“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
OrangeDave
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Mini Schnauzer, Mini Cooper and Smart Car lover. Singer in a choir. Quaker. Husband to Tony and Dogdad to Sprocket the Mini Schnauzer. Superannuated layabout. Proud Lutonian but living in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
This is a petition to Parliament to have the Nazi salute outlawed in the United Kingdom - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
Petition: Make performing a Nazi salute a criminal offence in the UK
We want the Government to introduce legislation making it a criminal offence to intentionally perform a Nazi salute in public (including online) or at public events, except where it is clearly used fo...
petition.parliament.uk
Oooooh! Ouch! www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Parasitic Katie Miller buried herself with her own revolting words
The ungrateful, parasitic, and contemptible Katie Miller, wife of the equally ungrateful, contemptible and parasitic Stephen Miller, wants you to believe Dr. Anthony Fauci was never really anything to...
rawstory.com
Anyone who has looked at Reform UK finances has always sensed there was something dodgy going on, but this level of subterfuge and double dealing is quite spectacular. As @carolecadwalla.bsky.social explains in her excellent new piece in @thenerve.news this thrived all in post Brexit impunity
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 3w ago“In the six weeks between the snap election being called and polling day on July 4, 2024, (retired stylist) Fiona Cottrell apparently gave more than 35 per cent of all funding to Reform UK, either directly or indirectly.” www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I remember her words spoken as my friends lay dying in the 1980s and 1990s. I remember those words that sought to hurt us. And yet I wished her no harm, but neither would I grieve her passing. I don't think she was a good person in life, and I worry that we'll end up lionising her in death.
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams did seem to break her non-disparagement clause when she wrote Careless People. But Meta's bonkers campaign to silence her shows that her criticism of Zuck & Co is well grounded. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.
wired.com
So, that's what a flounce look like. Narcissism at its purest.
The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership Lest we forget. Important setting the record straight by @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/22/k...
The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
@superstevie268.bsky.social Hi Steve. I'm back on BlueSky again. Hope you are all OK. David and Tony (and Sprocket)
