If Section 230 dies, so will the web. That's not hyperbole. Name your favourite online service. It will close. If you're in the US, call your congressperson and demand they vote against repealing Section 230. Oh and don't fall for the "protecting the kids" rubbish. It's NOT about that. At all.

@markruffalo.bsky.social - "ChatGPT's president is Trump's biggest donor. Their tech powers ICE. It's time to boycott: QUITGPT."

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Any investigation from the UK into the Epstein files should be extended to investigating the relationship between the disgraced financier and Steve Bannon. What role did Bannon play in our politics? And why?

In case anyone is wondering why Trump posted that vile meme of the Obamas last night-- In the UK, Peter Mandelson is under criminal investigation for passing confidential government information to Epstein. French prosecutors just raided Musk's Paris offices over child abuse images. Plus...

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

Reform UK are under pressure to explain why their treasurer appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade

Concerning video about the crazy amounts of money the "AI" industry is throwing around to either get the legislation they want, or silence what they don't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOm...

Minnesota is the best of us.

We can have more of the untenable same with the Reform/Tory/Labour bloc. Or we can have this.

Greens surge to joint highest polling as Reform support stalls www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...

"AI factories" = data centres. Tech billionaires (and those who drank the kool-aid) are trying to capture the word "factory" to make you think "AI" data centres will produce something useful. "AI" steals work, wastes huge amounts of resources and makes prices go up. It's a grift and a bubble.

Loved every minute of the Yorkshire tour - thanks to everyone who showed up this weekend! And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚

This is what "AI" investment and the bubble is really funding. ChatGPT is just a cute way to get you onside.

Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.

Key question for Farage. There’s nothing new, reforming or anti-establishment about Reform. Exactly the same people, corruption, uselessness and racism just sidling over to the Reform/Tory recycling bin. And he’ll never fix the mess the Tories made because they made it for Farage. He is the mess.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a nasally delivered, antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis (AIBP) vaccine that NOT ONLY prevents SEVERE disease BUT also CURBS bacterial TRANSMISSION. This NEEDLE-FREE AIBP platform could open the door to new vaccines against other respiratory bacteria.

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released sensitive details of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees, including almost 2,000 frontline enforcement agents. www.thedailybeast.com//personal-de...

The Government have u-turned on ID Cards. Good. Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.

The only ones they're waiting for now are Boris Johnson and Thick Lizzie. #ReformTories

labour are the acceptable face of the british establishment. reform are the unacceptable face of the british establishment. they use the latter to scare you in to voting for the former. don't play their game. vote green instead.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

🔥🔥🔥 Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal takes the battle to the enemy, accusing ICE of being "made-up fake wannabe law enforcement" working for a "criminal in the White House". 👏👏👏 More of this please! #ICEOUT

“When I was awarded this money, it was overwhelming. It is a lot of money to people like us – I felt like I’d won the lottery. I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course. I want to do civil law so I can advocate for people who are homeless. Getting this money gives you hope.”

Liebour, Selfservatives, and Deform UK (these are my insults) offer nothing to ordinary people struggling to survive the cost of living crisis, housing crisis etc, but there is a huge demand for hopeful politics and the Green Party offers that. #VoteGreen 💚

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Putin got away with Georgia and Crimea and then decided to invade all of Ukraine. If they get away with this, Cuba and Greenland are next. And they’ll step up repression at home. Anyone who thinks they will stop at Venezuela is a naive moron who should be institutionalized.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

If you're going to drop into every post and reply "So what? Who's going to do something about it?", the answer is YOU. YOU are going to do something about it. YOU are the consequences. Stop waiting for someone else to save you.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Hi folks. Just to be clear, a date has not yet been announced for the next No Kings. If a PAC you’ve never heard of asks for donations to “organize” it, please block and report them

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u... Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works <- by me on @theregister.com

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

How much longer until "Protect The Children" doesn't work anymore for passing censorship and privacy-eroding laws?

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

Superb interview with Ed. There really is an AI bubble, and he explains how and why better than anyone else on planet Earth right now. Well worth 26 minutes of your time. #AI #AIBubble #MerryChristmas

Here are posts from Donald Trump and Kamala Harris about the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele And an a observation, with thanks to the poet John Greenleaf Whittier “of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been”

"AI" word calculators are not going to become super-intelligent and wipe out the planet. They can't even give you an answer you can trust. There are more immediate risks which "AI" companies refuse to address, instead preferring to push the doomer narrative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKy...

Using gen AI doesn't make you "productive" or smart. It just shows that you didn't have the talent or ability in the first place. The AI bubble will pop with a sound heard across the world. A louder sound will be us cheering when it does.

Sadly, it's a big list. Do a CTRL-F for services and products you use or consume. If they show up as a boycott, consider switching to an alternative that doesn't fund fascists. If they show up as an alternative, thank you for your service in defending democracy!

Zack as Green Party leader is exactly what the party needed all this time, and will be a vital part of the UK's defense against becoming Pound Shop MAGA.

The Radio Times described me this week as a "man on a mission." That missions about to step up a gear. 👇🏼

If you pay for YouTube Premium, cancel it. If you continue to watch YouTube, use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin. Switching your browser to Brave or Librewolf is also a good path.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

Great point from @emptywheel.bsky.social: Trump's sliding approval on immigration is because millions of citizens are bearing witness. "All of it starts from the people—both private citizens and independent journalists—witnessing, filming, and posting ICE thugs." www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

Is there a website that lists #tech projects (web frameworks, window managers etc.) that are maintained by fascists, so I can avoid them? I just want to use stuff maintained by good people. (A website listing those would be awesome, too.)