Interesting - AI hiring tool bias "no longer just a vendor problem" in US but a customer / employer one too. CF EU AIA high risk system provider/ deployer. www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...

*Farage removes all his clothes in public and takes a dump on the floor* Chris Mason: "some might say this is not the act of a PM in waiting but others note in today's politics the public appreciate authenticity."

It’s easy to forget after so many years of war that Zelensky was a brilliant comedian before becoming president.

Almost all the visible illegal waste has been removed from the Kidlington fly-tip. The track matting for removal lorries and the sandbag wall protecting the River Cherwell have now been removed. The site boundaries are being cleared by hand to avoid damaging tree roots.

Yeah. Like if the Conservative Party doesn't feel it can win against a damaged Farage in Clacton, loses its deposit in Makerfield, and no longer holds David Cameron's old seat, where is it winning? Who/what is it for? Farage looking a bit of a prat doesn't materially change that.

The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL from his family’s flat - then was undone when he got hungry and bought a takeaway gift card. www.londoncentric.media/p/thalha-jub...

The principle is simple. If we regulate broadcasters because they shape democracy, then platforms that shape democracy even more cannot continue to face fewer obligations. People need to see that governments can make the information economy less unhinged & disorienting. medium.com/@pauliewauli...

amazing

everywhere you look, things are goin' great

Ok seen a few of these stories now. It's weird, given how many mid-term changes of PM we have had lately, that people don't remember they don't have shadow cabinets and there are many reasons they literally can't 'appoint' their picks before actually becoming PM. www.ft.com/content/66ad...

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

Lord Hailsham?

The spivvy donors, the incredibly short fuse, the submarine routine when things get awkward, the sometimes underwhelming electoral performance — this is not a particularly new pattern over the 30 year arc of his career…

Can’t believe Andy Burnham is creating a constitutional crisis by announcing his Cabinet in the usual way.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

"The AI build-out... is increasingly financed not by selling overpriced equity but by contracting future cash flows and borrowing against hardware.... That is not the architecture of 2000. That is the architecture of 2008." www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

Sure Microsoft may have fired thousands of people and gutted its games division but at least it had more money to pour into Copilot, the 4th most popular AI, a product nobody wants or likes except rich executives, that is constantly losing horrendous amounts of money

I'm slightly in awe - "the free world will need to self-insure against the prospect of the American and Chinese governments running a protection racket on the rest of the world" is such acute analysis. And we don't do that by following in some pound or euro shop way.

Tech lobbyists shifting track on AI

It’s not hard to see why people become cynical about politics and politicians www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Can’t believe them withdrawing the Mexican chicken sandwich actually worked.

FIFA makes surprise last-minute change to refereeing team for USA v Belgium:

NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social 2 in 3 Brits support social media ban for under 16s, 61% a curfew for 16-17s. Also: - support for a ban is high among 18-34s as well (67%), and for a curfew (58%) - but softens to 1 in 2 if it means everyone having to verify their age online or on their device

““Starlink is too congested to handle meaningful load at scale so they’re quietly hitting people with $750-$1500 ‘demand surcharges,'” Bode wrote in a recent post on Bluesky.“ apple.news/AE1hHcCEbTkq...

Someone on ig said if you horribly break up with someone and then get back together with them, do you count the time that y'all were on a break when people ask how long you've been dating?? Because if your answer is no, none of the former confederate states get to celebrate America 250 🤭🤭🤭

"As Matt Scherer, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, notes, the generative AI industry is producing 11 digits of annual revenue to cover 13 digits of annual spending" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... By @johnthornhill.bsky.social

‘You probably wouldn’t hire someone for an important role in your organisation who has flashes of brilliance but only succeeds in the tasks you give them 50 per cent of the time… But you certainly would worry if your attackers have powerful tools which have a 50 per cent success rate.’

‘Have we created a technology which is now capable enough to be dangerous, but still not reliable enough to be useful in many domains?’ asks @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/40a8...

'Now the Guardian can reveal that OpenAI does not appear to have visited one of Stargate UK’s key sites – and that £20bn of the “potential” £30bn in investment touted by the UK government appears to have been totally hypothetical.' 1/2

Our Editor-at-Large did not mince words at all on Fourth of July:

Who could have seen this coming? Besides every liberal arts faculty member in the country, I mean.

Andy Burnham is probably going to raise tax by at least £4.7bn, and maybe much more. Here's my list of 37 ways he might do it: every potential tax rise, how much it would raise, and what the downside would be. There's always a downside. Thread:

Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Watch the first ten minutes. Drift off. Wake up at 7am, disappointed.

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

Very sad @getgood.bsky.social @michaelrawlins.co.uk www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

2040, on orders from Primarch Leo, the Congregation of Ultramarine Heart of Jesus descends upon the Immortal Legion of Cyber Fascist led by Overlord Thiel, warhammerised.

Someone has to say it. The amount of racism directed at World Cup players - including in the England squad - online is out of control.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

More material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow, Elon Musk FRS.

Across all taxes, small businesses fail to pay between £30 billion and £48 billion of tax. These figures are massive. Enough to fund significant tax cuts or additional expenditure

Sam Altman: This is how we can make AI safe for everyone - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I think this commenter wins

Note that the UK is cited as one of the riders on the Palantir train and its accompanying ethos. Go us.

A former colleague invented this Reflecting Pool cocktail for his July 4th celebrations, and the really genius thing he did was include a bit of blueberry skin to honor the floating bits of American Flag Blue paint.