"AI is here whether you wanted it or not, do you want to get in on it or get left behind?" - everyone's manager

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

"For decades and maybe centuries it has has been too late to save everything, but it will never be too late to save anything." Some people are getting cross with the headline and not reading the article, and ignoring the crucial distinction between optimism and hope.

A beautiful and helpful analogy

These far right "content creators" in Manchester really are awful. As well as this kind of "human bear baiting", they regularly harass protests. (Not sure what press regulation will achieve though, not least as it means legitimising them as "journalists"). www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/re...

Make your minds up lads

Robin has been speaking up for the oppressed for literally decades. I'm sure I remember him doing Palestine solidarity gigs during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's 2008-9 Gaza massacre. That was never an obstacle to his show building a broad audience (my Dad loves it!). But today's BBC demands a purge.

This is important

A better analogy for the construction workers in the original photo would be the invisible data workers made to look at images of child abuse and instructions to put glue on pizza in order to train the model. Oh, and construction workers, for that matter, or did the data centres build themselves?

What will happen to @netflix.com 's colossal pile of plastic shit promoting Stranger Things in Piccadilly station after a month or so of "use"? Landfill, incineration, fake recycling, export to poor country, don't know, don't care? How many of these monstrosities have you commissioned anyway?

I've just signed the petition in support of Filipino typhoon survivors taking climate criminals Shell to court. You can too: www.odettecase.org/take-action

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

This is probably right, I think, and not only in journalism: that "AI" systems narrow the field of what is visible, in a way that's almost imperceptible to those in its bubble and skewed well to the right. Though the greatest insights may go to those able to take those blinkers off.

Saw a large V formation of birds flying over Manchester today. So far so seasonal. But they seemed to be flying North. Maybe North East, but definitely in no way South. Is this normal, am I dreaming, do the birds know something I don't?

The RSF in Sudan, like the IDF in Palestine, wages genocide with weapons exported from Britain.

Good god. Counter-revolution has truly opened the door to genocide.

It can be done. Motornormativity is a choice. And figures like these should be a national scandal: "In Germany, 90% of people living in large cities have access to a tramway or underground train system. In France, it’s 80%. In the UK, the figure is less than 20%, a similar level to the US."

We should get to decide how we protect ourselves at demonstrations. But Government plans to restrict face coverings at protests could impact any of us. We need your support to make sure this law doesn't go unchallenged 👇 https://action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/petition/1

That does seem to be at least 40% of what Starmerism is. We have no agency, no responsibility, you'll have to talk to whoever's in charge.

Correct. Starmer is responsible for authorising transphobic discrimination. The Supreme Court doesn't make the law, parliament does. It's Labour's political choice to accept rather than amend the reinterpreted Equalities Act. And to hide behind the judges rather than taking responsibility for it.

I agree with David Lammy (2020) on jury trials

but tell me more about how the BBC has a left-wing bias

I had no idea about this toxic spill, which is likely to continuing poisoning Zambia for years to come. Of course there must be consequences for those responsie. But also a reminder of how destructive and dangerous and industry mineral extraction often is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I found this really enlightening on some of the intellectual (don't laugh) roots of the contemporary far right. revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/heidegger-in...

You know, someone should make a joke about the Judean People's Front off of Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979). I bet that would be totally original and really funny, not teeth-grindingly derivative!

"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand" Really horrific www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

"On the continent that brought you colonial terror, world war, and concentration camps, fascism is once again a mainstream ideology." Gary Younge in @hammerandhope.bsky.social explains parallels, differences and interactions between the European and US far right. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

It's a shame that we're keeping the terrible name, perhaps because the shortlist was made up entirely of terrible names. I voted "For the Many", but would much have preferred something like the more meaningful and straightforward name Zarah Sultana suggested in an interview this summer: The Left.

Fantastic news! So we a/ voted not to sideline Zarah Sultana from leadership b/ voted not to purge members of left groups, starting with the SWP So we reaffirm, after a terrible summer of bureaucratic stitch-up, the vision to unite the left, build a mass party and engage in workers' struggle.

What a great headline

Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..

This would be so easy to sabotage, there's something deeply wrong with us as a society if it doesn't happen.

I've found the word we need to use for such people: slopaholics.

"The vacancy left by unsatisfying work isn’t filled by leisure, but by work in the garden, where you indulge in blunt and basic force." orionmagazine.org/article/force Lovely essay on the violent delight of the garden in @orionmagazine.bsky.social

Awful news from Hong Kong. Comparisons are being made to Grenfell. But, in this case, three arrests have already been made. Over EIGHT YEARS after Grenfell, there has not been a single arrest or prosecution, despite obvious wrongdoing. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Everything that was ever good about the Internet they are now determined to kill

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Reject Rosebank and stop ALL new drilling. The commitment does not prevent fields that already have a licence - like Rosebank and Cambo - from being developed. The fight against Rosebank is STILL on.

Farage really on the ropes there.

I say a trainload... the bus hasn't come and most have now given up and gone home or got Ubers and Taxis. The public transport infrastructure in Manchester remains woefully inadequate, Bee logos notwithstanding.

Take it from me at a freezing bus stop with a cancelled trainload of people, Delay Repay doesn't help most commuters. Regular commuters will be on season tickets, so no receipt for this journey. And those of us on hourly rates etc will be more worried about loss of earnings than ticket cost.

Fantastic(ally depressing) article and this rather sums it all up

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The giant meteor heading straight for us isn't everything. Some of you have giant meteor tunnel vision."

On why sticking this logo on plastic packaging has to be in the top 5 greatest filthy lies in human history.

As a Lithuanian I do not understand these attitudes at all tbh. When we regained our independence, there were quite a few statues we promptly destroyed. When Syrians overthrew Assad, they knocked down his statues. Why is knocking statues down or altering them purportedly in itself bad?

"Conspiracy theories are in some sense the secularization of final causes" is a great insight. Again regretting never having read Spinoza.

Sniper tourism. Human safari. If you portrayed the rich doing this in a work of fiction, people would think it was a bit on the nose. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...