadio4?
Waking up to the news on @BBCRadio4 #bbcr4today that Thames Water has been illegally spilling sewage. It has been legally spilling sewage during rainy spells and now it's also found to be illegally doing it in dry spells. Let's get it back off its profiteering owners and for the love of god let's move to composting toilets.
https://cat.org.uk/info-resources/free-information-service/water-and-sanitation/composting-toilets/
On #BBCR4today the editorial line is that #ULEZ causes hardship - for motorists.
I'd like them to look my neighbourhood's pedestrians and cyclists in the eye and tell us that we haven't suffered the hardship of filthy air for too long because of government policies.
It's not #SadiqKhan's fault that carers get paid too little, public transport is underfunded and the scrappage scheme is small. Snap out of it @BBCRadio4
Sigh -plenty of myths and misinformation about EVs in the
#BBCr4today debate. Why isn't
@bobbyllew on the panel?
