e’ll soon know who replaces Burnham for Manchester

“Five candidates have now been eliminated from the contest,” as reported, “Geraldine Coggins (Green Party), Phil Eckersley (Conservative Party), Marcus Farmer (Independent), Richard Kilpatrick (Liberal Democrats) and Marlon West (Restore Britain).”

Results likely out soon: “The way that it’s going to work is that for anybody who didn’t vote for Sian Astley or Bev Craig as their first choice, counters will now start looking at who they put as their second choice and those votes will be reallocated. It means that both candidates may pick up some more votes as second preferences.”

Percentage turnout: less than 25%

Very low.

AM sometimes considered a contrarian because I focus on many things that are bad or became bad. I go against the “PR”. I want to fix the bad things or get rid of them. That’s just me. I think if more people did the same thing, the world would become a better place for more people.

Contrarians have harder lives; they typically go against “monied interests”, which subject critics to resistance, abuse, harassment, and sometimes lawfare.

T seems clear to me that IBM, the company that existed like 70 years before I was born (by another name though), is going to vanish in a number of years. There’s nothing in the pipeline, only massive cuts and downsizing.

What will we say to future generations about “the company that once existed” and was “called IBM”?

can see election information, but results aren’t known yet, not even preliminary estimates (no “exit polls”).

It does look like gravity is being shifted away from London:

esterday in Tux Machines and in Techrights I published statements about a recent hearing at the High Court. It’s about Garrett. It’s a hearing that he did not even bother to attend because, in general, his attitude stinks no less than the odour his solicitor and barrister emit from the Court’s toilets (seriously).

After an outburst of lies he has written nothing more in social control media. Maybe his solicitors told him he had said dumb things, given away sensitive information, or was led to embrace an overly optimistic view about the hearing that he did not even bother attending!

don’t think the quote above has anything to do with Snowden and an actor claiming to be Snowden is just a for-profit Hollywood production.

Unverified quotes are not a new problem. It’s not an LLM slop issue, wherein they call it “hallucination”. Even decades ago one could easily find false “wisdoms” and fake (or misattributed) quotes online. Those were not satires, though sometimes people passed off satires sans the disclosures.

The best solution is to check the credibility of the sources or trace quotes back to their source.

Not just the birds (who can look for food elsewhere)

T was exactly 3 weeks ago, a Thursday afternoon, when our barristers explained to a judge Rianne needed to go home to feed the pets. The judge, after some discussion, said he would allow her to return a bit late the following day.

We are grateful that this judge saw the importance of our animals’ welfare.