This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data. www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

All Matt Goodwin did was suggest that women should be at home having babies to prevent the white race being replaced; argue for a far-right ethno-nationalist state; & choose a Holocaust-denying antisemite to run his campaign, & the next thing you know, he’s being labelled a Nazi. Shocking!

Labour MP reacting to a party to his Far Right: we will happily enable the most racist policies on your behalf while haemorrhaging support from our own base because they never voted for diet fascism Labour MP reacting to a party to his Left: nO to tHe ComMieS

Total mystery as to how Reform keeps on churning out the worst possible men this country has to offer

It’s uncanny how many on the far right are either women-beaters, pedophiles, rapists or friends of women-beaters, pedophiles and rapists. It’s almost as if it’s a defining characteristic of modern fascism.

“On climate, the hour for collective action has already arrived. The science is here. What we need now is courage – courage scaled to the enormity of the task – so we may gift the next generation not only carbon capture, but a planet worthy of their hopes,”

What a great piece. This also reminds me SO much of the anglophone, very online, ostensibly anti-imperialist/leftist talk at the early stages of Russia's attack on Ukraine, where Ukraine was (very offensively) portrayed as a Western proxy, pushing borders eastward on the US's/NATO's behalf.

This is tech that can actually change things for the better www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

"This is a real problem. Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism." Incredible. Thank you.

A brilliant article that everyone commenting about Iran should read. The Iranian government is not your friend, and never will be, unless you happen to be a clerico-fascist enthusiast of mass torture and mass murder. But weirdly, many in the West who claim to be on the left seem to support it.

shado-mag.com/articles/opi... “Despite the ongoing horrors by ICE, we have yet to see nationwide outrage over Reform’s plans to bring those horrors to the UK.”

If you read the BBC’a coverage of today’s fascist rally in Manchester organised by Britain First you wouldn’t know: 1- that BF is a fascist group 2- that ‘remigration’ is a White supremacist call for ethnic cleansing of non-Whites 3- about ‘remigration’ at all www.bbc.com/news/article...

Maybe now's a good time to point out that manchester's chief constable Stephen Watson grew up in Rhodesia before the colonisers were defeated, and has made a bunch of statements on his opposition to things like Black Lives Matter and had a portrait up in his office of a famously homophobic GMP chief

😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin White supremacist far right activist says “you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts” Tad awkward😬

Watching the livestreams of the fascist march in manchester today and it's pretty disgusting. The greater manchester police have pretty routinely facilitated these fuckers in feeling emboldened for months, targeting asylum hotels in the wider area. Today they're here in numbers to press forward.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I have a valid visa to the US until 2029 but I’m not even considering setting foot there while the American gestapo is running the government www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

Nauseating. Parents are getting scammed into paying huge sums of money to effectively impoverish their own children’s education. Students are having to rely on humans to compensate for the poor quality offered by AI grifters. www.404media.co/students-are...

Jesus

“Every time you kiss me a Nazi dies” Seen in Ferrara

So proud of our brave clients Wendy and Tony who are taking on the first ever climate case in the High Court of Australia! chuffed.org/project/aust...

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

The Canadian government had major knowledge gaps about CCS even as it promised the technology would "drive down our emissions." 🤔 We have the receipts!

⚡️Hungary blocks EU's 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, demanding Russian oil ahead of war anniversary. "We are blocking the €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine until oil transit to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline resumes," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Feb. 20.

Apologies kids enduring a genocide I’m only interested in doing nothing about it

This is such a good piece — not merely about the Washington Post, but a heartbreaking eulogy for the end of the age of literacy www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

The main thing these far right dipshits seem to have in common is a history of violence against women

Normal behaviour

If you write about FIFA’s obscene Gaza plans without mentioning that Israel has systematically destroyed Palestinian football by murdering Palestinian footballers, destroying Palestinian pitches and blocked Palestinian footballers from training or playing, you are part of the problem

The title is extremely dishonest. Gaslighting is the norm.

It could in fact be even higher since the study cannot account for the deaths of entire families, since it relies upon the collection of data from surviving familial members and nearly 12% of the Gaza Ministry of Health's numbers are from total familial destruction.

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

This is great reporting. I particularly like the bit where the NCSC told Simons to stop being silly and to get a life.

Lebanese women still cannot pass on their nationality, but here is Infantino, who is married to a Lebanese woman, getting his Lebanese passport. That’s how easy it can be for any Lebanese woman to have the same rights, but they’re not all lucky to be the FIFA’s president’s wife.

History made in Chattanooga 💥🎆🎉

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I reviewed some of Hillsboro Officer Scott Hanley's memorial service at the far-right Athey Creek Church. A common theme for the speakers, mostly current law enforcement and Pastor Brett Meador, is they brag about their practice of disregarding traffic laws on motorcycles and riding recklessly.

They’re running out of ideas

I guess now’s a good time to remember that the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason described Reform’s September conference as “the most fascinating party conference I have ever been to.” The rot runs deep

I still think about the fact that Mark Fisher could have still been with us had he been given the care he desperately needed instead of his GP only giving him over-the-phone meetings for a potential referral Article from shortly after his suicide www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2206076...

The world order is in good hands, the rising socialist power is uhhhhh going directly after labour organisers and unions in other countries www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Rep. Jan Schakowsky has pulled her Donna Miller endorsement in 2nd Congressional District over AIPAC support. Schakowsky on Thursday told the Sun-Times she “cannot support any candidate running for Congress who is funded by these outside interests.” chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

let's have a spirited international sporting event focused on "purging the billionaires and the fascists and salting the defiled earth from whence they sprang" - we can give out fun prizes