Hydrogen was a scam created by fossil fuel companies. Useful-idiot petrol-heads pushed it because they didn't like EVs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have we considered the OpenAI / US gov partnership is an attempt to increase the chances of a bailout that makes no rational financial sense? @edzitron.com

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

FFS

If only the US had functioning regulators and wasn't in the pocket of tech grifters. So many crypto and tech bros would be in prison for fraud, stock price manipulation, etc Sadly the corruption goes right to the top, so nothing will be done about it. The bubble will pop and they'll scuttle away.

(Micro)Strategy employing the old Martingale Method.

Ian is also right: this is the absolute WORST SCANDAL to rock a British government since.... well... since.... ummm.... since the last Conservative government under Boris Johnson. bsky.app/profile/iand...

"I've huffed so much of my own supply that facts don't matter".

People pinning their hope to the Epstein files to expose and unseat #Trump. As if a DOJ controlled by him would release damaging evidence. One thing can turn the GOP against him: the economy. Tariffs, AI & crypto failure, dollar destruction & inflation. It won't just be anti-ICE on the streets.

Mississippi Burning. Great film based on a true story. Back when the feds were the good guys.

It's six years today since Britain left the EU. I wrote this on Brexit day in 2020, about the strategic dilemmas to which European membership had once been the answer and that would now reopen once Britain left. I'd stand by most of it today. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2020/01/brex...

If you're asked to do something immoral or unlawful, you resign. If you just follow orders then you get held accountable too.

Uncritical AI churnalism. macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...

If this happens, it will make literally everything better. All of it. Everything in the world. @nigella.bsky.social in our living rooms every Tuesday throughout Autumn - genuinely life-changing stuff.

Bent coppers should always be dismissed. They do not serve the law or public safety. Gross misconduct is gross misconduct. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The slop from generative AI is worthless garbage. Undressing and trolling is one of the few features that has demand. If X removes this feature, the deplorables will lose interest. This is one of the big problems with the current crop of Gen AI products: solutions in search of a problem.

Shocking PR regurgitation from the BBC. Tenuous story of a winner to promote Omaze at the end. Wife who ignored husband becomes multi-millionaire - BBC News share.google/ideOTOwqPGtk...

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If he's acting president of Venezuela then perhaps they can indict him and issue an international arrest warrant?

my latest for Prospect.

My latest.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

The tranq'd-up Stay Puft Marshmallow Man renamed his site "X". We shouldn't be surprised.

The guy literally renamed it to the Department of War. This should have been a big clue.

Why are so many people reposting this graphic without checking for a real source?

A text search for this just returns other social media posts. So it's fake.

So @zeteo.com awarded Melania #Trump the "Worst Hat of The Year". Reminds me of the time Frankie Boyle described Boris Johnson's fringe as a "makeshift cum shield".

We went from the most optimistic timeline to the most bleak.

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

This trend of publishing copium articles based on the output of LLMs is bonkers. The Internet is awash with boosterism for crypto (based on nothing but hope number go up). It's no surprise that an LLM trained on that content would espouse that sentiment. icobench.com/news/chatgpt...

Stop promising us a good time.

Any person or company that has a non-salaried income in excess of (say) $10m: 1. Must keep and publish quarterly accounts (not just publicly traded corporations). I'm looking at you OpenAI. 2. Any trading account they maintain must be publicly viewable in real-time. 3. Fines for failing 1 or 2.

We've re released the Rob Reiner RHLSTP in tribute to this great man. Worth a listen if you missed it first time shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...

Josh Brolin is magnificent in this. In fact he's great in everything. The Goonies, No Country For Old Men, Sicario, Avengers (Thanos).

More of this kind of Britain please.

They pine for a theologically pure past; but they'd all be stoned to death for their transgressions. The ultra-conservative Christians are the biggest hypocrites that ever existed. If they got their wish their monster would eat them immediately.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The emotional highs and lows of defragging. Highs: seeing all those gaps disappear. Lows: your hard drive clicks several times in a row.

This is the same reason why the moon landing conspiracies are laughable. The number of people required to be sworn to secrecy would be too many. Mitchell & Webb even did a comedy sketch about it...

The boomers aren't going to be around much longer. But younger Trump supporters are going to feel super weird in 10 - 20 years time when they're releasing books and movies about the time the USA went bonkers and evil.

Watched The Running Man (1987) with my son tonight, ready to go see the new one. He asked me in how many movies did Arnie say "I'll be back"? I googled it. The Gemini AI results were wrong. Wikipedia was right. Don't trust #AI, even for trivia. Fvck Grok too. Donate to and support Wikipedia.

Trump ignoring the suffering of others. Leavitt telling the patient that they didn't fall over, the democrats tipped over the White House. The media brings on #MAGA Republicans to tell us that nothing happened except Trump brought in another 30 trillion dollars of investment.

Generating content (I only use that word as a catch-all) is an artistic endeavour. The value is in well-constructed, hand-crafted, emotional and innovative experiences. Corporations miss the whole point of entertainment by trying to cut costs and corners. share.google/FBZCUwHdl3Zl...

Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

Will this actually be a difficult decision? #ai #grift #investing

Weird. People who fantasize that their cult ( #ai, #crypto, #hydrogen ) will eventually make skeptics eat humble pie. If the skeptics were wrong they'll be living in a better world (apparently), get the benefits and be happy. If the skeptics were right, you played a part in a con on humanity.

No Kings: were marching in support of a concept that is foundational to the United States of America. Republicans: you're terrorists! (unleashes brown shirts on protesters).