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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who can be surprised that one of the uses of crypto is to allow Russia to evade sanctions? It is just for crime-ing.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"AI models are typically trained on enormous amounts of data scraped from the internet, including copyrighted materials taken without their owners' permissions, to the chagrin of creative groups." Chagrin?! CHAGRIN?! Try FURY at having our work stolen and our governments ignoring clear copyright law

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026

Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣

a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The government shlould be extremely strong on why it is wrong to intimidate & abuse RNLI members + push a clear social norm against sharing addresses for purpose to intimidate, threaten & incite, imcluding pushing police to prosecute it, quickly & publicly, and warning of a repeat

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026

Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Buried in this article is a key quote from Prof Chris Bakal, at the Institute of Cancer Research - about applying AI to medical challenges: "It does not need a giant data centre to run. The future of medical AI will not belong to whoever builds the biggest computer… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Back in the office

Grey cat luxuriating on a black office chair.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A fun thing about LLMs is once you learn even one fucking thing about how they work, you understand they don't think. They don't reason. They don't understand. They do math with letters to make words.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If the principle of people contributing towards asylum support costs is so important, why not let people work while they're waiting for a decision? Better yet, why not make sure those decisions are right first time, so that millions aren't wasted waiting for incorrect refusals to be overturned?

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The mission and vision of the #RNLI is “No Deaths At Sea” Not, Some Deaths Not, Those Deaths But No Deaths at Sea. They’re rescuing people not asking their views. One day it might be you Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes indeed, those were the years when working out you lived close enough to a high-value first-strike target to be vapourised before you heard the sirens was good news...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/09/2026

A large number of people who purport to care about the energy transition and climate told me this was a nothingburger, in 2024.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

your brain processes sound and sight at different speeds. it resyncs them before handing it to the thinking bit. The "Horizon of Simultaneity" is when you're far enough from something that the diff in the speed light/sound naturally syncs the processing, reducing cognitive load. It's 15m from you.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

rough day? you look like you could use a helping hand from a 20 lbs orange himbo cat who is high on life and possibly other things maybe (look i don't watch him 24 hours a day, who even knows what he's up to).

an orange and white cat with saucer eyes extends his paw toward the camera

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A friend passed along this proudly South African tribute to Dolly Parton and it's the pick-me-up you didn't know you needed today. 🎶 youtube.com/watch?v=JOtm...

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Ndlovu Youth Choir - Jolene (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by NdlovuYouthChoirVEVO

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Geography does not magically liberate you from your customers’ regulations. Getting rid of GDPR-style protections would do sweet blue fuckall to “unshackle” a small British company that wants European customers. 4/

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nothing Jason was accused of doing justified what he was subjected to lithub.com/steven-thras...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: On holiday with the compulsive browsers

Panel 1: Browsing in the airport bookstore despite already having bags filled with books

Panel 2: Browsing in a charming local bookshop despite not speaking a word of the language

Panel 3: Browsing in the Airbnb despite there being only four novels, the oven manual and a pizza menu

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026

FOLKS - when we stop burning fossil fuels, oversizing agriculture and killing nature, the warming of Earth also stops worsening No floppy optimism here; no hollow appeal to hope. The laws of physics that created this problem also govern the fact we can choose to stop it.

Graph correlating cumulative CO2 emissions since 1850 with global warming to 2050, showing historical warming and colored projections for SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 with shaded uncertainty bands.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This piece rather misses the fact that large corporates are increasingly becoming direct political players, and arguably in doing so undermining the notion of free markets that The Economist is supposed to support.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not for nothing, but that does help partially explain the massive jump from 60/70 people in a dinghies to gangs forcing 150/200 people into dinghies. Of course gangs need stopping, but there are knock on effects when you only focus on enforcement which get ignored. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Germany has carried out its first raids under a new law to crack down on smugglers using the country as a staging post for small boat crossings on the English Channel, the BBC has learned.

More than 9,000 life jackets, dozens of dinghies and engines and 360 pumps were seized by police this spring during a joint operation involving the UK, France and Germany in the North Rhine-Westphalia region.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Let me fix that headline for you, BBC News: "Reform UK Tries to get Humiliating Clacton By-Election Off The Front Page With Outrageous, Uncosted Policy Ragebait"

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Julie Benson @julesbenson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Memory - tick Sleep - tick Random shoulder - tick

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 12/08/2026

A really devastating update from E. 🧵 chuffed.org/project/1282...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

I'm talking to myself here at least as much as anyone else, by the way. We're having to simultaneously double down on and completely rethink the intersection of data protection and archival practices. Working with marginalized individuals & populations in public institutions? Shit is ROUGH out here.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

July was the driest in the UK ever, there has been no significant rain since and farmers now expect their worst harvest on record. It will surely only get worse in the coming years and yet we're still hearing more about bus fares and 'vertical drinking' than the climate

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just saw this is over 60k this morning! He needs 75k so can you help push it up up up if you have anything to spare? And if you don't, please do share! #Booksky

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ever need something sweet after you eat something salty? And then something salty after you eat something sweet? And then something sweet after you eat something salty? And then

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The thing is: even if AI could produce fantastic “high-end” books, they would be no more interesting to a reading public. Because *readers want to read what other humans write*! They want to read what other humans think and experience and live through, and what they’ve struggled to create from it.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No-brainer, which is one of many reasons the anti net-zero stuff on the right is economic illiteracy as well anti-science.

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