Board of Peace - Season 1

IMHO it's not ideal to have xAI emitting as much climate pollution as the entire state of Rhode Island to generate CSAM

This is monstrous, performative, racist, authoritarian cruelty from the government. And closing the door to refugees is all the nastier for coming at the same time as joining in ANOTHER war to set the Middle East on fire.

My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying

The UK & Australian prime minsters both graduated with honours from the Groucho Marx school of policy making — "those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others!"

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...

"What we have seen in Gorton and Denton" = voting by brown people

People switching from ChatGPT to Anthropic are telling on themselves. Will they now cancel their Claude subscriptions because it was used to help plan the attack on Iran? They won’t and we all know it.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Awful, awful, mass murder. The Hague is too good for these bastards.

We joined @globalactionplan.bsky.social and friends this morning outside DESNZ as part of the weekend of action against dirty data centres! Find out more about the issues here: www.campaigncc.org/ai_data_cent...

"dividing" and "uniting" in this context are meaningless. Politics is about contestaion. Being divided is the very meaning of politics. And being "united" in support of racist parties is NOT a good thing.

One episode in. It's brilliant.

Worth remembering that the previous Labour MP in Gorton and Denton Andrew Gwynne was suspended for being anti-Black, antisemitic, sexist and mocking and wishing death on a constituent. Labour party for you!

"The most common left-liberal position is not that generative AI is just a stochastic parrot, but a product built by powerful profit-seeking firms that’s capable of serious harms... a threat to jobs, education, mental wellbeing, the arts, child safety, the information ecosystem..."

Gross. It's very important that Reform loses in Gorton and Denton, but Labour richly deserves to lose too.

"ConForm UK" is brilliant. I hope we can make that stick.

Not saying this is necessarily the stupidest analogy anyone's ever made, just that it's hard to think of anything much stupider.

You love to see it

Hell the trans bathroom articles are borderline a mad libs subject swap of the 80/90s gay bathroom panic, which also share shockingly close structures to the pro-segregation bathroom panics from even earlier. White supremacists are lazy as fuck and love to recycle bigotry tactics

Everything is Connected. From Private Eye:

The absolute arrogance.

Sounds unfair to say Queen Elizabeth II found it less acceptable to marry a person of color than to rape kids but it's a statement of fact bsky.app/profile/cric...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Okay - so - Quite a few people have noticed that big tech really seems to muddle different types of AI when talking benefits - @timnitgebru.bsky.social @shengokai.blacksky.app @sashamtl.bsky.social @bluejo.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social + others Nicely explained by @karenhao.bsky.social here:

I've noticed a bunch of stuff too - eg, so many of the projects where 'traditional' AI is being used for climate stuff isn't really panning out....we're going to see more of this fore sure bsky.app/profile/keta...

I am pleased the Government has done another u turn. Attempting to cancel elections, on top of scrapping jury trials, mandatory ID cards, criminalising peaceful protest and harassment of journalists is part of a disturbing authoritarian trend of this caretaker Prime Minister.

I’ve said before that I strongly believe in a progressive global maximum wealth tax, kicking in around $10 million. Think what a life you could have if you had $10m! Everything you could possibly want! Now think about how that’s just 1% of $1bn. Insane. Too much. Would make you go weird

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

The Talk

Indeed. How can this campaign of brazen lying be anything but career-ending.

Really important then to focus on the key message that Reform are racists looking to enact ICE-style mass racist terror and then some. You can vote against the failed, corrupt, self-serving establishment? Great, just do it without voting for the Gestapo.

Thinking about BDS movement targets. Look at all the tech companies on the list! and rightly: eg for equipping genocide in Gaza, profiting from West Bank settlements. But not easy to boycott. Not wearing Reeboks is a lot easier than deleting Google. We need serious conversations about how to do it.

Interesting look at how the Iranian regime has created a "water mafia" whose mismanagement is important context for its current political crisis. insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202... @insideclimatenews.org @katiesurma.bsky.social

This is a really good read!

Long lyve ai;dr!

This consultation closes at 11:59 pm tomorrow.

Leafletting Denton yesterday with @mcrsutr.bsky.social. We blocked the BNP, we blocked the EDL, and who's to say we can't block Reform UK too. Next stop Gorton.

Off to Denton to support the @mcrsutr.bsky.social campaign against racist Reform UK. If people in Minneapolis can face down armed quasi-fascist militia, then it's not a big ask for us in Manchester to defy the far right scammers who want to import that racist terror over here.

Apart from anything else, those jeans with that shirt and shoes have got to be a job for @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

The "Prince of Darkness" is not the man we thought he was.

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Mass illness is the point of concentration camps. It's not that the camps are failing, they are succeeding for their intended purpose.

"Merdas Touch" 🤣