One of the ways you know AI is junk is because of how hard it’s being marketed and rammed down our throats. If it was that good such endless harassment wouldn’t be necessary.

Tom Baker is 92 today

A mate of mine suddenly and unexpectedly died a few days ago, and someone just shared this poem in the group chat which really hits hard.

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

they're destroying the world for something that doesn't work and can't ever be profitable viva capitalism

This entire story is fucking wild and I'm glad it ended okay

Seriously now. Are the Starmer Ultras not fucking embarrassed? He's called a press conference - deliberately timed so Trump would be asleep - glazed him, confirmed he'll do nothing to retaliate and used the whole thing to attack Davey and Polanski and its not even landed

How embarrassing for them

Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand. We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is. We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.

Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.

It is IMO a toss up whether anything meaningful is going to happen here. I think well over half of commentators and politicians would fight tooth and nail to keep honking off America’s mad emperor, and would pull the roof in on all of us if there was any chance that arrangement might be ended.

mmm, and same goes for ableist or racist or misogynistic or other forms of bigotry like. No, no, it's not a purity test to expect the people elected to represent us not to HATE a portion of us, no matter how small the portion is. It's the fucking basement.

What strikes me is that all these political crises that Labour faces are homemade. They're to do with terrible internal communication, terrible external communication, terrible planning and terrible management. On a non-partisan governance level, Starmer and his whole team are terrible at their jobs

Maybe not coincidence the press filled up with screaming terror about ethnic minority sex offenders and transgender people, in the same decade that multiple appalling scandals broke revealing politics and business - the most powerful people in the world - are knee-deep in coercive sexual abuse.

This thread is some of the most exceptional storytelling I've seen in ages?? wow. truly worth your time.

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when u make a silly joke on this platform

Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Literally every government in thirty years has spent its entire time saying "the last lot had open borders", bringing in absurdly draconian immigration laws, then doing shocked Pikachu face that "controlled immigration" just means, for voters, "no brown people, make it 1948 again"

We have some of the tightest border controls of any country in history, a country just repeatedly slamming itself in the balls because politicians won't admit that what "controlled immigration" advocates want is impossible short of genocide.

You will not regret scrolling up for the rest of this thread about the sheer audacity of cats to walk into houses they don't live in and swan around like they own the place Honestly, excellent cat behaviour 💯

version with alt text for accessibility: Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want

Breaking: Greenland now adequately defended.

My Dad had a cartoon cut out of a newspaper during WW2. Showed two Finnish soldiers on skis. One says to the other: "No, finish your cigarette, I'll go out and surround them"

"May you be in a fandom long enough to be called an infiltrator, by people not born when you started" - Ancient nerd curse.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Again, note how one hand washes the other: our horrific wingnut papers create a panic out of fuck all, hand in hand with the craziest MPs and our wackiest “experts”; together they go apeshit for months on end and as soon as any opportunity appears, the Sensible Moderates apply the stamp of approval.

The Home Secretary being able to dismiss any senior police officer who defies the crackpot demands of the Times of London seems pretty bad right now with these bland briefcase extremists in charge, and I doubt it’ll be any better when Farage’s crew take over.

So: happy... er, yes, well, happy this most holy of days to all who celebrate

Mandatory digital ID was a useful dogwhistle against migrants trying to survive despite moronic work bans, but it was never going to impact that. It was about authoritarianism, control, repression & shovelling more money to private surveillance tech companies. #r4today

The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

I just realised that this useless criminalisation of customers is the Nordic Model, but for tech platforms.

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

See also: Met police over Lawrence family.

bro is reply-guying ICE now lmao

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

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starting 2026 off with khorne miku/Miku the betrayer 😌 ✨

This is a death threat

He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.” That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

you can't be a Serious Adult Realist unless you accept the existence of a fascist militia founded in 2003 as an immutable, eternal reality

The entire political elite needs to be not just chastened but replaced entirely. They are, to a man, dangerous cowards. They will let the world burn to keep their donors warm. They will never be your friend.

Alt texted for our visually impaired friends here. This artist did not fuck around. Good fucking show to Andrew Pollock.

Yes

Since y'all asked nicely, here's my complete history of Robin of Sherwood. One of the finest TV shows ever made. Hugely influential. Most modern cinematic/TV Robin Hood tropes trace back to it. As Herne would say: "Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." authory.com/JohnBull/Not...

the telegraph has finally got upset not over images of kids or others, when its only their beloved Kate that is the problem

Folks who still post on X, is this finally a red line for you? If not, then you seem to have no moral objections to using a CSAM site.