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Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency.
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency.
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The trope of sellouts writing books after years of enriching themselves by being and/or aligning themselves with bastards, suddenly seeing things clearly and positioning themselves as some great authority to be listened to, is as infuriating as it is effective. The media lap it up every time.
It only took Nick Clegg eight years of apologizing for Facebook's recklessness (while making millions) to realize what had been obvious for at least a decade before he worked there. Will his next job be determining if it hurts while smashing one's face with a hammer?
Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg
Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The trope of sellouts writing books after years of enriching themselves by being and/or aligning themselves with bastards, suddenly seeing things clearly and positioning themselves as some great authority to be listened to, is as infuriating as it is effective. The media lap it up every time.
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
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Fox News host: There’s a ‘modicum of peace’ that dead children are with Jesus after Minnesota shooting
Fox host: There’s a ‘modicum of peace’ that dead kids are with Jesus after shooting
www.independent.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fox News host: There’s a ‘modicum of peace’ that dead children are with Jesus after Minnesota shooting
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This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
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I’m going to be honest, but I am pretty sure nobody who believes “the U.K. would be better if we could all fly our national flag on our houses” has ever lived next door to the kind of exhausting cunt who flies the national flag on their house.
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I’m going to be honest, but I am pretty sure nobody who believes “the U.K. would be better if we could all fly our national flag on our houses” has ever lived next door to the kind of exhausting cunt who flies the national flag on their house.
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It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
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The worst thing about racist Robert Jenrick’s pretence that his racism is justified to protect his daughters from men from ‘ backwards’ countries is that 97% of women who contacted Rape Crisis said they knew the person who raped them. 43% of girls questioned in a national survey
August 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The worst thing about racist Robert Jenrick’s pretence that his racism is justified to protect his daughters from men from ‘ backwards’ countries is that 97% of women who contacted Rape Crisis said they knew the person who raped them. 43% of girls questioned in a national survey
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Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
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I’m appalled that the Royal Opera House & Royal Ballet plan to host Anna Netrebko—tied to Putin & the Russian state—while #Ukraine is under daily attack.
I joined others in an open letter in @theguardian.com urging them to reconsider.
Read here and please share:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
I joined others in an open letter in @theguardian.com urging them to reconsider.
Read here and please share:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
The Royal Ballet and Opera must reconsider its invitation to Anna Netrebko | Letter
Letters: The Russian singer is symbol of cultural propaganda for a regime that is responsible for serious war crimes in Ukraine, say co-signatories including Sergiy Kyslytsya, Andriy Kurkov, Helen Cla...
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m appalled that the Royal Opera House & Royal Ballet plan to host Anna Netrebko—tied to Putin & the Russian state—while #Ukraine is under daily attack.
I joined others in an open letter in @theguardian.com urging them to reconsider.
Read here and please share:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
I joined others in an open letter in @theguardian.com urging them to reconsider.
Read here and please share:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Truly devastating for Trump's climate report. It just shows once again: if you task a group of "climate skeptics" with a climate report, you get a mass of easily refuted falsehoods, as they simply do not have honest arguments on their side.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
interactive.carbonbrief.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Truly devastating for Trump's climate report. It just shows once again: if you task a group of "climate skeptics" with a climate report, you get a mass of easily refuted falsehoods, as they simply do not have honest arguments on their side.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
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Interesting how you never see the head of this school on Question Time or elsewhere opining on the culture-war topic of the day.
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Interesting how you never see the head of this school on Question Time or elsewhere opining on the culture-war topic of the day.
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The minimum qualifications for joining the MET need looking at…
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The minimum qualifications for joining the MET need looking at…
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Very good Fraser Nelson essay about Britain's successes - not its failures - in The Times. Take a look at the triumph of state action and public policy over carbon emissions and air quality. We can do these things. But we have to will it, act together, and have confidence.
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Very good Fraser Nelson essay about Britain's successes - not its failures - in The Times. Take a look at the triumph of state action and public policy over carbon emissions and air quality. We can do these things. But we have to will it, act together, and have confidence.
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Nothing but Reform lite, it’s sad how far Labour have fallen
Case in point:
A Labour MP uses the phrase "cleaning up our high streets" to describe an immigration raid, implying that these migrants are akin to dirt or litter.
It's possible to hold someone to account for breaking the law without dehumanising them. This was a choice
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A Labour MP uses the phrase "cleaning up our high streets" to describe an immigration raid, implying that these migrants are akin to dirt or litter.
It's possible to hold someone to account for breaking the law without dehumanising them. This was a choice
bsky.app/profile/mela...
August 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nothing but Reform lite, it’s sad how far Labour have fallen
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📆 Tomorrow is the last day to respond to the Regent Street consultation!
Say YES to a move away from traffic, but make sure to voice the need for cycling not to be ignored in the plans 👉 bit.ly/4680I78
Say YES to a move away from traffic, but make sure to voice the need for cycling not to be ignored in the plans 👉 bit.ly/4680I78
August 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📆 Tomorrow is the last day to respond to the Regent Street consultation!
Say YES to a move away from traffic, but make sure to voice the need for cycling not to be ignored in the plans 👉 bit.ly/4680I78
Say YES to a move away from traffic, but make sure to voice the need for cycling not to be ignored in the plans 👉 bit.ly/4680I78
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I find plenty to agree with in this paper, but also plenty to 🤔. It seems largely couched in terms of the "public understanding vs public engagement" debate that happened in the late 1990s. Which is fine, but are we still at that stage of the debate?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An agenda for science communication research and practice | PNAS
Science should not unilaterally dictate individuals’ decisions or public policies.
Yet, it provides a vital source of information for societies and...
www.pnas.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I find plenty to agree with in this paper, but also plenty to 🤔. It seems largely couched in terms of the "public understanding vs public engagement" debate that happened in the late 1990s. Which is fine, but are we still at that stage of the debate?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This paper looks important, on Norway's EV subsidies
"BEV ownership leads to an overall increase in car trip demand in the order of 10–20%. This reflects shifts from ICEV to BEV use, but also sizeable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"BEV ownership leads to an overall increase in car trip demand in the order of 10–20%. This reflects shifts from ICEV to BEV use, but also sizeable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The effect of battery-electric vehicle ownership on transport demand and substitution between modes
Transport decarbonization is a key part of moves to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. A major component of this involves shifting private car us…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This paper looks important, on Norway's EV subsidies
"BEV ownership leads to an overall increase in car trip demand in the order of 10–20%. This reflects shifts from ICEV to BEV use, but also sizeable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"BEV ownership leads to an overall increase in car trip demand in the order of 10–20%. This reflects shifts from ICEV to BEV use, but also sizeable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This sounds bad. Allotments are a form of municipal socialism. Rayner should be all for them.
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
August 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This sounds bad. Allotments are a form of municipal socialism. Rayner should be all for them.
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever
www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...
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Next time TfL explains they need to reduce bus services or can't provide greenery because of a lack of funding or they're struggling to hit road danger reduction targets, please remind them of their bonkers policy to provide free car parking on TfL roads #carspreading
FYI @sebdance.bsky.social
FYI @sebdance.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Next time TfL explains they need to reduce bus services or can't provide greenery because of a lack of funding or they're struggling to hit road danger reduction targets, please remind them of their bonkers policy to provide free car parking on TfL roads #carspreading
FYI @sebdance.bsky.social
FYI @sebdance.bsky.social
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Dougie longs to return to Uganda.
This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi.
He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.
Does he have ZERO self-awareness?
Does he just think nobody will notice?
Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?
He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.
Does he have ZERO self-awareness?
Does he just think nobody will notice?
Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?
August 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Dougie longs to return to Uganda.
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew
July 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew