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The leopards finally got round to Milo

In October 2015 Adrian Bott wrote a 25-word tweet that has outlived most political careers.

“‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”

It now has its own Wiktionary entry. It gets wheeled out every time someone is astonished to discover that the policy they campaigned for applies to them too. This week the leopards ate far right agitator and Trump supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos.

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Worth reading - Would Grok vote for Biden?

Elon Musk built Grok as the anti-woke alternative to ChatGPT and Gemini. According to a new analysis of AI political values, it would probably have voted for Biden.

The Economist put five major AI models through a global values survey normally reserved for humans. Every model, including Grok, landed left of centre on questions about wealth, merit and inequality.

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Rage farming

Rage is a product. Pauline Hanson has been selling it for thirty years, but she is no longer the only one running the operation. The buyers have got bigger, the money is flowing from further away, and the press is helping them do it.

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