How AI is fucking things up #273 in series

Leaving aside Bevin's antisemitism, I think that hard-nosed trade unionist might spot that Glasman is a nutty old narcissist with delusions of grandeur and a contempt for the party he claims to represent

I genuinely think @mrnikli.bsky.social may be one of the best business writers in history, and “Brainwash An Executive Today!” is one of the best written and insightful and funny business pieces of all time. A must read. Execs can be really stupid! ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...

Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit A new post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...

There are undiscovered hunter gatherer tribes deep in the Amazon rainforest with a clearer and more consistent foreign policy position on the Ukraine war than the current US administration.

I’m not right about everything. But I was 100% bang on about Boris Johnson and the Tories during Covid. It’s kinda galling that the most expensive inquiry ever is uncovering what to me was just blindingly obvious at the time. I’m weirdly numb to the revelations because they’re not revelations.

And there it is: the greatest press release in motorsport history 🤣

"It would mean more people could benefit from those frequent Central Line services. It is exactly what I hoped this Labour government might do. "And I almost missed it, because they instead won’t shut up about being horrible to foreigners."

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

🤔 The Limitation Game: I'll say it again: If you develop the technology to enable a device to convincingly imitate a human speaking the truth, there is absolutely no technical impediment to then having it convincingly imitate a human speaking the truth... while lying 😧

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Wikipedia - still upholding the promise of what the internet could be, 25 years later wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/

Supreme Court rules exclusively Christian RE in NI is ‘indoctrination’ humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...

Boris Johnson promised to govern as an amiable and cynical clown. He positioned himself as a clown, the country elected a clown and then we were governed by a clown, as demanded. Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.

NEW: Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, sentenced to 10.5 years in prison over pro-Russia bribes.

A reminder that “enshittification” has a specific and useful meaning and doesn’t just mean “things, companies or countries are getting worse”. There is an existing word for that which is “decline”.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Just in case you hadn't yet got the message... don't trust AI www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/w...

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What with the nights fair drawing in and all, how about a little bleak, autumnal noir? Are you sitting comfortably? Right, let's fix that!

Yesterday I finished reading Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social Absolutely blown away by it Last SF novel I read with such imagination and power was Altered Carbon by @quellist1.bsky.social Went on to read everything by Morgan; plan to do the same for Tchaikovsky

Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.

AI hastens Pop Eating Itself www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/a...

This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

I once waited on Boris Johnson at a dinner in Bristol. I poured some of the drip tray into his pint. It's the closest I've come to national service. You're welcome.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

NEW Performative Litigation Letters How certain lawyer letters are intended for news and social media consumption By me, on the legal threats of Truss and now Trump emptycity.substack.com/p/performati...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Now that we've all got over the initial outrage and got used to them, I think we can all agree that plastic bottles having the lids attached is a genius idea. No dropped lids, easier to recycle and always able to reseal the bottle. Brilliant.

NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)

This Carl Sagan passage - oft quoted but still undimmed and relentlessly haunting… bsky.app/profile/kent...

Lisa Nandy has a tremendous opportunity to do some good here. My personal preference is Robbie Gibb's head on a pike as a warning to others but I'll accept other reforms

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

If BBC News's rivals who are today damning it for bias were held to similar standards, most of them would be shut down on the spot.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Trump's whingeing can now dispatch the director general of the BBC. He must be delighted. I thought we had more balls than this.

Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔

This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...

"Vibe coding" is apparently the "word of the year" @theregister.com nails it www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/v...