Choose your PhD dissertation from today’s news: -man collapses during White House press conference, Trump T-poses as RFK flees -Elon Musk’s USAID body count rises over 600k -lawsuit against OpenAI for multiple AI-assisted suicides -Mike Johnson’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Need a lot more of this. Especially in areas where privatised essential services (energy, water, etc..) are ripping people off. Just stop paying until they are brought into public ownership and profit motive is removed.

Peter Osborne is always a man worth reading. www.stopwar.org.uk/article/comp...

The enshittification of an already gutted mental health issue, by a truly destructive technological entity in nearly every capacity is haunting.

I remember the moral panic over "satanic" lyrics "and if you play it backwards at slow speed you hear a voice saying "dummy, you're playing it backwards at slow speed"

To this day you can’t buy Jarts but an 11 year old can ask AI how to make a noose with zero oversight or safeguards

Perhaps the political outcry at the highest level is muffled by the large piles of dollars from billionaires.

There are no words for how evil this is

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

"Ceasefire" in Gaza... 👹 #Gaza #Westbank #Palestine #Genocide #FreePalestine #HolocaustInPalestine

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating

🚨 Groundbreaking element of yesterday’s ruling in the case our coalition of Dutch and Palestinian organisations brought against the Dutch State: the court recognised the serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law: www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...

As the atrocities have come to light - influencers in the UAE sprung into action mocking the victims in Sudan (often using racist language) as well as calling for more deaths. These actions seem to be sanctioned by the state and its leader bin Zayed and go hand in hand with government propaganda.

Watch The James Bond Movies again. They show what may happen when Trillionaires control space.

The difference between 'Billionaire overdoses on toilet' and 'Trillionaire overdoses on toilet' is two letters.

The entire purpose of whacking a magic trillionaire label on this stupid boring fail son is to get everyone's knees knocking. It just isn't working, I feel nothing.

Man, I had zero reaction to this. Just meaningless symbols on a screen or a page. "Ohhhh now he can buy any election he likes" lol ok i guess he just didn't fancy buying all the elections on Tuesday night.

The @senatedemocrats.bsky.social now need to call a press conference and explain this to the American people. They need to hold pressers every single day.

According to Private Eye, a “trusted witness” reported they heard Georgia Pickering, CMS Strategic’s Managing Director, take credit for putting a story in The Times newspaper about a Home Office investigation into Palestine Action over their alleged funding.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

If there is something produced by Paramount you absoluter have to see, just pirate it.

Fantastic little vignette about Glinner from today's @vittles.bsky.social newsletter (I highly recommend subscribing btw, if you're in any way interested in food).

I wrote about internet men having big feelings about my little philosophy columns wellreadherring.substack.com/p/on-writing...

The British government has chosen to turn a blind eye to the sexual violence, ethnic cleaning and slaughter of civilians by the UAE-armed RSF forces in Sudan. Another unforgivable dereliction of duty to prevent genocide.

the entire point of charitable donations of the super wealthy is that it gives them a blank cheque to push other, more reactionary politics. No better example than JKR.

Jimmy Savile was also charitable, what’s your point? Charity is often a shield for being an asshole

The stakes are very clear: which side are you on?

Save the Children staff working in Gaza shared voice notes with personal reflections about their hopes for the future of Palestine.

The level of talent, imagination, or frankly brainpower in our political class is truly staggeringly low sometimes. No wonder we’re in such a mess 😭😅😅🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😫

This complete nut (Jo White mp) on #r4today reckons processing asylum claims in IRAQ - setting up offshore processing centres with British civil servants processing claims IN IRAQ is actually a sane or even money saving plan??? 🤯🤯🤯 Lost the plot entirely.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Bannon isn't encouraging MAGA Republicans to compromise or flee. He's telling them they are in an existential war that they must win with any means.

Today, it begins. The Official Season of Tory MPs (and I guess Reform, too) posting carefully orchestrated, artfully taken, but natural looking photos at #Remembrance Ceremonies ...

But perhaps by that very logic, if you’re authoritarians who like to think of yourselves as libertarians you want to take all of that power and prestige and make it a symbol of the supremacy of individual brilliance in the ‘private sector’ (albeit humungously subsidised)…🤔 Ayn Rand was unhelpful.

They use these absurd figures to keep market speculation needed for inflating the bubble. If it bursts Musk, Meta and Altman are most exposed.

waiting for the AI bubble to burst and sink this entire rotten ship

why do they want to turn it into an AI and robotics juggernaut? is it because their car sales are doing poorly? do they understand why that’s happening?

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human. www.techpolicy.press/ai-chatbots-...

At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we published a piece with this title this morning. www.techpolicy.press/ai-companies...

"...the chats displayed common psychotic themes of paranoia and persecution, along with familiar delusions revolving around messiah complexes and government conspiracies."

"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."

I see we've reached the point where news organs are putting out deeply harrowing, and incredibly reported, stories like this every single day, without it making even the slightest dent in ChatGPT's constant fellation by all other sections of the press.

When we win, this is going to require its own JDPON special tribunal just to deal with everyone who made it happen

Both of these are paid for by our taxes: - Tax cuts for the rich - Healthcare subsidies, SNAP Why is one of them called mooching off the government and the other isn’t?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

also “Education is a source of pride in Scotland, which shows in the broad commitment to CfE and educational excellence for all. It has been granted great importance in the political debate to a degree that would be the envy of many a system” and “CfE’s originality...