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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The problem is that we have made the human conversation the expensive option and the machine conversation free, and we are surprised at what researchers, responding rationally, then choose.” "What is it that we are all here together to do, again?"
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, and this is the future of Snap: "The backlash has grown so much that many owners of the “pervert glasses” have become too afraid to use them in public, a PR disaster for what once was an accessory that was flying off the shelves." futurism.com/future-socie...
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How to style a pair of pervert glasses so people can see you from a mile.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Creators' Rights Alliance @creatorsrights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone who has loved a film, a book, a portrait or a song knows that if the people working in the creative industries don't earn enough to keep the industry going, the country stands to lose a lot more than income...
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
" What if, instead of relying on notifications and scrolling, we returned to bookmarking our favorite news sites and reading their homepages each morning?" "It wasn’t long ago that these were standard practices… A mass return to longer, slower, more reflective reading is possible"
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wonderful book, definitely in my top ten for non fiction this year.
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We Are Better Than This @better-than-this.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Please keep betting the global economy on AI, that will surely work just fine for everyone”
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"As the cognitive scientist Hagen Blix and machine learning researcher Ingeborg Glimmer wrote in their 2025 book “Why We Fear AI”: “If the stakes are as high as the very survival of humanity..." theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"It’s some feat to be out-manoeuvred by a party facing multiple parliamentary and police investigations, but Labour has somehow pulled it off." Embarrassing.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The government betrayed the trust of the British people in ways that will never be forgotten or forgiven. @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social, this is a national embarrassment.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But what Dario can't recognize is that his morals and his self-interest are not (and cannot be) aligned. If the risks from the AI labs are that serious, then we cannot rely on the AI developers to solve them. We should take Dario JUST SERIOUSLY ENOUGH to stop entrusting him with so much power.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/09/2026
Any political party which tells you money doesn’t buy influence is either lying to you or has never attended a political fundraiser. Currency is access- and that’s for everyone. My opener to Sunday with Lewis Goodall @lbc.co.uk this morning. youtu.be/uLMuirAe--I?...
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'This is the Americanisation of British politics' | Lewis Goodall
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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yet more evidence that claims about the benefits Palantir provides to the NHS just don't hold water. A former minister who once defended them has now called for a review. Important investigation from @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/article/form...
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Former Labour health minister calls for 'forensic' review of £330m NHS contract with American tech giant Palantir | LBC
LBC found that half of the 16 NHS trusts in England using Palantir’s Outpatient Care Co-ordination Solution saw their backlogs rise between the national rollout of the technology in April 2024 and Jun...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires We need to do something to stop it - urgently www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Pull The Plug @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We’re joining the People vs Palantir England day of action! ✊ On Thursday 1st October NHS patients, health workers and activists across England are taking action to demand that Palantir’s NHS contract is scrapped. Find your nearest local protest here: www.amnesty.org.uk/people-vs-pa...
amnesty.org.uk
People vs Palantir - International Day of Action
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Join a local action near you!
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
yikes
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tante @tante.cc · 09/09/2026
Apple couldn't leave the stalkerware market to Meta with their Pervert Glasses. Gonna be fun to see the fanboys twist into knots arguing that this is good akschually.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Their watch is always listening, but they are not. The hate towards intrusive spy-ware is growing at pace, fuelled by the hate towards data centres, internet slop and the simple presence of the stupid AI icon popping up everywhere. They have no idea what we want and stopped caring a long time ago.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
farage, johnson, rees-mogg and many acompanying profanities colour the mental images of any time spent dealing with a parcel stuck at custom.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reading @gilduran.com’s book, it's notable that all the men he describes have in common a childhood without warmth. Intellectual achievements are the only tools to break through parental neglect and a narcissistic hideout from peer’s bulling. Alpha Schools want everyone’s childhood to be like that.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"What Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal University" youtu.be/MBARKb_eMRI
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What Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal University
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My current retirement plant is to wait a few years, pray for climate change to cause day-long internet outages, and charge people thousands of dollars for... thinking. I'll be like the village elder. People will come to me and ask what to eat, what movies to watch, where to travel. I'm gonna be rich
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
Every day is like “this company is trying to build a gateway to hell” yet we are all supposed to pretend like everything is fine.
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This startup wants to turn the world into a searchable video feed, starting in San Francisco
Orchestra has installed more than 100 cameras in San Francisco. Next up: 900 more, then the rest of the world.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
is always good for the newsroom when a business exec at a publication insists on blogging
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The reality of data centres is imminent." This sort of determinism has had its day.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The craziest thing about all this is that U.K. universities are being ripped to shreds by cuts and *this* is the hill these academics are keen to die on democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, @metoffice.gov.uk, people hate AI. If some new algorithm proves to predict the weather more accurately, great, go for it. If you’re just following government's directives to use “AI" at all costs, disguising that as innovation, it's not gonna go down well. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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UK public confidence in AI weather forecasts lags behind existing methods, Met Office study finds
New Met Office research, thought to be the first of its kind, identifies a confidence gap between existing forecasting methods and emerging AI techniques, helping inform how future innovations are int...
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From a brilliant review of "The Rulers", by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social I'm halfway through the book now and love it. Also an invaluable read for anyone who’s trying to explain what role a rhetoric of inevitability plays in the success of intellectual monopolies. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026
Here’s my full segment on MSNOW about becoming “the leading expert voice on the bearish case against AI,” the end of hypergrowth, and how AI’s costs and losses are magnitudes higher than those that built Amazon Web Services, and even Amazon itself. One of my best. youtu.be/n32mhb2aUsE?...
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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all promised both to fight climate change and to develop AI responsibly...And yet, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all created custom AI or machine-learning tools for fossil fuel companies to help them increase production." heated.world/p/we-need-to...
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We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil
I’ve sent off requests to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Let’s see how they respond.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/08/2026
Paramount will either completely collapse under incompetence and debt or turn into another really large and shitty tech company sympathetic to authoritarianism or both!
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David Ellison's Paramount is hiring 2 more former Google execs
Paramount Skydance just hired two more former Google executives as part of David Ellison's tech push. Read the memo from product chief Dane Glasgow.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the most depressing things about the AI agenda is how, even when they appear critical, the media are colluding in creating a rhetoric of Inevitability. I see no difference between propaganda and journalism.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2026
We already have an answer to this? Someone who sits in their garage selling cheap imitations of famous artists is being an unethical shithead. They are already conscious A company that automates this process is also being an unethical shithead! They also employ conscious people designing software
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/08/2026
Imagine being the author of the worst take on AI yet published by Nature.
nature.com
When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/08/2026
It's good that Andy Burnham is intervening to protect the interests of households against bill hikes. But it's meaningless unless he intervenes to tackle the root cause: privatisation. Burnham said Thames Water 'should' be nationalised. Tell him it's time to make it happen. vist.ly/5f7yb
Screenshot of a Daily telegraph headline: "Burnham to intervene over surge pricing for water". The lede says "No 10 says customers ‘cannot be treated as a blank cheque’ after threat of higher rates during droughts". Photo of Andy Burnham with a water-depleted lake behind him.
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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Things happening at the University of Cambridge which have not received hundreds of front page news stories in the last month. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In this day and age it is considered inappropriate to criticise society's unconditional embrace of technology without premising it with “I am not anti-tech, but…”. But when I think of technology this is what springs to mind.
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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The incident certainly highlights the many pain points of forcing internet connection-dependent services on consumers often against their will. It’s a frustrating aspect of living in a society where even ovens and washing machines apparently need to be Wi-Fi connected for some reason."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧵I've been writing about communities taking on big heartless corporations for well over 30 years and I have never seen an issue bring together a coalition as wide, or as deep, as the battle against AI data centres. This quote from a Kentucky farmer who refused millions to sell her land says it all:
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/08/2026
“The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/gil_…
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“The Nerd Reich”: Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows th...
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