It’s not that hard, really. Stop chasing the Reform voters by being nastier and nastier to immigrants is the starting point.

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Our A2 science team similarly had to simulate views for months to prepare the crew for shots like this. The beautiful point imho is that humans on crewed AND robotic missions are taking time to capture the wonder along with the baseline data.

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Undefeated bsky.app/profile/loui...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

So exhausting. Public so-called intellectuals who correctly critiqued liberal technocracy as at times paralysed by the complexity of problems or obsessed with creating even more complex solutions... ... and then convinced themselves the solution was amoral blowhards who reject complexity entirely.

This is all good and well but does it work on congressmen?

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says Europe cannot expand its role in the Strait of Hormuz while dealing with Russia’s war against Ukraine. She notes Gulf states have not supported efforts against Moscow and stresses cooperation cannot be a one-way street. #EU

Can’t say I’m happy with this personal attack on me in the current Viz. Uncalled for

He's a fucking genocidal madman and anyone who doesnt try to remove him from office bears responsibility for what he does in future.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

Very well worth a read.

It’s not a ceasefire if the killing continues on one side. Mass atrocities are being carried out by Netanyahu in Lebanon with U.S. backing. (1/3)

Israel destroying entire villages in Lebanon. Please read that again until it sinks in. Taybeh, Naqourah, Aita al-Shaab.

"Four crew members. One spacecraft. One global team." 🌍 From Mission Control’s Mission Evaluation Room, international experts such as @esa.int's Luca Fossati support the European Service Module - supplying Orion with propulsion, power, air and water for Artemis II (📽️NASA) @exploration.esa.int

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

I’ve been really appreciating all of @swapnakrishna.com’s insights on the #Artemis II mission — I definitely recommend following her and reading/watching all her coverage!

That Board of Peace has been very quiet lately.

"Putin won't stop at Donbas; he'll target Dnipro and Kharkiv next. We must admit that some Americans think Donbas means nothing to us. They fail to see that Putin will lie and continue the occupation even after such steps." - Zelenskyy on Alastair Campbell's podcast. linktr.ee/restispolitics

This is the good shit.

“Is your background in corporate incompetence transferable to public sector incompetence?” From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Important piece on the uncritical and credulous embrace of AI by the UK government. It's been immensely frustrating watching this happen. They seem to be in thrall to the hype of tech CEOs and boosterists, with no sceptical voices to moderate it. www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

The Iran Crisis. America’s current position:

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network” emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

The AI Overview actively gets things wrong about me and my career, how can I trust it with things I don't already know about

We are outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations. Read more: ms.spr.ly/63322QNhSA

From today, for thousands of couples and families staying together in the UK just got even more expensive. Visa fees are rising again — quietly wrecking lives. We know that around 60–70% of many visa fees are profit This is not cost recovery, it is excessive charging at the expense of families💔

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

A leaked exchange suggests Sergey Lavrov coordinated with Hungary’s foreign minister Szijjarto to block Ukraine’s EU accession talks, discussing minority rights wording as a key lever in negotiations. The interaction points to alignment between Moscow and Budapest on slowing Kyiv’s EU path. #Hungary

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

Another astounding epic photo from the dark side of the Moon - just released by NASA.

Just gorgeous images to look at on the NASA Johnson Flickr this morning www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Vance's endorsement of Orban is an endorsement of Putin. It's not just that Trump's America is no longer our ally, it is rapidly becoming our enemy

Jaw.

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Because the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, if you build your habitat on some plot of near-side regolith you can put the little Earth anywhere in the sky you want & it’ll stay there, lazily meandering around just a little as the Moon wobbles in its orbit. A view of Earthset from #Artemis II.

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

A real turning point was encountering work from @neilcohn.bsky.social which gave a language for something I’d been intuitively sensing but couldn’t articulate. Panels function like grammatical units in a sentence, which influenced how I looked at comics and how we designed the AMR graphic novel

"Young people leave school knowing little about the story of Wales". Article in the Western Mail by myself and David Eagan calling for a new approach to Welsh history in the Curriculum for Wales. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

Today, humans will fly around the moon. So let's take a look at what they saw as they left our planet. It's… a lot. And it's amazing. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/view-from-... 🔭 🧪 🚀 🌔 🌍