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AI expert alleges @elonmusk’s @grok AI model has an alarming lack of start guards enabling anyone to easily assemble a chemical weapon, enrich uranium or even make a dirty bomb. But their calls to Grok are not being returned. x.com/linusekensta...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

submitted 9 hours ago • 253 comments

By leaving the EU, we damaged its economic might, which gave it leverage vis a vis the other great powers: the USA & China. In an age where “might” is more important than “right”, this urgently needs to be remedied. The EU is stronger with the U.K. in it & we are all safer & richer with a strong EU.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

"Pro life" folks at work

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Ukraine can withstand with Europe's help if the US just walks away. But Ukr/Europe can't fight a US-russia alliance. We don't know whether if Trump fails to impose his deal, he'd lose interest or whether he'd start helping russia w intelligence, lifting sanctions, etc. This is the absurd situation.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Daily reminder of who Musk is:

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Those who claim to be fighting to “save civilisation”, as the Nazis claimed, will destroy it. This was the Holocaust. And no one who understands what civilisation is talks of “saving” it (nor wields chainsaws, throws Nazi salutes, praises mass murderers, denies science, steals, lies and rapes).

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1497 comments

" a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave" - you know who else did the same "controversial salute" as Elon Musk? The Nazis. Call it what it is, a Nazi salute, rather than making out somehow Musk is the only person to have made it? Stop dancing around it.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk openly admire Putin’s Russia. We should ask ourselves why, given Putin has turned his country into an economic and cultural wasteland. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-t... (£ / free with registration)

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Thanks to Brexit, illegal meat is now on most high streets in Britain. youtu.be/eIlyAHktjq0?...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Day One was a month ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 148 comments

The modern GOP was defined by Reagan at the Berlin Wall. It is now defined by supporting a dictator invading a European nation. This is the Republican Party’s legacy.

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

It’s more true as each day passes.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1218 comments

Does Congress still exist?

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Just a reminder how stupid and naive the people in charge of the US are.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Well done.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Thames Water have had a £3bn loan approved. Their debts will now cost them £900m a year in interest, which is where one third of your water bill goes. Yet they managed to pay shareholders £158m in dividends last year. Someone ought to nationalise the greedy fuckers…

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Russia: - started the war in Ukraine, its 2nd invasion there. It also invaded Chechnya & Georgie. - used polonium & novichock on UK soil, killing 2 and risking thousands of lives - shot down a flight in 2014, killing 298 people and another in 2024, killing 38 people. And Trump sides with them!??

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Even by his god-awful standards, this is one of Trump’s most disgusting press conferences. He’s attacked Zelenskyy, using Kremlin talking points that he only has a 4% approval (LIE). Then, again, Trump blames him & Ukraine for starting the war. THEY. WERE. FUCKING. INVADED.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

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This is not a peace negotiation. This is the beginning of a US-russian alliance. All that's left is for the US to commit troops to help the weak russian army conquer Ukraine and remove Zelensky. Forget the betrayal; it was expected. This is pathetic US deference to the weak russian dictatorship.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Jeez. Trump actually just said it. He actually just said that Ukraine shouldn't have started this war! He’s actually siding with a crazed, murderous dictator

submitted 5 days ago • 453 comments

This “I’d rather have Putin than Starmer” line marks you out as a rock-solid, weapons-grade, bona fide idiot. It’s one of those takes that sits like a steaming shit on the pavement waiting for the flies to buzz around it. And, right on cue, and very loud, here comes a great big ugly one…

submitted 5 days ago • 195 comments

People say the Royal family are good for tourism but it turns out being members of the EU was. We need to rejoin the EU and get prosperity back! www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE fires FDA officials regulating his brain implant company Who would have guessed.. www.rawstory.com/doge-neurali...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 5 days ago • 1219 comments

Rubio: “No one is being sidelined here.” Then WTF is Ukraine and Europe? www.ft.com/content/b427...

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Ever wondered where TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views? Well it turns out they're being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump cash bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Sadiq Khan is expected to express his view (and he’s absolutely correct) that Brexit “was a mistake that continues to have a negative impact, not just on my city and country, but on the European community as a whole”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Reform UK's plans to increase taxes and make people pay more for their energy bills goes down like a tripe cake and an axe wielding horror clown at an eight year old's birthday party. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

Billionaire co-founder of AirBnB Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team, so let’s spread awareness and make sure nobody books a goddamn thing through AirBnB ever again, shall we?

submitted 7 days ago • 182 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2402 comments

Cut red tape, they said. Frictionless trade, they said. Exact same benefits, they said. Reality: delays & obscene price rises for consumers due to additional Brexit border checks. Brexit is a failure & we are all paying for the madness. www.fpcfreshtalkdaily.co.uk/post/jenney-...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Free speech update

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

We don't want a bridge; Europe should not want a bridge. The US is run by chaotic fascists whose only interest in Europe seems to be in destabilising our politics, promoting far right parties and blackmailing us to allow their media giants to spread disinformation here.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments