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Survivor of the first Internet Wars. Low-impact Starter Pack of 1. <Taps the sign> 'Do not feed the trolls'.
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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · Nov 16
Servers amplyfy their sounds by vibrating their siliicon during great migrations, to ensure the weaker members of the herd can continue to follow.
pfrazee.com Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Nov 15
Servers are making a weird sound hang with us
londondiscuss.bsky.social
Oh gosh. Scotland yet again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What a second half from Argentina though.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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deelomas.bsky.social
Why the fuck are the majority in this country being held to ransom by a small but loud mouthed group of unhinged, narrow minded racists?
It’s been allowed to go on now for over 10 years & it should have been very firmly shut down when it first started.
It’s the cause of the fucking mess we are in!
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
A year ago I said the Lib Dems would hold power at the next election. In a coalition. I stand by that. But I didn't see Labour utterly destroying their own base like this.
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
The point isn’t that people were ever calm and wise, it’s that the systems around us used to dampen emotional spikes, now they amplify them. Human nature is constant, but the information architecture is different, and that shift matters politically.
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Today’s systems remove that friction. They amplify the fastest, loudest emotional cues in real time. That acceleration reshapes what politicians think the public wants, and drags policy toward whatever produces engagement rather than grounded priorities.
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
Sometimes the only thing left to say is “fuck right off.”

I think we as a country have reached that point when it comes to the MAGA influence operations that have wormed their way over the Atlantic.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.

That goes way beyond frighteners.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
This is bad.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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dhnexon.bsky.social
*As many, many others have argued over the years, the right-wing media ecosystem functions as a pretty effective machine for developing, vetting, and sharpening propaganda. X-Twitter exposes a larger audience to multiple stages of that process, including those journalists who remain there.

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November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
I'm digging this Pope. Read the quote.
markharris.bsky.social Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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thewritertype.bsky.social
Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
England Vs Allblacks. Am I seeing things :)
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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doublepulsar.com
There's a Russian disinformation network operating from Mastodon to push content into BlueSky, it's a few hundred active accounts (they also exist directly on BlueSky natively too).

It probably costs more to run than the value it provides to whoever runs it, tbh.

cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...
Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
I dunno if anybody has done a write up of it but there’s a pretty big Russian disinformation operation that runs on the Fediverse If you search on Mastodon for t.me/RussianBaZa you’ll find some of i...
cyberplace.social
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
Our 20ish year old American niece is visiting London for the first time. We suggested meeting at Tottenham Court Road. She asked if we can meet 'somewhere more central? She seems happy with Leicester Square..
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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anthonymoser.com
Thinking I should teach my kids about Types of Websites

- website that's just people talking to each other

- website where a company sells you stuff

-website where people sell each other stuff

- website from someone who's really really into something
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
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...
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
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seamas.bsky.social
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
They are violently arresting priests now..
mulchy.bsky.social shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
We are under attack, by the US.
socialmedialab.ca Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d
"Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says
The invitation to the capital comes as Alternative for Germany politicians seek to build closer ties to the U.S. government." www.politico.eu/article/larg...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
It's all a grift. Thread.
josh-kaplan.bsky.social Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
Kristi Noem sits on a horse wearing a cowboy hat. In the background is Mount Rushmore.
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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edzitron.com
The AI Bubble inflated by a dereliction of duty from those meant to seek out and publish the truth. LLMs have been sold on myth and outright lies about what they do or will do, and when the bubble bursts, retail investors will be left with the consequences.

www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
Why Are We In A Bubble? You’re tired, I’m tired, we’re all god damn tired of the AI bubble. It’s been three years and very little has actually happened other than hundreds of billions of dollars being incinerated to build data centers or sustain the reckless and directionless ambitions of Sam Altman and OpenAI, or any number of near-identical AI startups that all claim to be worth somewhere between $5 billion and $500 billion. Yet what truly upsets me about AI is the lies. Despite the fact that Large Language Models cannot really be trusted to do any particular job without endless prompt engineering and tinkering, so many people talk about them as if they’re the second coming of Christ, capable of doing just about anything if you put your mind to it. In reality, LLMs are capable of some stuff but not a lot of stuff and most people you talk to use it as either a coding assistant (that they have to either give very simple tasks or constantly check up on) or as a replacement for Google search that may or may not be better. Yet for years people have said things about LLMs that they don’t actually do, and when pressed to explain further, they’ve said that “these models are getting exponentially better.” We have seen a dereliction of duty by those who are meant to know the truth — the media and analysts — who are either ignorant of reality or refuse to live within it, saying instead that every bit of proof that we’re in a bubble is just “doomerism” or “skepticism” or proof of some sort of corruption or animosity toward the future, rather than an attempt to speak of what’s actually happening and inform the public. LLMs are limited! What they do today is similar to what they did a year ago, and what they’ll do a year in the future! The time of LLM innovation is over, this era is over, and every day we extend it only beckons further retail investors to throw themselves into an active volcano after being convinced that it’ll transform them into a golden god. It’s insu… It is insane to me that we still, to this day, have people claiming that “agents are coming,” or still peddling out the dog-brained “Uber and Amazon Web Services burned a lot of money” talking points, or somehow justifying the hundreds of billions of dollars burned by saying that “ChatGPT is really popular,” as if that makes up for the theft of millions of people’s art or the destruction of our planet. We’ve known that OpenAI was burning billions of dollars since the middle of 2024, as we’ve known the same of Anthropic, as we’ve known that every AI company is unprofitable, as we’ve known that models will hallucinate forever, as we’ve known that the “scaling laws” paradigm was a bucket of bullshit. These facts have sat baking in the sun for anywhere from a year and a half to two years, yet the media narrative has only fairly recently shifted to consider whether there’s any problem with an entire industry of unprofitable companies building wrappers on top of models made by unprofitable frontier AI labs. AI has proven that we live in an era of high information and low processing, and that the majority of people — the media, investors, analysts, and even government officials — simply take the top-line analysis from whatever the most “trustworthy” source they can find. As a result, TV networks like CNBC publish outright nonsense to back up things like OpenAI promising to pay $1.4 trillion in compute costs in five years with “trustworthy” analysts like Futurum’s Dan Newman, who had this to say about how OpenAI might afford it: This is a company that its biggest backers and investors believe will become the largest hyperscaler in the future. So it isn’t just going to compete for these software and for these ChatGPT and video making, uh, models, they're going to be focusing on taking over this AI layer, going down the path of Anthropic, playing the enterprise, developing these biggest models, and then ultimately developing a model to make money. This is a fucking analy… This is why people are going to lose so much money! This is why people are being failed! The mainstream media is deliberately, aggressively pushing nonsense narratives with enough buzzwords to keep the bubble inflated. In reality, our society is built on a lot of beliefs that are extremely thinly-held, and LLMs took root because society has been primed by science fiction to believe that it’s inevitable that we’ll have an autonomous computer in our lifetimes. We are trained to follow smart-sounding people from birth, and what constitutes “smart’ is judged by a combination of right-sounding words and braggadocious confidence, and while that’s sort of worked before, Large Language Models feel as if they’re purpose-built to exploit these semiotic tropes. ChatGPT can convince an imbecile he knows quantum physics because it gives him the topline definition in simple enough terms that he can repeat. ChatGPT can give a convincing-enough impression of a person that it can convince somebody that it wants him to leave his wife. ChatGPT can give a convincing-enough impression of writing code that it can convince basically every investor and member of the media that it will replace software engineers in mere months. And because ChatGPT did a convincing-enough impression of a person writing something, Satya Nadella decided to buy as many GPUs as possible, and because Satya Nadella was doing a convincing-enough impression of a CEO who knew what the fuck he was doing, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Andy Jassy immediately copied him, so that they too could do convincing-enough impressions of executives that knew what they were doing. And because we live with markets that are poisoned by growth-at-all-cost thinkers, they fell in line behind the hyperscalers, claiming that the “era of AI” was here without any proof that was the case, all because the already-existing businesses underpinning the magnificent 7 kept growing. That, and the media has entirely failed to hold the… There is only one way to avoid this happening again: holding every single booster’s feet to the fire for months and months after the bubble bursts, and make sure that any other hype cycles they push are met with venom and receipts the likes of which God has never seen. If I sound like I have an axe to grind, it’s because I do. Regular people are already getting hurt — their communities destroyed by data centers, their art stolen, their loved-ones driven mad by AI psychosis, and, most likely, their 401Ks ravaged when this ends. I will have no mercy for those who failed to do their jobs. Will you?
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jmberger.com
Installment No. 1,341,908 in our ongoing series, "What Bowing Down to Trump Gets You," Keir Starmer edition
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
look we have fun on here going back and forth with our cousins across the pond but "i don't think the uk is a friend to this country" is one that should get you tossed off into the pacific
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
londondiscuss.bsky.social
Surely this will drag even more mud in for him to slip over and roll around on..
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
* TRUMP: ASKING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FBI TO INVESTIGATE JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S ALLEGED TIES WITH BILL CLINTON, LARRY SUMMERS, REID HOFFMAN, J.P. MORGAN CHASE AND OTHERS

@reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM