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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Pretty sure Carney turns and winks at Macron as the felon starts talking here.👌 You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back. (🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Wake up, check the world hasn't ended, onto the routine of the day

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

This is the last thing the BBC needs

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

America's descent into suppression of dissent 🧵 I've been tracking Trump's actions since Jan and have included 93 actions that I consider to suppress dissent. They fall into 4 domains and their use is quite different over time. 1/16

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Quite apart from the fact that 2 hours minus 2 minutes is not 58 minutes: These people are fucking idiots. The point of reading, or any other form of intellectual enquiry, is that you don't always know what is interesting until you start looking. Acquiring knowledge is not an engineering problem.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 2082 comments

From what I can see, the Telegraph is giving a full uncritical online platform to an immigration policy that is more extreme than that offered up by the neo-Nazi British National Party at the 2010 general election - general-election-2010.co.uk/bnp-manifest...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Memo from Private Eye to our broadcasters

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

If Labour fails to show that government can work for the British people then it’s more than just the party which is screwed. This is the current systems last chance for redemption. We all know what kind of a future awaits if it fumbles. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

How does a species actually survive this sort of idiocy? 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 151 comments

A US Senator. Donald Trump’s America.

submitted 7 days ago • 530 comments

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

submitted 7 days ago • 152 comments

It'll be very funny if we have four years of endless speculation about Reform replacing the Tories and becoming the official opposition, only for the LibDems to do it instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The most powerful weapon in today's discourse should be the phrase "Explain to me why this is bad" Explain to me why the trade deficit is bad. Explain to me why immigration is bad. Explain to me why trans people are bad. And no, "I don't like it" is not a sufficient argument.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

It is extraordinary to linger on the thought that Russia is very close to reaching 1,000,000 casualties in its stupid and barbaric war on Ukraine, of which 250k are deaths.* Its devastating war in Afghanistan cost around 14k lives. *This was confirmed to me by official sources in past few days.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Photo that sums up the era. Kemi Badenoch absolutely convinced she is cooking. Almost every MP behind her just thinking 'my god she's cooked'.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

If a Large Language Model (LLM) - a workhorse of AI - sees something repeated a lot, it considers it truth. It cannot tell the difference between a novel and a work of non-fiction. The politicians are out of their minds swallowing the hype of the tech companies and letting this technology run riot

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

submitted 11 days ago • 131 comments

I swear every time I see a push notification from BBC news it’s some version of: ‘Reform may have lost an election/suffered a massive blow/erupted into civil war…but here is why its actually good news for Farage’s party’

submitted 11 days ago • 90 comments

I recently heard a high-profile pundit argue that the Trump movement cannot be Fascistic as -its supporters don't wear uniforms; -Trump dislikes foreign wars; -he hasn't tried to amend the Constitution. It's a dangerously complacent view, that misses the sheer gravity of the current situation. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

When I look at the scenes in the US and remember how the UK right is now absolutely all in on Trumpism, my overwhelming priority is to use my vote in 2029 to stop the right coming to power.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It's worth recalling, at this moment, how Trump spoke admiringly of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 12 days ago • 787 comments

This is why the BBC should be restructured to become a bastion of objective truth. Ros Atkins and BBC Verify should be viewed as (nice) viruses that spread and consume everything else. Leave "heated debates" to others. Lord knows we need a factual anchor in this brave new world.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Some great trivia here.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN was released 43 years ago this week. Acclaimed as the best entry in the Star Trek film series, and featuring one of the biggest movie deaths, the story behind the scenes doesn’t believe in no-win scenarios… 1/59

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? That's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

submitted 14 days ago • 225 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 14 days ago • 126 comments

Today shall henceforth be known as FAFO day.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

All of Bluesky right now.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

"If you're tired of Google's AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

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Churchill ‘not white British’ The Telegraph. 2025.

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Incredible: 0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health. 73% of studies not funded by the meat industry have found a link. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments