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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In England, nearly all rivers and beaches are polluted, taps run dry and trillions of litres of water are leaked each year. Yet, we pay some of the highest water bills in Europe. Our new report shows how this system is fixable through public ownership. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

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Crystal Clear: the Solutions for Clean, Running Water

The clearest and most cost-effective route to genuine public control of England's water is through public ownership.

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

News: UK gov will likely to postpone an international summit against illicit finance for a second time. Sources familiar with discussions told me that planning for the December summit has been de-prioritised over other things like the upcoming G20 presidency. Story (£) www.acams.org/en/news/brit...

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This story is incredible - and shows how much corruption and money laundering runs through fin tech (which makes it ripe for Kremlin operations) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks

FT finds thousands of Russian payments received by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026

There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Starmer-levels of spinelessness already. Pathetic, and dangerous

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 03/09/2026

A Maltese businessman has been acquitted of complicity in the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and criminal association to commit murder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Daphne Caruana Galizia: Maltese tycoon acquitted of orchestrating journalist's murder

Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and money laundering schemes in Malta before she was killed by a car bomb in 2017.

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New: Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, apparently still serves a significant volume of clients in the EU after failing to secure a license under sweeping, bloc-wide requirements for virtual asset service providers. www.acams.org/en/news/bina...

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

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Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.

soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.

I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unit

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 17/08/2026

Every day a new horror

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The government holding a COBRA meeting about the heatwave but not talking about climate change is like if Boris Johnson had locked down the country without mentioning covid-19

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 08/08/2026

A machine-made movie has premiered at Tribeca. But if there’s no soul, no emotion, or no attempt at human connection... who cares? By Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/ellen-e-jo...

AI can already create films. What it can’t create is art. By Ellen E Jones. Image of ai generated actor

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards. www.arguably.uk/p/can-andy-b...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/07/2026

I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/07/2026

As an ex media report I can't help looking at the BBC Annual Report, it's a habit I cannot kick, I'm going to stick some things I've noticed in a thread. The tldr to my mind is if you're at the BBC and you're not panicking and trying new stuff and tuning out low level moans you're screwed. 🧵

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s just totally bent. Totally and undeniably.

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New: Cryptocurrency platforms that have failed to obtain licenses under the EU's sweeping new requirements for digital by July 1 should expect close scrutiny in the months ahead, as should any competitors seeking to poach clients from them, regulators have warned. www.acams.org/en/news/new-...

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As New Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Takes Shape in Europe, Regulators See Risk | ACAMS

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

MP @steffanaquarone.bsky.social asked about the number of overseas entities who (a) disclosed another entity as their beneficial owner; (b) declared that they don't have a beneficial owner; or (c) declared a trust as their beneficial owner questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... Answer:

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Great reporting by @tbij.bsky.social on how Coinbase has been ingratiating itself with UK ministers and officials involved in drawing up cryptocurrency policy – and is already reaping the rewards www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Coinbase has been lobbying the UK government for looser crypto…

Coinbase has been cosying up to the ministers and mandarins behind the UK’s upcoming crypto policy – and is already reaping the rewards

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Of international headlines, @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social has the best. 'Crocodile tears: Starmer exits without understanding why'

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice. We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumption, and changes in food habits.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Farage promising to deregulate crypto and create a national crypto reserve. Those are just the policies the people of Makerfield want.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 31/05/2026

A lifelong Monroe fan, the Nerve’s film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social has made a BBC radio series to mark the centenary of the actor’s birth. Here, she imagines the future that might have opened up for a media-savvy artist ‘vastly ahead of her time’ www.thenerve.news/p/marilyn-mo...

Text card reads "What Marilyn might have done next... By Ellen E Jones." With a picture of actress Marilyn Monroe poses laying on the grass in 1954 in Palm Springs, California

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Ellen E Jones @ellenejones.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You can now listen to the full series of Bombshell: Five Faces of Marilyn Monroe on BBC Sounds 🥂🤩💕https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002x45r?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/06/2026

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

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Two US political commentators banned from entering UK

Home Office says presence of Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker in UK ‘may not be conducive to the public good’

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A Labour government - a Labour government - acting on instructions from Netanyahu no doubt - has denied Hasan Piker a visa. I am a great admirer of Piker's principles, intelligence and integrity and regard this denial of free speech as reprehensible. This government is toast.

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Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Nederland verwacht dat premier Jetten leiderschap toont. In plaats daarvan wil hij kopjes koffie drinken met iemand die genocidaal gedachtegoed verspreidt en oproept tot geweld tegen Palestijnse vluchtelingen. Verbijsterend 🤷‍♀️

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Met has given an update on its investigation into the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire 57 people and 20 organisations are suspected of corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, fraud and other offences. Force says it will pass its file to the CPS in September

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Koos Couvée @kcouvee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Utter madness: "The network of industrial-scale fans needed to cool the datacenter’s hot pipes will result in so much waste heat that it could raise daytime temperatures in the surrounding Hansel valley by 2F to 5F (1.1C to 2.7C) and night-time temperatures by 8F to 12F (4.4C to 6.6C)"

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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 30/04/2026

JUST PUBLISHED: My key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia 🌎Plans for work on national roadmaps, subsidies and trade 🌎A "refreshing" new approach for talks among nations 🌏A new science panel & much more www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-...

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Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels - Carbon Brief

Countries attending a first-of-its-kind summit have walked away with plans to develop national roadmaps away...

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