Beyond me how anyone wouldn't immediately assume this is how they would be used

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More evidence for the 'money can't buy taste' files

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Booooooooo

This tale could perhaps be interpreted as a wider metaphor 🤔

Stop this now says Percy. The lap is not for the laptop.

Is anyone documenting the crimes against hot cross buns? Lemon and white chocolate?? Triple chocolate?? 🤢

Percy says stay in bed a bit longer

Interesting how many of the Men Who Have Made Mistakes from the last few weeks are linked Simons Mcsweeny Mandelson Theil Epstein Andrew Not saying it's a big conspiracy, or that all of them know each other, more like a closed ecosystem of powerful men that operate on their own rules

Maybe AI girlfriends aren't entirely a bad idea. I'd hate any actual woman to end up with this guy.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Well, hello world! State of the Future is a new think tank (from @gavinfreeguard.com) for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. sotf.org.uk (Quiet news day to soft launch, eh?)

If you don't know American figure skating Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu's backstory, this is a pretty good 2 minute summary.

Percy getting his audition for the nativity play in early this year

Actions, meet consequences

Who is your pick to lead the investigation into Andrew?

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

Looking at the event page for a work conference and Eventbrite is suggesting other things I might like to attend Not sure their recommendation algorithm is quite up to it 🤨🤔

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

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I know the weather sucks and much of the world also sucks but I've just been in the garden and it's coming back to life after the winter and it's just so encouraging 🌱

hi hi! reposting this to say that I currently have extremely little planned for March so do please get in touch if you'd like to commission me for.....something? or even just have a chat about commissions in general - keen to get out of my routine a bit this year and work on new things!

Maybe us childfree types should use AI to generate fake children to save us from the Goodwin Barren Woman Tax

Ignore them for weeks until the public outcry becomes so overwhelming that you're forced to order a largely toothless regulator to launch a multi-week investigation with no actual consequences while continuing to use the platform the images were posted all-over as it poisons society? Go off, king.

More tea tray sliding gold!!! 🥇

I feel it is essential to embrace international traditions

Much nicer

Wonder if anyone is doing further digging into this given everything else we know now

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Sunshine on the sea in Hastings

Everyone in the UK right now

Hooray the man on the tray won the gold!!

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public. “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I know much of what's happening in the US is wild, but this is really wild.

"AI transcription is rapidly being rolled out across social work, but current approaches to ethics and evaluation are limited and light-touch" www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/press-releas...

"Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation" www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you: Ursula Very sweet meaning (little girl bear) but I think I might have struggled in life

“In our… research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it… Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day…”

My patience with 'important' men making excuses for themselves and their friends and colleagues is now zero. Don't care who they are. You know who these people are what they have done. Women are TIRED OF THIS SHIT.

I cannot give enough kudos to the We Rate Dogs account for their clear explanation of this issue and for using their *enormous* platform to educate people.

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

Am I missing a whole load of news about some kind of response in the US to this? From the UK it seems like

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL "I was 14" "I was 16" "I was 16" "17" "14" "There are about a thousand of us" "It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows" "It's time to shine a light into the darkness" "Release all of the Epstein files"

I'd have been up on that roof like a shot giving the kitten a leg-up