lmfao www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!

Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over. The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Kittilä -30,6 ⁰C. Se olisi jälleen tämän talven kylmin lukema, tähän mennessä.

Finns are furiously debating whether or not middle class people can buy discounted, short-dated products in the supermarket, or if they should be reserved for the poor and needy to purchase

I love how quickly Vantaa libraries purchase books when you request them! This one came in about six weeks. Thoroughly enjoying it too

The Finns Party has a new enemy: the English language. According to vice-chair Teemu Keskisarjan, that is

Weather forecast in Finland: “We may see the sun this week.” Maybe on Thursday.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just chuffin’ brilliant #chansirigetoutofourclub

AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows reut.rs/4qkIfvx

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Logically, the author of this Times piece is proposing forced deportation of one million migrants.

Fun fact: Right now, Finland would massively benefit from an EU short-term unemployment reinsurance scheme, as proposed during the euro crisis (www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-... ) but never implemented due to the reluctance of "frugal" member states like Finland.

Yes, one of the areas I worry a lot about in the cyber risk space. In many cases the “checking rigorously” stage will end up taking almost as long as the previous approach but that’s not what management have been promised so there’ll be a *lot* of pressure to speed up those checks

I don't want to chuck these very sour apples away, but they seem completely inedible. Any ideas what I could do with them?

It is pretty bad! But surely Mandelson was appointed not because anyone imagined he was a figure of great probity but because he was connected to Trump’s circle, a group which for a long time included Epstein. And sacking him now might look like a rebuke to Trump. What a pickle!

What is this nonsense, why is she bragging about bunting

Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.

Biden's WH aided and abetted Stage 1 of Gaza genocide: siege, displacement, killing of at least 50k people (over 80% of them civilians), and obliteration of infrastructure. The Trump WH has aided and abetted Stage 2: starvation, mass destruction of Palestinian cities, preparation for expulsion.

A great many more people protested the plight of Sheffield Wednesday this month than have attended any protest against asylum hotels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Trump calls Alex Stubb (57) "very young". Which must have been nice for Macron (47) and Meloni (48)

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

a portrait of the worst and stupidest people alive today. you are welcome: on.ft.com/4mtItOd

Even if you don't care about human suffering, it is bad strategy to arm yourself against Russia with Israeli weapons. A brief explanation follows in the thread. Unfortunately, #Finland did so. Which is one reason our government is so shamefully reluctant to criticize Israel's behavior.

Absolutely incredible scenes in Italy over the (formerly BBC) Good Food website's cacio e pepe recipe British ambassador contacted, Italian journalists seething www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

"we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds played in a local park without adults around. Sixty percent thought the children would likely get injured. Half thought they would likely get abducted"

Retired Israeli general Amiram Levin, today: ... an order to shoot at hungry children and parents who are looking for a piece of bread because they are being ruled by Hamas militiamen - this is a crime. This is genocide, and this is what we are doing there.”

Questions for swfc fans: How long a football banning order would you get for going on the pitch and stopping the game? How far down the pyramid would a phoenix club start? How long would it take AFC The Wednesday (2026) to rise to a level where the banning order is in effect? 🤔🤔

I shouldn't do this, but I keep thinking about Germany's far-right vote being steady at 25%, and about this interview (x.com/IbDoku/statu...) where one of Germany's leading far-right voices asks if, when the time comes, enough men will step up and carry out mass violence against non-white people.

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Back from a holiday on the North Sea and I'd really like to know what are the top air-conditioned spots in Helsinki this summer! Any tips?

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

Israeli human rights organisations accuse country of genocide The two groups are the first major voices within Israeli society to make such accusations against the state during nearly 22 months of war. Israel has denied claims of genocide. news.sky.com/story/israel...

How Spain uniquely play the same way across all teams, women and men, at all levels www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

The most important story in the world right now.

BBC News straight up admitting that if they name their Gaza reporters they'll be taken out is quite the move.

What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Yes. It's a genocide. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

The singularity is awesome

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🚨There it is. Israeli PM Netanyahu at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee: “The Gazans we remove will not return. They won't be there. We will control the place. There is no other war target. Any other target is just bluff."

“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days. …signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

slightly annoying that this paragraph is so succinct yet comprehensive as am hoping to write about AI myself this week but: this is very good

Senior UNRWA emergency officer on the genocidal conditions imposed on Gaza rn: “The situation now is so beyond imagination, so beyond words at this point, because people are being starved, basically… children are now starving. People are surviving on one meal a day. People are without medicine.”