putting how useless Kezia is signalling she’s going to be in charge of Stonewall, it’s wild for The Guardian to describe the charity losing half its income for supporting trans rights as if it was something that happened organically and not as part of a massive hate campaign they took part in

I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.

"I have huge respect for the genocidaires, and think we need to listen with kindness to their very genuine concerns"

You misspelled “human trafficking”

anyway this is a pretty interesting little nugget, is it not? transphobic politicians conspiring with friendly journalists to attack political opponents? you'd have been called a conspiracy theorist if you suggested this was obviously going on

Of course we are, and it’s a global movement. We’ve spent the last ten years whistling past the graveyard because a particular type of Sensible Moderate thought they could ride the far right wave and turn it to their advantage. I think we have now proven beyond all doubt that they can’t do that.

my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does

JK Rowling: drastic timesss call for drasstic meassuress Rowling: there's only one way to rekindle interest in harry potter Rowling hello children Rowling: would you like to go on a nice train ride

They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?" Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.

You Do Not Hate Congress Enough

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

Yes Starmer was given bad advice by the likes of McSweeney, but he was also given good advice by others not to touch Mandelson with a barge pole. Starmer's judgement in going with all those pushing for his appointment is the only thing that matters in this story

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”. AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”. 🙃

Sometimes a thing doesn't make sense, and one should keep looking until it makes sense. Would be literally incredible for a senior civil servant to overturn a vetting decision without ministerial approval - or a paper trail. This is inherently the most unlikely of all possible scenarios. Odd.

How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

I, for one, long for Soviet tanks to roll into Bsky HQ. They will be greeted as liberators.

Asking the forbidden question

This is why Members of Parliament were right to take the ultimate decision on non-disclosure of the Mandelson papers for “national security“ reasons out of the hands of the Prime Minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I love that the counter-argument to "guys this isn't because it's vibe coded" is implicitly "it's because we're incompetent"

Perfect.

I don’t disagree that Vlad is crazy and very scary. But “cut welfare to pay for missiles” is startlingly specific isn’t it, particularly when it’s coming from the political faction who are *very* enthusiastic about both cutting benefits and giving the Americans lots of money for goods and services.

i was gonna phrase it as: if you brag about your new monkey-centric production strategy, and the first thing I get sent is a box full of shit, i am certainly going to blame the monkeys

It’s important to understand that the plan was always to bullshit and continue strangling the Palestinians until The Day Of Reckoning came, when the IDF could finally just destroy the Palestinians. And that politicians across the white people world fully understood that this was the plan.

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

We are at the very stupid stage of the AI bubble where investors and boards are demanding every company on earth announce an AI strategy immediately and without the slightest bit of thought.

Well...

the conservative obsession with children's genitals now extended to wanting to breed teenage girls tell me why democrats stopped calling these weirdos weird

Yeah, we can’t afford to do anything ever now because (rolls d6) Russian (rolls d10, consults table) transgender (rolls d100) small boats, will give you (d10) exploding (d100) bum diseases

nuremberg 2.0 needs to end with the assets of all those guards seized and handed over to their victims

More higher ed discourse like this please

It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock. But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic. No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar. It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

Games Workshop has always known the same thing the writers of Star Trek knew: if you include just a little bit for the horny weirdo, they'll spend thousands on your merchandise. This is something George Lucas only did by accident, because he doesn't really know about sex

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

Russia’s war of aggression and the war in the Middle East, which is presumably just one of those weird things that happen sometimes. A war of progression? “War of recession” might at least be somewhat accurate.

'I vigorously dispute that I asked the so-called Equality and Human Rights Commission not to totally do trans people over' is quite the message from a Labour Party that has completely lost the plot.

Precisely this. In a world of endless layoffs, "zero-hours", "gig" pseudo-jobs, a benefits system which always says "no", constantly rising rents for everything, and nobody able to even imagine retiring, you need to be doing extremely well to feel any basic sense of safety.

people will never feel like the economy is good when they can see complete ruin as a realistic possibility in their immediate future, even from a fairly secure present.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

Yes, look, maybe if the armed forces had spent less money on aircraft carriers and unusable vibrating APCs, they wouldn’t be in this mess. I suggest they try taking responsibility, cutting down on the avocado toast and living within their means, like adults.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

I'm sure the Met will be bashing in the doors of local farmers' meetings any minute now, upon hearing that a "disruptive" protest might be being discussed.

I don't think anything more usefully summarises the UK than seeing the "left wing" government kick the fuck out of one of the few genuinely successful export sectors of the last ten years because racist pensioners who will never vote for them don't like foreigners.