🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…

The Green Party say they will not stand in the Clacton by-election either. Zack Polanski: "This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him. Greens will play no part in his political circus"

Honestly I could see a possible loss for Farage here. Even if he wins, I hope to God that the standards committee investigation is just waiting ready for as soon as he is in. This, and we're going to win the world cup

I've been a critic of Nigel Farage but he makes a good point. Listening to this 30min rant, I've now realised Nigel is literally the most persecuted guy to ever live. Such a hero putting up with everything he's put up with. #SorryNige

Grateful to the Telegraph for providing the definitive answer to its own question, albeit in quite small letters.

Intrigued to hear Danny Kruger, of Reform UK, tell Any Questions that universities need to "change their business model". What would he suggest? Selling crypto? Acting as "brand ambassadors" for Direct Bullion? Recording videos saying "Up the Ra"? Or getting a billionaire to chuck us £5 million?

Woke 2.0 is caring about Affordability ( this is a direct entailment of William of Ockham's nominalism, a doctrine responsible for 75 billion deaths ) / sarcasm

As an adoptee, my earliest understandings of banal evil were caused by encountering the ways people were "just following orders [laws/rules]" whilst simultaneously experiencing the pain/consequences of unjust and poorly thought through laws. Interesting watching the state apologise now.

Musk is effectively approving the murder of Jo Cox here

Honestly wild that one can dedicate one's life to education and public service but still get this treatment from Goodwin et al. I mean, like, I get it, I get how racism works. Whole point is making judgements independent of what you do or are like; content of your character! But still, wild to see.

My favourite saying of Jesus: ( If you needed more evidence these "Christians" are just cosplaying in Temu outfits )

This is a funny way of saying "Trump is so corrupt and evil that Nixon seems like an angel in comparison."

Climate breakdown is here. We must double down on efforts to decarbonise but that's not enough. We need new rights at work to protect us from climate danger - failing to act now will endanger workers' lives and cost our health service dearly.

Expanding ULEZ London-wide was even more important than we previously thought. Action on air pollution has been life-saving.

📣New interiew📣 'Men like Trump, Musk, and Thiel are overwhelmingly anxious about not only “white death” but also about their own mortality' @hannamorris.bsky.social discusses the rise of apocalyptic authoritarianism. reacpol.net/apocalyptic-...

Starmer hate is unjustified. He had a very difficult job, he navigated several complex issues without making things much worse - which could easily have happened - in very difficult circumstances. I hope what comes next is better. I am grateful for his service to the country.

Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon Musk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack. Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.

Speaking as someone brought up as Catholic, Liverpool*, Labour and served on the altar this resonated. Burnham's politics will be deeply communitarian and invested in ordinary lives. Ethos rather than ideology. *Quirky family reason for LFC not EFC. www.thetimes.com/article/5d9c...

New blog post from me. Behaviourism is Cool and Doesn't Make you a P-Zombie. open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

Conspirituality pod mentioned the "Friar" Calvin Robinson the other day. What you missed is that these people are TRANSPARENTLY grifters. Robinson seems to have first tried a career as a substitute teacher, which he failed at. He THEN got into media by promoting Crypto Scams...

I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…

OTD in 1940, Nazi troops entered Paris. A reminder that we must always oppose and stop evil before it grows.

Flagrantly bisexual lighting.

Talking to Gemini. I think this accurately captures my views of LLM's and their status

"It's like watching a train crash. Deliberately targeting the poorest and most amateur investors and locking them in until the top of the ponzi scheme can get out. And unlike 2008, everyone can see this happening." #$SPCX www.patreon.com/BindingChaos...

Bud Light branding is on display for the White House UFC match.

I for one think it’s not good that an open eugenicist ketamine addicted dipshit robber baron criminal is now worth over a trillion dollars

Behaviourism is cool and doesn't make everyone a P-Zombie open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

“There has unquestionably been a huge increase in immigration over the last two decades, and it has made Britain far more diverse than it was. Yet by any measure you pick, violence in Britain has plummeted over that same period.“ zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...

6000 sexual deepfakes per hour powered by gas. What a glorious future we live in! globalnews.ca/news/1189968...

2026 is likely to see the lowest level of immigration since Blair took office, this has in no way influenced the idea the government has "lost control of immigration."

Am I the last remaining behaviourist? Where are my other behaviourists at?

Ive felt worsening depression at the onslaught of madness since Trump won the 2024 election. It's been like watching an inevitable slide into madness as everything true and good and socially cohesive that remained has crumbled and been turned into content that can be sold on tech platforms.

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It’s good — essential even — to marginalize wrong and bad ideas. The way we get out of this is by pointing out how stupid and evil these inbred troglodytes are, not by feeding their ass-backwards superiority complex.

Republicans in government are only interested in content creation. Literally nothing else is on their agenda.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.

Every single ghoul and gremlin in UK/US politics crawling out of the woodwork, desperate to gloat about images of violence whilst saying DANGEROUS, ridiculous justifications for violent acts. Smikring whilst shouting "civil war". We have a mental health/epistemic crisis on our hands.

At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country. The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Going to start a protein-enriched hummus company called Manpeas.

"Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking."

logicmatters.net now points to a new, minimalist, GitHub-hosted static site. Oh what nerdy fun migrating from a bloated Wordpress version (with more than a little help from my friend Claude). I hope note too many links have got broken in the transition -- let me know about annoying cases!

Bad times

Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability. We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper. 🧵1/10

This story is quite far down the running orders tonight for some reason. Starmer might want to mention what an affront to British decency this is too www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...