Another win for the good guys.

ah it's the plot of The Last Jedi

In what world does AI prevent the hiring of the 380,000 health care employees

An early picture by Henri Matisse from around 1903, depicting a house in his parents village of Bohain en Vermandois, Aisne in northern France. Already, he's introducing his well-known motifs: the tilted picture plane and the open door.

Rwanda fails in its bid to get another £60-115 million from the UK - and so will have to settle for the £290 million it already got for the scheme that never happened www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

Breaking news: The Justice Department said it would obey a court order pausing the nearly $1.8 billion payout fund, potentially signaling a broader pullback.

"Trump personally urged President Xi Jinping to help end the Ukraine war, seeking to leverage Beijing’s influence over Moscow," reports South China Morning Post. Yeah, good luck with that. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.

Who among us does not get easily bored trying to end wars we started and then immediately lost on the first weekend?

Impartiality is not ‘due’ where one side is lying. Impartiality does not mean promotion of popular ignorance or dishonest bigotry.

only in Islington can you buy a jacket in a charity shop and get given this shopping bag to carry it in

Fundamentally, we really should emphasise that Westminster has gone weird in a way that is utterly disconnected from the rest of the country.

One dog did this in two minutes. Original post

EXCL: UK govt could force Britain’s crown dependencies and overseas territories to introduce greater transparency over the beneficial ownership of companies if progress continues to stall, PM’s anti-corruption champion Bns Margaret Hodge has warned

Oh that’s a big thing.

Wait. Streeting is actually more of a humanitarian IN PRIVATE than in public? What horrible things does this say about our politics???

Looking through the Mandelson files, has Wes Streeting said in public Israel is committing war crimes, or does he just keep that sentiment for DMs? www.gov.uk/government/p...

Good book. Well worth buying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

this is what it sounds like when arriving at the end of your grand vision you still believe in it right?

"exchange" in context meaning "unregulated crypto exchange"

the fascinating case of Spain, whose economy has been historically, shockingly good the past few years, fueled by record immigration levels -- but most of those immigrants already spoke Spanish www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Well...on the back of this news I have ordered the book, & I suspect I am not the only one, so well done Meta 😀

I read Careless People and it confirms what you might guess about oligarchs and their sycophantic entourage.

It's a proper Streisand moment - way more publicity than if they'd shut up and left her alone. It's everywhere and Asda and Sainsburys had it in HB a few months ago - they sell what's getting talked about. Epic backfire to zuck.

He was brilliant. Laid out the unfairness and stupidity of Meta's behaviour without actually criticising them. How can a social media company not realise the action it's taking is the best promotion her book could have, even if they stop her and her agents promoting it?

I was listening to her lawyer talking about that on the Today programme this morning. Utterly absurd! Free speech!

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My takeaway from my brief wander through the Mandelson stuff is that there seems to be almost nobody left in government who has even the foggiest idea what they should be doing. I feel immensely sorry for the junior civil servants left to try and deal with this nonsense.

Dear Ed, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin' I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em

Well this is just adorable

The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Well, I can't deny it.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

President Trump wants to cancel America’s 250th birthday concert. Various artists withdrew, don't want to be associated with Trump. Trump wanted to turn it into a political rally, claims he is the biggest star and a bigger draw than Elvis in his prime. Little interest in listening to a madman.

Bit of a Waiting For Godot element to the latest Mandelson files drop: look what's missing!

Mandelson arranged a private meeting between Keir Starmer and Palantir (which was represented by his own Global Counsel firm). Downing Street insist no records were kept of what was discussed at the meeting

Mandelson to David Lammy, handwritten letter of 18/11/24: ‘If you were minded to appoint me I would make sure you never regret it’

It is shit like this which is why I get so angry at the people who try and defend or dismiss Labour's rampantly xenophobic and hostile policies on the basis "Reform will be worse". Yeah, they will, it doesn't excuse how utterly abhorrent Labour is though. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

HOLY SHIRTBALLS Has anybody else seen any madness like this? All pictures welcome to reinflate my shrivelling ego.

This is the dumbest war in the history of wars. Not surprisingly, started by the dumbest US president in the history of presidents. # donald tRump # Epstein Files

He's got nothing

Whatever I am best at to be as good at learning new skills. CHECKMATE ATHEISTS

Night Hunter by Vitali Skvorkin

Me in the line at the coffee shop as Van Halen's "Jump" comes on

I would swop worrying for not worrying!

TBH, I think this is discriminatory against those of us who are completely incompetent.

I would trade my enormous talent for sarcasm, which is tragically undervalued by society, for the ability to sing at even a mediocre level

My ability to focus really well on unimportant things, swapped for the ability to focus as well on important things.

See, leg-spin is just a knack, get the wrist action right and then it's just a question of practice. Whereas not gibbering with fear before entering any room full pf people is sorcery AFAIC.