Start of Dowland weekend at @wigmore-hall.org.uk. This about as good as it gets for me.

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Finally saw The Secret Agent this week and it’s as fine a study into anticorruption activism and its consequences as you’re ever likely to see.

The data may theoretically belong to the MOD, but Palantir can rinse the insights from that data and I don’t see how you can control for that.

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Shaming to the Met and all involved.

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Since you ask, it was absolutely astonishingly good. Officially high on JD.

Louche

Going to @fretwork.bsky.social John Dowland fest at Milton Hall later. It's a great month for Dowland stans www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

This is what we're all missing on the other side.

Standard of discourse in UK politics these days could hardly be poorer.

This war has been brought to you by Anduril/OpenAI and Palantir/Anthropic

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

In explaining why Anthropic has abandoned its “we won’t release it until we’re convinced it’s safe” policy, Karnofsky writes as if 2023 is ancient history; maybe it is in AI terms forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DGZNAG...

Here's a great Sunday thing: how far back can you go before English prose becomes partially/completely unintelligible? www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own "safety stack" and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Fairly obvious that this was going to happen if you read OpenAI’s submission to the AI Action Plan but still: what a shower of shit

OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

#Palantir is suing the Swiss online magazine #Republik for their critical reporting – A good opportunity to talk about what kind of company it is, says one of the journalists: digit.site36.net/2026/02/23/p...

BEREFT now that AKOTSK is done for the year :(

The Department of Defense is threatening to designate Anthropic, the maker of Claude, a "supply chain risk." @alanrozenshtein.com explains why the Pentagon is considering the determination, its consequences for Anthropic, and why Congress should act instead.

Trying to set intelligence agencies on journalists by Putin-jacketing them seems to be part of the playbook for a certain kind of UK centrist shithead www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When it is madness bid, it is madness delivered

Didn't realise that there's actually more than one TV series in which main character Sean Bean suffers an unexpected death at the end of the first season. Someone was having a laugh there.

Anthropic's Claude used in Maduro raid - this is what happens when you partner with Palantir folks www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

A total, total humiliation for the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Great news! UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The number of drone industry people with a media/video production background is quite amazing.

Palantir an agent of the Trumpist security state! Who'd have thought it?

When it is madness bid, it is madness delivered

Edgar Allen Poe being schooled in Stoke Newingon seems like the kind of thing I should have known about already.

Honestly, it’s just absolutely top tier. Can’t recommend highly enough

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms still delivering. Trial by combat is almost a Westeros cliché by this point.

Two noses dammit

Mandelson seems to be one of the few routes in to getting criticism of the Palantir deal on primetime. Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social raising it.

NEW: Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleges

Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary re: Elbit Systems. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've spent 27 years working in the criminal courts and in police stations. I promise you that since the advent of social media, it's white men - mostly older white men - who are becoming radicalised by social media and it's mostly white men who harass/abuse women online and send death/rape threats.

I guess it’s always been the case that you can wing it though a university education without doing the work but LLMs probably increase the average coasting grade. It’s another aspect of deskilling of course.

Oh boy, just found that Julian Bream's Masterclass series is on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Trying to bust out Luigi Mangione with a pizza cutter - nice to see some people still have ambition www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/n...

As others have said, when sentencing comes around we'll see how the treatment of this guy compares to the Palestian Action activists

Stark subtitling snark

Littlefinger's weird accent (whatever it's supposed to be) appears very suddenly in Season 2 Episode 3.

Rewatching Game of Thrones and it’s a relief to report that it’s still great TV. Not sure I’m going to persevere beyond S4 however.

Catastrophe for Rojava via @carneross.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/carneros...