This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data. www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

Read the whole story here. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

the Palestine Action ban really was a classic Starmer govt move: a hysterical overreaction that won them zero plaudits from the right, cost them badly to the left, and which got shot down in the end anyway.

man if you ever feel insane with the way liberals talk about the Biden years on here, just scroll back through your screenshots during those years for a dose of reality

To the eternal and undying shame of this Labour government, 2,700 people were arrested in the UK for opposing genocide in Palestine. www.thenational.scot/news/2585173...

What these “but why do people hate Starmer SO MUCH” takes come down to is so shallow. Starmer doesn’t sound or look like a firebrand so what’s the big deal? Immune to questions of SUBSTANCE - he’s liar, enabled a genocide, pandered to anti-migrant politics & global Fascism.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

US undermines democracy to promote Maga to the world ft.trib.al/XZdMaKd | opinion

Unions are a bedrock of decency and dignity in society. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unions protect workers, unions protect democracy.

To be clear, not one single person sincerely believes that "from the river to the sea" is a genocidal or antisemitic slogan. They're just pretending to believe that in order to get new laws passed which crush free speech that is critical of a genocidal apartheid state.

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

This should end political careers. But as Starmer takes his orders from Tel Aviv, nothing will happen. Labour in general, and Starmer in particular, supports genocide.

Are you a Palestinian wanting to move to the UK for a Law Master e.g. our LLM/MSc Law, Technology and Innovation? The University of Strathclyde offers 2 scholarships www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Freedom is analogue. Take power back from the tech oligarchy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well done. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am so sick of these barbarians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Since 2024, Labour has expanded private healthcare, subsidised fossil fuel companies, increased arms exports, deployed mass surveillance, endorsed a genocide, and proscribed protest, none of which appeared in their manifesto Nobody voted for this shit Lobbyists control Labour policy, not voters

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

Starmer came to office through deceit. This outcome was predictable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you were looking for a real shadowy cabal of global elites, the Atlas Network would probably be it. Glad to see them getting some attention

Someone has finally found a use for AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear - www.ft.com/content/36b5... via @FT

It is genuinely ridiculous that in the long term Syrians will remember Biden as the guy who let Israel seize a bunch of territory in the days following the collapse of a horrific dictatorship and Trump as the guy who let Syrians rebuild their economy without having to normalize ties with Israel.

A man with serious mental decline has the nuclear codes. This is encouraging.

This is absolutely the world we live in.

Interesting and insightful article about our political state. Everything is unknowable and observation changes outcomes. How do we act? www.ft.com/content/66f4...

Just expose who is taking US money and undermine their credibility forever. Europeans are fed up with "American Values". www.ft.com/content/f869...

Ouch! Starmer’s full on support for the actions of Israel going to take a hammering, on top of the Mandelson fallout. Damaging a war memorial in the UK has a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison. www.thenational.scot/news/2582724...

The entire country is rotten. www.ft.com/content/7e51...

The IDF spokesperson added: “We emphasise that underground terrorist infrastructure was identified within the cemetery." Is Israel seriously trying to argue that the war dead are Hamas now? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Spain showing real leadership with the exact opposite approach to the US. Be like Spain: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Excellent news from the @uaw.org, and proof that even in this climate, you can push forward and win. uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...

You can't kill your way to a better world. Putin, Netanyahu, Trump and others have lit fires that will consume them as well. Negotiated peace and consensus building is the only thing that works. We learnt that lesson after the destruction of WWII. Do we really have to learn it again?

Bombing hospitals seems to be the new way of doing war, by breaking the resolve of the civilian population. South Sudan, this time. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

Another day of the Israeli ‘ceasefire’, another massacre of civilians at the hands of the exterminationist state backed by the West

An insightful article about the transformation of the @uaw.org: "An organized, militant membership is more powerful than backroom relationships, and strong contracts are won through collective power, not staff diplomacy." jacobin.com/2026/02/fain...

More of this please. Hold them all accountable. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

Never forget. Never forgive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh, well done. Since X has said it won't comply with the inquiry, the app should simply be blocked. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

International construction unions denied entry to the occupied Palestinian territories www.bwint.org/BwiNews/News...

An important victory against trump^s agenda: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is very encouraging. Opposition to Trump might fundamentally reshape the US. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good piece. "If Christ appears to us in this moment, he is not among the executioners." Marilynne Robinson: The killings in Minneapolis - www.ft.com/content/6f90... via @FT

Humanity has witnessed atrocities before, but what makes this one unique is that this slaughter was seen live around the world, second by second, from every possible angle, while the worst people in the world told you to disbelieve your own eyes, and if you didn't, you were antisemitic.