I was initially reluctant to use the term fascism for Trump 2, but it’s increasingly clear that it is the right term.

Can you think of a worse starting point from which to repopulate the human race.

This is just embarrassing. If the Royal Society is not going to make a stand on CSAM, what would it ever take a stand on?

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"

If a Pakistani Muslim owned X, distributed indecent images of girls on a platform where govt do their PR, where some receive payments for posts, they would have distanced themselves by now. X would be shutdown and Braverman and Farage would be calling for a ban and investigation into Pakistani men.

There's a lesson for all Americans in the standard response to snowfall: The way to deal with ICE is grit.

Me, a Northern Irish former Royal Marine with a doctorate in the forms of violence experienced in and characterising the Troubles. Tom, keen to paddysplain:

Top tip for politicians: avoid writing messages that make the following interpretation possible: "Anna Paulina Luna, the noted CSAM enthusiast, said..."

A reminder: Europe is currently facing a catastrophic pincer movement from Russia invading Ukraine on the east and America threatening to invade Greenland from the west, because Donald Trump is so cataclysmically racist that he can't accept that Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't.

This is absolutely lovely.

Good morning. Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have just demonstrated considerably greater moral fibre and backbone than the officers of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

UK readers double-taking, dropping their phones, spitting out tea etc

This hits different in the UK...

Any American journalist being willing to demonstrate public empathy with the victim of a crime committed by this administration gets a follow. Because everyone's timeline needs a little more empathy and a little less stridency.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Make this go viral. The UK Government and all of parliament should leave X now.

A profoundly sensible and clear-headed article.

Jesse Bailey Watters, who has two gender-neutral first names and twin daughters from a marriage that ended in divorce after he had an affair with his show's producer, feels that this information is relevant in some way. It isn't. Its only significance is its demonstration of Watters' hypocrisy.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

The reason this is criminal is because there’s no “victimless” CSAM. Grok can do this because it was trained on images. • What kind of images would allow an LLM to generate CSAM? • Who was harmed by the generation of the training data? • Who had them to add?

This was ultimately the reason Appeasement stopped in the 1930s. Chamberlain (and others) realized the fascists were oathbreakers and could not be trusted.

Someone want to give me the over/under on this being an ICE / CBP / FBI provocateur account?

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

A 1972 UK #2 hit for David Bowie and the ninth track on "Aladdin Sane".

Okay. New rule: Anyone "well ackshually"-ing CSAM and NCII - whether on legal, ethical, technical or any other grounds - gets blocked immediately. We have got to have some lines in the sand, people; this is not a subject on which it is necessary or helpful to parse alleged intricacies.

"In the area" is doing a fair bit of heavy lifting in this post. The distance between the English Channel and the Marinera's last known position north of Scotland is somewhere in the region of a thousand nautical miles.

US Special Forces have now boarded the oil tanker sailing under Russian escort in the North Atlantic.

Musk's Grok may be the thing to burst the AI bubble. Because if, in popular consciousness, the sentiment becomes "It's got AI? The thing that puts child porn on your computer and your phone?" then no one is going to go anywhere near it. So let's make that happen.

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I am not sure I can imagine a stupider timeline in which the world's foremost prize for peace is itself the trigger for a war. Every satirist would have rejected this as a Macguffin.

This isn’t just hypocrisy, it’s stupidity in spades, and dishonesty at every level.

This is, under the present circumstances, moronic.

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content warning: graphic description of CSAM material currently floating around on X. if you don't want to get into huge trouble, strongly suggest deleting/never using it again. this is some of the worst out in the open illegal matieral I've ever heard about, and it'll gotcha totally out of the blue

This is the potential UK form of SWATting, but with the added jeopardy of *you actually winding up in court on legitimate CSAM possession charges*.

The milk has, very definitely, Gone Off.

Two days later and the nonconsensual sexual material generator still hasn't been turned off, at this point it's time to start arresting people

An acutely well-observed point, and one I wish were more widely recognised and understood.

I rewatched The Devil's Advocate the other day. Did you know some parts of it were filmed in Donald Trump's New York Apartment? Anyway, in the film, the Devil says his all-time favourite sin is Vanity, because he can use it to accomplish so much.

"Dear Mr Grenell, I am currently in the smallest room in my house. I have your letter before me; in a moment, it will be behind me. Yours most sincerely, Chuck Redd"

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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

"We do not engage in regime change. Regime remix, on the other hand..."

Sounds like a snack food. What should be the ingredients?

"Reckless" is a chickenshit way to spell "illegal."

This is like Jaws 2 if the population of Amity Island had re-elected the damn shark.

The bigger, much more important question here is: if we take Keir Starmer at his word, why does he not believe he has been provided with the facts by the Secret Intelligence Service, who will surely have briefed him? Secondarily: this indicates the US did not inform its allies in advance.

A small, but I think telling, point: justice is not about wrath.