ec.europa.eu/commission/p... The EU seems to have mandated agentic AI without thinking very hard about the security, scraping and other risks. Hard anti-competition makes bad law.

Who would you bring into government now if you were Starmer? Real question.

Ok can we have Sue Grey back now then? 🙏

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "No you can't put out a report on AI regulation without actually having a lawyer involved. No a philosopher won't do, honest. Yes I know they'll be helpfully vague. Or an STS person. Better but still no cigar. Soz.""

Green corbynite is a rock that is lethal to centrist supporters of Labour

The only 3 people the rabid British newspapers have gone after are 3 who definitely didn't abuse girls - Mandelson who was infamous for other reasons, Starmer who built a career in part by directing prosecution of paedophile gangs, McSweeney who was simply uncaring about historical associations.

We hear a lot about how s 230 (c ) made the Internet. I've never believed that narrative - was loads else going on Inc massive VC capital, skills, and no risk aversion. But wow, what an Internet it made. Would we be in a better place if there'd been no immunity, no Internet exceptionalism? 1/n

How to spot AI generated romance ;In several romances written with A.I. programs, a peculiar metaphor recurs: in the throes of passion, the hero utters his lover’s name “like a ragged prayer. But truly if u want formula do you care?? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Moltbook was peak AI theater share.google/JwiURwxlGHs7... finally some common sense. Also best seen as "hallucination by design" 💯

Rejoinerism would honestly be an extremely good strategy for Labour to pursue at this point

"having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue.” wow this beats sending over sleeper agents anytime futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Am seeing the reactions to criticism of Heathcliff casting without having seen the crits. Is this the definition of a filter bubble

I have just realised for the first time in 40 years that my MSc in computing actually helps as a historical lens to understand what's wrong with vibe coding. The rest of u can move on, nothing to see here

As discussed near endlessly lately i feel, in spirit if not in letter @bencollier.uk

You cant make these up

Sometimes righteous fury is so so good to read. But..As a Brit i cannot imagine an administration so evil a judge could be moved to write like this 😕

We could do worse than reread this

www.anthropic.com/research/AI-... Anthropic are remarkably good at owning up to all the ways their product impairs peoples lives AND YET...

I can't resist RTing this but am seriously worried it might give some of my household connected objects ideas.. Flopnado, as someone said in comments.

A piece so insightful it immediately seems like stuff you have always known but with added marvellous neologisms : AI as social prosthetic, date slop, emotional offloading. But I do wonder if UK students would be as scared to speak to their profs without rehearsal! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Superb. Now that's what I call journalism

"No one should be wasting time on something AI can do quicker and better, let alone wasting millions of taxpayer pounds on outsourcing such work to contractors." Just found this from May 2025. Shame Peter Kyle didn't take his own advice re the AI Skills Hub huh? 🤣 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Really? Looks a security hazard to me…https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Very smart piece, which if it wasn't for Brexit I would retitle : why The Digital Services Act Will Give You Better Restaurant Outings in London laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...

Read whole thread, but first point here is so so so what Labour should have started doing the second they were elected

Useful summary from @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social of all the ways the GDPR simplification instrument is trying to f* up DP 😥 www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/keep-it...

If you're in the middle aisle sometime, why not pick up some guaranteed EU cloud infrastructure ? 🤣 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... ( Posted cos I KEEP telling people Lidl is our saviour..)

Just received a notice from Apple saying that it has found X to be in breach of the App Store rules due to its nudification functions.

PWC were paid £5mn quid to put a corporate wrapper ( choose Google! Choose Amazon!) on a bunch of free courses as the shiny AI Skills hub ( thx @ednewtonrex.bsky.social ). Small beans but think what that could have done as a research programme or grassroots finding. Sighhhhhh. Tender below

This is very funny and rather more informative

Perfect, we can all go home now, the AI can take it from here

@ednewtonrex.bsky.social has now discovered that PWC was given £5mn smackers to create this index of free to air poor quality promotional GAM training vids. This is small sums in scheme of things but SCANDALOUS,cynical & hoping not to be found out. £5mn could have done so much in academe.

Plus. Turing and slightly bizarrely a UKRI quantum centre. Bit of brand tarnishing going on?

Curious if allowing smart glasses in to the premises of shops & other public facing workplaces might be a breach of HSWA duties given privacy breach and harassment potential - @ifow.org ? futurism.com/artificial-i...

just build a software product that becomes a load bearing dependency for the stock market and the government will be forced to become a distribution partner and build a citizen sales channel for you

Is it just me or is the UK gov getting mates rates from big tech to take some of their downsized staff off their hands, while locking our public sector into US controlled tech at a time when even EU has realised need for digital sovereignty? Reuters share.google/WM8rn9kw09aS...

i want the text of C-60/81 I'm getting recommendations to buy a lawn chair THIS IS NOT THE LIFE WE WERE PROMISED

That AI Skills govt starry rollout. TL ; DR it's the equivalent of that awful mandatory online security training companies make you do crossed with lock-in cursory training in Google/Amazon/ M$ tools. Ps RIP responsible AI

I also love the idea that Google, like me, just can't get a plumber. Anyway, back to serious stuff.

Bloody hell I'm in Billericay. Always thought it was in the West Country!

Fascinating if unexpected. Pay £1.99 a month for the Mirror to reject tracking and they're still sharing yr data w 200 partners for ads. Also shouldn't ground then be contract not legit interests?

Really interesting thread on who actually has to bell the cat if the EU believes Grok is violating the DSA to apply sanctions and guess! What! It’s good ol’ Ireland 🙈

Slightly boggled at what a “good enough” law is. Laws have precise goals. You cant just say “google, draft me a law that does something about repressing brown people in Minnesota” Still wow all those years studying why automated rules parsing doesn’t work may finally have not been in vain..

2 referrals have now been made by a Bulgarian court regarding AI Act interpretation.

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And finally…

Abroad watching weird news channels and the sudden shift from Waltz to football was… whiplash ish

My god Waltz has just mentioned Anne Frank. This is somehow more shocking than invoking Hitter.

As light relief, id REALLY rather a pic🙈 of Starmer and Burnham was not headlined” Heated Rivalry” ..🙈

Well here is an interesting theme for Burns Supper toasts this weekend