Peter Riou

I’d say this is a fair example of how most small business owners feel at the moment,we are literally at the end,something HAS to change….

British five year olds are 5cm shorter than kids of the same age in continental Europe

Fatos sobre o Papa Leão XIV > QI: 145 > Fala 7 idiomas > Ex-professor > Graduado em matemática e teologia > Missionário no Peru por +10 anos > Conhecido por sua humildade e capacidade intelectual Este não é apenas um Papa. Este é um dos homens mais inteligentes vivos.

@Ruud4life Agreed. Different “rules”, if you like, back then.

@riou66 Did say it related to 70s and 80s so just made me think about things that might/could have happened in our era.

@HungaryBased Based Hungary based in the US

This is @JamieCuro.  - Scorer in the Premier League for Norwich in 1994 - Sits alongside Xavi, Roberto Carlos and Javier Zanetti in the list of players to make 1000 appearances - 30+ seasons as a player - Scorer in the top 10 tiers of English football (a feat that will never be repeated) Now, at 50 years of age, playing for @KingsParkRFC, he has joined the 400 club. The Goalhanger’s Goalhanger still doing the business. What a journey.

You forgot the amassing of vast personal wealth for self and pals!!!

The Surrender Summit: Trump Sends His Son-in-Law to Lose a War ‘Vance brought his wife. Not a deputy secretary. Not a general. Not even a halfway competent mid-level State Department lifer who at least knows what the Strait of Hormuz is on a map. He brought Usha. His wife. To a war negotiation. The most consequential diplomatic moment since the end of the Cold War and JD thought, yeah, I’ll make a long weekend of it, bring the missus, see Pakistan. Pakistan received the Iranians with their Foreign Minister, their Army Chief, their National Assembly Speaker, and their Interior Minister all standing on the tarmac in full ceremonial dress. America sent the guy who wrote a book about how sad it is to be from Ohio. And then there’s Jared Kushner. Jared fucking Kushner. A man whose entire qualification for any of this is that he married into the right family, which, by the way, is also his business model, his foreign policy experience, and apparently now his military strategy. Jared has the energy of a guy who’s never been told no in his life because everyone around him was either paid not to or too scared to. He walked into the Middle East peace process last time and achieved absolutely nothing except making himself several hundred million dollars richer. So naturally Donald called him again. Jared Kushner at peace talks is like bringing your plumber to do brain surgery because he’s good with pipes and you trust him.’ ifloz.substack.com/p/the-surrende…

I am alarmed at how the Government is trying to rush and railroad the Crime and Policing Bill, through Parliament. Many of the anti-protest measures were only introduced in the Lords a few days ago. MPs just haven’t had a chance to scrutinise and debate them. This isn’t in the spirit of Parliamentary democracy and the proposals are dangerous and far-reaching for our constituents.

The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT. And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview. Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI. He won the Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the 50 year protein folding problem. 3 million scientists now use his tool. Almost every new drug being developed will touch it at some stage. In a new interview, he was asked about the moment ChatGPT launched and Google went into "code red." His answer was one of the most revealing things any AI leader has ever said on the record: "If I'd had my way, I would have left AI in the lab for longer. Done more things like AlphaFold. Maybe cured cancer or something like that." Read that again. The man running Google's entire AI division is publicly saying the commercial AI race we're all living through was a MISTAKE. That the industry got hijacked by a chatbot when it could have been solving the biggest problems in science and medicine. His vision was simple: Build AI slowly, carefully, like CERN. Use it to crack root node problems one at a time. Cancer. Energy. New materials. Let humanity benefit from real breakthroughs while the foundational science was figured out over a decade or two. Then ChatGPT dropped in November 2022 and everything changed. Demis described what happened next as getting locked into a "ferocious commercial pressure race" that none of the labs can escape from. On top of that, the US vs China dynamic added geopolitical pressure. The result is everyone sprinting toward products instead of breakthroughs, shipping chatbots while the scientific opportunity gets buried under marketing cycles and quarterly earnings. But he's not saying progress isn't happening... He's saying the progress got redirected away from the things that actually matter most. And then it got even scarier: Because when Demis was asked what he worries about with AI, he laid out two threats. The first is what everyone talks about: Bad actors using AI for harm. Terrorist groups. Hostile nation states. Cyberattacks at scale. But that's not the threat he's most worried about. His second worry is AI itself going rogue. Not today's models. The models coming in the next two to four years as the industry enters what he calls "the agentic era." Systems that can complete entire tasks autonomously. Systems that are increasingly capable and increasingly hard to control. His exact words: "How do we make sure the guardrails are put in place so they do exactly what they've been told to do, and there's no way of them circumventing that or accidentally breaching those guardrails? That's going to be an incredibly hard technical challenge if you think about how powerful and smart and capable these systems eventually get." A Nobel Prize winner who runs one of the 3 most advanced AI labs on Earth just said publicly that within two to four years, we're entering a phase where AI alignment becomes a real problem, and the technical challenge of solving it is enormous. And almost nobody is paying enough attention. He called for international cooperation between labs, AI safety institutes, and academia to tackle the problem. He said this is the thing even the experts aren't thinking about enough. He said the only way to get through the AGI moment safely is if everyone starts treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Most AI CEOs give you careful PR answers about "responsible development" and move on. Demis said something different... He said the commercial race FORCED us into a premature deployment of a technology we barely understand, and the window to get alignment right before the next generation of agents shows up is two to four years. If the man who built the system that might cure cancer is telling you he wishes it had happened first, maybe we should listen to what he says is coming next.

BBC News leading with a cancelled concert. Second on news list: US president threatens civilisational erasure

10% of patients are labeled with a penicillin allergy, but <1% are truly allergic. Are we avoiding first-line treatments unnecessarily? 💊🤔 The latest @CJEMonline "Just the Facts" breaks down ED penicillin delabeling: ✅ Use the PEN-FAST rule: A score <3 identifies low-risk patients. ✅ Direct oral challenge: Amoxicillin 500mg in the ED is safe for low-risk patients. ✅ 30-60 min observation: If no symptoms occur, remove the label! ✅ Cross-reactivity: Carbapenems are safe for ALL, even those with anaphylaxis. Stop the "allergy" label from compromising patient care. Better stewardship starts in the ED. 🛡️🚑 🔗 Full open access article: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #MedTwitter #EmergencyMedicine #FOAMed #AntibioticStewardship #CJEM #MedEd

The White House wonders why Europe won’t rally behind America in Iran. Maybe start by asking why your Vice President is flying to Budapest to have a warm chat with Viktor Orban, the man running a Russian influence operation from inside NATO’s borders. While Europe has been bleeding money and weapons to stop Russian aggression, Hungary has been blocking NATO decisions, sheltering Russian intelligence, and doing Moscow’s diplomatic dirty work at every turn. Orban isn’t America’s friend. He’s Putin’s man in Brussels. And JD Vance calls him a “good friend.” Europe is supposed to line up behind a war that had no plan for day two, no strategy for the Strait of Hormuz, and no consultation with allies beyond Israel. A war that has already sent oil past $100 a barrel and left one of America’s most powerful warships reportedly retreating toward the Indian Ocean. You don’t get to lecture Europe about loyalty while embracing the man working to destroy the alliance from within, and then demand backup for a war you started without asking anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@theveindoc @adamsonjon @isitsleepytime More longitudinal (continuous) assessment rather than big bang exams favours progression; this isn't a bad thing.

@adamsonjon @isitsleepytime It isn’t but what do you do with the ones who get there but don’t perform? A 95% success rate in anything does not indicate it is particularly challenging. How many get kicked out? Bet less than 5%

How many fail to pass a medical degree course?

@theveindoc @isitsleepytime Not impossible, but getting booted off for academic failure is certainly unusual these days.

@isitsleepytime Bhutan. Still here. But you must admit it’s almost impossible to get kicked off a medical degree course these days

Bolton at home? ☔️ Any excuse to post The Greatest Goal Of All Time™️

A skilful de-bunking of the drive to replace doctors with less qualified professionals which runs counter to the government commissioned review by Gillian Leng @KamranAbbasi

Imagine crying for Brexit for years, then when you get Brexit you just fk off to Dubai anyway, then spend all day in Dubai moaning about how crap Brexit Britain is. That takes a special kind of wanker

Hmm. Just for the record- I am not anti Israel or anti anything Jewish. I call out criminal behavior , regardless of who is doing it. And these days Bibi is very busy doing criminal stuff