Nokia & Ericsson get squeezed out of the few crumbs they still had on Chinese market. All the while, Huawei & ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market. Huawei 50%+ of German 5G access network. Absolute economic security folly. www.ft.com/content/7d08...

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Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

Got a tshirt made for the first lecture with the first years

The BBC’s Instagram page has six videos in a row from the Kirk event. Unclear why this level of attention is warranted.

Nostalgia overload today. Went with my kids, brothers and dad to watch two Thunderbirds episodes at the cinema. Then later watched Jurassic Park with my son for the first time. Pleased to say he loved it. Ended the day with an episode of S1 X-Files. Being a kid in the 1990s absolutely ruled.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

How long until he decides opinion polls that don’t reflect well on him and his policies are also illegal? What about opposition political ads?

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

China tells its tech companies to stop buying Nvidia’s AI chips on.ft.com/4nqNbxr

If Trump starts whining about the lack of freedom of speech in the UK, I bet he won’t cite this as an example.

“Suspicion of malicious communication” Wait, how can an unedited image be considered as malicious? Do we have laws against embarrassing foreign politicians with their own historical associations now? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour government’s response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

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A Royal Navy frigate has sailed through the Taiwan Strait alongside a U.S. destroyer, ignoring warnings from Beijing that the transit amounted to provocation. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-wars...

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Was there an hour long special on the Minnesota shootings? (Honestly don’t recall). What about Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago? Will the Colorado school shooting get a special today? I’m struggling to understand the disproportionate attention given to this killing vs others in the US.

fucking wild that a partisan program of, say, deploying state security to purge the nation of immigrants or legislate trans people to premature death can be pretensed as a contribution to salutary democratic debate and not as something that might cause us to reflect on the term “political violence”

What the hell are these interviews on Radio 4 right now?

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reminder that Kim Darroch was forced to resign as UK ambassador in Washington for telegrams being leaked that showed he was doing his job by providing his honest views but embarrassed the government. It’s inconceivably absurd to consider Mandelson’s position *more* tenable than Darroch’s was.

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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

“They say” The BBC is a really bad joke sometimes.

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“…and then we committed another war crime, and I said that I don’t give a shit!” “Classic JD!”

There’s a dormant London Centric Twitter account I set up and barely used, which still has all the default settings including notifications. Anyway this is the second time today it’s pushed a Tommy Robinson tweet at me. Given millions of Brits will have the app, god knows how many are getting this.

“By the end of this month, the University will already have lost a tenth of its staff in just 12 months. We cannot support a plan which proposes to continue with the same approach while at the same time demanding more and more money from the Scottish Government”.

"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.

Well, not entirely: senior Democrat committee member Jamie Raskin asks why they are hearing from Farage and not from people who have suffered real censorship in Russia or China. He also links Reform UK to the AfD and National Rally. Farage won't like that.

Ah, ID cards. Remember when they were needed to stop terrorism? And now they’re going to stop illegal immigration. Is there any public policy issue they can’t resolve?

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

The media across the spectrum did a bad job of context last weekend, by reporting aspirations of a massive wave of protests as a fact. The earlier prediction that the injunction to empty the hotel would see protests grow proved wrong. We don't know if the new verdict will. Don't assume, do report

Think wake the of up people who we vs. used 👁️ to be.

This is paint by numbers bait it has no argument just points out marriage/NFL is conservative coded. Don't even get mad just move on they're just meeting quota unfortunately.

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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?