such a great ep

Meta facing new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after investigation by Swedish newspaper found workers at Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using toilet:

Can't recall many times where a stadium was so loud that the endzone camera was shaking at the snap

This is Tom Brady's true legacy

"There is a perversity to its very existence as an economic good: water falls from the sky, for free, and its daily availability is crucial to human survival, yet it is everywhere subject to the convolutions of political economy." @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social on Thames Water and the politics of water

The Bears didn’t punt 10 offensive drives 3 touchdowns 3 field goals 4 failed 4th downs

Lloyds Bank CEO latest banking boss in line for huge pay and bonus hike to £13m. Last year Barclays boss got 45% rise, HSBC 43%, NatWest 43%. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

“The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.”

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Lucinda Cowell, Hepcat Carolers, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1983

Brian Zick, for Paper Moon Graphics, 1980’s

new record. plz add me. Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 48 books I read in 2025! www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

who could have guessed it, there's no money to be made in capturing carbon

brosmer, buddy.

incredible quote lol

BIG WORD WEDNESDAY

Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry. Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market” 72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.

Ideological capture when the left do it: You're forced to attend a Zoom call once a year to tell you why you should be nice to a demographic you think are weird Ideological capture when the right do it: you collude with an organised group to push an agenda over the course of time that harms people.

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today. www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

really awesome episode

People who rarely interact with anyone even resembling an average skilled worker claim some bullshit

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

Top 10% by income now getting half of all consumption

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

From “don’t be evil” to abetting a genocide for profit: that’s what it means to be “googley” today.

High street slot machine shops, owned by Merkur, are paying their staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose. Companies chase profits by spreading misery, exploiting vulnerable people Gambling Commission must shut down these parasites.

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

This whole section really.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

This is the point I am constantly repeating, and that AI booster seek to obscure; every single “ability” demonstrated by an LLM is there because humans already put enough examples of it online.

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Athletic Club Bilbao hosted Palestinian refugees at San Mames Stadium in a moving tribute followed by a standing ovation.

such a good episode

This sweeping discussion is focused on the US, but there's so much that's directly relevant to the UK's dysfunctional political economy. Covers so much ill have to listen twice I think.

NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption. Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups. Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/ www.ft.com/content/d101...

If you work for the Labour Party and have just enough of a human soul left in you to be embarrassed by this then you should simply quit your job and state publicly your reasons for doing so rather than engaging in anonymous but salaried whinging about how people - rightly! - do not like you anymore

They started talking about mortality at one point and it was GOOD for the energy in the booth.

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments. Government response? Stop the taxis.

🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Far right discourse is already the norm in the UK. Here is Nick Robinson trying to find a middle ground with people who have called for the death of asylum seekers while making no mention - not once - of the 1000 or so people arrested for supporting Palestine Action. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good chance of Israel being suspended from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) this week. This move would have devastating implications for Israeli football, and would be the most significant move of cultural sanction against Israel in decades.

Chiefs have lost 3 games in past 18 seasons when allowing fewer than 220 yards: 20-17 vs Eagles, today 20-14 vs #Raiders, Christmas 2023 13-10 vs Raiders, 9/20/2009

Israel’s three largest arms corporations, which all supply the Israeli military, have been allowed by the UK government to exhibit at the DSEI London arms fair in September: 🇮🇱 Elbit Systems 🇮🇱 Israel Aerospace Industries 🇮🇱 Rafael caat.org.uk/data/arms-fa...