Pete Miles
@petermiles.eurosky.social
Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)
I am not sure you can assess the scale of threats like this. But that he IS a powerful and highly motivated threat seems to me to be evident. And that understanding alone should be enough to prompt government action to limit the damage he can do.
Pete Miles@petermiles.eurosky.social · 16h agoFree to read... observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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Why is the government and why are Labour ministers and MPs still on X (part 694) Elon Musk is a bigger threat to British democracy than crypto billionaires observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Elon Musk is a bigger threat to British democracy than cr...
The foreign-based tech mogul is using the X algorithm to influence British politics in more sinister ways than the £72m given to Reform last week
observer.co.uk
Throwback to one of the most comprehensive wave energy explainers we've seen from "Undecided" with Matt Ferrell breaking down the engineering behind wave energy in a way that's accessible without oversimplifying the challenge. undecided.tech/how-waves-co... #WaveEnergy #OceanEnergy #EnergyTransition
How Waves Could Quietly Overtake Solar & Wind
Every crashing wave delivers a pulse of power. Add them all up, and the ocean carries more energy than the roughly 30,000 TWh of electricity generated globally in 2023.12 But for decades, wave power h...
undecided.tech
All of these people were elected as Reform UK councillors. This is what they make of their council, three and a half minutes in their own words. 'The longer this goes on, the worse it's going to get...'
A particularly entertaining SNL UK Weekend Update today. youtu.be/hFMq4bw2cW8?...
Weekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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I'm convinced that open social protocols like #atproto have a crucial role to play in the future of science. Excited to share MOSAIC - our best effort at articulating the thesis, why it matters, and how to build and fund it (in collab w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social ) 🧵
MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence
MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.
mosaic-program.org
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
Too big NOT to fail... engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The AI trade is too big not to fail
More than $3.1 trillion has gone into American AI, much of it financed by debt pinned to unproven revenues. The industry may find that the only road to its prosperity runs through a crisis.
engelsbergideas.com
Never again. If she was with me camping I could have taken her home - but on a cruise I was stuck with her.
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
Too big NOT to fail... engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The AI trade is too big not to fail
More than $3.1 trillion has gone into American AI, much of it financed by debt pinned to unproven revenues. The industry may find that the only road to its prosperity runs through a crisis.
engelsbergideas.com
A spectacular sunrise over Ludlow, with St Laurence’s Church rising above the mist. Early starts aren’t always easy, but sometimes I pinch myself when they work out better than expected. This appears in a new edition of A. E. Housman’s A #Shropshire Lad featuring my pictures, on sale next Thursday 😊
I had missed this entirely. Demos is arguing for increased visibility of public interest news in our feeds to counter the (biased) algorithms. UK govt. has picked the idea up in a green paper,and the US govt has pushed back (so it must be a good idea!) demos.co.uk/research/fai...
Fairer Feeds: Demos response to the DCMS Green Paper
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
POWERFUL STUFF: SUBSTATION (1988): Afternoon PIFs intended for children's television were a curious thing. There you are, watching The Real Ghostbusters or Knightmare, when the ad break hits and you're confronted with a double electrocution. It's enough to put you off your Findus Crispy Pancakes.
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
2027 Calendar - available to preorder now! First 100 orders come with a free exclusive Cold War Steve Christmas card, signed and dedicated to you (or the recipient of the calendar) 👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/grea...
The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
cnn.com
It's great to hear the new trains on TransPennine Express will deliver independent boarding for more passengers. We need step-free access to the platform and level boarding everywhere so disabled passengers can travel with ease and confidence, instead of having to wait for Passenger Assistance.
Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 3d agoDecision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners #LevelBoarding www.disabilitynewsservice.com/decision-to-...
Does this ring any bells 🔔 this and the concept of the construction 🚧 of the MIX TAPE 😆
Rochdale Canal, Castlefield, Manchester, 1984 (Manchester Libraries).
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
