Concerned about the anti-democratic views and behaviour of the likes of Peter Thiel? Worried about the egregious demands of AI bosses for water and electricity. Furious at the loss of critical natural resources. Here's a key petition to hold the line on all of these. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

🚨72 hours to save Patagonia

Javier Milei wants to sell Patagonia to US billionaires like AI magnate Peter Thiel. Argentinians are fighting to protect their lands, lakes and glaciers, but they need our help.

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Fairness for workers in the UK economy – broken by Tories' COVID support and Zero Hours contracts etc.. Labour's broken promise: the Government promised guaranteed hours for all workers, but now most will miss out. 🚫 Sign the petition now to protect every worker: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Sign the petition to give all workers the right to guaranteed hours

Betrayal: the UK Gov pledged guaranteed hours for all workers, but now most will miss out. Sign now to fight back.

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The sense that AI Data Centres are being foisted on us without either our consent or proper examination of the case for their construction. Here's a petition you can sign to raise a flag on the issue. 38d.gs/feka

Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!

Are you worried about this too?

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Reigning in press barons and the penchant for criminality and persecution by media – yes, sign this petition and also press for Levison 2 as a matter of urgency. c.org/FBV2FR2Rrq

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Fix the press: we all deserve a media we can trust

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The 40 years ago moment Burnham references, where British politics took such a wrong turn, is the evil done to this country by Thatcher’s privatisation frenzy egged on by the madness of Keith Joseph and Milton Friedman’s feckless economics. Andy is right to call out the fraud and to seek redress.

Finally we may have an opening door for active political support for ending FPTP and moving our democracy to fairer PR voting. I've just signed "Tell Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/na... @OpenBritainHQ

If you doubted that Trump's instincts were those of a third rate gangster, here is his current reaction to Iran – a US protection racket for international shipping navigating international waters in the Straits of Hormuz. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and imposes 20% charge on cargo passing through Hormuz

Trump says the US will become the "guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for using it. Iran earlier warned the US not to "interfere" in the strait's "management".

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When government penny pinching is just "off the charts" mean!: 38d.gs/sh54

Save Our Coastguards: Scrap plans to strip rescue heroes of their pay!

This is so outrageous. The Government wants to reclassify Coastguard Rescue Officers as "volunteers" so they can get out of paying them an hourly wage when they go out to save lives. Join me and sign...

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I wanted to listen to a talk by Peter Geoghegan on Substack and it through me this crap. "Instantly after 7 days"! Fuck off.

You have been warned! Not only are you burning the planet but… TOTH to Eva Sanz González lnkd.in/p/ePugex74

Your Data is Leverage in AI Future of Work | Yash Rawat posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Stop telling ChatGPT your deepest secrets. It is quietly building a file to guilt-trip you. We rush to share our daily struggles, career anxieties, and imposter syndrome with AI. We call it productiv...

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This is not the choice. The choice is whether or not I want personalised advertising at the price of yielding my data or accept non-personalised advertising and enjoy my privacy. Instead the Guardian and many other papers demand my data or £5 a month. My privacy. Fuck off!

Scrutinising the funding of Farage's company wielded as a political party is a start, but it must also lead to scrutiny by a recalcitrant media of its policies designed to eviscerate our democratic state and its citizens and residents' rights. Here's a petition to start with. 38d.gs/farage_donat...

Launch a full investigation into Nigel Farage’s undisclosed donations

Nigel Farage received gifts and benefits from a convicted fraudster. This can’t go on. Sign the petition to demand a FULL investigation into his undisclosed donations and gifts. We need answers:

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"The US-Israel FUTURES Act … proposes to merge the two armies … US intelligence will become Israeli intelligence … Should Israel go to war, the US may be formally bound to go with it: a horrific prospect as Netanyahu vows that Israel’s wars will never end." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...

Stop, collaborator, and listen!

On stolen sovereignty and Americans fighting back.

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Another Trump DOJ 'shit-hitting-fan' moment impacting EU/UK data safety: "Evaluation by EDPB: The European Data Protection Board is evaluating the ruling's effect on the validity of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework." www.dataguidance.com/news/denmark...

Museveni's Uganda is threatening two young women with the death penalty for being in love. Do you want to sign this petition to shine an international light on this problem? secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

One week to free Wendy & Diana!

Wendy and Diana’s love is not a crime. Sign and share her petition to have all charges against them dropped.

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In the absence of a global model for the functions of a bicycle, AI seems destined for a doomloop of misplaced, sub Heath Robinson, features and functions. Not so much 'Bicycle for the Mind' leverage of understanding as 'totally off your head' perma halucinations: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Off for adventures

Leaving you with a couple laughs

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The death and injury toll from a "bullying and toxic culture" at the Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is damning, horrific and an imperative for inestigation across the NHS. My experiences with the births of my children at Queen Charlotte's in West London was the polar opposite. Match it!

7% rather than 25% Corporation Tax Rate its UK competitors in the High Street and online will pay in 2025/26. Despite the convenience and low prices UK shoppers may assume, Amazon is actively hollowing out UK tax receipts, UK businesses and UK consumers alike. Enough of a problem yet? 38d.gs/mexd

We pay our dues. They should too.

Amazon made £62 BILLION last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. We must stop this!

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When USG takes over Anthropic: "They won’t need us … even for appearances. Our data is theirs. Our money, inconsequential … Anthropic will immediately cut off its technology from the world … 'It’s not a toy,' they will say, 'and you’re just a bunch of kids.'” www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/kayfable

Kayfable

What does Anthropic actually want?

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Piss poor record on Prohibitions – Alcohol, Drugs and now Social Media. Worse, how better to let Social Media bosses off the hook for their failures to mediate their "publishing" platforms and appalling algorithms, than by blanket banning potentially vulnerable users. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Under-16s to be banned from social media by next spring, Starmer says

Watch live as Technology Secretary Liz Kendall delivers a statement to the Commons on the ban.

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ToTH to Gruber at daringfireball.net. "When tech companies spend hundreds of billions on capital expenditures to add sparkly AI features to Office, Gmail, and Instagram, I only see fearful atheists — guys who don’t believe in AI but pretend just in case." www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/what-apple...

What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit

Apple looked at AI and said: this changes nothing

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Not content with raping a country of 350 million the size of a continent, the Trumps are now planning raping nature on a tiny, unspoilt island in the Mediterranean. There's a petition for stopping that: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

URGENT: Save this island from the Trump family!

Albanians are standing up for their pristine island – join now to stand with them!

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Christina Pagel's guarded green flag on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, "There is a lot about the current state of the world that is deeply depressing. But Covid is now not one of those things - and with any luck won’t be again [via SARS-CoV-2] - and I choose to celebrate that." christinapagel.substack.com

Making sense... of evidence, data, and the stories they tell | Christina Pagel | Substack

Making Sense explores how evidence and data can help us make sense of the world — from the NHS and Covid to science, democracy and politics. Christina Pagel is a Professor of Operational Research at...

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A moment to put yet more pressure on the UK government about Palantir’s business model and its technologies used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...

Get Palantir out of UK public services

The UK has handed Palantir dozens of public contracts, including with the NHS, even as the dangers of empowering a class of big tech oligarchs become clear. Palantir has supplied military technology t...

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Big business is not seeing proportionate returns on AI spend – the AI business model is fragmenting… and the reasoning – AI is anything but trustworthy. garymarcus.substack.com/p/if-enough-...

If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧

Breaking: “Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.”

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This should not just be a call to Lisa Nandy to maintain the Public Sector Broadcasting framework. It must also be a call for to her enforce it and task GB News with compliance if it wants to continue broadcasting rather than being just a woeful propaganda machine for our local fascists. 38d.gs/5bgx

No subscription model for the BBC

GB News is trying to gut the BBC. Their radical plan would force shows like Strictly and The Traitors to be axed or hidden behind a Netflix-style paywall. Sign the petition to say NO to a BBC subscrip...

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Yikes! "…[he] sings the praises of the Apple Extended Keyboard II … I do keenly intend to take Butterick up on his standing offer to dine when next I’m in Los Angeles, but I worry that if we meet, we’ll trigger some sort of calamitous singularity of aligned taste." daringfireball.net/2026/05/the_...

The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts

The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.

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Another chance to get cancerous, malevolent Palantir out of our National Health Service. The idea that this company should be anywhere near our personal data is very much our brush with 21st Century Fascism. 38d.gs/potg

To the new Health Secretary: Get Palantir out of our NHS!

I just the petition calling on the new Health Secretary to get Palantir out of our NHS!

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Wes Streeting (and Andy Burnham) are right – we need to rejoin the EU and Farage of UKIP/ The Brexit Party/ Reform, the man who worked with Putin to deliver Brexit, needs to be held to account for the damage done. Mates Epstein, Trump and his new paymaster too. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/farage-5...

FARAGE: COME CLEAN ABOUT THE £5M

Sign the petition demanding Reform UK leader Nigel Farage come clean about the £5m gift he received from a Reform Party mega-donor!

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Tragedy – Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, finds God and his name is Claude… garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-da...

Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion

The great skeptic gets taken in

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