The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

“The Baltics think they’re first.”

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

You have to be fucking kidding me...

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

Welcome to the world of modern elite sport.

So Larry Ellison is handed TikTok US giving another Trump aligned billionaire controls of another social media platform.

TNT Sports will have only a small % of viewers as the BBC would. It’s a shame, and simply stops the next generation of viewers from getting into the sport.

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

Fascinating conversation today with a staff member at one of the big high street banks. Where she explained that they are a fully digital bank now, which is why they can’t do much in branch. Essentially in branch operations are regulated and need weekly staff training and testing.

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.

The ability to have a market pause between Friday and Monday was a key means through which governments could contain financial market crises before things got out of control

Okay, when are we going to answer back? Push back? Fight back? Anything? Because our way of life and society-building institutions are under attack from outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some countries are heading into a reverse Enlightenment. An age of bullshit, irrationality, and idiocy. The US is rushing headlong to the cliff edge while the UK is just eroding it's capacity by ignoring the obvious crisis in the research sector

Once a government gets a taste for censorship, it tends not to stop. www.ft.com/content/0ef7...

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

All the photography in this week's Economist Britain section is by Martin Parr

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’ The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

“a denial of the country’s challenges” good old Frosty.

It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

You don’t need immunity if you did nothing wrong.

BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:

If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control: Paramount Studios CBS CNN MTV HBO Comedy Central Nickelodeon Cartoon Network Warner Bros. DC Studios Fandango New Line Cinema TNT Sports TBS Oracle And more.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

🧾 ICYMI: Another example of Big Tech co-opting the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to launder their talking points, and whitewash the damage Meta and TikTok products are causing to a generation of children and teens. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/...

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

free speech news

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Two thirds of Reform donations come from donors resident overseas or with offshore interests overseas - astonishing story by @catneilan.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...

As Trump and Infantino work the red carpet, bragging about setting records for ticket prices. (video below) Lets break down what “record prices" really mean for football fans and host countries. An important thread. 1/10

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

The fact that everyone *including news media* is always talking about the news in terms of political strategy, palace intrigue, and their own posturing, leads to a culture of treating every issue politics touches as just another pro sport

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

I stupidly thought that FIFA had restored itself to a professional organisation after the Blatter era. Oh dear.

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!