@TotherChris You want us to buy more of the fundamentally broken vehicle we are forcing into service so some Generals & civil servants don’t lose their jobs?
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Now that the Army is moving ahead with Ajax again, the MOD should be looking ahead to making the most of a common platform.
ArmaduraXXI💯🇪🇦@oscar198o
La nueva familia de vehículos blindados a partir del ASCOD HMC - Noticias Defensa defensa.com noticias industria defensa share.google/4dg6URganMRue5…
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@the_mantress @RoyStew78036358 @pinstripedline Nope
Infantry officers leave Sandhurst and do the Platoon Commander Battle Course which is 14/16 weeks long.
Signals/Engineers/Armoured/Medics/REME etc… officers will also go off to phase 2 training which can be a few months to a year in length.
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@RoyStew78036358 @pinstripedline Its been 24 weeks phase 1 for RN officers for at least 15 yrs, then they go to phase 2 trade training.
Do soldiers leave sandhurst straight to their regiments?
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The Royal Navy is making huge changes to Officer training. BRNC will no longer carry out initial naval training. Now all junior officers will spend 11 weeks at HMS RALEIGH alongside ratings before conducting leadership training at BRNC.
royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/may/…
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@BareLeft The police and intelligence services are at the mercy of the justice system I’m afraid, until we start dishing out real consequences to violent criminals, extremists, terrorists, murderers and whatever else then they are powerless. Leaving the ECHR is a necessity.
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The Golders Green attack is not a story about terrorism, but how successive appendages of our much diminished public realm let a severely unwell and dangerous man slip through their fingers again, and again, and again - until he hurt someone.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Essa Suleiman reportedly left a psychiatric hospital in south London just days before he committed the Golders Green terror attack
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@BearJFK @ThackhamJosh *spaffed all their money
I’m a huge critic of the Army’s choices especially Ajax, Armoured Recce is a dead concept regardless of Ajax’s failings, But the reality is all 3 of the services haven’t had enough money to create an effective fighting force!
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@BearJFK @ThackhamJosh The navy have staffed all their money on 2 aircraft carriers they should’ve known we wouldn’t be able to defend and would take money away from escorts and missiles.
Also any extra money the Army had was as a result of it being expected to fight wars in Afghan & Iraq.
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£6 billion the Army is spending on a vehicle that doesn’t work and doesn’t need, would buy an awful lot of CV90s to replace Warrior and upgrade remaining Challenger 2s to 3.
The Army really has shot itself in the feet.
Jonas Olsson@jonasolsson
BAE Hägglunds currently has an order book of around 600 CV90s. The now five-country joint procurement is expected to cover at least 500 more vehicles, underscoring the need to expand capacity. “Probably, we’re gonna deliver a CV90 per day [after the investments]. That’s roughly where we’re gonna be,” Gustafsson-Rask said. “We will probably deliver the last vehicles — given approximate volume of 500 vehicles, adding into current order book — we will be until 2032-ish.” Photo credit: Jonas Olsson
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@fcoury @mike_the_brain Felipe my man, big fan of your work: If you could build a Linux version of Codex/ChatGPT super app that would be greatly appreciated 🙏
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@mike_the_brain Good question. I don't know who's responsible for that. I can take a look.
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/goal also lands in Codex CLI 0.128.0.
Our take on the Ralph loop: keep a goal alive across turns. Don't stop until it's achieved.
Built by my co-worker and OpenAI mentor Eric Traut, aka the Pyright guy. One of the GOATs I get to work with daily.
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@ajambrosino @nicdunz Hey Andrew, can you give us a hint if you plan to make a Linux app? (Please I’m begging you to do so 😭)
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We really did consider a top-level toggle for non-coding work. But the dynamic UI just felt better. The summary, the artifacts, the tabs– they all reflect the type of work you're doing.
While there is general setting for what type of work you gravitate towards (the "everyday work" setting), the effect is very subtle– it guides onboarding, it suppresses some of the tool call detail, simplifies the sandbox.
The new Codex app builds its UI around you in the moment, and there's so much more to come.
Andrew Ambrosino@ajambrosino
Codex for everything: - Dynamic UI for the task at hand - 20% faster computer & browser use - Even better slides and sheets - Annotate in browser, artifacts, and code - Easier to get started - Cleaner design across the app - Performance improvements - (no clunky handoff/switching)
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@ajambrosino @reach_vb Only thing left is software frontend design, the front end skill helps but still isn’t great.
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Codex for everything:
- Dynamic UI for the task at hand
- 20% faster computer & browser use
- Even better slides and sheets
- Annotate in browser, artifacts, and code
- Easier to get started
- Cleaner design across the app
- Performance improvements
- (no clunky handoff/switching)
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As bad as what he did was, abhorrent actually, police absolutely cannot do this.
Wtf!?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Police struggle to detain the 45-year-old suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in Golders Green
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@BearJFK I’m not convinced it’s the militaries fault, but more of a society and integration issue.
Perhaps more study needs to be done as to why and how to convince a newer generation of black and Asian people to serve their country and reap the benefits that can come with it.
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@BearJFK In the US Military; they are literally full of people from poorer ethnic minority (black & Hispanic) backgrounds.
The British military meanwhile convinces hardly any ethnic minorities to join, the vast majority of those who do are Gurkhas or directly from Commonwealth nations…
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At a time of high unemployment among the young, applications to the armed forces usually spikes.
That it is collapsing suggests new factors at play which weren’t around before. Here are some:
1) Poor PR
2) Ethnic change of population
3) Smaller cohort of eligible younger people compared to prior generations (not only smaller overall, but a large % of 18-35yos are foreign nationals)
4) Shrinking force means fewer career opportunities
5) Poor treatment of veterans
6) Changing cultural attitudes, with several decades of anti militarism/nationalism now firmly embedded.
7) Poor physical health of many young people due to inactivity and lack of organised sports arguably leads to being put of a career requiring high physical fitness.
Missed anything?
Henry Jackson Society@HJS_Org
As Army recruitment hits a 38% decline, Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox fears a generation has lost the will to serve. @Mr_Andrew_Fox for @Daily_Express
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@Thomas977673521 @BearJFK Why would we back Islamists who despise us just because certain Israeli’s are arseholes?
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@BearJFK Nah throw our weight behind an independent palastine, protected by british forces we can call it the british mandate of Palestine
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Right. Time to withdraw practical support for Israel then. Just have zero opinion and leave them to it.
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
Since Britain's Starmer recognized a "Palestinian state," it is only fair that Israel recognizes Argentinian sovereignty over the Malvinas. @JMilei is Israel's closest ally in the world, along with President Trump, who is also considering recognizing the Malvinas. 🇦🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸
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@EggsNBakey83 @DrChrisParry We are so bureaucratic, paper work heavy and slow to changes as an organisation, the days of section attacks against a lone gunman in a bush, or living in harbour areas is dead, yet our leadership don’t seem to either realise that or simply don’t care.
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@EggsNBakey83 @DrChrisParry It’s considered almost as an after thought, we still haven’t really adapted our core tactics and sop’s, just experiments on exercise and unit level experimentation, it’s as though the old guard believe our tactics & Trg are so superior we don’t have to worry.
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How does it deal with drones?
BFBS Forces News@ForcesNews
The section attack is the foundation of British Army warfighting🪖 Drilled relentlessly in all conditions, it teaches soldiers how to react under fire, locate and suppress the enemy, attack decisively, and regroup for the next fight See how its mastered🔗youtube.com/watch?v=YEmaQN…
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@BoyuanChen0 It can’t seem to reproduce non famous people’s faces very well.
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We are committed to continually improving the GPT Image 2 model! I am actively fixing various issues from the community feedback. Just reply or DM me your GPT conversation! Features like 2K or 4K images are already available via the experimental API. Hope you enjoy the model!
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It's a form of tyranny. It's fundamentally anti-democratic.
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Who asked for this? Why do "fuckers" like roon (quoting Altman) get to unilaterally decide when and how to build this technology?
roon@tszzl
there will this brief era where we can watch our AIs bumble around on the computer clicking things, failing sometimes, taking a ~human amount of time to write code. in the blink of an eye they’ll be manipulating computers far too quickly to monitor
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@thsottiaux The to do list it creates for itself never gets finished, it ticks off like the first one and that’s it
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@priyanshnik @theo Continue post training and playing with test time compute to see how much better they can make it without increasing the base models size.
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@priyanshnik @theo and as a result is still a fair bit more capable across most domains than GPT-5.5, but Anthropic obviously can’t afford to serve a model of that size to the masses, I’d bet OpenAI had decided GPT-5.5 is near the limit size wise on what they can serve to everyone.
They will now…
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$5 per mil in, $30 per mil out.
GPT-5.5 is smart. I've been using it for a bit. It's also weird, hard to wrangle, and too expensive IMO.
Double the price of GPT-5.4. 20% more expensive than Opus 4.7.
OpenAI@OpenAI
Introducing GPT-5.5 A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done. Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.
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