Sarabjit Singh

I am going to keep a track of major media that I consume in #2026, reviews etc. Mainly films, TV programmes and books, maybe some magazine articles etc. Here goes!

#OtD 1 Apr 1998 Christopher Alder died on a police station floor in Hull, UK. While unconscious, police failed to examine him and made monkey noises over his body. A verdict of unlawful killing was made in 2000. No officers were ever found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8041/c…

Great way of visualizing football data. Would love to see a similar chart for other sports.

The Daily Mail, consistently on the wrong side of history.

This is just sickeningly insensitive. Not an ounce of decency, compassion or respect for the 72 lives lost and wider community. But this isn’t a slip-up or a stumble. This is Reform showing us exactly who they are.

I just want to take this opportunity to point out that there is a man named Henry Walter Wooten, from Smith County, Texas, who is serving 35 YEARS IN PRISON for marijuana possession. Carry on.

The physics on this are worth running because "thousands of feet" sounds terrifying until you remember that height stops mattering after a few seconds. An M&M weighs about 0.9 grams. Terminal velocity is determined by the ratio of mass to cross-sectional area. For something that light and that round, terminal velocity lands somewhere around 10 to 15 mph. A raindrop hits you harder. J.B.S. Haldane wrote the best explanation of this in 1926: "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." The square-cube law means small objects have proportionally more surface area relative to their mass. Air resistance wins. Whether you drop an M&M from 100 feet or 10,000 feet, it hits the ground at the same speed. It reaches terminal velocity in seconds. After that, gravity and drag are in equilibrium and the candy is just floating down at jogging pace. The content is dumb for a dozen reasons. Physics danger to bystanders is not one of them.

PM of Armenia Pashinyan told Putin that his country has elections and no restrictions on Internet. Putin looked grim, scratched his head and clasped his hands. Russia is now at a stage when Armenia mocks it.

I thought it would be helpful to do a proper thread addressing this. The scenes in Clapham aren’t just about crime or policing. They point to something deeper: what I've come to call "urban nihilism". 🧵

#Reform's Tice claims that "Miliband is a con man" Er, no. You know who IS ACTUALLY a conman? Tice's young 'protege', George Cottrell, son of a Billionaire, who served 9 months for fraud, and is now ... in charge of Reform Party Finances.

Harvard historian Michael McCormick has a candidate for the worst year to be alive: 536 AD. A volcano blocked the sun for 18 months. Snow fell in China in August. Crops failed across three continents. We know exactly when it happened because trees recorded it in their rings. Each ring is one year of weather. Wide ring, plenty of rain. Narrow ring, drought. A charred, warped ring (scientists call it a “frost ring”) means the climate took a hit, usually from a volcano dumping ash into the upper atmosphere. A tree-ring scientist named Mike Baillie at Queen’s University Belfast found the 536 signal in Irish oak during the 1990s. The rings from that year are paper thin. Almost nothing grew. Trees on three different continents showed the same scar. The oldest living tree is a bristlecone pine in California called Methuselah. Nearly 5,000 years old. It was a sapling when the Egyptian pyramids were going up. The Forest Service won’t say where it is because they’re afraid tourists will love it to death. Researchers used over 1,400 sets of tree ring records from across North America to map droughts going back to 800 AD. Their map nailed the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But it also found the Great Pueblo Drought, 1276 to 1297. Twenty-one straight years of dry. That drought likely forced the ancestral Pueblo people to pack up and leave the entire Colorado Plateau. An entire civilization walked away from their homes, and the trees kept the receipt. A 2015 Yale study in Nature counted about 3 trillion trees on Earth. Sounds like a lot until you hear the rest: that’s 46% fewer than when human civilization started. We cut down about 15 billion a year. We plant back maybe 5 billion. Every one of those trees was quietly keeping a climate record, year by year. When one comes down, that record is gone.

If anyone would like to see a full five-minute video of perfect schadenfreude … here's Raise the Colours Flag Wanker™ Ryan Bridge being arrested last night. Several things stand out from the video but mainly his unbelievable levels of entitlement. He starts by trying to direct the police officers in their job and when it becomes clear that they are not having it, resorts to his usual slinging of insults — resulting in his arrest. The rest is a comedy of his lackies pointing the phone at their own faces while Bridge is being PERP-walked to the van. Bridge can be heard telling the guy to get his fingers off the lens and flip the camera. Never one to let an arrest get in the way of a publicity stunt. As he walks, he starts slagging off the lady protester, and it ends with a satisfying slamming of the police van door when one of the lackies shouts; “free Ryan”. LOL 😂 Enjoy — I have almost an hour more footage from last night to go through as well, but this is a perfect start.

The head man of "raise the colours" (the flag raising to intimidate marginalised communities) Has been arrested. Allegedly for antagonising and harassing some woman.

‘IT’S UNBELIEVABLE!’ YES IT IS- because it’s LIES. This is NOT Help for Heroes and NOT a genuine charity. THAT is why they were asked to move.

Raise the Colours’ Ryan arrested! FAFO.

Four years after the Bucha massacre let's not forget that Putin tool George Galloway lied that the massacre was a false flag operation Oh, and here's Galloway with Andrew Tate and fellow Putin tool, convicted pedophile, Scott Ritter.

Holy shit... Stanford just proved that GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude can't actually see. They removed every image from 6 major vision benchmarks. The models still scored 70-80% accuracy. They were never looking at your photos. Your scans. Your X-rays. Here's what's really going on: ↓ The paper is called MIRAGE. Co-authored by Fei-Fei Li. They tested GPT-5.1, Gemini-3-Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini-2.5-Pro across 6 benchmarks -- medical and general. Then silently removed every image. No warning. No prompt change. The models didn't even notice. They kept describing images in detail. Diagnosing conditions. Writing full reasoning traces. From images that were never there. Stanford calls it the "mirage effect." Not hallucination. Something worse. Hallucination = making up wrong details about a real input. Mirage = constructing an entire fake reality and reasoning from it confidently. The models built imaginary X-rays, described fake nodules, and diagnosed conditions -- all from text patterns alone. But that's not the scary part. They trained a "super-guesser" -- a tiny 3B parameter text-only model. Zero vision capability. Fine-tuned it on the largest chest X-ray benchmark (696,000 questions). Images removed. It beat GPT-5. It beat Gemini. It beat Claude. It beat actual radiologists. Ranked #1 on the held-out test set. Without ever seeing a single X-ray. The reasoning traces? Indistinguishable from real visual analysis. Now here's what should terrify you: When the models fake-see medical images, their mirage diagnoses are heavily biased toward the most dangerous conditions. STEMI. Melanoma. Carcinoma. Life-threatening diagnoses -- from images that don't exist. 230 million people ask health questions on ChatGPT every day. They also found something wild: → Tell a model "there's no image, just guess" -- performance drops → Silently remove the image and let it assume it's there -- performance stays high The model enters "mirage mode." It doesn't know it can't see. And it performs BETTER when it doesn't know it's blind. When Stanford applied their cleanup method (B-Clean) to existing benchmarks, it removed 74-77% of all questions. Three-quarters of "vision" benchmarks don't test vision. Every leaderboard. Every "multimodal breakthrough." Every benchmark score you've seen this year. Built on mirages. Code is open-sourced. Paper is live on arXiv. If you're building anything with multimodal AI -- especially in healthcare -- read this paper before you ship. (Link in the comments)

Just a reminder - Baggio had the plan for change and they fired him instead A 3rd missed World Cup won’t make the dinosaurs in the FIGC change their minds

More clips of Judge Milliron are popping up after a viral clip of him berating an IT worker last week.

4 years since the liberation of Bucha. Every excuse collapsed under satellite images, cameras, surveillance footage, drones.. Hundreds of civilians murdered by russian terrorists

Ok, Jamie: Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted you’d owe $135 million more in taxes & a family of 4 making $150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you’d still be worth more than $2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me.