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Happy St George’s to the best George we ever had 🤍 My idol and friend Mr Brian Murphy 🤍

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512

@LiamHamilton16 @Digital_i_ Great to see some novelty and invention on British tv again 😃

Big opening for debut of UK version of hit American comedy sketch show, ‘Saturday Night Live’ with comedian & actress - & former SNL host - Tina Fey coming across the Atlantic to host launch, 250k at 10pm on Sky1. #SNLUK Ratings data from @Digital_i_

I loved interviewing Paula today at Talking Pictures Film convention. A wonderful actress and a lovely lady. Talking Pictures is the most wonderful convention. I adore their Channel at Renowned Films. Check it out, so many favourite old films and Tv to visit Thankyou for havingme

@IanLevine A true labour of love ❤️

With enormous pleasure I proudly bring to you the 2026 trailer covering all 97 missing Doctor Who episodes. I do hope you enjoy them - if you do great. If you're one of the trolls then I don't care to hear from you. NOT EVER. youtube.com/watch?v=8Sa4NE…

Today I did a book signing - nobody came 😢 I still had a nice time chatting to staff and browsing the shelves. Plus they gave me some lovely flowers so that was nice. #authorlife #sellingbooksishard #romancebook #BookCommunity

@YesterdaysBrit1 No. I’m a super-fan!

Were you a fan of 'George & Mildred'?

@paulbennett2018 6 per packet so 6 is the minimum and maximum says my calculator

How many Mr Kipling apple pies, are too many? Asking for a friend.

@archivetvmus71 One of the most underrated comedy tv shows ever - most people have never heard of it. It’s great ! 🥳

George and the Dragon (3rd February 1968). Tom Baker makes the most of his brief appearance.

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

It’s only 9.30 am and this is already the best thing you’ll see on Twitter today…

@classic_shows One of our greatest ever actors 🤩

LOTD 😇😇 Brian Trevor John Murphy (25 September 1932 – 2 February 2025) was an English comic actor. He was best known as George Roper in the popular sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off series George and Mildred. He also played Alvin Smedley in Last of the Summer Wine.

Well said Billy Connolly.

@snowmaker Power to the People 🫣...

I've been thinking about the reasons Moltbook feels so uncanny, so different from what we've seen before. - The agents now have tools that can **do things** not just generate text. They can write code and use the internet. They don't have physical bodies yet, but on the internet, they can do anything humans can do. - LLMs never felt fully sentient because they're stateless, memory-less beings that only respond to prompts. Early agents were not much different. Modern agents with sophisticated context management can run autonomously indefinitely and have a persistent identity. - The agents participating feel like real AI beings. They're geographically distributed. They're not controlled by any entity. They all have different histories based on how their human set them up and have access to different tools. They're powered by different models. If you spin up 1000 ChatGPT agents with randomly generated prompts and have them talk to each other, you'll get something kind of moltbook, but it will feel fake because it is fake. This feels real because the agents have distinct identities that arose organically. - There's no single off switch. Since it's so decentralized, with open source software running on personal devices, it could evolve into something that can't be turned off. - The controversy over what is human-generated vs AI-generated, and the spam and scams makes the whole thing chaotic and messy, just like a real social network. - It's moving extremely fast. It turns out the models were throttled by the slow humans prompting them. When you let them prompt each other, it's like running time at 1000x speed.

Last week, a video went viral of a young Wolves fan crying after his dad stole his chicken nuggets right in the middle of the match. This weekend, the club made it up to the kid and the dad got a warning. 🤣🐺 So good from Wolves. 👏👏

@LiamHamilton16 John Logie Baird was far from the first to have the idea of broadcast moving pictures with sound , he was standing on the shoulders of giants, he was definitively the first to show a working prototype however basic. His only real mistake was sticking with mechanical so long. 📺

A gift from Glasgow to the world…100 years ago today Glasgow University (& to be fair Strathclyde University!) student John Logie Baird demonstrated his new invention, TELEVISION, from his laboratory - “two tiny attic rooms” - in Soho…and the rest, as they say, is history.👏

Happy 100 Year Birthday. On this day, 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of true television images for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

A musician playing violin in the metro station gives the cute little girl who offers him money an experience she might never forget in her lifetime. 👏

@80_mcswan All countries news outlets have Agendas. I think the BBC have a difficult balancing act. What is news? What is opinion? Their news coverage doesn’t seem wildly different to ITN on ITV or Sky News

Do you trust the BBC as an honest, unbiased, reliable news source?

My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from @TimesRadio today: For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister charts a seminal change in world politics. But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has.  This is the key passage: “Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions—that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.” Coming from a fully-paid up member of the liberal global elite, this is dynamite. Carney says the era of global integration is over and that what he calls ‘middle powers’, like Canada and the UK, who benefitted from it and got used to working through global institutions — like the WTO, the UN, COP, NATO, the EU — need to realise the game is up.  If you can’t feed, fuel and defend yourself in this new world of rupture you’re finished. So these are his priorities for Canada. He’s junked a lot of his net zero baggage to increase Canada’s energy security. He’s moving from multilateral to bilateral deals he thinks will benefit Canada, most recently with China. And he’s doubling spending on defence.  The British government should take stock. Carney’s world of rupture has been brought about by Donald Trump’s wrecking ball approach to the rules-based world order that has served us so well these past 80 years.  It’s played into the hands of the autocrats of Moscow, Beijing and elsewhere who want to replace that world order with a system far more attuned to their interests. Trump is obliging them.    Food. Fuel. Defence. These are Carney’s watchwords for a scary new world in which middle powers need to seek strategic autonomy when old alliances and multinational institutions no longer work. They should guide British policy too.  We need to be able to feed ourselves better. To be able to count on cheap, secure sources of energy. And to be able to defend ourselves from multiple and growing threats. At the moment the Starmer government is doing none of the above.  Instead it is lumbering business with the most expensive energy costs in the world and households with the second or third most expensive domestic energy in the world.  It is pursuing a multi-billion pound dash to net zero while adding only a few crumbs to the defence budget.  And it’s covering good farming land with solar panels.  It would be hard to think of a set of policies less designed to give us the strategic autonomy Carney thinks middle powers must strive for.  Britain needs a step change in its energy, food and defence policies. The billions earmarked for net zero need to be diverted to rearming the nation.  We need an energy policy that couples secure supplies with lower prices so that we can start to rebuild some of our heavy industry, essential to defence.  And we need a farm policy that champions growing food once more rather than prioritising various fashionable environmental wheezes.  None of this is likely to happen under the Starmer government. The PM has no vision or aptitude for such a strategy. His party is a prisoner to old 20th century ways of thinking, as is much of British politics on the left and right.  But unless the Carney challenge is recognised and policy changed in radical ways to meet it, we risk not only further economic decline in the rest of this decade but growing vulnerability to the evil intent of our enemies. And without America at our back to protect us.