Dystopian fiction, anime, magical girls, uncertainty, and falling off a cliff read all about it, the latest Wealth of Notions: wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/i-who-have...

Probably should have seen that coming tbh

This is my post about being on the podcast about posting - talking about AI and OpenClaw and sentience. It’s good fun! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... tyvm @hkesvani.bsky.social

Three days ago, OpenAI said its AI wouldn’t be used for mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, or “social credit” systems. Today, Sam Altman told his staff thag OpenAI cannot control how the Pentagon uses its AI. We cannot rely on the morality of companies to protect our freedom.

This is the first I’m hearing about a growth in UK living standards?

If the Telegraph told the IPSO *how* this fake story got published, it might make it more difficult for other fake stories to be laundered to the public for the benefit of their billionaire owners. And we couldn’t have that, could we?

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

"Hey I've seen this one, it's a classic!" "What do you mean you've seen it, it's brand new?”

Just hook it to my veins!

Things the BBC say Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage have in common: - Winning - Growing member base - Social media use - The idea that Britain is broken Nothing material. The BBC is manufacturing consent for the existing politics, that props it up, and has failed us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Refugees will flee to the west because of the actions of right-wing governments, then the same right-wing governments will lie to its citizens that it’s the refugees’ fault, and they’re to blame for all your problems

“Matthew, what are you doing? Stop eating the votes, we need those to win, please, noooo”

This is simply unsustainable

No pain au chocolat no gain au chocolat

It’s illegal to have a memory in Britain Because I don’t know how antisemitism was the main political discourse for years, being told that Jews Don’t Count, that Corbyn pronounced Epstein’s name wrong But now, you can can compare Zack Polanski to Hitler, and that’s supposed to be fine and normal

The BBC will edit “Free Palestine” out of the BAFTAs but will keep in someone shouting the N-word They’ll let racist language though. They’ll facilitate what will be a horrible time for people with Tourette’s. But the words “Free Palestine” must be scrubbed from history.

“The Green Party is teaching four year-olds how to take drugs” could only be believed by people who don’t know what school is like nowadays because they’re not allowed to see their grandchildren

Having a memory is illegal in Britain. Parents in 2005: “children should learn about drugs when they’re about 9 or 10” The Green Party in 2026: “children should learn about drugs when they’re about 9 or 10” And people are screaming today that this is controversial

“What Epstein is suggesting is that Thiel, and their ilk, should unmake the world. “A world in ruin is one that’s easier to exploit, and one that’s harder for their crimes to be discovered.” wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Wow, great two sentence horr- Oh. Oh no.

You read the headline and think "£30 per trip, that's a good deal" But in the story, it's a homeless guy sleeping rough on trains, hospitals, libraries. A £3K fine costs £15K in prosecution, paid by our tax - money that could be spent helping him, and others like him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest Wealth of Notions is about how Musk is stacking his companies on top of each other wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Extremely potent. It’s the hope that’s going to keep you going. Reform and the others want you to give up but it is never over

“They’re giving He-Man pronouns”

“The ‘social’ part of social media started with the mind, moved onto the body (apart from the legs, which didn’t make it to the metaverse), and now is aiming for the soul in the capitalist’s ideal kind of solipsism” New blog, by me, please read 🙏 wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/stopped-wo...

“No, no, I said *you* should pay for media. Me, the billion-dollar AI giant, should get it illegally for free”

Reminder: is illegal to have a memory in Britain longer than one week

Centrists and the right-wing used this line to get rid of the only opportunity we had for good government seven years ago, and now the consequences of their actions has come in a way they have no power to challenge

I've started blogging. This one is about Google Gemini gorging on the last bit of information on the internet it didn't have: yours. What's coming: news, politics, book reviews, lecture updates, tech and power, and more. Subscribe to stay tuned. wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/the-spider...

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

extremely excited to see how well this will age

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Chief Wiggum’s invisible typewriter is more reliable than whatever the actual police are doing these days

"The capability is powered by both Motorola Solutions and Thomson Reuters"

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

AI bots are nothing like Photoshop or paint. It’s a beautiful metaphor that paper, or a black canvas, contains all the pictures that could be made. But it isn’t true. Grok, by contrast, does have a database of pictures. And that is what gets used to make revenge porn.

When you legislate ‘harms’ off a platform, you’re handing over authoritarian power and hoping it works. Today’s law against sexism is tomorrow’s law against protest footage, genocide, and free speech. Fighting sexism takes changing attitudes is in the real world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you take away people’s stress, you protect them from scams. You won’t fall for a ‘get rich quick’ scheme if there isn’t the need to be rich. It’s why a social safety net is so vital. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marx and Lenin fail to consider human nature. There is not one section of the communist manifesto that describes someone scrolling on their phone for 12 hours feeling sad

Maybe we need more than just stern words to avoid war crimes

Who called it “filming a workout” and not “gymming the camera”?

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

We are all going to die

Things that are acceptable to Meta: - Flirting with a child - Arguing black people are dumber than white people Things that are unacceptable to Meta: - Sharing information about the genocide in Gaza www.reuters.com/investigates...