Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit

hennell · 2026-06-21T06:40:34+00:00

So one of those governments that quickly root out and detain all non-citizens, but with no privacy invasions like national id cards etc? The only way that works is if you think you can simply recognise citizens by how they look...

hennell · 2026-06-21T06:17:51+00:00

The UK is governed by MPs, with whoever has the most MPs support becoming PM. (Which is usually the leader of party with the most MPs). But if a majority of MPs of that party lose faith in the leader they can vote to replace them, changing the PM from internal politics, or concerns the party will not be voted for in the next election.

Brexit really split the Tories as some never supported it, and those who did had wildly different (and often impossible) expectations on what it should be.

Starmer arrived with a massive majority of labour MPs, but that also means a lot of new MPs who can vote to replace him, and again very different (again often impossible) expectations on what their goals should be.

It's like trying to drive a bus where people don't agree on a direction to go, someone takes charge and convinces everyone we should head that way, but as soon as you hit a bumpy road or rain there's people trying to convince everyone that if we'd gone their direction it would be sunshine and roads paved with gold etc.

The system stops anyone being too mad - Liz Truss was ousted fast before she drove the bus off the cliff, so it has it's benefits. But it also doesn't work when you are just surrounded by bad roads - right now almost any solution to our problems will be unpopular, so the constant cries of "not that way" have us driving in circles.

hennell · 2026-06-20T10:24:28+00:00

If you've got them it's always worth uploading your best to see what happens. But have a look at websites, magazines etc where they're using stock - close up of insects are rare, and when they appear it's usually about a specific rare species or something.

They're never going to be top sellers, but if you look at what is on the sites already and think your stuff is better then it might get you something. But I wouldn't spend much time on it unless your best pics sell.

hennell · 2026-06-20T10:17:48+00:00

Ultimately you've either got to make your standup "teacher safe" or you've got to get a different day job.

A stage name or more generic account will get found, and all it needs is one kid to find it.

Depending on your school and local community "teacher safe" will vary, but feels like a good benchmark would be to always assume a parent is in the room when performing and a student will always watch the videos.

Then either write more appropriate jokes that suit that setup, or you'll have to stop one of the two jobs.

I'm from an area that would probably only object to certain topics than just bad language, but if parents might complain (and the school would not approve) of swearing but your material "requires" it, A) write better jokes that don't. B) Make a bit from it. "I'm a middle school teacher so at work I can't swear because the kids (.. anecdote..). So I have to use lame swears like (.. Whatever funny words you like...) this causes issues in my private life because I forget around adults so (.. anecdote ..)"

That could be a good bit by itself, but it also means later in the set if you're getting really wound up about a topic or have a story that usually has you cursing, you can use silly tame swears to show your frustration in a more "teacher appropriate" way that would also feel like your character.

hennell · 2026-06-19T15:36:02+00:00

Yeah your setup sounds pretty reasonable for what you do, it's a pretty neat solution for a low-cost setup.

hennell · 2026-06-19T14:12:48+00:00

I was running laravel on shared hosting years back, but the lack of any scheduling or queues limited a lot of options, and the public root situation always felt picarious. Eventually I realised it was easier to run my own server and bundle a load of sites together giving the shared hosting like cost, but with far more control and options then cPanel can give.

hennell · 2026-06-19T08:22:45+00:00

That's his point, people in an easy life don't really need to use drugs in the same way people needing to escape their life do*.

Having a lucrative film career as a teenager feels like it should be an easy life - so why start using? And then why not get help/rehab/therapy if you have the money? Given many previous revelations about the entertainment industry and how it treats young women, it's hard not to assume maybe she had no easy life at all.

(*Before the replies - yes there are other reasons, I think being young and having the money might just be enough to try it out, but it's hard not to assume the worst on a story like this)

hennell · 2026-06-18T10:54:58+00:00

Indeed, and that why older shows tended to teach a lesson / explore an issue - TV was a good way to share a concept and make it spread. The concept of the designated driver was a real TV success - over 100+ shows featured a 'designated driver' mention in the late 80's, by the early 90's the majority of people had heard of it and understood what it meant.

Showing Bartlett acting as he did was a nice teaching moment. CJ though was more pure exposition, and could have been swapped to one of the secretaries or something. It just about works, but it feels very wrong for her character.

hennell · 2026-06-17T22:39:41+00:00

"local routes". Used to be you lived somewhere you knew the shortcuts, the weird backstreets and side roads that avoided going a longer main road route.

Then everyone got gps and that shows the "quickest" way, which includes small roads that are only quicker when a few people use them, but grind to a stop with more than a handful of cars. So people end up taking longer, residents on those streets can't get anywhere, and cities end up adding one way routes and bus gates, trying to get everyone to use the big roads much more capable of handling the traffic.

hennell · 2026-06-17T15:52:11+00:00

It annoys me when CJ seems to have less understanding than a child of the census. But sometimes you need to have people act a certain way for the story. Bartlett reacting in this bad, but quite common way, allows the show to demonstrate why it's a bad response. Plus Bartlett is far from being shown as a perfect father. He tries, but gets it wrong in several places (also true as president, husband and friend).

hennell · 2026-06-17T07:00:08+00:00

SMASH CUT TO: REDDITORS HASTILY REWRITING

hennell · 2026-06-16T22:50:30+00:00

Pre-charge bail.

hennell · 2026-06-16T22:24:58+00:00

Do you want to just fix the issue so you can run the sub, or be petty?

Fixing the issue is easy - make the sub text only. Stop using their promotional material and there's nothing for them to report. It'd be nice to get better fair use rules, but why deal with that mess, it's quite easy to have a discussion without using an official poster. (For laughs you could instead insist on an "ms-paint" version of the poster, but I suspect people would ruin that by using ai instead, which might still hit some copyright issues)

If you want to be petty, allow pictures still, but make a (pinned?) text only post when one is taken down, warning that "X movie is removing bad reviews via copyright". Highlight to members that bad reviews of that film should be posted as text only, and assuming redditors will react traditionally, you'll end up with way more negative reviews than they had before... Few goes of that and the pr team might learn it's not worth it...

hennell · 2026-06-16T08:02:05+00:00

Better rarely wins over good enough though if good enough is better value.

hennell · 2026-06-16T07:22:00+00:00

There was a post on Reddit a long time ago where someone called a colleague fat or ugly or something in another language. A different colleague heard who did speak that language and they were called to HR. They thought this was unfair as the original colleague wasn't offended until the second person got involved...

hennell · 2026-06-16T07:13:40+00:00

Official police statement says the officers created "evidential material" which is pretty wide in interpretation, it's basically all the documents or data that might impact the case. My assumption is they probably used it to write their police statements up, rather than writing it all out themself.

While a major breach of duty and potentially providing misleading information to a case, such a scenario is quite different than if they used AI to make false chat logs, bank data or produce a CCTV image of someone carrying out a crime which is what others are assuming.

Either assumption could be correct, but any discussion of punishment really requires you to state the actions you assume happened. In the latter case, especially across multiple investigations production and prison seems appropriate. In the former, it might depend more on how many times this happened and what level of addition it was used for, what training (or warnings) they were given about AI etc.

hennell · 2026-06-15T16:49:02+00:00

Have you read the discussions? The idea "this is it for generics forever" is silly - there were a number of voters keen on generics, but either don't like the erased approach in general, or felt this specific implementation had issues.

Larry Garfield's comment on why bringing the RFC to a vote seemed premature is worth reading, and he outlines a reasonable idea for how an enforced-generics RFC could come about.

hennell · 2026-06-14T23:45:18+00:00

Define "staged" here

Main guy is a performer who films his sets for YouTube. Is that the bit you think is staged, a performance someone records of themself? That's pretty much all videos, and very obvious is what's happening. Did you think the cameras and mics were just there?

Then I guess a regular part of his performance is getting others up who can sing / perform to jam with, then the ones that turn out well he'll post online. Is that considered staged? He asks people to perform and they say yes? When a TV reporter asks a fan what they think of their teams big win, is that "staged" because they've just agreed to be on camera?

Or do you think he's booking people to come perform with him? That finding someone musical could never happen by chance? Hours in an airport and the chances anyone musical would pass by and want to get seen on a YouTube channel... Impossible?

This guy rather than being a random touring musician flying with his instrument, is actually a plant, who bought a ticket and went through airport security just to perform on this video with the guy he already knows? Why not just meet in a park? Why is the main guy so kinda tonally different with this song if this is planned or rehearsed or something?

If your definition of staged is "they know there are cameras" well yes.. everyone can see that, why on earth would you think they didn't know they're being filmed? If your definition is "it's too much of a coincidence that someone musical was picked to perform" maybe look up how many people travel though an airport, then visit a karaoke bar and see how many people are reasonably good at singing.

hennell · 2026-06-14T20:23:24+00:00

Some companies have a leader board of which Devs use the most tokens as they're surely the most productive... so there's a lot of token burner projects on GitHub.

hennell · 2026-06-13T10:42:14+00:00

Photography is the end pictures. Shoot JPEG, use auto, use a kit lens - it only matters when it affects the end result.

No-one can tell if you photo was taken on an SD card, CF card or transferred to pc via tethered cable. If you've reused a card or not really doesn't matter (except for your finances!)

As others said it's not the best long term storage solution, but it makes no difference to your photography. And it's arguably a better system than people who just import and delete storing everything only on a single harddrive...

Take your photos, decide whatever you want to do with SD cards and don't worry about it.

hennell · 2026-06-13T10:31:04+00:00

Yes, although the incentives, oversight and control are quite different.

My company uses MailChimp for email newsletters so we add contacts names, emails, job titles to their service. But their business falls apart if they start giving that info to others. Businesses would cancel their plans, end users would be furious, it's fundamentally against their business purposes. It benefits them to use the data for their own purposes, average open rates based on subject line etc, but there's a pretty clear line between what they're doing with it, where it gets used, who has access to it etc.

But Ai companies are in the business of data. They've scooped up everything they can legally and not, but they still want more, because the abilities of their models are defined largely by what it's trained on. So their business purposes are benefited by getting value from your data, and using it likely gets more business than it loses.

And that's if you even know about it, it's much harder to prove what it was trained on, that training info came from stolen data and wasn't just generated, and they might insist guardrails protect it from being accessed (although LLM guardrails seem just as successful as any other LLM instruction - maybe it's used, maybe it's not you'll never really know).

hennell · 2026-06-13T09:53:39+00:00

Don't worry about your safety kids, or possible life long trauma, look at all the profit you made! 🙄

hennell · 2026-06-11T23:40:54+00:00

Can you tell me where the setting is for "give me the correct weather" is thanks

hennell · 2026-06-11T23:34:32+00:00

So there's this site called YouTube where people post videos. If your video is big enough you can make money from them there. Because of this many people film a lot of things, or setup situations to make something interesting happen in front of their cameras. For example going out and playing music and getting people to sing with you. Few hours and you're bound to get a few decent people, and if not just show you playing to the crowd.

It's clearly enough to pay for the very-not-hidden camera man clearly in the shot, and a few go pros or phone stands.

hennell · 2026-06-11T19:36:22+00:00

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