This is genius. If you worry deleting twitter account will release your username and risk impersonation, this clear step-by-step sequence shows how you can move your Twitter name to a new blank account you retain control over while nuking your real account from orbit. Salt that earth friends.

I am literally unable to articulate the depth of contempt I hold the global elite in. They should be pulled from their private jets and paraded through the streets in the clown attire they so richly deserve. We live in an absolute hell world.

Maybe they can send their vaccination budget across the Atlantic to countries that prefer modern public health, then I could afford the shingles vaccine…

Good. Hopefully other conventions and festivals will continue to do the same.

It’s very odd. I was against the war in Afghanistan but - quite unexpectedly - this has left me speechless, gasping with outrage at his cynical, cowardly desecration of the memory of these poor young men.

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

"Homes are for living in, not landlord's portfolios. Energy is for warming those homes, not record dividends. And rivers are for nature and swimming in, not being poisoned to protect profits." Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Remember when variety downplayed Sinners' opening weekend box office, implying it might not make back its money? It has made $370 million since, and now has garnered more Oscar nominations than any movie, ever

The main thing Elon Musk took from us when he bought Twitter was destroying the only customer service platform that corporations will actually answer you on

LLMs are not the way to AGI - and the big guns are finally starting to acknowledge it. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

"Kate, you should use AI to handle your terrible email inbox!" Microsoft Copilot: "Sorry, it looks like I can’t respond to this. Let’s try a different topic. Suggestions: Write a rap song. Show me some cool facts. Teach me a new word!"

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

people often wonder why we have a cost of living crisis some seem to have forgotten Nigel Farage admitting before Brexit that Britain becoming poorer was a reasonable price for leaving the EU

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Please understand what you’re doing with AI if you choose to use it

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

This has been the longest week so far.

Every leaver really was voting for their own imaginary faraway tree Brexit eh.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

Respect to everyone in the US doing the work of turning this moment of mass radicalisation into a long term program of resistance and not simply a demand for the reassertion of the rule of law.

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

Whatever Farage says, remember this tweet

Stephen Miller must be absolutely flummoxed seeing white people stand up for their neighbors. He has never felt that kind of compassion or sense of community in his life. They really thought white people would be cheering for ICE by now.

International treasure Tom Baker turns 92 today and if you’ve never read this famous anecdote, treat yourself 💙💙

apropos of nothing: amazing what the Ukrainians have achieved against the Russian military with relatively cheap, off the shelf drones you can get from like Best Buy

“If people don’t buy our product then we’ll just have to stop making it.” Well yes, that’s how things work.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

What would be really useful is if the good folks at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies dept put on a series of rapid public lectures towards the end of this term, under the heading 'What the f--- is going on?' They'd sell out.

She's just sacked a police chief for believing in the power of AI.

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

The dog is all of us. www.ft.com/content/73c8...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

And yet my son’s school is deploying it with most enthusiastic abandon

We depend on a lot of tech companies which support the Orange Participation Trophy guy. If this troubles you, and you're thinking about how you can avoid using American tech companies, this is worth a read. From @parismarx.com disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

This would not happen in a democracy, which is why, if we are serious about our commitment to it, we must accept we do not currently live in democracies and that moving towards such a system would require radical change rather than faith in the status quo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

Yes!!!

It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.

AI psychosis seems to be caused by interaction a supportive voice that never says no. Never pushes the brakes. Interestingly the super rich experience a similar disassociation. After a certain point, people stop telling you no out of a fear of the power your wealth affords.

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...

Wales is moving closer to political change that could set a global example. Lawmakers are discussing rules that would punish politicians who deliberately lie to the public. The plan focuses on Members of the Senedd & aims to bring real consequences when trust is broken. Scotland should do similar.

As Pratchett said:

This material blow is delivered with brutal efficiency every generation and a half and still all sympathetic credence is given to white grievances over the mere notion of equity.