Andrei Muntean

I recently saw a debate at the Oxford Union on whether Churchill was a hero and the opposition sounded so bonkers that I transcribed the video, generated a list of their claims and made a website to address them: churchillfacts.com

It is completely false to describe Grieve as a "senior Conservative". He was stripped of the whip seven years ago for his attempt to hand control of Parliament to Jeremy Corbyn. He then quit the party to stand against it. He'll never be welcomed back.

@isnit0 @RokoMijic It's much better than nothing

@RokoMijic My office is significantly more comfortable with it running than without.

I bought an aircon and it’s great. You should buy an aircon for your home too if you feel uncomfortable in the heat. This should not be controversial.

@AndrewChapman50 @LoftusSteve False memory

@LoftusSteve Lowe did a newspaper interview where he suggested a leadership change in Reform - that was where the rift began in my view.

The irony. Farage created Restore by putting his ego in front of everything else.

There is no such thing as an "English" breakfast. Sausages are made of atoms, formed a few millionths of a second after the big bang from quarks, 13.7 billion years ago.

@lawrencenewport @FraserNelson Is data on theft even accurately recorded?

Yes again my point as it was 18 months ago, and in conversations with you, and I can't believe I'm having to go through this again, is that rates of police solving bike thefts are unforgivably low. I also stressed to you snatch theft 18 months ago and you dismissed it as a "post-lockdown bounce"!

My god. Finally...! Even Fraser cannot now downplay the reality - speaking about these crimes is pretty important, ignoring them and pointing to a graph of overall crime does not address them! We need rapid action - sting operations, gang crackdowns, longer sentences for career criminals. No excuses. It's not rocket science. Police and politicians can - and must - get it done!

I’m wondering what the most extreme application of this law could be… Bankrupting the Premier League by finding women’s football ‘equal value’ to men’s football?

"You should be able to walk around with your phone out." Every 7 minutes, a phone is stolen in London. Should people be more vigilant with their mobile phones in London, or should the police just do their jobs? Lawrence Newport, CEO of LFG on BBC Newsnight. ⬇️

Excellent work by @LaurencePostrv

@cremieuxrecueil “Remains wise”? It was never wise to press blue

If this was how the buttons looked, what portion of humanity would press blue? It'd probably be a large enough number due to mistakes, the young, altruists, etc., such that it remains wise to press blue.

For his vomit-inducing persecution of innocent British troops, Hermer should join Starmer in being kicked out of the most unpatriotic government in our island's history mol.im/a/15763549

@BorisJohnson huckfermer.com

“The Labour government of 2024 essentially prostrated itself before Whitehall. There would be no more “gaslighting” of the civil service. Now, finally, “the adults were back in the room”, and officials would be free to work their magic. (…) By early December the same year, Labour had begun briefing that Dominic Cummings’ criticisms of the system were correct. A timeline many wouldn’t have expected.” by @lawrencenewport, read the rest below (no paywall; press X but consider subscribing!)

@timfarron @Jebadoo2 Might be worth considering that the Lords works much better in practice than it does on theory, and so maybe it's better left alone, given all the other things that most definitely do not work in this country?

@LaurencePostrv #huckfermer

The Attorney General hunted British soldiers on known lies. The Telegraph investigation proves it. He must resign. Read the facts: huckfermer.com

Huck Fermer 👇

@waitbutwhy Those who press Blue do so out of a misguided sense of compassion (+suicidal empathy) towards people who could have and should have just pressed Red. Woke virtue signalling in a nutshell

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

“Sometimes a technology comes along that is so clearly superior it instantly supersedes everything that came before it” spectator.com/article/driver…

@benwansell And you learn some have had their lore upgraded, such as becoming “Mother of the House”

Quite exciting watching Parliament and seeing lots of cameos from stars you were sure had been killed off by the screenwriters in previous seasons - Burgon, Abbott, McVey, Davis, Duncan Smith.

@hizawye @Steve_Yegge I frequently make one-shot requests with ~100,000-800,000-token prompts where I carefully provide all the necessary context. I think most users rely on integrated agentic tools where the context is inferred, but I don’t do that.

@_andreimuntean @Steve_Yegge whats your use case?

My tweet last week about Google's AI adoption drew a lot of pushback, to say the least. Since then, Googlers from multiple orgs have reached out to me independently and anonymously. They've expressed fear of being doxxed, concern about what they saw as bullying of me, and general corroboration of my original tweet. I haven't verified each person's story, but the picture these Googlers paint is consistent across sources. It is more specific than what I originally wrote, and somewhat bleaker. What they describe is a two-tier system. DeepMind engineers use Claude as a daily tool. Most of the rest of Google does not. When the question of equalizing access came up internally, the proposed response was to remove Claude for everyone — which DeepMind objected to so strongly that several engineers reportedly threatened to leave. Non-DeepMind engineers get pushed onto internal Gemini variants behind router-style names that obscure which underlying model is actually serving a request. Multiple engineers describe regressions and reliability problems severe enough that some senior people have stopped using the tools. A senior manager on a major product line reportedly flagged attrition concerns over exactly this issue. Googlers say leadership knows the gap is real. The response has been to mandate AI usage in OKRs and individual expectations, and to stand up an internal token-usage leaderboard. Unfortunately, managers have been told both that the leaderboard won't be used for performance reviews and, separately, that it absolutely will. And I hear other stories that Google's culture is not adapted properly yet for high-volume coding. Addy Osmani's reply on behalf of Google said over 40,000 SWEs use agentic coding weekly. I don't doubt the number. But weekly use of a thin tool is precisely the box-checking I described in the original post. Volume of opens isn't adoption — and "weekly" is a low bar that includes a lot of people who tried it once and went back to writing code by hand. The clearest thing I'm hearing is that Googlers do want to use high-quality agentic tools. They are asking repeatedly for better ones. But overall, this is not a picture of an engineering org that is fine. My goal in the first tweet, and now, is always the same — get more people using AI and agentic coding. Nobody is as far ahead as they might look from the outside, and none of you are as far behind as you might be worried you are. To all the Googlers who've reached out: thank you. You took a real risk and I appreciate you. Be safe. And good luck getting good models!

@maryarchived @thesanityrevolt That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

@thesanityrevolt got anything else to add or you just gonna deny biological reality and dip

lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up: childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys). men first experience paternal instincts once they have their own children - and typically, those paternal instincts are only ever felt for their own children, and no one else’s. men are not nurturers. men don’t gush over cute kids in public. men don’t have baby fever. if a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it being a product of his own lineage, he is likely a predator. and you’d be taking the feminist/radical gender abolitionist position to protest any of the above points. this should explain why a “dad simulator” game marketed to mostly childless men gives people the creeps.