There is no reason to ever have a conversation with someone who believes Anthropic Claude is an "artificial intelligence"

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

"Keir is your manager. His friend Waheed has offered him lots of expensive suits in exchange for a pass to the office. What should Keir do? A) Turn down the offer and report it B) Cut the Winter Fuel Allowance"

While it's good for the state of the world that the referendum in Virginia was won - this battle to gerrymander as much as possible is a bad sign for US democracy. This degree of polarisation and norm-breaking is hard to recover from.

my god the new desktop WhatsApp is sooooooooooooooooooo bad literally can't type messages because it just hangs

Working on my writeup of the Alex Karp/Palantir manifesto right now, and I have backed into the following compliment: When I read the book last year, I thought "this book should've been a tweet." It now seems Palantir agrees.

Tremendous read

“In the songs’ combination of joy and scepticism, heady complexity and hits-the-first-time riffs, I found an art, and a worldview, that looked like a life I might live.” [3/3] www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap... #SarahRecords #Heavenly

Our next event! 🚨 6PM, WED 29th April 🚨 At the MoJ or online. Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, LGA : LG2040: The State of Things to Come ​Jonathan Slater (ex DfE Perm Sec), Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL luma.com/7nu2j853 Please share! Thanks 🙏

Good thread that focuses on lawful authority and constitutional roles not bloggers opinions

Old Appalachian baby names from Appalachian cemeteries. (IG: appalachian_bluebird)

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue. The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

Love a Staffordshire Clanger. They are works of genius. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it

Peace when markets are open War when markets are closed

Golden time, Edinburgh

We all have days like this

Looking out records to play tomorrow at Lounge33 what time you say? 10:30am til 1pm

Looking foreward to the adventures of a Scottish dynamite/Uranium heiress and her hi-jinks across Europe by sleeper accompanied by the crême of the Communist underground Finally I will be able to join the BlueSky train/plane holiday rammie with ma heid held high

The core problem is the appointment. They wanted Mandelson, the system gave them Mandelson. The system worked as it is meant to. The problem is the original sin - the decision (the desire) to appoint Mandelson.

This is the text message journalist David Maddox sent to No.10 Director of Communications Tim Allan. They knew Mandelson was a security risk, had failed vetting, but appointed him anyway. Then they orchestrated a cover up; now firing the Foreign Office Perm Sec who wasn’t even in post at the time.

How it started Vs how it's going

NEW: Olly Robbins has been called to give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday 👀

I’ve no brief for Olly R but the time line is crazy: He’s appointed 8 Jan 25. Mandy announcement had already been made 20 Dec 24 in advance of vetting. Trump inauguration was 20 Jan. So we’re basically talking about Robbins’ first 12 days.

BoJo got his chips cashed by an FCO Perm Sec in jig-time

It's all GamerGate all of it

Your reminder that I wrote War Is Coming 10 years ago - this war is a consequence of failures to adjust the post-war international order - and a failure of the EU to properly consider its neighbours - it needs to change www.amazon.co.uk/War-Coming-G...

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

What's that ringing sound? It's Norwegian/German star Wenncke Myhre calling to tell you to get your arse down to Lounge33 Saturday 10:30am til 1pm

prepping for my set at Lounge33 on Saturday (10:30am til 1pm girl fans) my fav photo of the East German star Ina Martell

Israel is not occupying Lebanon up to the Litani River It's occupying it AGAIN

Just getting set up for the @atproto.london hack night at Newspeak House on Bethnal Green Road at 6pm tonight Come along and join us!

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

Field notes from the 🎶Slopapocalypse 🎶 Want to see if a an dependency I need is planning to fix its XSS bugs - went to the issues list on GitHub - 1k issues all filed 2 weeks ago Jesus Xmas Christ this is grimola

rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

wanna make a film? looking for a summer project? come down the club Thursday edinburghcinevideosociety.substack.com/p/make-your-...

I'm sorry but HAHAHAHA this is GOLD

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Escape from Kharg Island open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

When Sun Yat-Sen died a century ago he was a massive and revered political figure Does any person or party consider themselves Sun Yat-Senist now?

A humanoid robot chasing wild boars through Warsaw has become Poland’s latest viral sensation. “Edward Warchocki” has racked up hundreds of millions of views as he patrols streets, chats with locals, and turns heads across the capital.

If you look at John Hughes movies as a baseline on the future politics of yt GenX, the truth was always there. The majority of the class was not with Molly Ringwall and Mary Stuart Masterson, they were the assholes on the other side. Bullies. Elites. Snobs Ferris Bueller would’ve voted for Trump!

It actually is Baal… and this after a dozen Iranian LEGO animations depicting Baal as his ally. This is hard to even process.

this is the equivalent of a "straight" guy saying he has grindr on his phone because he thought it was a way to find guys for poker night be serious

If you happen to be in London Monday evening I will be talking about institutionalising the digital state at NewSpeak House nationalconversations.org/events/4/

Kicking off our summer film making programme for people who have never made a film before - come on down Thursday evening open.substack.com/pub/edinburg...