It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did. But if your mate put you there? That's fine. Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

Trying real hard to passive voice terrorism here.

happy tuesday

Umm, does anyone at @societyofauthors.bsky.social want to walk me through why using an AI-generated picture* to illustrate the countdown to their anti-AI watermark was a good idea? (*it looks like to me, anyway) humanauthored.co.uk

Yep. Corporations defanged the one minuscule sanction consumers have — not choosing their good or service — if they can convince us that expressing dissatisfaction will hurt a worker and not the company. It’s a neat trick.

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

I missed this news last week: the DART impact not only changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its primary Didymos, but because of the volume of material blasted entirely out of the system it minutely altered Didymos’ orbit as well. Writeup by Marcia Dunn for AP: apnews.com/article/aste...

Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike

"We thought the wallet inspector was going to be focused on wallet security and that seems to be the opposite of whats actually happening"

🚨 UPDATE: fireball over Europe – 8 March 2026 At 18:55 CET on Sunday, 8 March, a very bright fireball streaked across the skies of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, glowing for around six seconds before fragmenting. 🧪🔭 🎥 Allsky7

The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!

I, too, can make up numbers about stuff I could "theoretically" do. Don't even need to steal the world's intellectual property and despoil the environment to do it.

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4: we are deep in the oceans, the 900,000 miles of cable that pulse with the world’s information, and the San José, a billion dollar shipwreck, sunk by the British in 1708. The modern world is built upon the sea.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

Dealing with #hatespeech before the internet.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just debris from a successful interception. If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Came across this old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon today and immediately thought about the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. *glances at headlines* No, no reason.

OUT NOW! Season 11 Episode 189 OPENING THE BOX OF DELIGHTS On your podcast app, on the website at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-189.... or for the full experience watch an extended edition at youtu.be/UOO6GZ5NJlM A feature length episode on the Box of Delights with special expert panel

Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.

No lawsuit big enough, surely?

‘All those who care about the BBC’s future should hurry and send in their response before 10 March. Despite strong public support for the national broadcaster, you can bet battalions of enemies driven by the right will be out in force to undermine it.’

Just an increasingly fascist state doing its increasingly fascist thing

Obligatory: Philip Glass Philip Glass TikTokTikTok PhilipPhilipPhilipPhilipPhilip TikkyTokkyTikkyTok (stick it in the arpeggiator, job's a good 'un)

Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.

#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪

"You're absolutely right, that was a girls' school, not a munitions factory, and that's on me. I've looked again and found you some new targets."

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

In pushing Labour's extreme and hostile anti-asylum and anti-immigration policies the Home Secretary has lied. She has, deliberately or through ignorance, misled the public on fundamental aspects of both. That alone should surely be a resigning matter

my neighbour keeps trying to get rid of failed asylum seekers so I asked how many he has and he said he just keeps paying them £10,000 to leave So I said it sounds like he's just paying £10,000 to incentivise new failed asylum seekers and then his Labour Party started crying

Billionaire-owned media celebrating the industrial slaughter of human beings by machines as a wondrous leap forward.

The trouble, I feel, with mainstream media people wigging out at *this* stage in the epistemic collapse of liberal civilisation is that they've been there for all the preceding stages, and often done their very best to normalise them, while sneering at anyone who said "This will end badly."

The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text. We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital

"Mr Speaker, as @GIGACHAD_1776 said to me on X yesterday"

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality. Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.

This is heartbreaking. Treating people who've planned their lives around our word is wrong and the Home Office statement at the bottom is callous - completely failing to engage with the human stories, probably because they know their position cannot be justified.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

It will be replaced by a 20-foot marble statue

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Greg: And the task was...? Alex: Conquer the city. Greg: And you? Odysseus: Built a giant wooden horse. Greg: And it's impressive. Completely fails the task. Odysseus (suddenly looking very like Jason Mantzoukas): But does it, Greg? Does it? Alex: There was a camera inside the horse.