In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Yearly reminder that: in web browsers and many apps, you can select text inside a link by holding the Alt key.

So basically, Twitch isn't counting lurkers as viewers anymore since August apparently. It's progressively becoming unusable as a platform for both creators and viewers. It's demotivating.

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Driver of prosperity? Or driver of an investment bubble that benefits only the investor class? The idea that it has any influence on the living standards of anyone is surely pure guff.

It is, be in no question, time to undo Brexit.

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A large group of MPs drew the Foreign Secretary's attention to attacks on the #GlobalSumudFlotilla 6 days ago...

I'm in there 17 times

What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most? Did I guess right?

Criticising Trump was deemed to be a terrorist act in the USA last week. Reform is now trying the same approach here, accusing Starmer of inciting terrorism for criticising Farage. In both cases, the direction of travel is towards full-on fascism. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

They misspelled "make your grandchildren suffer enoumously"

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

It’s maybe a good thing the Home Office is refusing to engage with civil society. Because when they lose the local elections, they will never be able to say it’s our fault. We’ve told them not to do what they’re doing. This is on Starmer/Cooper/Mahmood.

The only political party whose policies are in line with the recommendations made by Praxis. Lib Dems close. Everyone else miles away and actively working against our charitable objectives.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jane Goodall dies, the Pope condemns climate deniers, and Kemi Badenoch decides today is a good day to say she’d scrap the Climate Change Act. Economically bonkers, morally bankrupt, out of step with public opinion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

French special forces have seized a Russian oil tanker off the coast of France, suspected of being used to launch drones over Europe. The vessel, part of Russia’s shadow fleet circumventing sanctions through illicit oil sales, is believed to have served as a drone launch platform between

This time, an incredibly rude lady from Churchill insurance talked over me when I tried to explain why I wouldn't give my personal info out to people who phone me, then hung up. Really, this is how real hacks and security incidents have happened.

And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on? Guess where that data looks like it will end up? In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it! Larry Ellison’s Oracle!! 10/

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Good. This is an important victory. It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

If you prefer bluer skies, there's always our future sci-fi option.

Also! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is on sale in the Steam Autumn sale, and there is no more autumnal experience than fleeing between the hedgerows chased by tweedy British robots. And hey, it's a game you should probably own if you like anything I have ever done.

It’s finally here! Released today! tr.ee/WoET_1v22Z

Ok… so trusting your eyes and ears are out… we still have touch, smell and taste! We’ve got this, facts!

Israeli quadcopters shooting children. And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day. Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children. And our government continues to assist it.

My colleagues at Bloomberg report that the $20 billion debt in the EA deal is expected to be rated single-B — meaning it is considered a "junk" loan, or one that is high-risk and speculative, typically offering high interest rates. Which the new EA will have to pay www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This would be funny if there was not tens of thousands of staff on the line and family’s with a industry already suffering massive unemployment. Just hope those thinking this is a good idea fail so badly financially it becomes generational memory of how bad they they bet on this frankly silly idea

Leaving labour conference and felt like I’d lost something. Realised it’s my will to live.

Genuine reflection from Labour conference. The leadership is massively out of step with its own members and civil society. It’s giving pigheaded. The mood was low,few people impressed or confident in the current vision. The May elections will punish Starmerism and we’ll all be worse off for it.

Labour dragged into a humane policy for families at last. Over a million children should not have suffered for an extra year, but it shows opposition pressure and public campaigning can work. We must use our votes and voices to win for Disabled people now! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Went to a lovely Japanese-inspired garden in the Peak District today, created and maintained by the same guy for 30 years. Sadly the land is in danger of being repossessed due to mortgage issues stemming from 2008 and Northern Rock’s collapse. Please consider signing: www.change.org/p/under-thre...

#programming rant: features are important, code is liability. Nothing feels better than improving a feature by deleting code. Hyping "coding agents" by how much code they write is like celebrating how much of your inbox is spam.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you want to know about what things might go wrong when cross-compiling from Linux to Windows? No? Ah, too bad. Then don't click the link below. blog.s-schoener.com/2025-09-29-c...

YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers. Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" I said, "Yes, that's right." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

If your business cannot operate without theft then you don't have a business, you have a criminal enterprise

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

Horrific reality: @greenparty.org.uk has long been calling for ALL arms exports to Israel to be stopped. #HumanRights #RuleofLaw www.channel4.com/news/factche...

The police seem inexperienced with how to arrest a dangerous terrorist in a wheelchair. Well done Yvette Cooper. Slow hand clap. 👏

This is doomed to failure. It's writ large. You cannot automate your way to profit like this

Wait was EA’s big GenAI push a bid to convince potential buyers that it could lower operating costs after a purchase to help pay for debts?? They have like four whole game studios making the Battlefield series, you can’t run a CoD-competing juggernaut with automation. www.ft.com/content/be98...

Labour conference has passed a motion that recognises Israel’s genocide taking place in Gaza, and calls for the government to commit to a full arms embargo and end UK-Israeli military cooperation. Our members have taken a stand against genocide; now the government must too.

Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour. This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative. Join me in building a welcoming country. join.greenparty.org.uk