White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

People who said the Online Safety Bill was too big, or warned about the danger of scope creep, were too often dismissed as "not caring about child abuse", or "giving criminals a safe space online", or simply as paranoid or "privacy extremists". Well, I've got news for you. 1/n

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

NSW flood victims' personal details loaded to ChatGPT in major data breach www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The Tory strategy seems to be “let’s pretend we are even more unpleasant than Reform”. Apart from that fact it won’t work, it’s pathetic to watch this insincere, hollow posturing. Imagine living in that sort of head. Reform will be beaten from the centre, or not at all.

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations. Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

We think the UK government should ensure that policy on management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals. That's why we signed and shared this petition. Please join us. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

#gardenersworld It’s the patronising Frances. An episode for catchup and fast forward.

This is awful. Just awful.

We here too bsky.app/profile/oliv...

If the government were really concerned about (unauthorised) workers being exploited they'd be a lot more serious about enforcing minimum wage and equal pay laws for everyone.

Here is a corrected version - currently working on fixing the unofficial mirror bot code to include the fix

Adviser to UK minister claimed AI firms would never have to compensate creatives www.theguardian.com/technology/2... UK Government consultation on AI and copyright (outcome pending) www.gov.uk/government/c... #AIBill #genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy

Cloudflare is offering free access to its Project Galileo AI scraper blocker for independent media and nonprofits www.cloudflare.com/press/press-...

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

It’s much colder here than in the forecast. I’m worried about my tender plants that are not tucked away yet. They don’t normally get put away or fleeced for another month. 🌱

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Flags news: The UK government formally recognised the state of Palestine today. That means the Palestine flag unambiguously qualifies as "any country’s national flag, civil ensign or civil air ensign" in English planning law and can be flown without permission subject to the standard conditions.

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

How something can be both shocking yet also not surprising in the least www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well, that was easy, and I’m €120 a year up on the deal.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

file under "you couldn't make it up": A former head of the Institute of Directors has been banned from acting as a company director for 11 years for abusing a pandemic-era business loan scheme on.ft.com/42wtT0P

We cooperated with RTE PrimeTime over the last year on this very significant story about RTB data exposing the movements of Irish people, including military and political personnel. Link to this morning's preview piece is here --> www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

as a free speech champion, Trump will hate these arrests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

In honour of the Orange Felon's visit. Posting as Janey is no longer here to do it.

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

Epstein: Vicky Ward in her articles + podcasts (Chasing Ghislaine) revealed Epstein’s links to arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese & his son Nick. This Times article describes how they eased him into establishment circles by members of Oxford’s infamous Bullingdon Club, including his eldest son, Nick.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

You can still share your actual thoughts on Signal without getting fired, just FYI. Whatever those might be.

i'm writing a feature for a major US outlet & i'd like to interview people who: - are dem voters - feared the worst of trump from early on - felt frustrated/dismissed/ like those fears weren't listened to reply/DM me

From yesterday: How to access old versions of Home Office guidance and identify any changes | Sonia Lenegan

This weeks post: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/key-... Why empirical academic research and experience in other countries suggests it is a bad idea for social democratic parties to try and ape the populist right.

This is a good analysis, I think. Notwithstanding the general trash fire, there are some poor decisions being made in US tech policy around AI (and also crypto) that the UK is choosing to lock itself into by taking this C20th view of progress

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

I decided to test whether EXIF data is removed from images sent over X's new encrypted chat feature like Signal and other messengers do. I can confirm it is not. I was able to extract information including GPS coordinates from a test image sent to me.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

🚨 Baby dies of whooping cough as childhood vaccinations fall www.thetimes.com/article/196a...

📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.

“Although Microsoft is used up and down the UK by police and law enforcement bodies, so far only SPA – and now Police Scotland – have asked the important questions: Where does our data go? Do you have a map or data flow model? What assurances can you give us around our regulatory DPA Part 3 needs?"