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What, like it’s hard? UK politics, AI, Brussels stuff. Films for fun; getting into this Swift gal they keep talking about Podcast -> @ministryoffilmpod
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I welcome the government’s announcement of multi-million pound funding to arts venues, museums, libraries & heritage institutions. We will continue to work with the government, councils and our arts and cultural organisations to make sure culture in London continues to thrive.

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

Not treating and reporting on tech in precise ways can have devastating consequences: Eg Google filling up its top first page with inaccurate GenAI slop makes people wary of *everything* they understand to be tech. And when that happens, you may find that a gov (like in the UK) trying to …

As this week comes to a close, I had to watch the Great Dictator (1940) again and remind myself of the great art that comes out of the worst politics. You, like me, may end up crying big, sloppy tears in the tube, wondering where the historical analogies start and end. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

We have a new podcast out, and I cannot insist enough that all of you who focus on AI watch Metropolis asap In 1927, it looks at: - The nature of work - How said work can be dehumanising - How AI can be weaponised against humans - How tech + humans aren’t bad, but they need to connect, empathise

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit? Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

Weak weak weak

Stop what you are doing and read this if you want to understand the mess the UK is in, and learn from it.

This Reeves stuff is a good example of the bit in my book where I say the Lobby goes feral when you stop feeding them news. Just invent stories to have something to write.

Ladies and gentlemen, a sh*t sandwich