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Ulez Protest Featuring Tractors and Three-Wheel Car Brings Traffic to a Standstill

by Richard Eldred
19 August 2023 7:10 PM

Protesters halted traffic on the outskirts of London in opposition to Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone, ahead of its expansion to cover the whole city. The Evening Standard has the story.

Tractors, a taxi and a three-wheel car were seen spiralling around a roundabout at Orpington War Memorial, South East London, while protesters shouted into megaphones and blew whistles.

The Ulez expansion will see drivers in outer London pay a £12.50 daily fee from August 29th if their vehicles do not meet required emissions standards.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month urged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to “think twice” about Ulez expansion, while on Monday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested cities should look at other options for tackling air pollution.

Mr. Khan has previously admitted his decision to expand the Ulez was “very difficult” but insisted it would “see five million more Londoners being able to breathe cleaner air”.

Orpington locals Alex Hart, 65, and his wife Cheryl Hart, 61, were among protesters on the edge of London.

The pair are worried they could have to spend up to £40,000 to replace their car.

Mr. Hart said: “I have never protested about anything until this. I have got a car which is a Volvo C30. It’s diesel because I was told by my Government that diesel was the environmentally friendly thing to do. I now have to get rid of it.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Anti-UlezProtestSadiq KhanULEZUlez Expansion Scheme

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

Even if you ask a deep question the answers tend to be rather cagey. The limits are the limits of analysis compared to inspiration. If you are impressed by AI then you probably have very limited knowledge of literature and culture. The whole spirit of literature is the rejection of AI. There is always a sense that the writing down involves a sacrifice and loss.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
2 months ago

Unfortunately, being an extremely stupid dog with paws unsuited to touch screens I haven’t yet worked out what the real utility is of (misnamed) AI or indeed tiktok unless it is reduce the youth of western countries to utter imbecility, an objective it seems to be achieving satisfactorily well.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

LLMs seem to be reasonably ok at digesting large volumes of information and summarising it accurately and coherently in response to questions. They are also ok at generating images though that’s not really my field.

It depends how you define “intelligence” but AI is perhaps an unfortunate term.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

I am similarly uninterested in the (misnamed) AI.

I honestly don’t think we’re missing much, Jack the dog.

I speak as a professional in the IT field.

But please do not take my word for it. It could be amazing. In the meantime, I need to put another log on the fire.

Last edited 2 months ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

Your enemies lie within. It is just stupid to pretend otherwise and that the Chinese are looking to attack you. For God’s sake you only have to have lived in a western country in the last thirty years. You destroyed yourself.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

Never use touch screen technology. It is good to have a touch screen because it tends to be durable but please never actually touch anything on the screen.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago
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Why?

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

It is stupd for many reasons. They wil easily beat you in maths and physics exams and will generally have more vitality. But they aren’t trying to destroy the West. Their very existence is predicated on trying to be a good emulation of the west in certain ways. If you go all over Asia they love American culture and the American people. It is assumed that the Iranians hate America. This is the opposite of the truth they are the most pro-American culture in the world. They assume that Iranians hate Jews when Iran gave refuge to the Jews for 2500 years and still the real capital of Jewish power is Tehran and Jewish culture is in large part Persian culture, You shouldn’t listen to the crap they pedal.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago

If deep seek is truly open source the sureky it should be possible to identify any malign intentions from analysis of the source code.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
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From a brief search there seems to be some dispute as to whether it’s truly open source. I don’t know enough about how LLMs work to have a view myself.

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For a fist full of roubles
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Ta!

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

They don’t want you. They don’t care. They have better things to do.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 months ago

I am a lot less worried about DeepSeek (i.e. not at all, I don’t use it, I don’t know what it’s for) than I am worried about what Google, the NSA, CIA, MI6, GCHQ et al already think they know about me.

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PeterM
PeterM
2 months ago

Who paid the developers is the unanswered question? It has to be the CCP!

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