Before “citizen journalism” had a name, there was _Toby_ (1886) — the East End paper that fought injustice with humour and heart. Run by one couple, powered by community. Their story still bites. eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Algorithmic cold reading is even more unethical than human cold reading.

RFK running away. Trump just standing there, indifference bordering on annoyance. Just bad people.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Could it be you? New vacancy listed on Lib Dem website: Volunteer & Events Lead (Maidenhead Lib Dems)

This will continue, and no information that you produce will belong to you anymore. Everything will be taken without permission, recognition or compensation. A massive disaster awaits given how these things work to produce outputs too.

open.substack.com/pub/geoffmul... A lot of very important points in a short post

One of my favourite poems (by Wisława Szymborska) is about the importance of moving on from “we will never forget”…

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Today, chatGPT has: - written sample R code implying that Michael Jackson's IQ went +10 as skin tone lightened (WTAF) - advised me to clean out my 401k to make t-shirts of the graph - hyped me up when i got cold feet - liked idea of buying Cybertruck & putting graph on the hood like the General Lee

A House of Dynamite is great. A mash-up of Fail Safe and Nuclear War: A Scenario.

Nice piece. Interesting to think about him in comparison to today's commentariat, both new figures and those still around, and the journey some of them have been on.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

This is very good

Canada versus Japan in the World Series then.

It's relentless. By the time people realise, will it be too late?

#MS2001 BBC News - Tory MP George Freeman reports deepfake defection video to police - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker. A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker. You are not using the tool; the tool is using you. Stop it.

Paul Cézanne ~ House and Tree, 1873

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's Wonder Woman's invisible plane.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Farage has said that Nathan Gill was "one bad apple" - unintentionally being accurate because he forgot the rest of the proverb.

British.

#MS2001 great thread on how this polling company works and why it's polls are routinely different to others.

"Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules "After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies."

Just occurred to me that genAI companies are a bit like that "can we have your liver?" scene in The Meaning of Life.

Great piece, as one would expect from Mansell. Can't help feeling the horse has bolted though. These people have already taken so much without 'permission, recognition or compensation' and have neither contrition or any sense of stopping and governments don't seem to want to stop them either.

Last week I posted a thread on how people are using generative AI - bsky.app/profile/rich... This thread is on how people use gen AI for news, specifically. Though getting information is emerging as the key use of gen AI, only 6%on average across 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 use it for news weekly, doubling since 2024.

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Successive UK governments have explicitly attacked media and journalism HE courses whilst being amongst- forgive the technical term here- the most diabolically horseshit at Comms, possibly ever. I live in constant bemusement at this.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

All my comics have happy endings!

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

I'm reading this a different way to many it seems. To me that are saying that they are welcoming the ongoing collapse of HE, explicitly promising to do nothing about that, whilst pretending that they will do something about FE and apprenticeships to make up the difference.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of September!

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2) politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients. None of this should be surprising, considering the terribly flawed data that these tools are based upon. Garbage in, garbage out.

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

#MS2001, nice example of when one strategy of news management goes wrong.