Damn yes, the lads are all choking to get right back to that forensic focus on the war crimes that we all remember so very well, and the definitely real attempt to bring us all back together rather than relentless Bodysnatchers pointing and screeching

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The Verge@theverge.com · 4d ago

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

None of the claims made here are true, but that's beside the point. What matters is the suggestion that certain people should not be subject to purity tests, while others should. For example, raise Palestine and you will be asked if you think Israel has the right to exist.

you'll never guess who the editor was on that John Ware Panorama hit job

Mark Hebden@unionlib.bsky.social · last wk.

Haha. The new BBC head of news is the person who was editor of Newsnight during the Jeremy Corbyn years. The rightward shift continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

Why are we even asking whether this project is racist, as we enter *year four* of undisguised genocide, while Israel’s leadership class keep telling journos that Britain is a dark Bolshevo-Muslim nightmare led by Islamocommunist extremists? *Of course* it is extremely racist, undeniably so.

Ah come on now…

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

Terrorist images were found on Flydubai suspect Hamam al-Hammami's social media.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

for millennia you would spend your life dreaming of an audience with the pope and today, through the miracle of technology, Jesus Returns Movie can talk to him with the press of a button and he uses it to say “has his excellency considered the Minions”

The social stigma is all backwards. We're so afraid of the possibility that some unicorn who has really "genuine concerns" for non-racist reasons might get called racist, we think it perfectly reasonable to whitewash the actual National Front.

Meanwhile we can see that "genuine concerns" is such a knee-jerk response amongst the reactionary middle classes and the commentariat now that they will even apply it to actual Blood and Soil fascists attacking infrastructure and trying to murder migrants.

We've been subjected to "it's not necessarily racist to have genuine concerns about migration" my whole life. This is technically true, in theory, but I have never once observed it in practice.

This is exactly why we need the Green Party to win in Holborn & St Pancras…

Politics.co.uk@politics.co.uk · 2w ago

Burnham has ‘ghosted’ the Labour left, says Clive Lewis www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/burn...

These people are not there to represent your interests. They are there to go on TV and tell you that sadly, nothing can be done, ever. If you take it quietly, they are successful Prime Ministers. If you don’t and you kick off, they are failures. It’s not much more complicated than that.

I would double-underline this point, in 72 point bold. It does not matter whether Boris Johnson was a catastrophic PM who e.g. resisted public health measures in a deadly global pandemic, to protect the property interests of his newspaper owner controllers. He did what they hired him to do. The end.

It's handy to know that if I ever commit a genocide, the police will arrest the people who protest against me while I make a speech at the UN saying how racist they all are

I ask you: would it be possible for the very wealthy to pull off an insulting fraud like “cancel culture” - an all-channels bullshit-Krakatoa, plunging the world into a nuclear winter of hateful reactionary cruelty and idiocy - if the referees were not bent, and the commentators were not bought?

Rich men used to fear that a mob from the town would show up and seize their factories and mansions. That ceased to be any concern a long time ago so now, they fight like lions to ensure random dorks on Twitter dot com aren’t telling each other not to buy Hank Wank’s new album because he is a dick.

The public have been disenfranchised until now, states do little but hand out favours and contracts to allies and intensify or relax crackdowns. The only means people have for influence are withholding their votes, or withholding their custom. So of course, that shit needs cracking down on too.

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

En Buen Ora@enbuenora.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

I’ll add: I believe the lads when they say it isn’t political, because it’s so plainly social and professional: they plainly view the likes of a Polanski, a Corbyn or an Abbot as lesser people who are beneath them and can be kicked with impunity. Unlike a weird little fash crank like Michael Gove.

Made Men - people who actually matter - can do pretty much whatever they want: corruption, far right conspiracy theories, fraternising with criminals, it’s all gravy so long as you are Mr Hot Shot. A troublesome leftist cannot cough, without the entire press pack jumping up their arse with Maglites.

Two Tier Policing. Just Stop Oil got 21 years for planning to block a road. The Far Right block emergency vehicles they don't even get arrested.

What’s currently happening with cuts to benefits and maybe pensions. If you don’t think this happens, then you’d have to say there are notable overlaps with the wars, austerity and the Big Society and Boris Johnson’s oven-ready Brexit deal.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3w ago

It means “quietly cajoling key officials and briefing the press, ensuring everyone knows they should repeat the same messages, to snowplough the public with all-channels unanimity and inevitability”. The creation of consensus where none exists; an astroturfed democracy, call it what you will.

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

So, you see why he had to go.

As I used to say: it wasn’t Sir Keir’s job to ensure that e.g. water companies act in the public interest. His job was to come *to you*, look sad then explain that nothing can be done. If you sullenly accept it and keep voting for him, then he is doing his job very well.

Important to understand: Tom hasn’t *just recently* taken a job promoting and protecting the interests of Labour’s corporate friends, by getting his journo mates to print articles bigging up their business and shitting all over the left. That was always his job.

Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com

Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out

SMD's pension@anothersmd.bsky.social · 4w ago

yesss hahaha yessss