Brilliant post from @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy about Open AI's christmas offer with the Norad Santa Tracker

Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today... maryrose.org/discover/his...

The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct. It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.

I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941. Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

I wkrry we are going back to the bad old days the 1980s - Xmas Casuals on "away days" to Christmas markets. Hopped up on mulled wine and looking for trouble against rival Carol Firms

What does the YouTube algorithm show pre-school kids when they know those kids are into Bluey & Peppa Pig? A weird selection of blood, horror and AI slop. What I discovered after spending a week on YouTube “being” a young kid…

Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck

That's a little bit naughty @hetanshah.bsky.social 😁 The UK cost of living necessitates working full-time. It is not possible to rent a property as a single earner, on a single part-time wage, without significant support. Everything else is under-employment.

This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻‍♀️

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies

Oh my god that is the worst possible answer

Wait, you get this degree just for turning up to the classes?

Please God can we go back to the days of Budget purdah. Two months of quiet from Treasury ministers, spads, and officials whilst they put the budget together might help to wind down this incessant speculation.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

The game is far too easy for batters. We seek to revolutionise cricket through these new cricket stumps. Boasting four poles rather than three and made of volcanic ash instead of wood, they are perfect for events such as The Ashes.

Map Of European Cultural Superiority More on the survey: brilliantmaps.com/european-...

Government either needs to go 'well, we've made these changes and over time, the market will do its thing and new businesses will emerge' or it needs to actively do things to accelerate that process/act as a £450k a pop builder itself for a bit.

A surprising number of people don't seem to get this - if you are a business, and your path to profitability for 20 years has run through 'selling high density homes at £750k a pop', changing the regulatory incentives that created that business does not mean a £450k a pop business appears overnight.

I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you?

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

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On Pochin Labour took the lead and went hard against her, not on day 5, but from the start: the result has been a Tory and Reform smash up. It would be nice to hope lessons have been learned.

Proof that Nigel Farage hardly knew Nathan Gill, the traitor who took Russian bribes.

Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t... Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse. PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us. Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets. archive.ph/tJVkV

Alas, poor Jenrick...

This headline is a little misleading to ppl who don't think first in market-economy terms #OpenAI isnt just drawing as much power as New York + San Diego. They are *actively *bidding* against* every person in those cities for the same generator capacity Because of this Your Rates virtually double!

No idea what this is supposed to mean. The 50% target doesn't exist and nothing in the Gove reforms said more people had to go to university. It's a demand led system.

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

perfect detail

It’s debatable whether the terrorism phase following the direct action phase was necessary or successful though

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades. One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

not sure which is the more unlikely part of this, Stuart Broad having heard of Real Betis or Real Betis having heard of Stuart Broad

Apparently it’s only fascism if it comes from Fasch in Germany, so what you lot have in the US is just sparkling authoritarianism made using ‘Die traditionelle Methode’ of prosecuting people you don’t like, mass rallies, shutting down/taking over independent media and arresting people based on race.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

Let's have fully virtual students and tutors so everyone can just go down the pub instead and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

A plagiarism on both your houses!