This paradigm-shifting technology certainly does involve burning a lot of the fuels sold by the people who made most of the money in the previous paradigm

NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

The record-smashing heat wave plaguing Western Europe is a “brutal” reminder of the cost of global warming, the United Nations’ climate chief has warned.

It would be nice if, on a hot sunny day, the @peakdistrict.bsky.social, spent its time advising how swimming can be done safely without impacting wildlife, rather than acting like the most normal thing in the world is a dangerous act of criminality. #RightToSwim

You see this with NHS England as well - some parts of the public sector are far too comfortable coordinating their PR with a Trump-aligned security tech firm:

Met & Palantir have their lines worked out: Palantir: “Not allowing the Metropolitan Police to have this software will give hostile states and criminals an advantage." Met: decision to veto the deal would give “hostile states & organised criminals” an advantage.' www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Great to see London’s mayor pushing back against Palantir’s notorious ‘land and expand’ approach www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'In each proposal, shareholders request that the company “issue a report explaining how it will meet the climate change-related commitments it has made on greenhouse gas emissions, given the massively growing energy demand from artificial intelligence and data centers.”'

Another important piece on the misleading pollution figures being used by data centre developers in the UK. It's very important that local & national govt don't fall for these: www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

Press release: Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/05/20/g...

An engineer at Google raised concerns over the company's complicity in war crimes. Google responded by sacking them.

"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

Starmer's government, like Boris Johnson's, has a fondness for conducting business via WhatsApp - a platform controlled by Trump fan Mark Zuckerberg. The use of disappearing messages poses a serious threat to government accountability - MPs are right to warn this is a problem.

UK Parliament's security committee criticises "extraordinary" amount of Govt business conducted on WhatsApp: “Lengthy WhatsApp conversations between senior officials and ministers appear now to be the format by which government policy is formulated”. -> Major (& longstanding) issue for scrutiny.

It's almost like there's some kind of pattern here: "ministers accepted an offer from Palantir to build a system to administrate the scheme...for free for six months. "Subsequent 12-month contracts were awarded - one worth £4.5m and another £5.5m" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Essential reading for the "there's no alternative to Palantir" crowd: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More on the harm Google AI Overviews are doing to news publishers. CMA is considering action on this but not moving anything like quickly enough.

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

‘A study that claimed ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted [over]“discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper racked up hundreds of citations”

Figures from @foxglovelegal.bsky.social show Google has understated the climate impact of its planned data centre by 5x

“To switch on that one data center, we would need to shut off power for half the country...That’s when I knew there was a problem.” www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

UK Govt refuses to leave X. And even refuses to stop directing traffic towards X from its official websites: national.thelead.uk/p/government...

UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings. www.wired.com/story/google...

'Perhaps the reason so many at Westminster think these orgs have been silent, & are more well-resourced and influential than they actually are, is because so many at Westminster still use X...as long as X drives the UK’s political conversation, the UK’s anti-racism movement is going to be “muted”.'

"Scott-Wright has thousands of followers on Instagram, has appeared on ITV's This Morning and has a book published by Penguin Random House" -> Will Instagram stop promoting their accounts? Will Penguin stop publishing them as an 'expert'? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Put your baby on its back to sleep’ is public health genius: free, anyone can do it, cut cot death rates by 80%. Amazing. Just listened to great BBC woman’s hour (h/t to public service broadcasting too) on how it’s being undermined by Instagram-famous idiots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hadn't heard of the org 'Parent Zone' until reading about OpenAI's donation to them this morning. I think there are questions about whether schools should be accepting training from orgs that appear to be heavily funded by Big Tech: parentzone.org.uk/programmes

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

remember what Thiel wants

The PM's said that X needs to ‘get a grip’ on Grok's creation of ‘disgraceful’ and ‘disgusting’ images of abuse. So why are his Govt's own official websites still sending tens of thousands of people to X's platform, while an Ofcom investigation is still live?

I am equal parts horrified and amused that Anduril seems to sell its actual R&D trash, which “contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm” as a “relic” for a whooomping $250. The grift!

I'd say the NHS maybe shouldn't take advice from the LinkedIn guy. “We just don’t have enough doctors, most people don’t have access, and when you think about, ‘How should the NHS be redesigned?’ everyone should be interacting with this medical assistant”. www.wired.com/story/reid-h...

Oh mate

Really grim stuff. I hadn't realised Farage was still sticking to his attacks on the post-Dunblane handgun ban: www.thenational.scot/news/2595418...

More than 600 Google staff members signed a letter demanding that the firm’s CEO prevent the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified work. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

UK Govt says formal contract will be "issued shortly" for AI Facial Age Estimation tech to be used on children seeking asylum: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Important cross-party letter: Europe is trying to move away from reliance on US big tech - why is the UK heading in the opposite direction, signing yet more deals with Trump’s friends at Palantir?

The UK government has finally revised its data centre greenhouse gas impacts upwards by x100 (from a low base!), thanks to @foxglovelegal.bsky.social + @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Great work by @carbonbrief.org forces uk govt to admit its figures on data centre emissions were hopelessly unrealistic. @foxglovelegal.bsky.social had raised this problem with ministers on multiple occasions.

The language now being used in the UK Parliament about Palantir is quite something: www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=...

"A senior official from another Baltic state said Russia was also 'weaponising' the net-zero agenda to stir up public resentments." "...it is only a matter of time before the tactics that are now being tested on the Baltic states are turned against other countries, including the UK and Germany"

Geoffrey Hinton still very wrong about radiologists futurism.com/artificial-i...

It is beyond belief that the UK government is speaking to these people with a view to entrusting them with sensitive data. This is a very handy overview of why that is madness.

OpenAI's marketer George Osborne is dishonest here from the very first paragraph: the choice, apparently, is 'AI' or 'paper records'. Apparently there are no options in between. www.thetimes.com/article/d918...

Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services. This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.

Opposition to dumping sediment in protected area #Sussex #BBCNews

Very significant report - there have been over 100 applications by data centre developers to connect to the UK's gas grid. How can the UK Govt allow the construction of a new generation of fossil gas power by Big Tech, while sticking to its climate targets?

🗣️ | "There's been a lot of overselling." @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social on the NHS Federated Data Platform and Palantir on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social Read more and listen to Dr Nicholl at dauk.org/palantir-con...

Good piece summarising the reasons we shouldn't have Palantir in our public services - including points raised by MPs & groups including @foxglovelegal.bsky.social & @bma.org.uk