it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Hang on, I had missed the fact that the AI Skills Hub cost £4m. mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... If this wasn't tax payers' money it would be quite funny. Also, can only assume PWC spent some time rolling around in gold because they did NOT spend it on building this

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

As always, 2 things can be true at once: 1. Any police force using AI to generate reports & evidence for their decisions should be disciplined & heads should roll 2. The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was likely justified due to real risk of racist, violent hooliganism #r4today

If you'd like to watch the hour long special programme on maternity care - it's on YouTube. It's an emotional watch - but it's important www.youtube.com/live/kfqmmoV...

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

The Shield

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

"For a copy to be more widely distributed than the original is a very bad symptom" 😂 I mean, the lack of self-awareness is almost impressive

You do your own doodle and everything you put there is an active choice. AI generates it for you and it's adding a load of extra detail that wasn't in your own head. That's not your idea anymore, it's stolen from somewhere else.

This aspect of LLMs is worse than just cringy - it confirms biases leading to bad analysis. It's one of the things that makes me wary of using it for research.

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

UEFA fines Maccabi and bans them from a game Just waiting for Keir Starmer to say it's antisemitic For Shamaba Mahmood to join him And for Lisa Nandy to lie about it in parliament Shame on all three of them for conflating public safety with antisemitism

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

Well this has brought a flood of childhood memories back 😂

Anyone else finding that the phone number for the Taskmaster advent calendar today isn't working? Definitely calling the right number and while other people got a lovely message from @alexhorne.bsky.social, he's obviously blocked my number because it just rings and cuts out

Had a great conversation with @rianjohnson.bsky.social about how his religious upbringing influenced Wake Up Dead Man, Daniel Craig recommending Josh O'Connor, Glen Close's already underrated performance, and much more

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die

Top executives cannot shut up about AI. … but is it helping?

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

gosh, wonder what would happen if the sector *started* with what students need and want…

barely a metaphor lmao

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

What can you give your mate who’s desperately upset on missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize? FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀

Kate Garraway repeating things

(officiating wedding) Do you? Do you? (entering crowd work mode) (pointing at guy in front row) I know this motherfucker Do

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK" Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that" "To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Amazing! Honestly two worlds I never thought I'd see collide, one of the best interviewers out there sits down with a musician who has been a ridiculously significant part of my life for nearly 20 years. Loved getting to read this chat and dig back into an album I've not played in a while

Its research is better than most news shows and its gags are better than most comedy shows but for me what sets it above most shows is that it always tries to ask "What can we do about this?"

Perhaps someone can explain this to me because I thought the government was concerned with growth on.ft.com/4gkup84

Who could possibly have foreseen?

"I spent decades saying, ‘Come on, it’s got to be more complex than this.’ But I think it’s not. I think that almost everything can be explained by this deep hatred that the majority of white Americans have for black Americans. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” inews.co.uk/culture/book...

Oh dear, how dare protesters be a nuisance

trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be

Been rewatching the first one recently in chunks around baby duties and it's so well-constructed. I remember it fondly as a movie my dad was excited to share when it came out on DVD, although he couldn't help himself from rewinding the film to demonstrate minor continuity errors 😐

Don’t threaten me with a good time

No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

Think how bad the problem must be for an executive to talk down the value of their own product.

I had weird reactions to stuff. Minority Report - the idea of people floating in a bathtub who could see my future really freaked me out. The first X-Men movie - Mystique terrified me, or more accurately the concept of a shapeshifter who could pretend to be anyone else terrified me

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It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

What's funny is that all these GenAI companies could actually just embed compression-resistant patterns into their output that would cleanly make their stuff identifiable, but they don't, because they don't want to, because they want their slop to make everything unusable.