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Farage doesn't think the usual rules apply to him. He thinks he's a special case and that the world needs to stand around clapping as some Thai dwelling crypto billionaire hands him £5 million for making Brexit happen. This is NOT normal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is really not on. Hopefully the NUJ will have a strong response.

Those Labour MPs backing Streeting clearly have no idea that nobody outside Westminster supports him. Probably even in the wider membership. All he’s doing is handing the keys of No 10 to Farage and his Trumpettes, probably via an early GE and taking any heat of the donations scandal. 🤷‍♂️

Farage said his £5M gift was only revealed due to his computer being hacked & considering legal action against the hackers He doesn't realise this makes it worse, as not only was it never declared breaking parliamentary rules, it proves he keeps dodgy secrets How much more does he have hidden?

We are at the stage of Reform announcing concentration camps and the entire media immediately moving on to whether Polanski exaggerated on his CV in 2012 or not.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage wants to take the country out of the European Convention on Human Rights The ECHR protects us all - It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more. Whatever you do on May 7 JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

The depressing thing is how people fall for it every time. And it’s always the sort of people who sulkily pose for photos by potholes for local newspapers.

I'm fed up of seeing drivers texting or reading from a phone ***while driving*** (and it's also unacceptable if you're stopped in traffic). If you are driving, it's very simple: you are in charge of a 1+ ton killing machine, so don't touch your phone. Ever. No, not even "insert excuse here".

The Telegraph has been losing it for years. Now it’s officially gone full ‘snooker loopy nuts are we’

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A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Terrific article - do read

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

*cough* Angela Rayner got hounded relentlessly by the press and then got sacked *cough*

We warned you years and years ago…

And that was that. Turn the lights off now, the season is finally, officially over. #WWFC

It’s been exactly three years since Wolves last played a league match. I hope they remember what to do. #WWFC #WolvesFC

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

A new analysis from The New York Times attempting to assess the accuracy of Google's AI Overviews found that 1 in 10 of its answers is wrong.

The shameless hypocrisy - JD Vance - the VP of the USA - rocks up in Hungary days before they go to the polls to overtly campaign for Orbán… …and he has the sheer audacity to accuse the EU of external election interference (because EU stuck to its rules). Grotesque.

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal."

This website shows you how much money is being siphoned off from artists by AI slop on Spotify. Over $2.5 million lost by real people - and that's just from 50 AI ‘artists’. Slop dilutes royalties. A major reason AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use. sloptracker.org

“That’s why Reform’s fossil-fuel funded politicians are so opposed to climate science and… Net Zero… Not because Net Zero is an economic failure but because its success will hit their donors’ profits” Farage: Never acts in the national interest. Only ever his own. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Findings in the UK are apparently similar to other studies done in the US, what politicians profess to think people want and what people actually want are very different when it comes to climate change. #climate #talkaboutclimate

"In the days following the 2016 EU Referendum, Jeffrey Epstein had emailed another associate, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, describing Brexit as 'just the beginning' of 'a return to tribalism, counter to globalisation, amazing new alliances'"

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

It’s also the enjoyable part. The writing-thinking process is what makes it all fun.

Richard Tice: evading his tax so you have to pay more.

Richard Tice’s property firm “aggressively” avoided some £600,000 in corporation tax after adopting rare legal status. Reform deputy leader’s Guernsey listed Quidnet Reit Ltd paid nothing in corporation tax on multi-million pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran. Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it. When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war? www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

As the world cascades into chaos, and where decency values are ever more under threat, @wolvesfc.bsky.social #WWFC #WolvesFoundation is still active on X, a platform that actively works against the club’s so-called values. Shame football clubs aren’t stronger on leading on change. 😔

Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS @wesstreeting.bsky.social

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

12/3/26 - nocturn

Pete Hegseth spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $7 million on lobster tail, and $15.1 million on ribeye steak in just one month. — But please, tell me again how the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security are bleeding this country dry.

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen? /end

They say: - the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement - the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms 3/5

They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation. 2/5

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...