Keith Barnett
@captaincornflake.co.uk
These are all glorious
In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.
January 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
These are all glorious
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Have to give Nigel credit: pay him enough and he WILL say exactly what you want, loudly and often.
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Have to give Nigel credit: pay him enough and he WILL say exactly what you want, loudly and often.
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
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Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Ending higher rate tax relief on pension contributions would raise over £14bn a year.
Why isn’t this talked about more as something the CX should do? What am I missing?
Why isn’t this talked about more as something the CX should do? What am I missing?
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Ending higher rate tax relief on pension contributions would raise over £14bn a year.
Why isn’t this talked about more as something the CX should do? What am I missing?
Why isn’t this talked about more as something the CX should do? What am I missing?
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If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
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When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When the far right invents or exaggerates bad behaviour by their foes - see ‘cancel culture’; threats to free speech; anti-fascist violence; financial corruption; cronyism etc - they do so to preemptively excuse their own far worse & blatant abuses in exactly the same spaces.
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Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Queen
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I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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As we prepare for the next tidal wave of nonsense around Reform in the UK, two points should stand out as the core rebuttal
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
Honking endorsement for Farage, Johnson et la, without a moment’s reflection that 10 years of UKIPified Tory govt created the mess they’re railing about — booming benefits bills, bond market routs, immigration surges, trade slump and investment slumps. Bring back Boris and Nadine! That’ll fix it. 🙈
September 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
As we prepare for the next tidal wave of nonsense around Reform in the UK, two points should stand out as the core rebuttal
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
- economic issues the UK faces are the same as many other countries
- populist right policies have made those issues worse
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I keep having to say this, but I live in the Tory rural heartlands, and while the support for flag-shaggers has been loud and depressing, if you don't realise that the core of conservative England is ambivalent to seriously annoyed by street aggro and overt racism, you're not paying attention.
I don't disagree with the first two sentences, but I think in general there's been far too much movement from 'not really noticing the problem' to 'despair'. Let's experiment with 'people and organisations try and enforce the norm' and then see if it is actually hard for it to be re-bottled.
I worry that the decades it took to build anti-racism norms are unravelling quite quickly. Clearly the protests/social media drumbeat has created a permission structure that makes people think they can behave like this. Hard to see how it can be easily re-bottled.
September 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I keep having to say this, but I live in the Tory rural heartlands, and while the support for flag-shaggers has been loud and depressing, if you don't realise that the core of conservative England is ambivalent to seriously annoyed by street aggro and overt racism, you're not paying attention.
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
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SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what
in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYx... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-sof... - podcast
text coming in a bit!
in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYx... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-sof... - podcast
text coming in a bit!
SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what
in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYx... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-sof... - podcast
text coming in a bit!
in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYx... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-sof... - podcast
text coming in a bit!
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my handle on the quantum computing hype post i'm trying to assemble:
this is nothing to do with physics and everything to do with VC bubble parties, the physical realities are a MacGuffin, the excuse
this saves me explaining science i don't understand lol
this is nothing to do with physics and everything to do with VC bubble parties, the physical realities are a MacGuffin, the excuse
this saves me explaining science i don't understand lol
August 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
my handle on the quantum computing hype post i'm trying to assemble:
this is nothing to do with physics and everything to do with VC bubble parties, the physical realities are a MacGuffin, the excuse
this saves me explaining science i don't understand lol
this is nothing to do with physics and everything to do with VC bubble parties, the physical realities are a MacGuffin, the excuse
this saves me explaining science i don't understand lol
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Farage is moving seamlessly between "asylum-seekers" and Pakistanis, and those without indefinite leave to remain. He is extremely manipulative. His proposals should be seen as a giant crash to the British economy, an extreme push to normalise racism, and a vile destruction of British values.
August 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Farage is moving seamlessly between "asylum-seekers" and Pakistanis, and those without indefinite leave to remain. He is extremely manipulative. His proposals should be seen as a giant crash to the British economy, an extreme push to normalise racism, and a vile destruction of British values.
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This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...