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this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
January 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
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Who called it “becoming more conservative as you age” and not alt-rightzheimers
June 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Who called it “becoming more conservative as you age” and not alt-rightzheimers
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Nothing says the UK is not involved in the US's illegal actions in Venezuela, more than the UK aiding and abetting the US's actions against Venezuela.
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Nothing says the UK is not involved in the US's illegal actions in Venezuela, more than the UK aiding and abetting the US's actions against Venezuela.
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
The use of AI tool Grok to generate en masse intimate images of real women and girls is sickening.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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So what happens when you don’t believe anything but also get incredibly irate on TV when someone asks you a question that can’t be answered with a press release
Keir Starmer has this morning urged Cabinet to keep its nerve amid grim opinion polling (today’s YouGov put Labour in third place behind Reform & Tories)
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
January 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
So what happens when you don’t believe anything but also get incredibly irate on TV when someone asks you a question that can’t be answered with a press release
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Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.
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my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
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If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
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How can this happen?
One element in play: the local paper makes zero mention of dividends in its coverage of the accounts. Literally none.
Even though the entire story - for years - has been fundamentally about two men making themselves filthy rich because of bad public sector governance.
One element in play: the local paper makes zero mention of dividends in its coverage of the accounts. Literally none.
Even though the entire story - for years - has been fundamentally about two men making themselves filthy rich because of bad public sector governance.
January 6, 2026 at 7:13 AM
How can this happen?
One element in play: the local paper makes zero mention of dividends in its coverage of the accounts. Literally none.
Even though the entire story - for years - has been fundamentally about two men making themselves filthy rich because of bad public sector governance.
One element in play: the local paper makes zero mention of dividends in its coverage of the accounts. Literally none.
Even though the entire story - for years - has been fundamentally about two men making themselves filthy rich because of bad public sector governance.
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Over the last four years the businessmen (who were given 90% of what was set up as a 50-50 private-public venture for free) have extracted more than £120m for themselves.
The cost to the public purse is more than £550m.
The cost to the public purse is more than £550m.
Teesworks: Dividends increased to £30m despite plummeting income
Latest accounts for Teesworks Ltd show increase in payments to shareholders
teesside.thelead.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Over the last four years the businessmen (who were given 90% of what was set up as a 50-50 private-public venture for free) have extracted more than £120m for themselves.
The cost to the public purse is more than £550m.
The cost to the public purse is more than £550m.
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NEW: Teesworks Ltd has published its latest accounts.
Despite plummeting revenues, the businessmen at the centre of the controversial redevelopment project continue to increase their dividends each year.
This year they paid themselves more than £32m against revenue of £6m.
Despite plummeting revenues, the businessmen at the centre of the controversial redevelopment project continue to increase their dividends each year.
This year they paid themselves more than £32m against revenue of £6m.
Teesworks: Dividends increased to £30m despite plummeting income
Latest accounts for Teesworks Ltd show increase in payments to shareholders
teesside.thelead.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
NEW: Teesworks Ltd has published its latest accounts.
Despite plummeting revenues, the businessmen at the centre of the controversial redevelopment project continue to increase their dividends each year.
This year they paid themselves more than £32m against revenue of £6m.
Despite plummeting revenues, the businessmen at the centre of the controversial redevelopment project continue to increase their dividends each year.
This year they paid themselves more than £32m against revenue of £6m.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:
January 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:
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"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
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Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
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Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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Better late than never, eh? You toadying lackey. You single-setting autotamton of genuflection.
December 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Better late than never, eh? You toadying lackey. You single-setting autotamton of genuflection.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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yeah, if a British scandal is big enough it just gets buried in inquiries which take 20 years and end up concluding ‘welp, pobody’s nerfect I guess guys! Anyway much to ponder’
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
yeah, if a British scandal is big enough it just gets buried in inquiries which take 20 years and end up concluding ‘welp, pobody’s nerfect I guess guys! Anyway much to ponder’
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I would encourage people in the UK to complain to the BBC about unquestioning platforming a person who uses transphobic slurs on trans healthcare.
If they do not get a satisfactory response, escalate the complaint to Ofcom.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If they do not get a satisfactory response, escalate the complaint to Ofcom.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I would encourage people in the UK to complain to the BBC about unquestioning platforming a person who uses transphobic slurs on trans healthcare.
If they do not get a satisfactory response, escalate the complaint to Ofcom.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If they do not get a satisfactory response, escalate the complaint to Ofcom.
www.bbc.com/news/article...