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

Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The culture war against trans people has unsurprisingly in US turned into criminalising them. Kansas has invalidated identity documents without time to replace them for trans people - driving licence, voting ID etc. This should be a real moment for anti-trans Brits to take a big step back...

Since the recent, massive revelations of the Epstein Files, there has been a concerted effort to rapidly change Prince Andrew's moniker to the common Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor. But this isn't coming from the public.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Having been shocked that TormentNEXUS(tm) created the torment nexus featured in major SF publication 'Don't Create the Torment Nexus' we're pleased to release TormentFluxus, an open source, free to use implementation of the core Torment Nexus protocols.

Sunday. #AmEditing with help from Ghost Ship, in The Geldart, one of the finest pubs in Cambridge or indeed elsewhere. I’ve been drinking in this pub for 44 years now. And counting. @adnamssouthwold.bsky.social

They should bring back the Jenny Laird Award and add it to the Oscars while they’re at it.

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

This started as a single tip about one building but on a hunch we got @pollysmythe.bsky.social to chase around London and check all the Aziz family’s properties. Sometimes she got there just before the eviction notices. The scale of the clearout is enormous – and we don't think we found all of it.

Well, hello world! State of the Future is a new think tank (from @gavinfreeguard.com) for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. sotf.org.uk (Quiet news day to soft launch, eh?)

Up early to watch the ISS pass over Stonesdale as dawn breaks. Cold out there.

Heard someone refer to a (large) datacenter as an "ohio-class datacenter" and now I only want to hear datacenter sizes referred to by reference to submarine classes

"This is vibes-based policy making, not evidence-based policy making" — me talking on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast just now about the MPs pushing for a social media ban for under 16s.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

hey @lucympowell.bsky.social, the cass review has been discredited internationally on multiple occasions why is the government using it to form policy that will harm children, up to and including their deaths? i won't vote for a party that abuses kids. ig im jus being an 'extremist lefty'.

It would be fascinating if the BBC would invite a trans person to opine at length about all this stuff rather than a succession of randos who like writing about them.

SOS save the #bbcworldservice ‘Perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world”in the 20th century’: Kofi Annan. Money runs out in 7 weeks. No plan. Pls lobby YvetteCooperMP Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer John Healey MP Please Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

I told the panel organisers it was my policy to charge a speaker fee for last minute invitations onto manels (£100 per man on the panel seemed suitably exorbitant) and they agreed to pay! Money's going to @pairs.site Win win win. It's definitely my policy now!

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus by @ashleyblewer.com Incredible!

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

A month on from publication my book 'Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain' remains available from publishers Bloomsbury with discounts on the hardback, paperback and e-book versions. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Breaking: Apple required to proceed with recognition ballot after months of attempting to block and union-busting activities. CAC Decision: www.gov.uk/government/p...

And yes, there is clear official UK government guidance on creating a campaign site www.communications.gov.uk/guidance/mar...

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark. A long thread 🧵>>

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Suffused with quality. "Sematic" indeed.

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

After saying two weeks of surveillance footage was lost in a "system crash," DHS now says it was never recorded at all. This is a response to detainees suing the government who say they were held in subhuman, illegal conditions. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

OH FOR GOD'S SAKE www.gov.uk/government/n... *as little as 20 minutes*

Big AI day for ministers www.gov.uk/government/p... Expect big media splashes on this.