4pm today UK time

There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before* Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming

Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

lmao

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

Useful article by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the Green's turn to the left (something that's been going on for much longer than a lot of the coverage and media talk of "entyrism" would suggest):

This is interesting. A little bit reminiscent of Andy Beckett's book 'The Searchers' and passages in the book on how John McDonnell found novel ways (using dormant mechanisms) to fund the GLC's programme in the 1980s.

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

I struggle with thinking about the cost to the exploited people of the world with this kind of individualised rush for green tech independence like this. And how inefficient it is. And the lack of societal organisation to plan the systems we need. It's Mad Max, for real.

a “Space Force”, if you will

At my hospital this is predated on the functions of 100s of admin staff being replaced with the NHS app and electronic patient records. The IT department focused exclusively on EPR for 6 months yet when it launched it broke so many things they turned it off and declared a critical incident.

#OtD 13 Nov 1972 100s of people in Kirkby, England, blocked roads around Tower Hill to prevent bailiffs from evicting eight tenants who had been on rent strike against the Housing Finances Act. The council then decided it would not evict any strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8518...

london review of blokes

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Please kill me

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

“The 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services

Congrats to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers for winning their *3 year strike*. It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.

NEW: Unemployment has risen to 1,789,000. That's up 117,000 in the last 3 months and up 282,000 in the last year. On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now 5.15 million people underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago. There are now 7.1 people seeking work for every vacancy.

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

"Stardust Solutions is a US-Israeli company that is developing technology for solar geoengineering. They've raised $15 million in funding from AWZ Ventures, a Canadian-Israeli venture capital fund that advertises its ties to the CIA, FBI, and the Mossad..." - Sofia Menemenlis

Best analyses of Mamdani's electoral victory and his prospects going forward anyone? Thanks in advance

The booing is great but "I *state your name* do solemnly swear" is fucking hilarious

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

bro are you fucking kidding me

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

even the FBI under Patel can't keep a lid on this

Take a guess which paper. Go on, I bet you’re right.

Ok man but have you seen your last name

Is the Reform leader losing his "populist" touch?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

"There appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.

So did it work?

Every time someone said, "We have to allow for intellectual diversity," I said, "You mean people who are always wrong?" and I'm not sorry.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Joint statement by Latin American leaders condemning the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. Available in EN and ES.

The Knesset passes preliminary bill to annex the occupied West Bank.

'Grasped materially and dialectically, classes do not have a priori interests about which they subsequently struggle...

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...