Rare exception to Betteridge’s law of headlines/posts.

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This story combined with the fact that cryptocurrency is a key weapon of the Trump crime family should convince anyone of a simple truth - crypto is poison

At what point does losing 77 billion dollars impact a business? The global box office for all movies, put together, in total, all movies everywhere in 2025 was 33.5 billion dollars. He lost more than double that on “legs”

The problem with this is even if called out on it they'll about concede to "I was wrong" but never admit that the position was unsustainable when they adopted it.

I need to tell you about the solo careers of Paul Simon and toast.

If it's Cary Grant's birthday, it must surely be time for me to post the "puppy in the jacket pocket" picture again. Be rude not to, really.

'A crucial innovation lay in the invention of ‘timelines’ (...) In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably the world’s first modern timeline.' aeon.co/essays/when-...

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Whoa whoa whoa buddy who is this Jesus Christ you’re expecting me to emulate and what exactly did you say happened to him.

This *should*, in a sane world, be a resigning matter. A national scandal, all over the front pages. EQUALITY CHIEF MEETS WITH HEAD OF HATE GROUP and so on. The fact that this won’t happen simply demonstrates how catastrophically far we’ve fallen. I’m so very, very tired.

TFW u can't count Again, the use case is that you need to make a decision and you are very stupid

I used to not fully understand why they were still, in the 2000s, dragging suspected Nazi camp guards out of their homes and into court, but I sure as hell do now.

I've never had a Spotify account, now it seems I never will. Like genAI, their mission is to reduce the value of creativity so far that the only way to make money from it is to sell it on a mass basis for micro money, ensuring that only a tiny number of artists can ever make money from their work.

Was he wrong though?

This notion of 'politics as drama or entertainment', and then the chase for audience numbers, rather than 'how our society is structured' is where things went wrong at the BBC.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

The owners of the UK media have a vested interest in elevating Farage to power, at which point we know he will demolish the country's remaining institutions, stripmine its infrastructure and brutalize its citizens. The current government is laying the groundwork for that destruction.

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

The faux formality of ‘accepts’ is unforgivable sanewashing of what is actually an embarrassing and abject pantomime from both Machado and Trump

This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.

As Chas made ever more obscene gestures from the ground in front of his steamroller, something inside Morph finally snapped...

WWF raising the alarm over the extent to which climate impacts could make swathes of the global economy uninsurable. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524226...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Subeditor at the Indie: Boss, where should I put this apostrophe? Chief sub: Yes.

typical ai use case

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

how exciting, 647 new presenting gigs just opened up at the BBC

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

in a flash of overconfidence in my welsh language progress, i turned my phone language to welsh and well fuck

I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.

The DG of the BBC said this week that it remains on X because it has to reach a worldwide audience. 40m followers.... 40k views and 92 likes. A local Facebook group has more reach.

babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

Commission Scripted Comedy! People like it!

“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are

The secret history of UK pop culture continues to unfold around Doctor Who, and long may it continue

Tag yourself - I'm "73: Powerful mandibles" (sorry, way too much time spent editing DK books...)

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

The cost of a new computer just went up 40% because of your shit AI that I don't want, won't use and will financially destroy us all when the bubble bursts, so no, I don't believe I will stop being negative about it.

Fascinating talk from @illuminations.bsky.social on the (very!) early days of television tonight at the BFI - looking forward to reading the book!

All the talk of "balance" in journalism produced a culture where constant sane-washing of the right isn't just allowed, it's expected and required.

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

Sharing such images is already illegal, so I'm not sure what a new law will achieve?

I can absolutely see a future where online shopping collapses and everyone goes back to the high street

This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵

Reform is just three Tories in a trenchcoat asking ChatGPT to summarise Mein Kampf.

Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla. You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Kemi, this is just a population density map