Lee Savage
@leesavage.bsky.social
Reader in Comparative Politics at King's College London.
Streetwise Hercules
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
Streetwise Hercules
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
My assumption is that for all the current noise, the most likely outcome is an extensive (and very lopsided) security and economic cooperation agreement between the US and Greenland/Denmark
Exactly this: there IS already a 1951 agreement that gives the US wide ranging access to Greenland for security purposes. Use that agreement.
But this is only for security purposes. Not to annex a country or steal minerals.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
But this is only for security purposes. Not to annex a country or steal minerals.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My assumption is that for all the current noise, the most likely outcome is an extensive (and very lopsided) security and economic cooperation agreement between the US and Greenland/Denmark
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The "Predator force" they think they are vs the "Predator force" they actually are...chris hansen would like a word.
January 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The "Predator force" they think they are vs the "Predator force" they actually are...chris hansen would like a word.
Let me be absolutely clear: this is NOT acceptable... but while there's a slight chance of investment from the world's richest man, we'll allow this to continue unabated
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there.
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Let me be absolutely clear: this is NOT acceptable... but while there's a slight chance of investment from the world's richest man, we'll allow this to continue unabated
Governments can stop this in an instant. It's a choice to not do so
GROK IS GENERATING ABOUT ‘ONE NONCONSENSUAL SEXUALIZED IMAGE PER MINUTE www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Grok Is Generating About 'One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute'
Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok keeps churning out nonconsenual images of women and minors in bikinis and lingerie, outraging users and regulators
www.rollingstone.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Governments can stop this in an instant. It's a choice to not do so
AI is not ready to be transformative. It will be, but we're not there yet. The next 5 years is really going to a story of organisations leaping headlong into AI and then spending millions to correct the mistakes
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
AI is not ready to be transformative. It will be, but we're not there yet. The next 5 years is really going to a story of organisations leaping headlong into AI and then spending millions to correct the mistakes
Who's going to do the joke? You know the one
'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Who's going to do the joke? You know the one
I'm not sure how the US can hold international sporting events anymore
www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...
www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...
World Cross Country Champs rocked by visa rejections - US denies visas for 14 Ethiopian athletes
The general secretary of the Ethiopian Athletics federation told LetsRun.com at least 14 have been affected in total, mostly from the U20 ranks. As a result, Ethiopia has only entered one U20 man and ...
www.letsrun.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I'm not sure how the US can hold international sporting events anymore
www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...
www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...
One of the biggest commercial missteps of recent years has to be Lego releasing this £24 set one week after Christmas rather than one week before. Every Millenial and Gen Xer would have found one under the tree
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
One of the biggest commercial missteps of recent years has to be Lego releasing this £24 set one week after Christmas rather than one week before. Every Millenial and Gen Xer would have found one under the tree
It's all just vibes with these lads. If they want to know what imperial ambitions look like in the 21st century it's ~400,000 dead soldiers and another ~700,000 wounded to take and hold a small fraction of Ukraine. The US has no tolerance for losses on that scale
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM
It's all just vibes with these lads. If they want to know what imperial ambitions look like in the 21st century it's ~400,000 dead soldiers and another ~700,000 wounded to take and hold a small fraction of Ukraine. The US has no tolerance for losses on that scale
Another Reform council finding out that there's no fat to trim in local government. It's just social care, SEND, and bins after years of austerity
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK accused of ‘empty rhetoric’ over plan to hike council tax 5% in Derbyshire
Four Reform-led councils want to raise tax by maximum allowed amount with more areas not being ruled out
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Another Reform council finding out that there's no fat to trim in local government. It's just social care, SEND, and bins after years of austerity
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We're at a point where the government will have to decide if it serves the interests of the British people or Elon Musk. I don't think we're going to like the answer
But the scariest was coming across images taken of women in the street, digitally stripped by Grok. Thought you could keep yourself safe by never, ever posting a picture online? Forget it. Anyone with a phone who walks or drives past you can create pornography of you now.
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
We're at a point where the government will have to decide if it serves the interests of the British people or Elon Musk. I don't think we're going to like the answer
In this house, we recognise only one Robin Hood
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
In this house, we recognise only one Robin Hood
The government position is seemingly that pornographic images of children are tolerable as long as a platform has a big enough user base. Gutsy leadership right there
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked if Government will still use X now it posts indecent images of children, replies "we always keep communication channels under review to reach public in most appropriate way possible”
"Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do"
"Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do"
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The government position is seemingly that pornographic images of children are tolerable as long as a platform has a big enough user base. Gutsy leadership right there
I think Stranger Things works in the same way that the Star Wars prequels work. It tells a pretty fun story very clunkily. It's not meant to be prestige TV so comparisons with the Sopranos and Game of Thrones don't make sense. Like the prequels, it should have been 3 movies, not 5 seasons of TV
In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime
In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime
It felt like a punishing endurance test, coming to a head countless times … and yet it’s not over. Where the Upside Down is concerned, it’s never over
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I think Stranger Things works in the same way that the Star Wars prequels work. It tells a pretty fun story very clunkily. It's not meant to be prestige TV so comparisons with the Sopranos and Game of Thrones don't make sense. Like the prequels, it should have been 3 movies, not 5 seasons of TV
A goal from the early-2000s. Stick that in your xG
January 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM
A goal from the early-2000s. Stick that in your xG
It's insane the lengths that these people will go to so that they don't have to update their worldview. I mean, he's doing the bloody meme here
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 AM
It's insane the lengths that these people will go to so that they don't have to update their worldview. I mean, he's doing the bloody meme here
I'm assuming competent European leaders are contingency planning for a world where the US is no longer an ally. Obviously can't be overt about this but it would be idiotic to not prepare for a US that is hostile towards Europe
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I'm assuming competent European leaders are contingency planning for a world where the US is no longer an ally. Obviously can't be overt about this but it would be idiotic to not prepare for a US that is hostile towards Europe
This needs repeating over and over. We already have Russian incursion into European airspace, it wouldn't surprise me to see even more obvious poking at European defences over the next year, especially in the Baltic states
putin is already pretty unconstrained in ukraine (the people saying "zelensky is next" seem unaware russia has tried to kill him many times). the bigger danger is it emboldens putin to step up sabotage and hybrid warfare in europe
January 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
This needs repeating over and over. We already have Russian incursion into European airspace, it wouldn't surprise me to see even more obvious poking at European defences over the next year, especially in the Baltic states
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
Kleptocratic fascism is leftist now?
Russia, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico all rejected the military action by the US in the South American nation.
Global Leftist Leaders Denounce US Attack on Venezuela
Global leftist leaders took to social media early Saturday to condemn a US attack carried out in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
bloom.bg
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Kleptocratic fascism is leftist now?
Fearful journalism
Explosions Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
The United States has been building pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, for months.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Explosions Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Fearful journalism
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A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24
January 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24
This is an abject failure. They might as well have asked a refrigerator for a comment
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This is an abject failure. They might as well have asked a refrigerator for a comment
"You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you.reckon something"
youtu.be/OQnd5ilKx2Y?...
youtu.be/OQnd5ilKx2Y?...
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you.reckon something"
youtu.be/OQnd5ilKx2Y?...
youtu.be/OQnd5ilKx2Y?...
The basic question is why are any of these companies allowing their LLMs to 'nudify' images of anyone, even adults? Every one of the AI companies could stop this in an instant, they're choosing not to. Regulate them now
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The basic question is why are any of these companies allowing their LLMs to 'nudify' images of anyone, even adults? Every one of the AI companies could stop this in an instant, they're choosing not to. Regulate them now