David Hardman
@davidkhardman.bsky.social
All opinions my own unless indicated otherwise. Former psychology lecturer, now a rail research analyst. Film, psychology, transport, fountain pens, politics, neo-Luddite. Serial ignorer of DMs. May not follow you unless you've got a history of posting.
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Opinion from Alphaville: OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top. That much we know already, but since OpenAI is a private company, there’s a lot of guesswork required when estimating the depth of the pit. on.ft.com/44xy39L
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Opinion from Alphaville: OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top. That much we know already, but since OpenAI is a private company, there’s a lot of guesswork required when estimating the depth of the pit. on.ft.com/44xy39L
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
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An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
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With all the world’s problems solved, the Telegraph turns to the thorny issue of Smeg heads into the kitchen.
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
With all the world’s problems solved, the Telegraph turns to the thorny issue of Smeg heads into the kitchen.
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The comedian I saw tonight picked an audience member who said he worked for ChatGPT, and the crowd booed him, and then the comedian gave him shit for it repeatedly.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The comedian I saw tonight picked an audience member who said he worked for ChatGPT, and the crowd booed him, and then the comedian gave him shit for it repeatedly.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
So, on the one hand the government (now unashamedly aligned with the racist right) wants asylum-seekers to integrate into UK society. In the other hand, it’s threatening to deport them the moment their country of origin is deemed ‘safe’. Make it make sense.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So, on the one hand the government (now unashamedly aligned with the racist right) wants asylum-seekers to integrate into UK society. In the other hand, it’s threatening to deport them the moment their country of origin is deemed ‘safe’. Make it make sense.
Shabana Mahmood wants to steal the marmalade sandwich from underneath Paddington’s hat.
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood wants to steal the marmalade sandwich from underneath Paddington’s hat.
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
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“When the CIA makes an assessment of whether someone is likely to want to spy for them, to risk everything and betray their country in order to pass secrets to America, they talk about “MICE”…namely: Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego.“
Which applied to Gill?
Which applied to Gill?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/arthur-snell...
Using the CIA’s analytical tools to explain Nathan Gill’s treachery.
Using the CIA’s analytical tools to explain Nathan Gill’s treachery.
How Reform's Nathan Gill became a Russian agent
Nigel Farage’s close friend was recruited and paid by Moscow - we should not be surprised if there are others
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“When the CIA makes an assessment of whether someone is likely to want to spy for them, to risk everything and betray their country in order to pass secrets to America, they talk about “MICE”…namely: Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego.“
Which applied to Gill?
Which applied to Gill?
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New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.
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How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)
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Why the BBC should not counter-claim against Trump, whatever he calls them, unless as a last resort.
A counter-claim here would be a last resort. The objective should be to extract BBC from litigation, not tie it in more messily and expensively.
A counterclaim would give Trump all the rights of a defendant as well as a plaintiff.
Would be a nightmare, given his litigation game playing.
A counterclaim would give Trump all the rights of a defendant as well as a plaintiff.
Would be a nightmare, given his litigation game playing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why the BBC should not counter-claim against Trump, whatever he calls them, unless as a last resort.
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Indeed. The Daily Mail is the propaganda arm of a group of subsidiaries servicing the hydrocarbon industry (hence Rothermere’s links to Russian business partners).
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Indeed. The Daily Mail is the propaganda arm of a group of subsidiaries servicing the hydrocarbon industry (hence Rothermere’s links to Russian business partners).
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy https://theonion.com/trump-invites-jeffrey-epstein-on-stage-to-explain-there-no-conspiracy/
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy https://theonion.com/trump-invites-jeffrey-epstein-on-stage-to-explain-there-no-conspiracy/
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Donald thinks we don’t want to see every pedophile arrested and imprisoned. He thinks we care whether or not they are a Republican or a Democrat. He thinks that will save him. WE DON’T CARE, PRESIDENT PEDOPHILE!!!
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Donald thinks we don’t want to see every pedophile arrested and imprisoned. He thinks we care whether or not they are a Republican or a Democrat. He thinks that will save him. WE DON’T CARE, PRESIDENT PEDOPHILE!!!
Nostalgia is bullshit
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nostalgia is bullshit
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I'm in a meeting with NHS staff who are told they have to limit their leave over winter because they can't be spared but are likely to be losing their jobs in Wes Streeting's NHS reorganisation.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'm in a meeting with NHS staff who are told they have to limit their leave over winter because they can't be spared but are likely to be losing their jobs in Wes Streeting's NHS reorganisation.
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Choosing a side: "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Choosing a side: "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
Martin Shipton A Reform UK failed council candidate has been accused of disrespecting the public and veterans after disturbing wreaths during a Remembrance Sunday service in Monmouth in order to promote...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reform UK accused of disrespecting veterans at Remembrance Day service
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/