"A local car thief has seen profits sky rocket this year by simply taking other people's cars and selling them on without any paperwork or safety checks"

Is Die Hard 2: Die Harder a christmas film?

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience. It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

AI peas 😂 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The first Water Pipit since 2021 was October's bird highlight at London's Walthamstow Wetlands. Round-up of the 97 species seen now on walthamstowbirders.blogspot.com Thanks to @samodonnell25.bsky.social @chris-farthing.bsky.social @wheresrhys.bsky.social & MLP for pics. #londonbirding

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...

Christ! I moved from Wales to London to get AWAY from the ravens and kites, not to find them both 5 minutes from my front door in zone 3!! #londonbirds

A nice surprise today with the first jack snipe I’ve ever seen at my local waterworks nature reserve, and putting on a very endearing show of bobbing #londonbirds

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

@gruffrhys.bsky.social wnes i ddod ar draws rhai o’ch lyrics yn Ellis Brigham. Mymryn yn wahanol i sut o’n i’n ei cofio nhw.

The radical right is winning because Labour, the Tories, most of the press and the BBC will not speak for the majority that sees Farage and the extremists beyond him as a menace Piece from me on the failure to rally resistance open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Letter to my assembly member about the policing today #london #standuptoracism

Me too. Today I brought 1 friend, but next time I will bring 20 There are more of us, and they won’t win

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

There appears to be a very consistent trend in "AI" help chatbots (I'm looking at you HSBC, Halifax, Ovo...) . 1) They are rubbish, not really conversational, based on preset answers... basically using tech from 10 years ago. 2) If you ask the same questions to ChatGPT you get far better answers...

If I pick this as my security question will I remember that the answer I submitted was "every year, dumbass"

Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.

I’m taking part in a new scheme to reintroduce native species to the highlands

Stumbled across this almost nostrodaman premonition of Amazon by @aiannucci.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSi...

Very interesting, if a little alarming and depressing, thoughts from James K on how AI may impact on politics

A new study has revealed that birds can form long-lasting bonds that closely resemble human friendships:

Hats off to the image + headline juxtaposition editor at @data.ft.com

My thoughts on the government’s recent study on AI efficiency improvements in the civil service www.wheresrhys.co.uk/2025/06/07/t... #AI #aiopportunities

Great article on AI, copyright and licencing www.techpolicy.press/ai-training-... I'm running some focus groups to discuss this issue in the UK. Sign up here forms.gle/m65AKVoHMg9m... #makeitfair #dothewritething #aipolicy

I'm recruiting participants for a focus group to research public attitudes to the government's policy on AI and copyright. Please share, and fill out this form if you'd like to take part forms.gle/5KMp66VVH43y... #AI #copyright #makeitfair #DoTheWriteThing @societyofauthors.bsky.social

This juvenile coal tit - only the second we’ve ever ringed at the site - was my highlight from Walthamstow wetlands CES this morning, alongside 6 juvenile reed warblers - some very early breeding this year. Ringed under licence by @btobirds.bsky.social #londonbirds

Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the government's own consultation document: "greater transparency from AI developers is a prerequisite - transparency about the material they use to train models, how they acquire it, and about the content generated by their models. " But today this 🫠 Peter Kyle is such a big tech fluffer

And so ghouls rush in to the space Starmer has cleared for them, sounding like the BNP. "Aggressive levels of mass migration" is the latest grim phrase. PS as @sundersays.bsky.social points out, one place with a very high level of ppl born overseas is Kensington & Chelsea, but that's evidently fine

@stellacreasy.bsky.social I’m glad you’re personally challenging some of the government’s policy, but starmer’s rhetoric today on immigration is beyond the pale. I won’t be knocking on any more doors for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

really interesting insight into Meta's failures policing content www.ft.com/content/80d9...

Excellent from Janan Ganesh www.ft.com/content/0f3e...

What if Trump is just about to unveil the greatest RickRoll in history?

@aiannucci.bsky.social You've seen this right? Real life Partridge. youtu.be/uLsDpkQY3xo

"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...

This chiffchaff was ringed in Essex last year as a juvenile, and returned from the Mediterranean/North Africa last weekend to be caught again at Walthamstow wetlands. (Caught and handled under licence @btobirds.bsky.social ) #birdringing

I would LOVE to do a proper piece of research into podcast ads as a cultural material. From spelling out URLs to personal endorsements for broccoli, so much fascinating stuff in there

I’m dying 🤣🤣🤣

A red kite circling over Lea Bridge train station this morning #lowcarbonbirding #londonbirds

Reminded of this today www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmB3...

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

Musk: I should say we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake we'll fix it quickly. So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled briefly was Ebola prevention.

Without wanting to be unfair, in my experience meaningful fact-checking is more or less non-existent in nonfiction. Meaningful fact-checking would mean a reader qualified in a relevant field for each section that makes claims in a specialized area. That almost never happens.

going on-record like this is pretty brave imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4u...

I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.

"...it’s only a matter of time until DOGE’s meddling inadvertently triggers a catastrophic failure of Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems," writes @lizthegrey.com in an op-ed for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/02/why-...

@ednewtonrex.bsky.social Enjoyed your latest post fairtraining.substack.com/p/parliament.... Wondering if you have any commentary on the Lords amendments bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/s.... and how that bill's progress through parliament relates to the consultation and debates in the commons?

If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.