Peter Marshall
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Randonneur, Russianist, retired. Mostly human
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Revealed: UKâs multibillion AI drive is built on âphantom investmentsâ
Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmerâs push to âmainline AI into veins of economyâ
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments
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Rob Delaney
4 days ago
These are the 4 things AI can do well: â˘Clean up your email inbox (badly) â˘Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party â˘Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself â˘Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it
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Dorian Lynskey
5 days ago
The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers
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Tim Onion
5 days ago
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
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SeaWindowCraster
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Stephen Collins
7 days ago
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Reality check âŚ
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/mar/03/expat-dubai-startling-revelation-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
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Phil Harrison
8 days ago
War is such a massive pain in the arse.
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Ron Hogan
9 days ago
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is the kind of film that can restore your faith in cinema *and* make you laugh non-stop. Come for the costumed mascots, stay for the Karel Zeman aesthetic and Buster Keaton jokes.
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John Rogers
8 days ago
Probably shouldnât have had Claude doing the targeting, then.
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Better Things Are Possible
9 days ago
Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke
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The political death wish of the current Labour leadership is quite something to behold
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SeaWindowCraster
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1st March 2026 07.02
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
10 days ago
Going off the âwar roomâ photos, I couldnât tell which Supreme Leader is meant to be dead.
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SeaWindowCraster
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26th February 2026 06.48
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Meduza in English
13 days ago
Journalists have unearthed a scientific paper trail connecting the rare toxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to Russian labs implicated in the 2020 attempt on his life.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Scientific paper trail links the neurotoxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to the same Russian labs implicated in 2020 Novichok attack â Meduza
The same Moscow-based research center linked to Alexey Navalnyâs 2020 poisoning â SC Signal â also played a role in synthesizing the toxin that killed the opposition leader, according to theâŚ
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/25/scientific-paper-trail-links-the-neurotoxin-used-to-kill-alexey-navalny-to-the-same-russian-labs-implicated-in-2020-novichok-attack
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Jared mumbles into the void
14 days ago
Is your disco mbobulated? Would you like us to assign someone etc Cosmic and joyful
#HenOgledd
youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?...
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Hen Ogledd - End of the rhythm (Official Video)
YouTube video by Hen Ogledd
https://youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?si=iIGgE6hccQLZCofu
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Every day another reason to loathe âAIâ
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Adam Bienkov
15 days ago
"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries
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George Monbiot
15 days ago
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of Xâs feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to Xâs algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
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Ian Dunt
15 days ago
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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Jonathan Portes
16 days ago
This is entirely correct. It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people Not too late for government to change course
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SeaWindowCraster
16 days ago
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Chris Grey
18 days ago
Starmerâs real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmerâs challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isnât the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...
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Klang Signals
19 days ago
"each track feels monumental in scale, sweeping, monolithically, across our eye-line in slow motion. Like a wall of sound built from orchestral drones... a powerful and cathartic listen" Rafael Anton Irisarri's
@blackknoll.bsky.social
album reviewed by
@doepud.co.uk
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Rafael Anton Irisarri - Points Of Inaccessibility
Music where memory and meaning collide
https://theletter.co.uk/rafael-anton-irisarri-points-of-inaccessibility
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General Boles
19 days ago
The worst thing about being arrested on your birthday is it rules out the possibility of getting a cake with a file in it for another 364 days.
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Klang Signals
24 days ago
"Fascinating stuff. Musically itâs vast, great big slabs of mournful sound, like huge monoliths crashing into each other." Review of Rafael Anton Irisarri
@blackknoll.bsky.social
new album in this week's
@moonbuilding.bsky.social
substack.
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-95-1...
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Issue 95 / 13 February 2026
The essential DIY electronic music lowdown: Track Of The Week: Haiku Salut & Meg Morley + Album Of The Week: Conflux Coldwell + Voka Gentle + Phexioenesystems + The Odes + Harry Christelis + more...
https://moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-95-13-february-2026
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Paris Marx
23 days ago
OpenAI âacknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industryâs leading companies.â You canât trust chatbots.
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
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Tom Scott
23 days ago
I can remember a time when a political party celebrating the launch of a book on how to launder money, written by a convicted fraudster who is also a long-term aide to the party leader, would have been seen as a rather large (& bizarre) red flag.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book
Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/14/reform-uk-figures-attend-book-launch-how-to-launder-money
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Technically sunshine
23 days ago
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SeaWindowCraster
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This weekâs soul salve: Points of Inaccessibility by
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and Kin by KMRU
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Alex M
26 days ago
You just have to watch this. Microtonal guitars, looper pedals and it sounds like it's from another dimension. All live!
youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?...
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Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
https://youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?si=ZaizzS-dW6Viw171
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Carol Hedges
27 days ago
âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸ What more do you need to know?
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Russ Jones
26 days ago
Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration. tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats. (I'm not trying to make friends)
open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
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The Indisputable Maths of Migration
How Demography, Not Dinghies, Will Decide Britainâs Future
https://open.substack.com/pub/russincheshire/p/the-indisputable-maths-of-migration?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=z1ogq
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Really enjoyable Bandcamp listening party for the superb new album from
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28 days ago
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I'd buy an "uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerist" T shirt. Several, actually
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Ian Dunt
30 days ago
McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.
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Phil Harrison
30 days ago
I feel like we need to evolve beyond our constant valourising of the political 'dark arts'. From Mandelson, through Cummings, onto McSweeney, these people offer nothing but cynicism and calculation and moral compromise. We should probably try something else??
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Scoutprime
about 1 month ago
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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Here's hoping...
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Ian Dunt
about 1 month ago
Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door
iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
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Postcard From The Past
about 1 month ago
I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
about 1 month ago
Maybe the problem here, Keir, is that when people vote for a left-wing party promising "change" after a decade of increasing right-wing incompetence and corruption, they expect a left-wing party delivering change.
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Stanley Pignal
about 1 month ago
Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot
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Ryan Mac đ
about 1 month ago
That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
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Anonymous
about 1 month ago
If youâre exploring non-US search engines: DuckDuckGo is American too. Ecosia is German but built on U.S. crawlers. Mojeek is British with its own crawler. Fireball adds another German crawler to the mix. There are more options. Indie search is bigger than people think.
#EndOligarchy
#Trump
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SeaWindowCraster
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James Chapman
about 1 month ago
Epic stuff from Anna von Hausswolff at Electric Brixton tonight. Shades of PJ Harvey and Susanne Sundfor but essentially her own thing. Her voice is a weapon. Highly recommend checking out her latest album Iconoclasts.
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Bruce Springsteen
about 1 month ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itâs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Anna Von Hausswolff at Electric Brixton: supernaturally good vocals, haunting songs, and squalls of sax. Plus a pipe organ on a stickâŚ
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