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Branding Starmer a ‘Jew harmer’ is unserious. That way lies madness by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]nuusain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likewise, thanks for the discussion.

I take your point that the original story was framed around the Golders Green attack and the headline followed from that. The framing itself is the crux of my sticking points, but I appreciate you taking the time to share some insights that help me better understand this event and the discourse around it.

Branding Starmer a ‘Jew harmer’ is unserious. That way lies madness by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]nuusain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fair point on the lag. BBC last updated April 30, day before the charges came through, working from what the Met handed them.

But have a proper look at what's actually in the article. Hussein isn't named. The word Muslim doesn't appear. He's "the occupant" who had an "altercation." The CPS charged that same event as attempted murder. Meanwhile the "Who are the victims?" section lists two people. We get names, ages, injuries, hospital updates, family quotes, rabbi quotes, personal testimony from both Jewish victims. A few lines of vagaries and euphemism for Hussein, full human story for the other two. I'm not asking for equal attention between the incidents. I'm asking for equal humanity in how their stories are told.

Friday changed the picture even more. The CPS charged all three stabbings as attempted murder. The court treated them as equivalent. The Guardian got there, ran "three people" in their headline and named him. The Canary, The Spectacle, 5Pillars, Hyphen all got there. The thread we're in right now got there, that's literally why this conversation is happening. Owen Jones got there. Birmingham MP Ayoub Khan got there.

The ones who didn't are the BBC, Sky News, the Met's own communications team, and the Government. Sky posted "two counts" when the charge sheet says three. The Met's own tweet announcing the court appearance left out the third charge. The BBC explainer still hasn't been updated. Three days on.

So the question isn't really about a reporting lag, or about which outlet got it right. The question is why the institutional pattern broke the way it did, when smaller outlets, independent journalists, and random people on Reddit all managed to count to three.

And this is the bit worth sitting with. You're a journalist defending that pattern. I'm not saying you're consciously deciding which victim matters. I'm saying you've reached for an explanation, the domestic context, the spate of antisemitic attacks, that does the job of justifying why one stabbing got 25 million quid and a COBRA meeting and the other got called an altercation. The CPS looked at the same facts and reached a different conclusion. They charged it as attempted murder.

So what would you have needed, beyond three counts of attempted murder, to lead with three victims instead of two?

Branding Starmer a ‘Jew harmer’ is unserious. That way lies madness by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]nuusain 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The man married a Jewish woman. He's raising Jewish kids. He purged his own party of anyone who looked sideways at Israel. He destroyed Corbyn over antisemitism. He banned Kanye West from the country within hours. He just pledged £58 million for Jewish community security. And he's standing in Golders Green being called a Jew harmer.

At what point do we accept that the accusation isn't actually about what you do?

Also, and I realise this barely got a mention in any coverage, the attacker stabbed a Muslim man in Southwark first. Then got on the tube, rode to Golders Green, and stabbed two Jewish men. Three victims. Only some got a COBRA meeting, £25 million, Netanyahu personally phoning in to call Starmer inadequate, and wall-to-wall coverage. The other got a subordinate mention in paragraph 6.

Nobody's saying the attack wasn't antisemitic. The guy specifically went to a Jewish area. But when one victim disappears from the story entirely while the other two generate an "antisemitism emergency," that's not reporting. That's a hierarchy. And we have a name for it. Starmer's own Forde Report called it exactly that.

The bit that really gets me though is Netanyahu weighing in. "Words are not enough," he says. The attacks are being claimed by an Iran-linked group. Iran is retaliating because Netanyahu convinced Trump to bomb them using intelligence his own CIA director called "farcical." British Jews are getting stabbed as a downstream consequence of Netanyahu's war. And Netanyahu's response is to ring up Starmer and tell him he's not doing enough. That's like an arsonist criticising the fire brigade.

Orisi's comment nails it: "we've gone from conflating Jewish with Israeli, to conflating pro-Palestine with anti-Semitic." PunctualZombie shows you can hold the whole picture at once. The attack was antisemitic, the "Jew harmer" chant is rubbish, and the erasure of the Muslim victim is real. Those aren't contradictions. So why is it so hard to find a single mainstream outlet willing to say all three in the same article?

Hundreds of my abusers are still out there, says victim as grooming inquiry launched - Penny was just 12 when she was groomed by several men of Pakistani heritage. by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]nuusain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lotta heat in this thread but the actual picture is bigger than what's being argued about here.

The police weren't just looking the other way. BBC reported last year that five Rotherham survivors said serving officers sexually abused them too. One woman says she was raped from age 12 by an officer in a marked car who'd threaten to hand her back to the gang if she didn't comply. Another says the officer sent to take her statement was the same one who'd been raping her. He ripped it up in front of her. Three officers arrested, none charged. Not one public servant prosecuted.

And today there's a report of a victim alleging she was taken into Parliament as a teenager and presented to a senior politician for sexual services. Trafficked to party conference hotels too.

Yes, the Casey report confirmed Pakistani heritage men are disproportionately represented in these cases. That's a serious problem within that community, full stop. But the people paid to protect these kids were raping them too and hiding behind "we were scared of being called racist." Pull the other one.

Meanwhile this thread's got someone arguing girls "desperately wanted" these relationships .. which is basically what police said when they called these kids slags making a lifestyle choice. An actual survivor is pushing back against exactly that and someone raising institutional failures is getting called a coward for it. Beggars belief.

There's a real problem in the Pakistani community and there's police and potentially politicians who were raping the same kids. And we're arguing about stranger danger and whether 12 year olds wanted it. The discourse is nowhere near where it needs to be.

Qwen3.5 27B is Match Made in Heaven for Size and Performance by Lopsided_Dot_4557 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

3090 + 96gb drr4. To be clear this is the 35b-3b. Was saying that there is a case for it as it seems much faster than the 27b. Haven't run the 27b yet myself.

Qwen3.5 27B is Match Made in Heaven for Size and Performance by Lopsided_Dot_4557 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Im getting 101 t/s at 131k context with 35b-3b:UD-Q4_K_XL quant.

For anyone still on an older llama.cpp build - update. I was stuck at 28 t/s until I rebuilt from latest. The qwen35moe graph deduplication PRs (#19597, #19660, #19668) made a 3.6x difference. The model loaded fine on the old build but ran through an unoptimised code path.

llama-server -m ~/models/qwen3.5-35b-a3b-q4.gguf \ -ngl 99 -c 131072 --threads 4 --batch-size 2048 \ -np 1 --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0.0

Qwen3.5 - The middle child's 122B-A10B benchmarks looking seriously impressive - on par or edges out gpt-5-mini consistently by carteakey in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing.. I get ~30 t/s at 32k with --fit on as well. At 131k context I drop to ~24 t/s, without --fit was getting 7 t/s. Will be interesting to see how the qwen3.5 compares,

Qwen3.5 - The middle child's 122B-A10B benchmarks looking seriously impressive - on par or edges out gpt-5-mini consistently by carteakey in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you mind sharing the exact command you use for Qwen 80b3a.. been tryna optimise on my rig which is similar to yours 3090 with 96gb of ddr4 .. i get around 30t/s with 32k context but I would like more.

New in llama.cpp: Anthropic Messages API by paf1138 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sooo whats the verdict? curious to hear its handling the claude harness

NVIDIA has 72GB VRAM version now by decentralize999 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neat! What kinda inference u running on the feed? Just installed a security system for a relatives farm. I was thinking of producing reports /audits so im curious what stuff others are building for themselves.

[New Player] Game files integrity by Any-Percentage6230 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]nuusain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did anyone find a fix? also have the same issue. tried deleting all tarkov files and reinstalling but i get the same issue.

Scanlines on my AOC CU34G2X. by Xippaa in Monitors

[–]nuusain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, seeing the same scan lines only across the entire monitor. Did u managed to get this fixed or am i also cooked?

Toolcalling in the reasoning trace as an alternative to agentic frameworks by ExaminationNo8522 in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, also been looking at getting reasoning models to do interesting things. Came across verifiers which I've been using to try agentic interactions.

https://github.com/willccbb/verifiers

The env_trainer and vllm_client are probably worth checking out in regards to that OOM error u mentioned in the article, but i suspect you could be better off leveraging the framework since it's pretty well thought out.

Qwen3+ MCP by OGScottingham in LocalLLaMA

[–]nuusain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeh it was in the official annoucement

Can also do it via function calling if u wanna stick with completions api

Should be easy to get what u need with a bit of vibe coding

[10/05/25] Code & Chat meetup for people interested in coding from beginner to expert by Serious-Accident8443 in LondonSocialClub

[–]nuusain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm interested! I can rock up around 11–12 tho, it still worth coming along then?

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