I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

In the "No sbit, Sherlock" news this week:

a show like starfleet academy should be airing 20 low-budget eps per season, but unfortunately that isn't in the cards these days. also, whenever you make a star trek with a diverse cast, 50,000 chuds will slither out of the swamp to yell bad faith complaints about women wearing glasses or whatever.

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

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As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences. And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.

I refuse to use the term "AI era". It conveys a level of persistence which is unwarranted for an innovation that may very well never become sustainable or economical. Instead I propose the term "AI crisis", given that it's something that wreaks havoc and that nobody has asked for.

Labour AI copyright u-turn bit.ly/40BdsiA another example of making the right decision but only second time round after huge public (or creator) opposition

I'm reminded of one of the conclusions in my biography of King John: 'He set about needlessly provoking people when he felt strong, then desperately trying to win them back when his confidence had evaporated.'

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Only one of these is sustainable. The other is a load of magic beans.

If there's a political scandal brewing, or at least an attempt to contrive one, the BBC's politics correspondents will say "there's growing pressure tonight". But from whom? Anyone who matters? Or just Tory spin doctors and a Daily Mail columnist?

The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970. Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.

Net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock & bring health & economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the CCC have forecast. Each £ invested in reaching net zero yielded between £2 and £4 in benefits. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

Good news. One more step on the way to a, hopefully, elected second chamber. Get rid of the bishops next. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why the heck respected news outlets are still spending their time trying to put a rational interpretation on a speech by a guy who literally doesn't know what he's thinking or saying from minute to minute, goodness only knows.

Reminder, Farage is not on your side, he wants to charge you to access the NHS. #NeverVoteReform

My most unpopular opinion is that farming out the death penalty for child murderers to the hard faced horrible cunts they share prison wings with is a societal failure and instead of relishing when one gets killed, we should be ashamed our prison system is so broken.

I can foresee a fight with #BritishGas over the cost of my next tariff. We have solar panels so we use about £90-£100's worth of electricity over a 3 months (from statements). The tariff they want to put us on is £90/month! How long will it take to convince them we don't need to spend that much!

of course it has anxiety, you’re training it on multiple generations of anxious peoples’ content

New The poisoning of the wells Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever. The gold standard of leadership. A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

Every AI-booster thing is just a combination of “LISTEN UP LUDDITES GET WITH IT OR GET LEFT BEHIND!!!” and “is it accurate? No. But…” Bonus points for “well actually humans aren’t perfect either 😏” I need to make a bingo card…

I made a bingo card

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Halliucinations seem to be a feature, not a bug (ignore the clickbait presentation this is actually a really useful explainer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shus...

May 2026

I don’t understand how anyone with even a cursory understanding of Trump’s history doesn’t understand that you can’t ever make a deal with him.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

As the world's monsters - Putin, Netanyahu, Trump… - continue to show, there is no limit to the number of lives they are willing to sacrifice for their own survival.

In many ways, having this "picture" of a "baby" gave the general public a completely new framework for what pregnancy was. Whereas before it was something that was understood as Happening To the pregnant person, now there was cause to think of it as about (n) people. Anti-abortion views skyrocketed

i guess the good news is that it's 2026, so we may actually be headed for the star trek future

Wasn't the #StarTrek TNG episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" a warning against arms races and basing your entire economy on arms dealing?

Now that the by-election is over, perhaps we can get back to ignoring my racist bullying at school, Russian infiltration into my party, me lying about who paid for my house in Frinton and Reform run councils putting up council tax.

Delayers keep saying that decarbonisation will hamper economic growth Yet the data keep showing that the net zero economy is the engine of UK economc growth

What first attracted a man accused of using a highly offensive racial slur aimed at black people & making a derogatory remark about Jewish women to a party led by Nigel Farage? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unions enforce your employment rights. Unions can help if you’re discriminated against or mistreated by your employer. Reform doesn’t want you to have that help. They don’t care how badly you’re treated at work. They’re taking the piss out of you. You should mind. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return ● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+ ● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000 ● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

The lesson from the "Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt AI Video" reveal is twofold, old, and evergreen: 1) Slow Down and 2) always start from the ground position that any claims made by an "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is them lying to you to hype their product.

Every time I see a post like this it just reminds me that we're never going to get another Hellboy story illustrated by #RichardCorben :(