Ian Betteridge
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Journalist, anti-capitalist, degrowther, your pal. I work for the company. But don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy. The Eye of Sauron, but for […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I know ICE = bad but jeez I had to laugh https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-ice/
Kanye Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana ... TMZ has learned. The controversial political personality is currently being held at an ICE detention center, per inmate records. The circumstances surrounding his detention are not yet…
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Truly these people are the worst of America. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-official-inquiry-diverted-wildfire-resources
Britain to Russia: Go fuck yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/britain-ukraine-war-russia
You don’t have to dismantle the means of production. You have to seize it.
There is dim, and there’s “dimmer than a 10w light bulb dim”. And then a bit below that, there’s Raise the Colours. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/ErqyK0WSdj
Never a day goes by when I'm not glad I got a new laptop before the great RAMpocalypse.
What is it with the big clubs this season? Other than Arsenal, that is...
I love we have the kind of neighbours who will pop round to get a cup of sugar.
RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104 Years ago when I lived in Canterbury, they brought in a phone to pay thing for parking. I wrote a letter to Canterbury city council saying this was a bad idea as someone could put a sticker over the phone number, and scam people for their credit card […]
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Good to see Man U starting the short path to panicking and sacking their manager.
"You are either with us or against us," says Bessant. You know Scott, I think you made that decision for us when you started threatening to invade Greenland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87n90eg0p2o
Unless, of course, you're disagreeing with Nigel. "A Reform spokesperson said: “Unlike the Guardian, Robert believes in hiring smart people with whom he disagrees.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/20/reform-economic-adviser-mitchell-palmer-end-pensioners-triple-lock
Of course he did. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/meta-safety-trial-whistleblower-testimony
Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial
Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children
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OK, this is going to be controversial, but don't kick me too hard. I'm testing the latest version of Omarchy, the distro by that odious buffoon DHH and it's got a *really* good way of integrating AI that's actually useful. Set up Claude Code (it can do this from your settings) and it also an […]
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So Reform wants the long term unemployed to sweep the streets, thus putting existing employed street sweepers out of work and condemning them to the long term unemployed. I don't think they have thought this through, you know.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/117099208164126991 If you care about community and collective creation this shows that the @linuxfoundation is not on your side. Replacing designers with slop machines is antithetical to collaboration and respect for different skills and abilities. A deeply […]
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Caroline Farrow has spent most of a decade spreading hate, initially coming to prominence for transphobia. It's no surprise at all that she's also a raging homophobe. And yet GB News invited her her. #CloseGBNews […]
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Elon Musk always leaves things in a worse place than he finds it.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w agoDOGE was a catastrophe. It left America's government digital presence in *far* worse shape than it found it, and even the modest savings it claimed to have made from all this destruction turn out to be lies: www.yahoo.com/news/politic... 31/
Hilarious scenes at Canterbury west station where security have set up barriers outside the night gate, to deter fare evaders. But of course a waist high barrier is precisely zero deterrent to someone capable of getting over a six foot gate. And none of them are actually standing near enough to […]
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"If you’re under the impression that these models are 'glorified autocomplete' or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that." No, really, do. Just because some dweeb is using them to make obviously-fake images or bad poetry doesn't mean they're not capable of much […]
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Yes, I am a sucker for a new email client (referral link, I get to jump the queue if you sign up as interested). https://sunflower.me?ref_id=CA5UPL1HA
It's really fascinating looking at Elon Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) feed (which I do via a thing which lets me see it through RSS). He is utterly, utterly obsessed with racist anti-immigrant propaganda. It is, if anything, worse than you probably imagine. He's insane.
A rare Betteridge's Law counter-example. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjejl274xx8o
Gianni Infantino: Why Fifa president is pushing World Cup sell off plan
BBC Sport explores why Fifa president Gianni Infantino feels powerful enough to sell off stakes in the World Cup - and what the consequences could be.
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