My one slight optimistic hope is that there is an AI bubble that will start to burst when the expense of using AI becomes apparent. Human labour is often cheaper than mechanisation, the same applies to AI. Not all organisations have the type of money that the tech giants have.

Accenture has suffered a market rout on fears that AI could do in a fraction of the time the tasks carried out by its 786,000-person workforce. Other consultancies are similarly struggling. Does AI sound the death knell for the business of consulting? Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/QLWdtIN

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... This rather horrible but correct. Warning if you love animals.

I love this. We’re so down on ourselves as humans so often, we look to our creations to be our creators. But humans are magnificent, and machines are just their inventions

Hero 🦸

The health department’s top official, appointed by Wes Streeting, was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities.

When I see an AI summary, I avert my eyes like I walked in on my grandmother changing clothes.

We had to deal with this company for document attestation and can confirm they are as utterly appalling as this investigation exposes them to be www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

I’ve been concerned about this since day one of the conflict. Haven’t heard a single politician mention it.

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Good to see the entirety of Bluesky united in its opposition to Tony Blair offering his opinion on anything.

"The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good." —Pope Leo XIV

If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Dear fellow English people. Please realise that it being the hottest May Day on record is not a cause for celebration. 34 degrees is not an optimal temperature for living in. This is climate change, you know the same change that made it rain every day in Jan. This is not a good thing.

AI slop #datacenters

It is genuinely astonishing to me that the Pope seems to be the only world leader who has grasped the dangers presented by AI. We are staring into the abyss and action needs to be taken www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m not a Catholic but keen Governments and regulators heed his advice on this one. No one else seems to be thinking about the human implications.

I actually love that Don Sr didn’t attend Don Jr’s wedding. I don’t want that family to be happy. And not going to your son’s wedding suggests not happy.

This

The movie cost Amazon $75 million and it made $16.3 million at the box office, plummeting 67% in its second weekend after all the MAGA fans already made their pilgrimage to see it. Meanwhile, in this same interview, Bezos insists that the Washington Post must be profitable.

Good to see these sentences are being reviewed. It is unfathomable that a violent offence such as rape could not result in a custodial sentence. Their victims will live with the impact till they die, the perpetrators should too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is happening & Govts are doing nothing to prepare. Meanwhile in office land we’re all sitting there using the AI that in about 10 mins will take our jobs. We are essentially training our replacements at the behest of those running organisations. Who will buy the product when the jobs go though?

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

And the sun is yellow. Of course they don’t vet the Royals! Which obviously speaks to some of the issues of a hereditary monarchy

Why fix it if if it ain’t broke? Create an adjacent tool don’t decimate your core product. I’m off to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social

Decimating the British Council is such a shortsighted act of self harm.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

We could give it a try though Jeff couldn’t we?

This is utterly heartbreaking to read. It makes me sick to the stomach to know how much wealth hoarding there is in this world and meanwhile babies are left to die and little girls are sold into marriage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I cannot emphasise this enough - every single person who has been killed in protests in Kenya since 2022 has. Been. Killed. By. The. Police. Civilians are not the ones shooting each other. Kenya does not have a protest problem - Kenya has a policing problem and a gov with no tolerance for dissent.

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

I can’t read the full article because it is behind a paywall but the mainstream media seem to forget that not all expats in the UAE are taxi exile billionaires. There are many normal, workaday people here keeping the economy going. Many of whom come from countries far less stable than the UAE and

I just read that Andrew Mountbatten once kicked his Labrador in the head for eating his sausage roll. Just when you think the scum can’t get any scummier.

Gosh I’m really depressed at the state of the world. Is there any cause for optimism?

Dear god why would you do this.

I'm enjoying the "Top 100 Bluesky responses to a top 100 cultural list bait of all time, of all time."

I've read 38 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

I get a good vibe from Andy Burnham but is he really the messiah that the Labour Party seem to think he is?!

When do you think people will twig that it really doesn't matter anymore what we once were as a country. All that matters is what we choose to be in the fuuture.

I’ve been dreaming of chaos with Ed Miliband since around 2011 so bring it on

Is anyone else out there worried about the mental health impact of how AI has increased expectations of pace and output in the (office based) workplace? I am torn between thinking I find this hard because I am old and thinking actually we are creating intensely pressured environments

Can the U.K. borrow this guy?

Coward and draft dodger pretends he’s on the frontline.

In the same way that nothing says ‘fresh start’ like a political movement packed with former Conservatives claiming things will be different this time.

You didn't "earn" a billions dollars, Jeff Bezos. You *took it* from your poorly paid workers.

Depressing as reform winning so many seats is, Farage has been around the political scene for a million years. Maybe I’m looking for silver linings but isn’t the fact the Green Party did so well a glimmer of hope? I have some issues with Green policies but maybe this shows people aren’t all dicks?

Nice voting system you've got there. Definitely able to cope with electoral landscape. No issues whatsoever

This is really bad

When the worst person in the world puts the second worst person in the world in charge of budgets, cheered on by others of near equal worth.