Nick Webb

If we left the ECHR what rights do you want to lose? If none, why leave? If you want to give less rights to a particular group of people why do you think they are less human than you? If you still want to leave you are no different to those that led to the creation of the ECHR.

@PaulEmbery He’s a racist grifter who shouldn’t be given any oxygen to spread his divisive rhetoric. His tone and language is no different to the government of 1930’s Germany

Oh, for heaven's sake. How pathetic. Like it or not, Farage is a mainstream politician who enjoys consistently high personal approval ratings. He may well be Britain's next prime minister. These people need to get a grip of themselves.

@HarrietCross_MP That oil and gas is sold on the open market, please explain how that actually benefits the UK as a whole, rather than just a small group of shareholders…

The Government could approve Jackdaw and Rosebank today. They could choose to support the UK’s oil & gas sector, its workers and energy supplies today. It’s their choice. 🥀 They’re choosing not to.

@pritipatel The reorganisation of the authorities in Essex was stated under the Tory Government. I’m surprised you did not know… As someone living in Essex I have taken part in the public consultation on the proposals, it’s a shame as an MP you did not engage with your constituents on this.

I am appalled by the government's proposal to break up the great County of Essex into five unitary authorities, which is simply not acceptable. My constituents don't want this, and they were not part of any engagement. How can the Labour government justify to my constituents, why they should be paying more in council tax for a costly and undemocratic policy they do not support.

@JMcMurdockMP It’s not bad mouthing, it’s the truth, you are an abuser

When I first graduated and started life in the grown up world, I was taken out for lunch by a senior manager at the firm I’d just joined. This was my first client facing role and was a big step forward for me. The senior gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten. He said never try and close a deal by bad mouthing the competition. It just brings the whole industry into disrepute. The more experienced I get the more I realise how right he was. Bridget never had the chance to get this kind of advice because the only job she has ever had was a few years working for her mum’s charity. Now the country is stuck with a SoS who knows nothing about the world she’s in charge of and I’m stuck with a colleague whose best shot at advancing herself is by putting out comments like the one below. C’est la vie Thank you to everyone who has come out batting for me. I’ll keep on keeping on 👍

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@nw_nicholas The poorer ends of Henley Regatta…

Where do they find them?

@GalvinAlmanza It’s a perennial problem with seemingly closed industries; no level entry roles but job specs requiring x years experience…

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

@KassKille @Eve_Barlow Fish and chips

@Eve_Barlow PLEASE, name ONE historical Jewish built heritage?

Jews give. Jews build. That’s why.

@elonmusk this is outright antisemitism This is not free speech Show the world where you stand on this and suspend @TalkingHeadUK account

@AndrewBowie_MP Any oil and gas extracted from those fields would be sold on the open market. Not supplied at a discount to the UK Your comments just highlight a complete lack of understanding of the issues involved I would resign you brief as you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about

Rosebank and Jackdaw could both be supplying heat and light to millions of homes and British businesses by the end of this year. But they are stuck in limbo because Ed Miliband refuses to act in our national interest. He’s inflicting an act of economic self harm on our country.

@michaelgove You’re a journalist with no real world experience of anything but all the expertise to criticise everyone? You are punching way above your intellectual capabilities, as always…

Nobody does patronising better than the youngest son of a baronet

@GilliganMg @narindertweets @ThatAlexWoman If you can’t catch meningitis how do people get it?🤔

@narindertweets @ThatAlexWoman You can't catch meningitis. It's a brain disease . One of my daughters had it and we were all allowed to visit her. If it was contagious then why didn't any of us catch it then. Anyway I think as usual it's just scare mongering . Like covid . It's a distraction .

Just @ThatAlexWoman spreading misinformation about meningitis. 1930s- jewish and gypsy citizens and migrants were scapegoated for the rise of diseases such as influenza, polio etc. During covid, we saw a spike in racism directed to those of Chinese and East Asian descent -It's a tactic long adopted by the far right. @ofcom what is the point of you?

@Hydra_Fella @narindertweets @ThatAlexWoman The outbreak in Kent is viral meningitis, what Alex is spouting is xenophobic and incorrect But if you enjoy racism in your life keep listening to her…

The beauty of the internet is that you can research stuff for yourself. May I introduce you to the meningitis belt of Africa! The African Meningitis Belt is a sub-Saharan region stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, encompassing 26 countries, that experiences the highest rates of bacterial meningitis in the world. Major, often fatal epidemics occur during the dry season (December–June), fueled by dust, heat, and crowding. What Alex said is 100% correct! We are being flooded by these people who are full of god knows what.

@HarrietCross_MP Oil from the North Sea is sold on the open market- it does not directly benefit UK consumers

The Government know we need oil & gas. They just don’t want to use OUR oil & gas. 👉 End the ban on new licences. Now. 👉 Scrap the EPL. Now. 👉 Permit Rosebank & Jackdaw. Now.

@JMPSimor It was a Troy Chancellor who introduced the precursors of ISAs, remember TESSAs? So Hannan is now against Tory initiated policy?

Parliament legislated to encourage people to save; creating tax free ISAs. In no way do these resemble complex schemes dreamt up by individuals for the purpose of avoiding tax that would otherwise be payable. Hannan is deeply foolish.

@EdwardJDavey We’ve only had notable people on money since 1970. Before then there was nothing… Wellington was replaced by George Stephenson and Stephenson by Elizabeth Fry before Churchill.

Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡

@Rainmaker1973 Safer than being than being on top when the bale grab comes around to drop the bales atop, doesn’t see where you are and pushes you off the trailer…been there, done that. Only survived because I landed on a bale I pushed off as I fell…

Effortless hay handling with smart automated bale machines.

@TheLege2 @campbellclaret Those two statements are incompatible- either foreign citizens can vote in elections or they can’t because it’s bordering on ridiculous. Also if some one is taxed here should they not have a say (no taxation with representation)?

@NickWebb73 @campbellclaret I think foreign citizens voting in elections in the country in which they are resident is bordering on ridiculous. Irish citizens being able to vote in British elections is fairly unique and recognises the close links between the countries for hundreds of years.

If ever you needed a front page that captured the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of a right wing nationalism that has done so much harm through history from which we don’t seem to learn …

@JamesCleverly Oh, go do one. You seriously screwed my children’s future with Brexit and now you want to remove their human rights. You’re no different to Reform in your attempts to emulate the government of 1930s Germany

Labour have crashed the economy, and now they looking at stealth taxes to fill the black hole of their own making.

@Chrnaturephotos Also my other half recommends Claude over ChatGPT for doing this

@NickWebb73 Thanks. Yeah I started writing it but I need to beef it up. I’ll tweak as needed for sure.

Have any of you guys used ChatGPT? I’m looking to use it to help write my resume, I hate talking about myself. Secondly I haven’t written a resume in over twenty years. So any advice would be greatly appreciated.