Debenore
@debenore.uk
📍East of England
❤️ Films, current affairs, innovation in renewables, technology + data including governance, software design and random amusing observations
🏢 Infra/network design, solution design, programming, SAAS
✅ Open standards
❤️ Films, current affairs, innovation in renewables, technology + data including governance, software design and random amusing observations
🏢 Infra/network design, solution design, programming, SAAS
✅ Open standards
Is this the same Musk that in 2015 promised autonomous vehicles by 2018? Then went on to promise them by (variously) 2019, 2021, 2025 and later this year?
Little news out of this beyond Musk playing the hits with his company talking points. He predicted the “lowest cost place” to put AI data centers will be space and that will happen within three years, while AI will be “smarter than all of humanity collectively” within five years.
January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Is this the same Musk that in 2015 promised autonomous vehicles by 2018? Then went on to promise them by (variously) 2019, 2021, 2025 and later this year?
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My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:29 PM
My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
Is this the America you voted for?
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Is this the America you voted for?
I mean literally no-one could have seen this coming.
Amazon and friends have always been such strong advocates for consumer rights and privacy.
Amazon and friends have always been such strong advocates for consumer rights and privacy.
Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.
futurism.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
I mean literally no-one could have seen this coming.
Amazon and friends have always been such strong advocates for consumer rights and privacy.
Amazon and friends have always been such strong advocates for consumer rights and privacy.
If what Trump wanted was permanent control of parts of Greenland (ironically similar to the Chagos Diego Garcia deal), why not just ask for it? #r4today
January 22, 2026 at 7:13 AM
If what Trump wanted was permanent control of parts of Greenland (ironically similar to the Chagos Diego Garcia deal), why not just ask for it? #r4today
Haha great stuff
Michael O'Leary 'loves' Ryanair spat with Elon Musk, but criticises Grok nudification tool
Michael O'Leary 'loves' Ryanair spat with Elon Musk, but criticises Grok nudification tool
Michael O'Leary said in a news conference that Musk's attacks on him were beneficial to his company's sales, and criticised the multi-billionaire's AI tool, Grok.
news.sky.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Haha great stuff
Doesn't Trump flush out the fake patriots and grifters in the UK?
Farage and GB News groupies coming out in support of the US threats to Greenland, only for Trump to walk back and leave them off side.
Farage and GB News groupies coming out in support of the US threats to Greenland, only for Trump to walk back and leave them off side.
January 21, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Doesn't Trump flush out the fake patriots and grifters in the UK?
Farage and GB News groupies coming out in support of the US threats to Greenland, only for Trump to walk back and leave them off side.
Farage and GB News groupies coming out in support of the US threats to Greenland, only for Trump to walk back and leave them off side.
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NATO & Denmark: We will give you the exact same security arrangements you have had for the past 40 years in Greenland.
Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
NATO & Denmark: We will give you the exact same security arrangements you have had for the past 40 years in Greenland.
Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
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Reporter: “A deal of ownership for Greenland?”
Trump: “It is a little bit complex. We will explain it down the line.
“It is the kind of a deal that I wanted to be able to make.”
Trump: “It is a little bit complex. We will explain it down the line.
“It is the kind of a deal that I wanted to be able to make.”
a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
Alt: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Reporter: “A deal of ownership for Greenland?”
Trump: “It is a little bit complex. We will explain it down the line.
“It is the kind of a deal that I wanted to be able to make.”
Trump: “It is a little bit complex. We will explain it down the line.
“It is the kind of a deal that I wanted to be able to make.”
Not attending Davos today looking like a shrewd move from Starmer and von der Leyen.
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Not attending Davos today looking like a shrewd move from Starmer and von der Leyen.
If Newsom and the Democratic party think this smug, self-satisfied attitude is how they tell America they've learned from letting Trump into the White House, God help them (and us).
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
If Newsom and the Democratic party think this smug, self-satisfied attitude is how they tell America they've learned from letting Trump into the White House, God help them (and us).
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Speeches still matter. This one was superb and deeply consequential if others follow his lead in the face of the corrupt mindless bullying and BS From USA. New ep @therestpolitics.bsky.social recorded just before he spoke. All themes covered!!!
January 21, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Speeches still matter. This one was superb and deeply consequential if others follow his lead in the face of the corrupt mindless bullying and BS From USA. New ep @therestpolitics.bsky.social recorded just before he spoke. All themes covered!!!
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They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 AM
They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.
The fucking LYING
It's not just another level. It's like he's a panellist on Would I Lie to You
It's not just another level. It's like he's a panellist on Would I Lie to You
Imagine the news cycle if any president slurred his words and rambled off lie after lie after lie, the way this one does.
The slurring alone, right? Add in all the obvious signs of declining health, the absolutely unhinged, manic, sundowning posts in the middle of the night?
But it's like 🤷♂️
The slurring alone, right? Add in all the obvious signs of declining health, the absolutely unhinged, manic, sundowning posts in the middle of the night?
But it's like 🤷♂️
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The fucking LYING
It's not just another level. It's like he's a panellist on Would I Lie to You
It's not just another level. It's like he's a panellist on Would I Lie to You
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Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
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MPs are now considering Lords amendments to the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill.
Watch the debate ⬇️
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Watch the debate ⬇️
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
January 20, 2026 at 5:25 PM
MPs are now considering Lords amendments to the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill.
Watch the debate ⬇️
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Watch the debate ⬇️
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Man of the people.
Another pint Nige?
Another pint Nige?
Nigel Farage doesn’t look too ill to comment on Trump at lunch yesterday. And is Liz Truss the next discredited Tory jumping ship?
January 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Man of the people.
Another pint Nige?
Another pint Nige?
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Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
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Another traitor.
This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
January 20, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Another traitor.
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I think it was a joke.
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has threatened to impose 200 percent tariffs on French wine and Champagne in response to Emmanuel Macron rejecting his offer to join the “Board of Peace” tasked with overseeing the next steps in Gaza.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
I think it was a joke.
Classy
January 20, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Classy
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Trump on his website laying in to the UK over Diego Garcia as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY”, cites it as a reason the US should “acquire” Greenland
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Trump on his website laying in to the UK over Diego Garcia as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY”, cites it as a reason the US should “acquire” Greenland
Trump, Vance, but who is the third suit?
Trump posts an image of him planting the American flag on Greenland alongside a sign that says “Greenland US Territory est 2026”
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Trump, Vance, but who is the third suit?