Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless

Good policy should always begin by considering the needs of the most vulnerable and excluded people. I'm also interested in how this plays with tentative proposals in the digital ID consultation to introduce digital ID from either birth or at the age of 13.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Lads, is there anyone in the Labour Party willing to call out Starmer and Mahmood or are you all just going to sit there and watch the party die?

I was in Chennai today for the launch of FP Launchpad, a new centre at IIT Madras dedicated to crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. Having a well-funded, long-horizon centre of excellence in India is a big step forward! anil.recoil.org/notes/fpl-la...

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

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People are asking

what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

It’s a bright cold day in April.

While folks are still going "I never thought it would go that far". Just a heads up all the trans stuff is gonna be used to prevent cis women from experimenting with cross-sex behavior like working, owning property and voting

The moon rising over Stonesdale. Watching the Artemis II launch, which will take four people there. And remembering Apollo 8. plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

"Cleared" after one year. A year is a long time in boxing. And these are her prime years because age/time is undefeated and undisputed. They have done her harm.

This is what Potter money pays for. Why pay money to watch pretend heroes when you’re propping up a villain in real life?

Looking forward to seeing this as the front page of the Daily Mail. Because that's how it works, right?

Brother just because you have no soul doesn't mean you have to project on it on everyone else

“I have zero introspection…400 years ago it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspective”. Andreessen’s combo of neurodivergence, vast wealth, airport book executive summary knowledge and intense white guy sense of personal centrality should be studied by future historians

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

An intellectual giant has died. It is impossible to discuss constitutional democracy without discussing Habermas' reflections on it. We will continue to do so for a long time www.jstor.org/stable/3072601

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Paging @doctorow.pluralistic.net

The wait is (almost) over! @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com

The highest EU court & the European Court of Human Rights are both clear that trans ppl are entitled to >full< human rights. This clearly shows that the UK Labour govt are now in breach by removing vital trans healthcare in Northern Ireland & Britain. SF, UUP, DUP & Alliance are in breach in NI*

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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Performative cruelty.

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

This via @paulbernal.bsky.social - the long term failure to regulate big tech firms properly remains astonishing. Reflects both their lobbying power & the collective lack of specialist knowledge with MPs & peers (despite the handful of honourable mentions)

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The ICO and Ofcom are pushing for tech companies to strengthen age checks. It's disastrous that the ICO wants to somehow 'protect children’s data' by compelling 13-18 year olds to use poorly regulated digital identification products that could put their biometric data at risk.

like, we've been over this. not that they care or that it's being argued on any real rational basis they just want us gone. but we know the truth bsky.app/profile/juli...

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

A substantial, thoughtful response to the BBC Charter Review green paper from the BBC WAC Campaign (of which I'm a part), focussed on Written Archives Centre issues but more broadly address to questions of trust and transparency. Do please take a look.

Funny thing is, I bet internally Grammarly thought journalists would LOVE this.

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

LIke reading that Jarndyce v Jarndyce has been settled out of court. Can it really be true?

I caught a trailer for this a day or so ago and that literally starts with Armstrong saying "India is a land of contrasts", and truly it is time to nuke the "middle-aged-white-man-makes-cliche-laden-travelogue" format.

Travelling via London KX? Intrusive privacy invasion in place…

TIL end-to-end encryption is "controversial privacy tech" hahahahaha fuck off

Wait… people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits not Uruk-hai? Are they ashamed of something?

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

*He's speaking Viktor-Orban, the favorite dialect of the European ethnonational-right, in which the European Union is a decliing maelstrom of sexual violence committed by Moslem rape-gangs

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Have fun typing "the government should regulate corporate platforms, not punish users" ten million times in this designed-to-catch-you-out "consultation" that they will not listen to, but do it anyway because they need to get the message.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit. If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?

In fact, the extract from the Home Secretary's comments suggests that her rationale is wholly dishonest - the settlement changes concern people who are here legally, not illegally