The Smart Kids Ain't Drinking the AI Koolaid.

The Dark Ages (part two)

Now on the overnight train back to England after a fantastic sunny week in bonny Scotland spotting golden eagles and white tailed wages (not pictured!).

AS PUTIN ANNOUNCES VISIT TO CHINA ON 18-19 MAY: This is the latest published Chinese political cartoon, which tells you how they really see DJT

Nigel Farage told The Sun he can't be bought by anyone ... He rented himself out for £80 per message on Cameo for years. Here he is supporting the IRA for £80.

Nigel Farage told The Sun he can't be bought by anyone... He was literally bought and said 'Up the Ra' for £80.

Record numbers of UK renters now crowdfunding to cover bills and relying on foodbanks, while 1% billionaires hoard wealth equal to poorest 70% of population. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

UK's 157 billionaires are taxed at a lower rate on unearned profits than workers pay on their wages. #TaxJustice

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Spying on your every movement and recording your every word is perfectly Flocking acceptable, NOT!

UK Metropolitan Police extends Palantir surveillance contract.

Schadenfreude is the pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. Now every country invaded, exploited, bullied and manipulated by the US gets to eat popcorn while watching its long drawn out decline.

Make America Average Again www.aol.com/articles/tru...

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Pre-Banksy 1969

Despite the UN warning both Ukraine and Russia in advance, Russia still openly bombed a UN convoy, then proudly released the footage through channels linked to Russian drone groups. This is exactly why so many now view Russia’s so-called “humanitarian concerns” as utterly hollow.

Surveillance-Free Protest

If AI is so forking smart then how?

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

3-year-old Teslas fail inspections more than any other 3-year-old car in the Finnish market by multiples. Top 3 worst: 1. ⁠Tesla Model Ys saw 62.7 % failures. 2. ⁠Tesla Model 3s saw 58.7 % failures. 3. ⁠Dacia Dusters saw 23 % failures. Nearly all other car models had under 10% failure rates.

Trump's visit to ask for Xi Jinping's help with Iran is like an UglyNazi Tesla owner having to ask a Chinese BYD driver for a tow out of the sand.

Aircraft tracking has become a powerful tool for journalism. In our Stage Talks podcast, @gillianbrockell.com demonstrates how flight data and open tools can be used to trace government flights, identify ICE aircraft, and verify aviation activity. Listen: rss.com/podcasts/bellingcatstagetalk/2829188

The US vs. China AI race is “a story used to justify sprinting ahead without guardrails,” @yilingliu95.bsky.social writes. It obscures what many people in both countries share: a sense of precarity and powerlessness as they face the technological future. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

UK govt saves millions of pounds by replacing a Palantir IT system with one built in-house. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i'm so embarrassed that i'm just now listening to the TMK episode about anti-data center organizing (and about eco-modernism) but it's a really good episode so far overcast.fm/+AAg6yFF4Vp4

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

No American should be comfortable with the President of the United States accusing a reporter of treason for critical reporting.

What kind of people are attracted to Reform UK? People who like Farage have flirted with fascism and racism. If Farage can't run an adequate candidate due diligence process he should definitely not be running the country. www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...

Your Cloud is my River. The world's biggest AI data centre approved in Utah. It will take up an area larger than Manhattan, require 9GW of power (more than the entire state consumes), and suck up a huge amount of water in a drought affected area. Insanity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

British supply of arms, aerial surveillance and political cover continues to enable the war crimes of Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in 2026, three quarters of a century later.

Owned

Golden sneakers. Scam phones. Red caps for asshats. Making China's Manufacturing Industry Great

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

Marco Rubio called Trump a con artist before taking a lucrative and powerful job from the con artist.

In a 2018 tweet, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called Trump ''Saudi Arabia's Bitch" in a Tweet saying "Being Saudi Arabia's b---- is not 'America First.'"

In 2016, JD Vance wrote to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin, “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?”

Nigel 'five-homes' Farage changes cover story about undeclared £5m gift/bribe from overseas source. Used £1.4m to buy yet another home through some dodgy tax-avoiding company. If Angela Raynor or Zack Polanski did this they would be hauled over coals by Mail etc. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Privacy is a human right because it gives you a fundamental measure of security and freedom. We owe it to ourselves to fight the mass surveillance used to control and intimidate people. Let’s do this. eff.org/spring

These two things *should* disqualify Wes Streeting as Labour leader, but in practice being an asset of the oligarch press, US health and tech corporations (and I would add being funded by the Israeli lobby) are exactly what secure you the top Labour job nowadays.

Burn

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Where will your community source its clean water and power from after companies divert their supplies to service the massive demands of new AI Slop centres?

AI chatbots are giving out your address and phone number on request, and there is no simple way to stop them. www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1...

New Gartner study confirms findings of previous MIT study that replacing staff with AI (as 80% of large companies now have) has not produced the promised productivity returns. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The internal contradictions of racial-capitalism: whether to deport or profit from the incarceration of immigrants.