My latest newsletter is about how generative AI doesn't just need money to survive, but faith. Every time we see another big genAI foul-up, that faith will waver, and its end becomes all the more likely. whatwelost.substack.com/p/generative...

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

'The guys who run Reform are absolute chancers. The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.' @ross-greer.bsky.social on #bbcdn

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

It's buckaroos like me that will have to fix this shit

Sic 'em, Ed

I gave myself a small crash course in geospatial features in duckdb yesterday and it is unsurprisingly excellent #databs

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

"We must call his scheme to round up and deport our French, our Indian, our Caribbean neighbours, who already have Indefinite Leave to Remain what it is: It is racist. I say, not in our country, not in our name, not in our time." Lammy's delivered a bit of a barn-stormer. ~AA

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Another hill I will die on is that starring in Billy Elliot should disqualify you from entering Strictly

An afternoon well spent: a solid two and a half hours playing the piano, learning a basic grade 1 version of The Entertainer and Petzold's Minuet in G major. Progress!

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

A hill I will die on is that if I need to run a local web server to host an application then it's too much hassle and I will find an alternative

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

They've lost the 9yos

Unfair advantage for noughts

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

I switched to the @octopus.energy smart EV tariff this week. Last night I charged up 50% (30kWh) for £1.95. 100 miles for under 2 quid!

this exists it is called thinking

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

These people, who assault police and call for and often perform acts of violence against some of the world’s most vulnerable humans, are apparently to be endorsed and emulated, while people carrying signs protesting a genocide must be silenced and jailed www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No one would bother writing a column complaining that racists aren't welcome in the Scottish Greens, regardless of how much they care about tackling the climate emergency. Why do so many journalists struggle with the idea that we take the same position on anti-trans voices?

breaking news: in response to a chant of “shoot keir starmer” at the fascist parade in london, the government has announced plans to shoot keir starmer

Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own." I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.

Roses are red Einstein was clever

this is ridiculous

It's time for the long coat again

Two thoughts: 1 - is this part of the stunt or is it real? 2 - I honestly thought that was someone in a gimp suit cleaning it up

What a slimy little cunt he is

Guy Fucks

There is only one thing more cringe than “God Bless our First Lady. She, of course, is wiser than all of us” and it is “I am the U.S. Energy Secretary and I talk to ChatGPT about how to cure cancer.”

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

"Every 5GW of PV is capable of displacing 1 MTPA of LNG in the electricity sector. So the 400GW of PV installed so far this year could displace about 20% of global LNG consumption." Any questions?

when you think about, it's actually kind of impressive to make a computer innumerate. like that's its one job. it's in the name.

Absolutely loving this debate topic from Kid 1's school update

WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING FLAG

At a time like this it's important to remember he has a wife and kids, and all of them can get fucked too

Your Party, but not *yours*. Fuck em, vote Green

This is what we mean about the high water usage of LLMs

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Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Very thoroughly making sure the EHRC guidance is being followed

"Flag on Devon roundabout updates with rainbow and peace symbol" Would be terrible if this sort of thing were to start happening. ~AA www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Eating your own dogshit

THEY HAVE TAKEN LETTER BOXED FROM ME

Current state of AI

Said hello to the CEO as he passed my desk this morning. Two minutes later a colleague looked at me and said "what's that on your face?" It was HP sauce.