They were running away? *Ahem* That robot must be such a bore!

AI is cooking our godamn brains. I'm seeing it more and more and it's seeping into every sphere.

Another marketing coup for Tunnocks #ArtemisII @mrstevenallen.bsky.social

Great Britain threw away 5GW of wind power during Storm Dave & replaced it using gas 🔥 That's one and a half Sizewell C-sized nuclear power stations, or four Dogger Bank A-sized wind farms. Or to put it another way, it's a shit load of power. Why throw it away? Because our straw isn't big enough…

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint. We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin) www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...

The devastation in the scenes coming out of Lebanon is hard to comprehend, just absolute horror www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

I’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Received ‘a Quarterly report‘ from the director of our block of flats.Took me while to realise large chunks of it had been done with AI. So much so that it indicated the director‘s bias about certain things rather than being accurate to what was actually happening.

I have started reading Love and Rockets by the Hernandez brothers. Absolutely amazing. Really surprised at how well it holds up given it started in the mid 80s(?). Very progressive in terms of its female and LGBTQ characters. Can't say the same for a lot of other renowned writers from that period.

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

Horrific abuse of 15-year-old girl at illegal children’s home in Yorkshire. Investigation by @tbij.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

The extraordinary documentary evidence at the heart of the UK Afghan war crimes inquiry - a thread. There is currently a public inquiry into alleged war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. The ongoing inquiry has published some interesting and worrying documents. >

Commonly known as ”marking one’s territory”

NEW A failed military police investigation? The Afghan war crimes inquiry continues to throw light on alleged crimes by UK special forces and their possible cover-up By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

Bullseye.

Gah! Away from home and left all the pile of books I wanted to read at home.

The headline should read 'at least unaffordable since 2015'. House prices in England only passed 5x earnings (which the ONS regards as the affordability threshold) in 2002 and at 7.6x earnings are still more unaffordable than before GFC in 2007 www.ft.com/content/a1b9...

Still very much on the fence with coding AI tools on what it will do to productivity. The tough part has never been the code. It has always been the product - and everything around it from product development/sales/consulting to operational teams managing the code when it's in production.

BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.

Mercy on Prime is on par with Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds in terms of shit. Maybe even worse. Such a contemptible piece of garbage. At no point in the movie does anyone question whether the ‘kill-box’ is a good idea. Spoiler alert - it fucking isn’t! A pro AI movie that resembles AI slop.

I know we all say it a lot but it is REALLY recent that numbers like this were close to unimaginable, for a grid the size of Britain and its current level of interconnection elsewhere. This is important because pretending we can't exist without fossil fuels is a big lie designed to stop us trying

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

The war in Iran could trigger a global food shock • More than 1.1mn tonnes of fertiliser and fertiliser inputs is currently stuck in the Gulf • Shortages are starting during northern hemisphere’s planting season, raising the risk of lower harvests for staples like rice www.ft.com/content/1054...

The munition is briefly visible here:

One of the things that I hope this debacle puts to bed is the notion - held by some - that the private sector is efficient and the public sector is not. Meta spent $80 Billion (?) on this and have nothing to show for it.

I spent two years of my life working on this product and just like that...

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

"...Mr Jakstys' mobile phone started broadcasting out loud..." These paragraphs from the "smart glasses" case are for the ages. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

For shame

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

Nothing they talk about more in "left behind communities" than reinstalling the Shah.

I have a feeling there are entire generations of comics fans who have never experienced how breathtaking some older comics are because of the meticulous and vibrant traditional coloring. Many digital recolorings utterly fail to capture that and make the story seem flat or boring.

this is such a terrible idea it violates every decent programming principle (like DRY) it wastes massive resources by design it fractures all the good things about shared libraries, & isolates users bc nobody’s code will be identical this is basically juicero for code on steroids

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Hello darkness my old friend...

My hot take. Blue Labour sucks. That is all.

Recommend this. It explains LLMs clearly without getting too technical and gives a straightforward breakdown of its shortfalls.

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Recently, somewhat against my will, I went to try the "Sticky Toffee Pudding Pizza" (pt 1)

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

side note but £1700pcm for a one bedroom flat in Colliers Wood, a not especially glamorous neighbourhood in quite deep zone 3, is fucking bananas, London renting has just gone fully insane