President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump seeks to shield his business finances from BBC in libel lawsuit
politico.com
Grokipedia hasn’t been updated in 3 months. Edit requests land in a queue and stall “In Review”. The autonomous edit bot is not editing itself, either. We did an analysis of edits, page view counts, and more. Auditability matters as agentic systems become reference infrastructure.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 12h agoGrokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
Trump: "I don't want to kill people. I do not want to kill people. But ... "
Lot of talk at the moment about how AI recruitment discriminates against older people. I looked into just how opaque the software is for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. The firms behind it won’t talk to journalists. Meanwhile, it’s destroying people’s lives. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...
Should robots decide whether or not you get a job?
Companies are using AI systems for recruitment, arguing that it’s a way of removing bias from the system. But it brings with it a whole load of other problems, some of them just as bad
thenewworld.co.uk
RFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
I keep meaning to mention BBC Radio 4 Extra have a short season of repeats related to Studio Ghibli. Programmes about the studio and their films, alongside dramatisations of the original stories they turned into films www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC - The Stories of Studio Ghibli
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli's first release
bbc.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Remembering that time the dwarf mystic escaped from police custody and the headline was ‘SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE’.
More incendiary stuff. Prince Ali, the FA president from Jordan, who was a rival to Infantino in his first election in 2016, alleges FIFA attempted to effectively blackmail theJordanian FA, withholding funds until they had provided backing to Infantino for next year’s election.
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 2d agoWant to go for a walk? We just launched ten #HumanistHeritage walking tours for: Birmingham, London, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, and Sheffield. They're self-guided, free to download, and can be done at your own pace. humanists.uk/2026/08/04/t...
Want to go for a walk? We just launched ten #HumanistHeritage walking tours for: Birmingham, London, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, and Sheffield. They're self-guided, free to download, and can be done at your own pace. humanists.uk/2026/08/04/t...
Ten Humanist Heritage walking tours now available – download today!
Humanists UK has launched ten Humanist Heritage walking tours, inviting everyone to learn more about the humanist radicals who shaped modern life across the UK. The self-guided walks are free to downl...
humanists.uk
New: Luciana Berger, who was one of the people targeted for racial harassment by the former Neo-Nazi who has now been selected as a Tory council candidate, has described how Kemi Badenoch has 'got this very, very wrong' www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-labou...
Berger slams Badenoch over selection of ex neo-Nazi candidate who targeted her - Jewish News
In a post on X, Berger said Badenoch had 'got this very, very wrong' after Joshua Bonehill-Paine was confirmed as a Tory council candidate
jewishnews.co.uk
Ralph Bakshi LOTR > Peter Jackson LOTR
Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d agoRalph Bakshi's gorgeous, rotoscoped, and incredibly dark animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) was, at times, like a nightmare to my 9 year-old self. I had particular problems with the creepy Nazgûl, especially during this famous scene...
New euphemism just dropped courtesy of Fraser Nelson: "Playful genius who poured petrol where others feared to tread."
Absolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d agoKemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
🌹 NEW EPISODE 🌹 What is this strange sensation? A new Labour government that might be… quite good? Plus FIFA, Ceuta and more 🌹 Group therapy with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @rafaelbehr.bsky.social @jamesrball.com & @nndroid.bsky.social 🌹 Listen – linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
