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These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers

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.

3rd March 2026 18.08

War is such a massive pain in the arse.

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.

Probably shouldn’t have had Claude doing the targeting, then.

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

The political death wish of the current Labour leadership is quite something to behold

1st March 2026 07.02

Going off the “war room” photos, I couldn’t tell which Supreme Leader is meant to be dead.

26th February 2026 06.48

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...

Is your disco mbobulated? Would you like us to assign someone etc Cosmic and joyful #HenOgledd youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?...

Every day another reason to loathe “AI”

"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

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...

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.

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 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

22nd February 2026 07.21

Starmer’s real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmer’s challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isn’t the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...

"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 theletter.co.uk/rafael-anton...

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.

"Fascinating stuff. Musically it’s 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...

OpenAI ”acknowledged 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 industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

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...

Technically sunshine

14th February 2026 07.41

This week’s soul salve: Points of Inaccessibility by @blackknoll.bsky.social and Kin by KMRU

You just have to watch this. Microtonal guitars, looper pedals and it sounds like it's from another dimension. All live! youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?...

☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️ What more do you need to know?

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...

Really enjoyable Bandcamp listening party for the superb new album from @blackknoll.bsky.social

I'd buy an "uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerist" T shirt. Several, actually

McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.

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??

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Here's hoping...

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...

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

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.

Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot

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.

If you’re 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

31st January 2026 09.41

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.

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. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Anna Von Hausswolff at Electric Brixton: supernaturally good vocals, haunting songs, and squalls of sax. Plus a pipe organ on a stick…