"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.

I was aware women’s 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...

I usually end up like this on my birthday too, to be fair.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s 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 Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Oooh, that’s tickled my nostalgia gland - well played BBB Alba:

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I’m giving up for Lent.

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...

Good points, well made. youtu.be/4haFPDNSuPY

Gooooooooalazzo! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Suboptimal. controlai.news/p/ready-to-k...

Once again for the people at the back. Especially anyone looking at Times, Mail or Telegraph headlines today.

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

I’m fascinated and irritated by people who do risky sports in unnecessarily risky ways. This is a good piece from someone who’s free-soloed and paid the price weighing in on the debate around Alex Honnold’s latest stunt. diaryofapunter.substack.com/p/selfish-an...

About time for another viewing I reckon. youtu.be/3-qS9eoegJU

Written by Gerard Baker, former editor in chief of a direct competitor to the Washington Post, and a real piece of shit.

Bit late to this, but another great explainer video from @techconnectify.bsky.social - with a righteous anger sting in the tail. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Bloody love a bit of monkeyball. There goes my productivity next week… monkeyball-online.pages.dev

I was not prepared to discover which 9 cities this is supposed to link. Utterly bonkers

This week’s Friday 🔥 and perhaps my eternal flame of a party-starting house record is this absolute whalloper… youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ

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 ‘discourse’ www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...

This is specifically and exactly why the government wants to ban jury trials. A magistrate would have done exactly what the government wanted.

Villalobos leading a Sun Ra rework comp? I’m in. First cut from Underground Resistance is so smooth: omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com/album/when-t...

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.

I guess we’re getting a third series of the Night Manager then… … whenever things seem to be going suspiciously well for the good guys, you know there’s going to be a sting in the tail, but that ending was deliciously brutal.

It’s 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...

Good stuff by Ian Trueger in @thefence.bsky.social on PE’s mostly malign influence on British restaurants… www.the-fence.com/whining-and-...

Pour one out.

Good points, well made. om.co/2026/01/21/v...

This is excellent by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk on dumbed-down policy being like that particular type of book you get in airports… www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...

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.

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 league… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nailing it on AI’s fundamental lack of imagination and what it might mean in the long run… www.garbageday.email/p/generative...

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...

Transmissions from a misspent youth.

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.

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

Must admit I haven’t completely digested the paper, but this excerpt via @mattmuir.bsky.social makes a very good point on the dangers of relying on AI answers… arxiv.org/pdf/2512.19466

Delightful new record from Anthony Rother… anthonyrother.bandcamp.com/album/exit-u...

Along woth more practical ‘life skill’ maths, I’d 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...

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... @gemmaclark.bsky.social

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-...

Good point, well made @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

An impaling and a beheading seemed fittingly cathartic.

Just what’s required today… youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8

Aaaand finally, all my favourite films from the year twenty twenty five: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

All my favourite telly from 2025: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

It’s end-of-year list time. First up, mt favourite fifty tracks of 2025: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...