Patch Thompson
@patchthompson.bsky.social
🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Makes the good point, which I'd missed, that if Badenoch believes in second chances why has she criticised the appointment of Louise Haigh whose criminal conviction was utterly trivial compared to those of Bonehill-Paine?
Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 9h agoConservativeHome’s leader today: conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/i...
Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]
Northern Ireland council kept no record of chief executive’s meeting with far-right group
A council chief executive held a meeting with representatives of a far-right anti-immigration group without any agenda, terms of reference or minutes being produced, it has emerged.
irishnews.com
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
‘No it’s not an actual economic theory, just a really clear way of explaining the poverty trap, you fools!’
Once again getting a load of House of the Dragon clips suggested to me, thinking that it really should be something I enjoy and then remembering GRRM’s inability to coherently plot anything drives me completely mad.
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
One of the beautiful things about Mamdani’s renewal of NYC government is that it shows how deeply business interests are usually baked into state capacity. Why should private equity, banks and real estate interests advise a mayor on what to spend?
"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"
this isnt a comment on the work as a whole but if i had written the line "our age of bronze is collapsing" and it was viewed by millions of people id probably seek death
Robinson perhaps indulging in some 'just asking the controversial questions' in memory of the programme's former editor...
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · yesterday"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
July marks the first consecutive twelve month period where wind generated more electricity than gas in the UK...in every single month. In the last decade, wind generation in the UK has more than doubled, pushing first coal and now gas out of the mix.
Sticking a Northern Irish oar into the Grammar School Discourse to say that, as a parent in a system where the 11+ is alive and kicking...it sucks!
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset. Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the creator of the viral Crewkerne Gazette series of AI clips, is due to stand for election to Somerset council next year in a new Crewkerne South district. He told the Guardian he was an executive member of the Tories’ Yeovil branch, working as an events organiser. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
absolutely baffling image. like it clearly implies only the Muslim fish (?) has a chance of beating the fascist one
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
This will surely end well for all concerned! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
Henry Pollock: Northampton star set to demand £1m-a-year to stay with Saints
Henry Pollock is set to demand a substantial increase on his current Northampton contract to stay at Franklin's Gardens, with agent Eddie Hearn suggesting annual earnings of £1m are his going rate.
bbc.co.uk
Apropos of nothing I hope Eamonn Dunphy is having a great day.
This preview for Bryson's new book - appealingly names 'Culture War' - asks us to pretend that 'Unionism doesn't have a coherent plan for the future' is a novel observation, not something that has been widely acknowledged since the 1980s... www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...
Jamie Bryson’s new book poses one big uncomfortable question: If nationalism had a plan, why didn’t unionism?
Jamie Bryson’s new book examines the predicament unionism finds itself in
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Will Richard Tice resign to fight a by-election, do we think?
