Peter Walker
@pegerteg.bsky.social
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Occasional music journo, weekday business editor. Embra born and based. Portfolio/blog: pegerteg.com
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Peteās Pad
Trying out a different way to disseminate my online musings.
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6 months ago
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ControlAI
about 10 hours ago
"If you build superintelligence, it's going to be in charge, not us." AI expert Anthony Aguirre says trying to stay in control when faced with superintelligence would be like a classroom of kindergartners trying to be in charge of themselves when Musk, Obama or Putin walks in.
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I was aware womenās clothing sizing was a mess, but this as-per-excellent bit of data viz from The Pudding really demonstrates the problem:
pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...
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Sizing chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Alice Lastname
3 days ago
I usually end up like this on my birthday too, to be fair.
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Adam Schwarz
4 days ago
She never lived to see this moment, but itās worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrewās. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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John Doran
6 days ago
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Jesse Jacksonās - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972)
YouTube video by Nightloop
https://youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?si=Oe4EDnbZEpswE7Aa
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Oooh, thatās tickled my nostalgia gland - well played BBB Alba:
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6 days ago
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Flups
6 days ago
Iām giving up for Lent.
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Yeah, down with this race-to-the-bottom BS; these are the journos that deserve to be replaced with AI.
karlbode.com/the-press-is...
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The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/
6 days ago
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Good points, well made.
youtu.be/4haFPDNSuPY
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The System That Punishes Beautiful Design
YouTube video by Design Theory
https://youtu.be/4haFPDNSuPY
7 days ago
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Gooooooooalazzo!
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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BBC to show Scots' games live as Serie A returns to free-to-air TV
Games involving Scotland internationals Scott McTominay, Billy Gilmour, Lewis Ferguson, Che Adams, Lennon Miller, Kieron Bowie and Josh Doig are to be shown live on the BBC from Sunday thanks to a new...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2ye666jjlo
9 days ago
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Suboptimal.
controlai.news/p/ready-to-k...
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āReady to Killā
Top AI company policy chief says their AIs have āextreme reactionsā to being shut down, even showing a willingness to kill. Hereās what that means.
https://controlai.news/p/ready-to-kill?utm_source=substack&publication_id=2034738&post_id=187882874&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true
9 days ago
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Dr Kat Day (she/her)
10 days ago
Once again for the people at the back. Especially anyone looking at Times, Mail or Telegraph headlines today.
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Karl Bode
11 days ago
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Iām fascinated and irritated by people who do risky sports in unnecessarily risky ways. This is a good piece from someone whoās free-soloed and paid the price weighing in on the debate around Alex Honnoldās latest stunt.
diaryofapunter.substack.com/p/selfish-an...
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Selfish and Stupid
But doing it anyway
https://diaryofapunter.substack.com/p/selfish-and-stupid
12 days ago
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About time for another viewing I reckon.
youtu.be/3-qS9eoegJU
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Too Gritty for Theaters? Rare Deleted Trainspotting (1996) Moments š¤Æ
YouTube video by Movie & TV Extras
https://youtu.be/3-qS9eoegJU
12 days ago
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Hamilton Nolan
13 days ago
Written by Gerard Baker, former editor in chief of a direct competitor to the Washington Post, and a real piece of shit.
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Opinion | The Biggest Threat to Journalism? Journalists
Donāt blame rapacious owners for the loss of public trust. Blame biased, incompetent reporting.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-biggest-threat-to-journalism-journalists-cf580513?st=T6grwP&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Bit late to this, but another great explainer video from
@techconnectify.bsky.social
- with a righteous anger sting in the tail.
youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
15 days ago
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Bloody love a bit of monkeyball. There goes my productivity next weekā¦
monkeyball-online.pages.dev
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SMB1 Web Gameplay
https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev
15 days ago
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Daniel Livingstone
16 days ago
I was not prepared to discover which 9 cities this is supposed to link. Utterly bonkers
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This weekās Friday š„ and perhaps my eternal flame of a party-starting house record is this absolute whalloperā¦
youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ
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Subway - DBO [2010]
YouTube video by Xovo GonzƔlez (Filter.Eater)
https://youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ
17 days ago
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This is really good from Joan Westenberg - such a good analogy and seemingly every paragraph had me nodding in agreement about where we are with the bloody online ādiscourseā
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
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The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
17 days ago
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Problem Machine
19 days ago
This is specifically and exactly why the government wants to ban jury trials. A magistrate would have done exactly what the government wanted.
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Villalobos leading a Sun Ra rework comp? Iām in. First cut from Underground Resistance is so smooth:
omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com/album/when-t...
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When There Is No Sun, by various artists, curated by Ricardo Villalobos
12 track album
https://omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com/album/when-there-is-no-sun
18 days ago
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Amnesty International UK
18 days ago
Thank you Pep Guardiola for using your platform. Governments killing, displacing and dehumanising millions across the world want to make us think it's normal. But Guardiola is right. We can't look away. And we cannot accept it.
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I guess weāre getting a third series of the Night Manager then⦠⦠whenever things seem to be going suspiciously well for the good guys, you know thereās going to be a sting in the tail, but that ending was deliciously brutal.
20 days ago
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Itās not hyperbole to say that the Republican Party, captured long ago by the fossil fuel lobby, have done more than any other political organisation to accelerate the climate crisis. Good points, well made, as ever by
@billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Thinking about lying
Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/thinking-about-lying?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
20 days ago
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Good stuff by Ian Trueger in
@thefence.bsky.social
on PEās mostly malign influence on British restaurantsā¦
www.the-fence.com/whining-and-...
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Pour one out.
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27 days ago
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Good points, well made.
om.co/2026/01/21/v...
27 days ago
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This is excellent by
@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
on dumbed-down policy being like that particular type of book you get in airportsā¦
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
29 days ago
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Adam Bienkov
about 1 month ago
24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.
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Firstly, well in those lassies. Secondly, since when were South Morningside any good at football? When I went there we were consistently bottom of the leagueā¦
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Girls football team win tiny plastic cup as boys take home full-size trophy
The cup paled into comparison to the grand old trophy presented to the winning boys football team.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clymzpl58z0o
about 1 month ago
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Big
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
nailing it on AIās fundamental lack of imagination and what it might mean in the long runā¦
www.garbageday.email/p/generative...
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Generative AI is an expensive edging machine
Read to the end for insider trading and money laundering
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-edging-machine?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=generative-ai-is-an-expensive-edging-machine&_bhlid=643b6325c60294400ce004e3800f9000e9f51bd5
about 1 month ago
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Marie Le Conte
about 1 month ago
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Transmissions from a misspent youth.
about 1 month ago
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Dani Garavelli
about 1 month ago
I think AI is making it harder for journalists to research, not easier. I was using Google - not ChatGPT or anything - to look up a book & it gave me a quote it said was key. Anyway, I bought the book & read it & there is no such quote, it's not even close. But it was detailed & convincing.
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Laura Jedeed
about 1 month ago
If you can't afford to pay, I get it. I can't afford to pay! But the reason I can't is because there's no goddamn money in journalism anymore These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you're essentially saying we should work for free
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Must admit I havenāt completely digested the paper, but this excerpt via
@mattmuir.bsky.social
makes a very good point on the dangers of relying on AI answersā¦
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.19466
about 1 month ago
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Delightful new record from Anthony Rotherā¦
anthonyrother.bandcamp.com/album/exit-u...
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EXIT UTOPIA, by Anthony Rother
10 track album
https://anthonyrother.bandcamp.com/album/exit-utopia
about 1 month ago
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John Rainš„
about 1 month ago
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Along woth more practical ālife skillā maths, Iād like to see better media literacy and critical thinking taught as early as possible. Fewer exams sounds good too.
newhumanist.bsky.social
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
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Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6482?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Humanist Society Scotland
about 1 month ago
You can still sign humanist campaigner Gemma Clark's petition to ensure abortion services are available up to 24 weeks across Scotland. It's due to be discussed on Wednesday by Holyrood's petitions committee...
petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
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Something which once seemed outlandish now seems horribly possible - all right-thinking leaders must stand up for Greenland (and for Venezuela, of course)
billmckibben.substack.com/p/greenland-...
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Greenland has a 'vital strategic asset'
A sheet of ice two miles thick (and also some remarkable people)
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/greenland-has-a-vital-strategic-asset?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=183718645&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true
about 2 months ago
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Good point, well made
@billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
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Just possibly it's the oil?
A solar panel is the new peace sign
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=183347121&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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An impaling and a beheading seemed fittingly cathartic.
about 2 months ago
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Just whatās required todayā¦
youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8
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Boards of Canada - Some Old Tunes (1985-1996)
YouTube video by three dee melodie
https://youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8
about 2 months ago
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Aaaand finally, all my favourite films from the year twenty twenty five:
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Best of 2025: Films
All the best movies I watched this year
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-films
about 2 months ago
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All my favourite telly from 2025:
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Best of 2025: TV
All my favourite small screen series'
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-tv?utm_source=peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-tv&_bhlid=1bc6fc33fbb02bdd1a45f7b6e9129659eea227ec&last_resource_guid=Post%3A057c1df0-d8fa-4543-aca2-2ce131492d91
about 2 months ago
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Itās end-of-year list time. First up, mt favourite fifty tracks of 2025:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...
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Best of 2025: Music
All my favourite songs from the year just gone
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-music?utm_source=peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-music&_bhlid=2925548cdf9534f142ee54f0975a4671071df71e
about 2 months ago
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