Huge props to Martin Lewis for doing this. Every politician should have an expert ready to swoop in and challenge them on any topic that they are creating policy for.

Kemi Badenoch getting irritated and talking over Martin Lewis as he calmly tries to explain why her student debt plans will only help the richest graduates

This elderly lady got detained by-association because her partner's visa expired. She did absolutely nothing wrong.

'She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”' #ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So if the orange man did something *illegal* as confirmed by the Supreme Court, shouldn’t he be sent to prison? What is going on in the USA that this is just normal?

So that Supreme Court decision was really priced-in in the markets huh

I built a human verifier for ATProto/Bluesky! I go into detail about why I built it and how it works in this blog post. Check it out and let me know what you think! blog.picheta.me/post/the-fut...

This arrived at 4am. Nice that there was a follow up. But… is this just another automated email? They never removed the feature btw. DMs seemed unaffected throughout this. I guess I’ll try to send an email to them and see if I ever get a response.

Sony buys remake studio in 2021, shuts them down in 2026 and lays off 70 workers without them releasing a remake: aftermath.site/sony-buys-rema...

In what world is it ever okay to detain a 9 year old for 4 months?

I built a human verifier for ATProto/Bluesky! I go into detail about why I built it and how it works in this blog post. Check it out and let me know what you think! blog.picheta.me/post/the-fut...

As far as I can see @listifications.app's DMs are still active. So did this take effect or no? Will it? I'd also like to know more details about what triggered this. FWIW every DM is only sent if the user opts into the service. This is explained when they follow the account via DM.

I've written up my thoughts on the biggest challenges facing social media and how I think it needs to evolve. What it comes down to is that we need more humans and less bots. 👇

I've written up my thoughts on the biggest challenges facing social media and how I think it needs to evolve. What it comes down to is that we need more humans and less bots. 👇

I've been fascinated whether LLMs can reproduce whole books that they have been trained on for a while. Turns out there is a recent study on this and the answer is pretty unsurprising: yes, they can. 95.8% of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

I’ve been working on something for a while now and I wanted to explain how I got there. blog.picheta.me/post/the-fut...

Mullvad is a brilliant VPN provider and I'm glad they are calling this out. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's proposals to enforce identity verification on VPN providers is a nightmare for whistleblowers.

Wow. This is super awesome. Async/await is my favourite abstraction and to see it powering GPUs is amazing.

It’s so sad they are getting rid of messenger.com Wonder what they’ll do with the domain dzrh.com.ph/post/meta-to...

Is this the American Dream?

RIP. First movie with him that came to mind. Gone in 60 seconds.

New from me. A years-long battle with Valve's ineffective moderation rumbles on as bigotry and harassment is given persistent passes on Steam. It leads to lengthy, sometimes traumatic, processes to get content that violates Steam's own guidelines removed – if it ever is. In @theguardian.com.

Okay. It might be time to email my MP. This is truly getting ridiculous. You cannot legislate against VPNs. If you want to protect kids then legislate for phone/laptop manufacturers to create kid versions of devices that are locked down.

The more time goes on, the more I am starting to see the real dividing lines where GenAI can be useful and where it’s in fact dangerous. What it comes down to for me is AI-less verifiability. Writing code is useful because you can test the code deterministically. AI in journalism is dangerous.

I mean, look at this bullshit, this is what happens when you fire journalists, and try to replace them with AI. Who the fuck wants this as reality? No sane person wants this, we need real people, doing real work. We need more journalists, not less.

Reminder: if your community does not have an enforced code of conduct, it becomes possible to subvert it to attack or ostracise individuals and spread a whole lot of ugly that marginalised people will run screaming away from.

So is anyone at Bluesky aware that jetstream1.us-west.bsky.network has been down for the past 8 hours (since 5pm UTC)? #atproto

Hashnode is surprisingly broken these days. I've ran into 3 bugs, the worst one of them all is that it literally keeps deleting a blog post that I've already published.

If capitalism is the ultimate route to economic efficiency, then why is the US health care system so much worse and more expensive than the UK health care system?

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

The Green Party. Good for your dating life too. 💘 Join.greenparty.org.uk

So, who's not yet convinced that human-only social media is the only way forward?

Why did TfL send me an email about the Santander Cycles being down? lol

BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance "People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense” Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!

This is beautiful, huge props to the artist that made this!

That's a lot of blocks from just one account. Haven't seen this in a while.

I think this may in fact be the end of Keir Starmer

This is really cool but it’s a shame it is using the setting for logged out user visibility to determine whether accounts are included. I’d love to be included but I don’t want to disable that.

Police hate this one trick

Is there a Super Bowl equivalent for Women’s Football? Is there even a Women’s Football? The Dove ad has made me realise that I’ve never seen any women in this sport.

So I think OpenAI’s ad strategy wins over Anthropic’s. Reminding people what is so awkward about AI isn’t a strategy that is likely to win you customers.

“You can just build things” from OpenAI’s ad is reminiscent of what I keep hearing around here

How many people actually watch the Super Bowl for the sports vs. just the ads and music?

1-800-GAMBLER 🇺🇸

OH “The Super Bowl is just Rugby for pussies”

Loving how many ad breaks they fit into the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl genuinely feels like a parody. They’re celebrating the unity and freedom of America?

Going to watch the Super Bowl for the first time today. Apparently you can watch it with the original US ads (my main interest) for 99p on DAZN in the UK.

Just beyond parody at this point