'[AI-written journalism] is poison; it will further lead to a diseased public conversation and a further sickening of society. There are small amounts of arsenic in our daily diets, but no one suggests an all arsenic diet is the future of nutrition." – @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

His funeral was yesterday, we found his phone on Sunday, so I've just posted this...

"You don’t trot into Michel Roux’s kitchen, grab a couple of the lamb chops you’ve ordered and take them home uncooked because you might fancy them later in a curry"

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger ft.trib.al/IuVr0t0

Bradford is crazily cheap. The Wool Exchange went for the price of a decent 4-bed semi in a nice part of Manchester

“Wagner recruiters who specialised in persuading young men from Russia’s hinterland to fight in Ukraine have been given a new task — recruiting economically vulnerable Europeans to carry out violence on Nato soil”

Oops www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Google calls this illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, a somewhat loaded position given that the LLM was built from materials scraped from around the Internet.

!! … ah

Wow: Court overturns UK ban on Palestine Action

this should be disclosed in the risk factor sections of Tesla's SEC filings

Revealing the hidden knowledge that makes teams work: I met Evidentia AI, which wants to make tacit knowledge easier to exploit.

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

Coming over here, taking our Manchester United squad positions, buying up all our Cheshire mansions…

Internet-connected appliances are all fun and games until they start nagging you.

The Great Rebundling

AI coding: How far should startup founders go with it? I went to an AI coding event to find out.

*Austerity devastates the country for years* A fifth of the UK public, for some reason: “hurt us again!”

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

Drama!

Perfect juxtaposition #OpenClaw #ClaudeCowork

Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.

Buying a washing machine. Looking up reviews, I discovered the world of washing machine enthusiasts. I suppose everyone needs a hobby.

Wow. Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. Reform blames a printing error 🤔

Maybe (and I realise I’m being optimistic here) mainstream media will start to question some of the right-wing figures they platform about how sincere they are, when America is throwing money around to say utter nonsense.

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Eek.

This used to be Bradford’s local newspaper offices. You could see the printing presses in action through the glass. Now? A restaurant.

NYT snark: “A sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”

When you hire the crisis PR firm to talk for you but they refuse to comment on the record www.theverge.com/report/87207...

The US is speedrunning its way into failed state territory

He still had one last resignation left in him

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...

America in 2026

I have never seen or heard of this. If I went into a bar where people did it probably be freaked out enough to leave immediately.

I see Sarah Ferguson was schmoozing with Epstein in 2009, the same year she came to South Manchester to make a documentary depicting Northern Moor as some kind of hellhole only she could save, when it was, and is, a perfectly fine area.

Proper ‘drunk old man in the corner of the pub’ vibes here

John Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts

America in 2026, where a tech news site offers gas mask recommendations

The Mill certainly has the *moral* high ground here…. 👀

SpaceX: parent company of Twitter?! Who could she seen that coming a few years ago…

Sad to see Silicon Canals going from covering the Dutch and European tech startup world to... whatever this is... since it got acquired.

This is a proper old-school folk protest song about things that are happening right now. Bruce Springsteen is a good ‘un

The wild thing is with an annual design tweak or mild spec bump, Tesla could have kept selling the Model S in decent numbers to people who don’t care about Musk’s politics.

I spoke to Crane Venture Partners' Rav Dhaliwal on helping technically-minded early-stage founders get to grip with sales.

A lot of these people will seriously regret their life choices by the time they reach 40.

Two very different takes on the same news

lol

Paid my income tax. I always leave it until a few days before the deadline simply because, while paying tax is important for a healthy society, I hate seeing the money leave my account

So glad it’s music venues as well as pubs getting support. The grassroots end of the UK music industry was hanging into the balance due to a completely ridiculous approach to setting business rates.