Trump barely has plans for, or cares about the American general public, let alone the Iranian people, if there was regime change. The public are all just pawns in his big global game of The Apprentice. Where he tries to win big for Trump Inc., take everything you can get, at any cost

This. Is important. There has to be fair deals on AI hoovering up and/or repurposing published content in chatbots answers - or eventually all those publishers will financially die leaving a chasm of AI slop/disinformation...

In big tech AI news...

This is all so depressing. If new tech and platforms have ways of being abused for personal gain, that's exactly what will happen. So it was with gamifying social media engagement, so it now is with AI content scraping & recreation. But where's any responsibility taken by big tech?

All this disruption (& serious issues) caused by AI infused tech now, but is it all justified as part of the process of this technological shift, or just a big flashing beacon telling us big tech are blindly racing ahead with AI for business reasons over any sense of caution over consequences...

Reliving old Soulwax/2 Many DJs mix tapes on Bandcamp, they're so good I forgive them the rogue apostrophe (*that I corrected above)

Jobs posted on LinkedIn that say remote that you then find out half way through the application that they are hybrid, involving an office a long way from your home...

Here's Colbert's interview with Talarico, not on the Carr-controlled, Trump-tainted airwaves but in the free air of the internet. As I post this, 500k have watched. Let's make sure more people see it on YouTube than TV. Call that the Carr Effect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Great game in store, India v Pakistan, but sas and depressing the captains wouldn't shake hands at the toss. What message does that send to their fans, children in their countries, the world? Such a simple gesture, turned into a very negative message Great tournament so far though #T20 #cricket

“We don’t have a grasp of what AI does to people’s psychology, what it does to them sociologically…” AI researcher Zoe Hitzig explains why she resigned from OpenAI #Newsnight

Unbelievable. "Donald Trump has reversed a scientific ruling that says pollution is harmful to public health and the environment" Trump by far the biggest danger to American health. Do some people genuinely not care about the future if they know they'll not be here to suffer any consequences?

You've got red on you...it may be on constantly across the streamingverse but it's still a brilliant film

What's with the clunky looking new Alexa logo?

Re Epstein et al. What if a group of rich, powerful people were to be nice and actually care about the general public and do something positive with their time and wealth?

The Winter Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good action.greenpeace.org.uk/drop-oil-gas...

🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full 👇

Imagine if the climate crisis was even still newsworthy (by that I mean it can't and or isn't even getting any headlines right now). Our government certainly isn't treating it as any sort of public priority, meanwhile the effects of the changing climate are being felt daily...

At a time of global, national and personal upheaval, it is very comforting to hear there is a new Muppet Show to watch...

Al Cairns or AI Cairns? I've never heard of either, so I can't say who might worry me the most

2013: Bezos: "feel free to cover Amazon any way you want, feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.” 4 Feb 2026, WAPO lays off 300 including the Amazon reporter

This just in on self styled oddball non-elite UK political leader hopeful

hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

A great resource and starting point for sports on Bluesky with starter packs... Hoping someone in the UK can do a similar job for British sport...📯 if there's enough traction? cc @estherkeziat.bsky.social @chrissutcliffe.bsky.social?

It was the United States that chose to scale down it’s military presence in Greenland in past decades. #FactsMatter

Just finished writing my leaving email for work. 23 years in local news media, half website editing, half product managing, distilled down into a few paragraphs. It's been a pleasure to be part of the professional journalistic media world, and if this is the end, then it was an enjoyable honour🫡🗞️

So a police force is now facing huge embarrassment for taking the word of an AI tool that fabricated a football match. Several issues here, but one key to-do list item for every business/organisation... richardkendall.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/n... or LI: www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

Happy New Year!! Snowy scenes on the morning run. Now time to find a new job...

Bubble looking good, guys. Looking real good.

Fog along the rowing course, Thorpe Meadows, Peterborough. A morning run view #morningrun

Well, that’s a bit embarrassing. www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Understanding Trump

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

The AI Slopification of the Internet continues - if people can abuse new tech for quick gains. They will. And so we'll all pay the price... how will people ever find anything out factually online in future, after the greedy duelling tech bros ruin everything?

To be fair, most of the human written ones were slop as well. Finding genuine authorative sources for just about anything on the internet has become more and more frustrating and time consuming, although AI is kicking that phenomenon into hyper drive.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

Re. #TheAshes Crawley as Test opener is BazBall personified, capable of great things+ of great failures. Main point for Crawley and the current leadership is, whilst we are going to lose games, and throw away good positions, comes down to this: are England winning enough series and/or big games...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

#TheAshes day1. Big twist: Panesar in final England XI @wisdencricket.bsky.social @tmsproducer.bsky.social @finalwordcricket.bsky.social

Having a lot of eggs in one basket isn't necessarily a great plan when it goes wrong. It can go really really wrong #Cloudflare (*not saying Cf is a bad service!)

Imagine being so mad about a broadcaster publishing a badly edited documentary about you, but waiting over a year, and until someone else mentioned it, before threatening to sue... in order to assert your bigly power over media coverage

Climate change is real, UK is committed to action... "Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...

2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now richardkendall.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/2...

“When the use is this concentrated — a.k.a tens of thousands of videos from one creator — it feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent," said progressive YouTuber David Pakman. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...

Who knew. The Web, built on links

I mean, who knew.... oh everyone

"the price rises Trump is so worried about will be dwarfed by those from crop failures and extreme weather if climate action is not taken seriously" - King Apprentice Trump is the biggest threat to all our futures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Working blog post title: The gamification of school homework apps

"OpenAI also announced the formation of a council on “well-being and AI” to help shape OpenAI’s response to “complex or sensitive” scenarios..." Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...

I think we've hit peak ladybird infestation. Presuming a seasonal/temperature related migration? They love our youngest's bedroom window, warmest part of the house, so having to regularly shepherd a group out😬🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞