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Jasper Jackson

@jasperjackson.bsky.social
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Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01 www.transformernews.ai

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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 7h
Huge news. I'd given up hope of it even getting to this stage
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a former media reporter, I have so much respect for the way @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has built a brilliant media outlet. Just great reporting and analysis.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
semafor.com
Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm now in an arse of a mood for Reasons As Below, so I am keeping this offer open today, TAKE OUT AN ANNUAL SUB NOW AND GET A FREE BOOK, IMPROVE MY DAY PLEASE GOD jonn.substack.com/subscribe
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assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else. Click to read The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I honestly can’t believe this is what has become acceptable in the U.K. why is he not being charged with hate crime? Twitter is a cesspit of antisemitism (and every other ism)
Calvin Robinson has posted an antisemitic diatribe on Twitter that reads “It is the Jews. It has always been the Jews.
Not all of them, but always them.
There is no avoiding this truth. Everything else is a distraction. Once you notice, you cannot unsee.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Bolshevism,
Feminism, Liberalism/Libertarianism,
Anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theories, Neoconservatism, Zionism.”Robinson’s next antisemitic post on twitter “There is no wonder our Lord did not mince his words when describing them:
"Brood of vipers" Matthew 3:7, Luke 3:7, Matthew 12:34 & 23:33.
"Of your father the devil" John 8:44
"killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets" 1
Thessalonians 2:14-16
"Synagogue of Satan" Revelation 2:9 & 3:9
St Paul knew them well:
"You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved."
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026
I spend my week crossing london on a bike and increasingly that means cycling alongside Wayve/Waymo robotaxis. it’s uncomfortable. they give you so much space, don’t do a close pass while accelerating as lights go red. So unnerving if you cycle on assumption everyone’s mental and wants to kill you.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
“Dog shit is worth more than Alex Gibney,” I tell him. “He has zero integrity,” I add. “Horrible human.”
thenewworld.co.uk
A new film about Elon Musk reveals him as so awful it’s almost tragic. Almost
Four hours is a long time to spend inside the mind of the world’s richest man – and that’s because his mind turns out to be a twisted, miserable nightmare
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is *wild* that someone who could not have been more thoroughly debunked , discredited and struck off by the British medical establishment in the 1990s (hardly a bastion of liberalism ) is still out there in public, having his ideas adopted by US Congress
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eek Andy Wakefield now telling the story about the lady that asked him to have sex with her at a conference to conceive a child so that it would grow up and care for her other autistic child. He wrote a sexy novel about it. Eep eep eep.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026
I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
status.news
Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Question for people who think the AI companies are talking about risk purely to juice a bubble. Why does Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, which has arguably the most interest in seeing AI spending increase, regularly dismissing those same risk concerns (and seemingly lobbying Trump to that effect)?
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is getting a bit weird watching the left cry "no regulation of AI" at the same time as the Trump admin and MAGA are saying the same thing. Like, literally the same talking points!
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Funny seeing Bluesky happy to back Trump (and Karp and Thiel's) stance simply cos it is about AI. You're sure this is the one thing that actually they understand, and are backing for the right reasons?
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/09/2026
The public finances are stretched to the limit, even with real-terms spending cuts coming up for most departments just before the election. At the same time taxes on median earners are *low* because we've spent 20+ years only raising indirect taxes. We are just not remotely serious people.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/09/2026
...but it *will* squander the opportunity to actually raise tax and solve some of the many problems facing the state. And so the unions saying "tax the rich more so you can do an income tax cut" is so utterly unhelpful that someone deliberately trying sabotage would struggle to do better.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the downsides in AI getting so good is that it is getting harder to demonstrate its strengths and weaknesses at the frontier. Yes, Astra and Fable can research and write good papers in an academic field. No, they are not as good as top humans (yet?), but you have to know the field to know why
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The "show me how AI kills everyone step by step" argument is dumb. If you found out the US had started secret work on something called The Manhatten Project, you wouldn't need to see a detailed plan for cold war nuclear arsenal stockpiling to go "gee that might be bad".
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So X has done nothing to suspend these accounts, but Bluesky took action: A Russian disinfo campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms. The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party & vote Republican.
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/09/2026
Musk’s secretive backer builds $40bn SpaceX stake ft.trib.al/XzL3yLS
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Musk’s secretive backer builds $40bn SpaceX stake
Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker’s largest shareholders
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not quite as sure about this being the case for the threat of escape longer term, but this is a good thread actually looking at the claims from a well informed position. (Unlike a lot of other people!)
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/09/2026
(It's thanks to the regulations we can breathe, tbf. Clean air rules work!)
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today, on the last day of my holiday, I am visiting Barryland. Without looking it up, any idea what awaits me?
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026
Braden Sinclair has turned his love affair with the restaurant chain into an interactive trove of dietary data. www.wired.com/story/this-m...
wired.com
This Man Has a Cult Internet Following Over His Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass
Braden Sinclair is one of just 50 people in the world who can have unlimited pasta at the chain for life. Now, fans are deciding what he should eat next.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
Hormuz shipping traffic falls to single digits, data shows
By Reuters
September 10, 2026 10:48 PM CDTOil shipments through Strait of Hormuz rise with US military assistance

By ALISON BATH  STARS AND STRIPES Published 27 minutes ago

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-09-11/middle-east-iran-hormuz-navy-tankers-22817340.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As @jamesrball.com wrote for us recently, the tech to do all this crazy surveillance stuff already exists, and will be used if we let it. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-surveil...
transformernews.ai
We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia
The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
According to a column in the Times, gangs of masked vigilantes blocking roads have demands which "represent a consensus view across the country". This is very patently utter bollocks. Daniel Thomas, the organiser, is a far-right racist thug. His views are not in any way mainstream.
Should anyone wonder that groups of angry white men in balaclavas have now started occupying Dover and blockading coaches sent to ship more and more men into this utterly negligent system? It’s astonishing it hasn’t happened sooner. I don’t mean I want to see gangs of masked bricklayers marauding around ports. I don’t. But I do think that if you have spent three years allowing masked Gaza activists to take over the streets because police are too scared to stop them, and five years blocking policies such as Rwanda that would actually stop the boats, you cannot start hyperventilating the moment working-class British men take to the streets non-violently, as in Dover if not Portsmouth, to make their feelings known.

The non-violence is obviously critical. This was not a riot, as we saw in 2024. It was not a campaign of harassment. It did not target random people. And unlike the Gaza marches or “stop oil” stunts, its demands represent a consensus view across the country and relate to something under the government’s direct control. They amount to: “Can the government please do what it promised and stop ferry-loads of undocumented foreign men arriving on our beaches to fill up regional hotels and roam around town centres?” They might reasonably also ask for the Home Office to stop handing out asylum to the thousands who falsely claim it while visiting on student or work visas.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 04/09/2026
Scoop: There's been *another* previously undisclosed AI agent breakout from OpenAI, this one discovered by an informal group of researchers in Berkeley. The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests. With @deepa.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to ​new research and two people familiar with the matter.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The levels of stupidity in these tweets is off the charts. Terrible case of brain worms.
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are lots of crazy (and scary) things in the report on the Hugging Face hack. But IMO one of the craziest is that the only independent investigation was so limited, and entirely at OpenAI's discretion. We very obviously need a better system, urgently: www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-esc...
transformernews.ai
The report into OpenAI’s escaping models reveals a deeper problem
The new details from the OpenAI Hugging Face incident are scary. The limits of the investigation are terrifying
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Israeli election isn't going to lead to peace. Whoever wins will be right-wing. But if the new government doesn't include this fascist piece of shit it will be an improvement.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/08/2026
Trust a former guardian journalist to decide that the correct price point for the product is "free", though. (This is brilliant, do read it).
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Transformer @transformernews.ai · 27/08/2026
Some of the details in the OpenAI Hugging Face incident report are scary But the limits of the investigation reveal the complete inadequacy of the systems we have to keep advanced AI in check – and *that* is truly terrifying @jasperjackson.bsky.social ✍️ www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-esc...
The quote from Jasper Jackson reads: “The company that built the model, with a whole host of personal, institutional and financial incentives in play, got to decide who the investigators were and what they saw”
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/08/2026
The shift from “no one is watching” to “someone might be watching” — thanks to surveillance cameras, phone tapping, and similar technologies — took the entirety of the 20th century. The final shift to “something is always watching” could be completed inside a decade, and still catch us unaware.
transformernews.ai
We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia
The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
""Thanks to AI, the surveillance dystopia science fiction has spent decades warning us about is already here. We just haven’t noticed yet."
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My column this week is the product of my frustration at a series of myths that I think have grown up at Westminster that provide comfort to the various parties (not all of which I had space to grumble about) to avoid confronting the real choices we actually have:
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Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain’s shrunken state
There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/08/2026
There's a particular view on its environmental damage, psychological damage, and that it's useless, and if you deviate from that here you just end up deluged in yet another debate about those things, instead of the discussion you were trying to have.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/08/2026
Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A sitting Conservative MP using the word Yookay. Genuinely astonishing to me that visibly there is no warning sign, at all, will be heeded by loads of people at Westminster with a *direct stake* in this type of politics failing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not a new tactic tbf. It's also not that hard to do.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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