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Their survey data here www.collectivemetrics.org/deepfakes-an...

This is a sensitive topic, but an important one: when we talk about disinformation & propaganda we (rightly) think of Russia. But how should we react when our partners - specifically the US - uses its information channels to attack our values or laws and aims to increase societal divisions?

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I'm going on tour in 2026! Come and see me doing one of the best reviewed shows from the Ed Fringe (according to the British Comedy Guide). It's called King of Crumbs, and it's a load of old nonsense, really. Book now! Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

Douthat just writes clickbait for nyt traffic, he's wordle but with nsfw words.

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

When your tactics get your foe's government to quit coming to work, replacing it with a meme war, something's working for you. I learned a lot researching this, including the concept of "autopropaganda," which seems to be where the US is now.

It’s simple. The government needs to change that calculation. They must be willing to cripple a company’s financial situation for selling blatant scams or allowing others to on their platform

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

Jamie Kirchick: Having benefited from Tucker Carlson’s scorched-earth campaign against “the neoconservatives,” JD Vance now appears stuck with Carlson’s antisemitic, conspiratorial, anti-American baggage whether he likes it or not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

Bill Ackman is heavily boosted by Elon’s algorithm: over 500K views but only 412 likes. X is rigged, but we already knew that

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Thinking about Tom Waits rain dogs commercial and how the blurb below would sound read by him the same way. Ref: youtu.be/DyjbEsWpzYU?...

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Autopilot www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Why no one buy quisling mobile

you’d think a band named viagra boys would be sensitive to people needing to time things just right

Drunk toddler fights Tooooo unethical, wtf dude? With robots? That could work.

Again, Seymour Hersh's reporting on this was a work of fiction, not journalism.

These are not the Bedouin you are looking for

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif:

1/ "The blistering 9-page order, filed by Judge Michael A. Robinson on October 24, 2025, grants the plaintiffs’ first motion for sanctions and details a stunning pattern of misrepresentation and obstruction by Tesla’s legal team." electrek.co/2025/10/31/j...

As another weekend of Barclay’s Premier League football gets underway, and a massacre is still unfolding in El Fasher, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the same people who are funding the slaughter in Sudan also own Manchester City Football Club. It is a national disgrace.

The Jeff Epstein stuff is like the new Wikileaks. We're gonna get drip drops for the next decade while our government tries to wish it away.

We're finally seeing a bit of headway in learning how the Kremlin bankrolls Nigel Farage and his inner gang as well as his political projects like Brexit and Reform UK. This has been well known to intelligence analysts for more than a decade, but very little of it has made its way into the press.

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how can you listen to Musk on Rogan for 3 hours and not think he is the stupidest person alive

Verdict: yup. www.reddit.com/r/starterpac...

When you're crabby you're being shellfish.

I guess a mcmansion in Dallas sits bathroomless?

The future of burrito limos

counterpoint: The *second gen* starlinks are hitting 4+ years old and falling out of the sky at an accelerating pace and yet VCs are still piling more cash into the furnace than ever before

What if not only your internet connection... but your data.... could burn up in orbit after 5 years.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

It's almost Halloween, time to post the classics. www.youtube.com/shorts/-dxIq...

Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing. I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier. Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.

Congratulations to everyone for rediscovering Buzzfeed's 2013 listicle "13 Mugshots of the Hottest Guys Ever Arrested"

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.