Jon Machtynger

I bought a 10cm globe as I need a visual aid for something, and I wasn’t prepared for how satisfying it is to hold in my hand.

"We live in an era where visuals, stage presence, and charisma matter much more than any like, actual, like, policy, or like idea, or anything, like, actually of value." — "Vivian" Wilson

Police again very clear. No suggestion Anne Widdecombe's death terror related. Or that it is politically motivated. And that speculation on motive is unhelpful to their investigation.

one month with the framework desktop 128gb as my amd inference box and i keep waiting for the catch. there isn't one. 128gb of unified memory in a 4.5 liter box. strix halo, ryzen ai max plus 395. framework sent it, amd seeded the program, and my only job was honest numbers wherever they land. so here are the numbers. a 397b moe runs at around 18 tok/s on this thing. a 35b holds a four million token context window. and the open community vulkan drivers beat amd's own rocm stack on my bench, which is the most linux thing imaginable. three and a half weeks of daily serving now, model swapping, long agent sessions, zero crashes, zero driver tantrums, fans i genuinely cannot hear. it sits next to the nvidia box and eats whatever gguf i throw at it. my 24gb card is still the daily driver, but a big memory tier at this price did not exist a year ago. amd showed up, and this quiet little box is the proof.

AN APOLOGY I was seriously wrong and insensitive in one of the several media appearances I made yesterday in reaction to the death of Ann Widdecombe. I got the timing and tone of my initial word portrait of her wrong. Of course I shared, and share, the horror at her murder and the respect for her remarkable and feisty political career. I also know that many people loved her for her subsequent showbiz stardom. Her untimely death is a horrible thing. My mistaken view was that in the context of rolling news coverage, I was being asked to contribute as an obituarist who has known her and interacted with her since the 1980s. This approach was premature. At no point was I expressing my personal feelings about her, that's not what I do. I was discussing her life in the round, based on the record of known facts and what she has said about herself, along with some recollections of our personal interactions. My choice of words on the spur of the moment was clumsy. I did not intend to offend though obviously I did.

There's a difference between normal people spending money and really rich people spending money. And it explains why our economy is failing.

No Guardian article has ever brought me more joy than this. Some best bits: "This evangelising of a wealth tax should have made for a truly amazing documentary. But it allows its host to be totally out-argued by all his interviewees. Why?" "Stevenson is not an appealing presenter. He has an adolescent bullishness about him that comes across badly on screen, raising a sort of fight-or-flight response in the viewer instead of encouraging engagement" "He is outdone and undone by almost all of his interviewees." Stevenson was "left floundering, without convincing comebacks to any of them." "Just a faintly embarrassing waste of time." If Gary cannot even convince the Guardian's TV critic that he is not just a grifter, it's no wonder he is deciding to quit

People versus the establishment? Are you kidding? Nigel Farage is the son of a stockbroker who went to Dulwich College and then follows his dad into the city, gets gifted millions, promotes crypto and gold bullion, been in politics for decades - he IS the establishment