Since people internalise the law and Trump is trying to alter its basic character, everyone in the US is experiencing cognitive dissonance. Sometimes, as here and after the murders in MN, it breaks into the open. The Q is, do people react by i) internalising Trumplaw; or ii) repudiating Trumplaw?

"A lot of media organisations will be reluctant to air Trump accusations - partly because they’re pretty unverifiable, partly because he's highly litigious." Why aren't more people talking about the 38,000 mentions of Trump in the Epstein files?

I can’t say I recommend reading the QTs on this exactly but they are certainly a mood

Latest on the scope for national economic sovereignty

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This echoes longstanding findings in medicine that if deployed uncarefully AI can make outcomes worse.

Interesting paper, especially interesting it's coming from researchers at Anthropic arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

The idea that the US can buy Greenland, for example by making welfare promises, fails because it will always be worth more to Canada. Coercion is the only way Washington can ever get it.

They have changed the packaging of Whiskas pouches. No mention of a new recipe but Twistle won’t eat it any more. Just skims off some of the jelly and walks away. So we end up with bowls and bowls of uneaten food.

Palantir has your NHS data.

Alistair Darling and the official Treasury were always aware that investment banks had an inside track to Number 10. But the brazen nature of that inside track is rather breath-taking.

This is 90 per cent of what companies are buying from “political consultants”.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

"What's that you say, Grok? It's a fair point? My focus on innovation over distractions is legendary?"

It's only a matter of time before Trump sues the FT.

On Mandelson, two caveats: 1. I think you always have to be alert to the possibility of him being persecuted because he's gay 2. The online right would naturally at this point engage in "inferential" politics. Assume guilt and draw loaded conclusions. If they don't now, it's only because...

Why is it acceptable for the UK to have ongoing business with Thiel (Chairman of Palantir)? It’s batshit.

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My take on Moltbook that it's very notable that a certain kind of developer thinks that (a) Reddit is the optimum form of communication and (b) is constantly trying to make things that replace their own skills/ interests/what they find fun

This take on Moltbook is not wrong. But I think we can take it for granted that the Big American Tech companies have been running similar exercises with similar results and this is why there are no actually useful agents around.

Although probably months old, I only just saw this sign from Minnesota. For me, it really captures the essence of what is going on in both the US and Ukraine. Because the simplest way to sum up Trump’s game plan is that he wants to turn the USA into a second version of Putin’s Russia. 🧵

Paul Krugman: I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

[email protected] Do you think a tech version of this would work? www.mediareform.org.uk FYI @mediareformuk.bsky.social

The BBC is getting played here: if a contributor gets to flat out deny having his own words quoted to him on television (with the viewer not told the denial is untrue) then post about "dropping truth bombs". The mission to inform & counter misinformation is flailing if the editorial controls so weak

Great journalism.

The idea of autonomous agents that do anything useful is completely and utterly dead. Moltbook has killed it in a few days.

It is. And the epistemic field is absolutely one on which we should choose to fight.

USA and Europe. One is an economically dysfunctional place of violence and no-go streets, restricted freedoms and censored media, immigration crises and a non-growing population whose choices threaten the ruin of a great civilization. And then there’s Europe. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I know many things are happening but please take a minute to read this: we are in full blackout in Kyiv, metro stopped, for the 1st time like this, power outages for the whole Ukraine and even in neighbouring Moldova now too. all because of Russia bombing our power stations , while it’s -19 outside

If Wes wanted to burnish his credentials with progressives, nixing the NHS projects with Palantir would be a quick win. I shan’t hold my breath.

The Dutch, it appears, have sleepwalked into a situation where their digital ID platform - critical infrastructure for a variety of government and private processes - will likely soon be in the hands of US big tech georginasturge.substack.com/p/digital-id...

The public really aren't buying this anymore...

Great starting point for any discussion of men

In the hands of Anthropic (and other boosters), AI is presented as a technology that can do anything - at some vague point in the future according to some vague reasoning. It is tech panchreston. A “techreston” if you will.

It’s time to deprecate Palantir’s contract with the NHS. Maximum disconnect.

In addition to arresting Don Lemon, the arrest of my courageous friend and Emmy award winning independent journalist Georgia Fort for REPORTING the church protest in Minneapolis is what FASCISM looks like. This is video of Georgia reporting her own arrest as FBI agents were at her door. 1/2

I feel like before Mamdani I never saw a video like this. It’s a good turn.

It does feel now as though the world is dividing into two camps over Trump: Mad or Bad. “Obviously he’s both!” I hear you cry but this doesn’t stop people framing their analysis in terms of one or t’other.

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

No, no, noooooooooooo

Fantastic to join with some great colleagues and organisations to launch the Labour Group for Men and Boys. Progressive politics hasn’t always been confident enough in tackling head on some of the challenges facing men and boys in Britain today. It’s time to put that right.

The predicement of our time is rhetoric is disconnected from politics and institutions - unlike ancient Greece and Rome. This is what this piece gets wrong - like many others.

What Trump can do to the FBI he can do to the CIA. And that is over here.

Well I just completed my first HMRC Self Assessment tax return with the help of the Google AI panel. And it was doable in a way that I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been without professional help or a very steep learning curve before.

Interesting alternative take on UK-Canada dynamics. We could do with a lot more takes on this neglected topic in my view.

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I think it’s very plausible that all the gains from AI end up in old industries getting more efficient and are not captured by the AI companies themselves. The classic fate of a technology that complements but does not replace human labour.