I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

Truly astonishing that the apex of human civilization is providing summaries of what the internet might think and believing this to be god

I’m sorry to say that this is not a “glitch” but a design consequence. gizmodo.com/grok-is-glit...

Brilliant @robertplant.com and Saving Grace gig at Royal Festival Hall. Best I’ve seen for a long long time. So hope @nonesuch.com release a live album …

90 minutes to hit the target!

Around two thirds of Reform's money has come from overseas | me with @catneilan.bsky.social 📰 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

As this from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the Democracy for Sale team shows, by not acting on a donations cap, Labour are sowing the seeds of their own electoral destruction. Utterly idiotic. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

Radio 4 is rebroadcasting its abridgement of Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard: this is the first childhood section "His baby words would have been in his natal language, which he would soon forget" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…

Now Tom Stoppard’s gone. Sheesh, what a year ….

I have zero interest in AI music or AI photography. Both seem to miss the entire point to me …

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Excellent from @henrymance.ft.com on the BBC on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?

Naomi is I think bang on here. I have said many times to many people that AI is like any other technology shift: it changes jobs and how we work. Naomi builds on that (and expresses it much better), and lands on "learn the skill of discernment". Do read this.

The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯

Everyone seems to want to be a guru or thought leader. Anyone up for actually doing the work?

Flickr down? (For those that still use it)

Great read from Brian Klaas. (BlueSky excepted naturally …) open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?

Digital literacy isn’t optional in today's world. Strengthen your armour against disinformation in the fight for democracy. 👇

Redford, now Keaton ….take cover, the 70s icons are starting to topple …☹️

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...

@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements. From the Democracy for Sale podcast. youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y

[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

I sense that we have to resolve normalcy bias, with some urgency, to engage in some of today's societal meta-problems. thedecisionlab.com/biases/norma...

Basic media and information literacy. (Currently out of fashion)

Via @ellarroyo_atx

Oh ffs futurism.com/ai-polling-i...

This is a great conversation - even if you know about @bellingcat.com pca.st/episode/e8b0...

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline. The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that: A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up. But that's far too nuanced.

on.ft.com/4ousXn2 Is there a case for climate optimism?

Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar, from 2023 on Journalism & Democratic Backsliding, with NYU Prof @jayrosen.bsky.social Cardiff Prof (former BBC) @sambrook.bsky.social & CityU Fellow (former Haaretz) @panievsky.bsky.social youtu.be/MrAnVd35bcE

I wish someone would invent a really cynical AI bot that responded with things like “don’t be so f#%^*ing stupid” …

As @thenewworldmag.bsky.social said last week, the problem with TV like #TheAssassin or #Blackdoves is we are meant to sympathise with vicious mass murderers. And the comedy doesn’t really get us past that.

If you're in or around the tech policy debate in the UK (and other places) you might be wondering what sovereign AI *actually* means, and whether it can make a meaningful difference.