Reposted by MagsmanstonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16h"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are." 462035603
Reposted by MagsmanstonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Could the "LLMs can't do anything" crowd and the "LLMs can do everything" crowd go somewhere private to yell at each other so the rest of us can have a normal "this new tech can do things previous tech couldn't but is limited in various ways, let's figure out best uses and regulations" conversation? 1321336
Reposted by MagsmanstonMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football. 2674079928
Reposted by MagsmanstonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I find myself getting quite frustrated with this 'well it's a contested definition'. It's only contested if you think the views of ignorant people are as valid as those who know what they're talking about. 513911
Reposted by MagsmanstonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Latest Badenoch: “If [Andy Burnham]’s not calling an election, why’s he talking about things happening in 2030?” - alarming the extent to which so much of our political class cannot process the idea of “planning for events four years in the future”. 3961875
Reposted by MagsmanstonThomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 02/10/2026Seriously?!? After the Labour conference in which Burnham put forward more new ideas than all PMs in the last decade combined, the BBC focuses on a front-page gotcha splash by Chris Mason on football. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukChris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City mattersThe prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes. 331
Reposted by MagsmanstonJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026There is no perfect voting system. 3293
Reposted by MagsmanstonTeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb… 371324405
Reposted by MagsmanstonCentre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Britain is *bad* at getting people into city centres. 🔗 buff.ly/QxcAsZo 033
Reposted by MagsmanstonDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5778148870
Reposted by MagsmanstonAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much 321354162
Reposted by MagsmanstonAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same with books! I do not want a personalised reading experience centred on myself. I read to catch a glimpse of other people’s souls. 3422
Reposted by MagsmanstonSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide". 40630126
Reposted by MagsmanstonSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 581626527
Reposted by MagsmanstonJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bloke apparently chooses ti launch himself headfirst at two of the most dangerous bits if political territory he could (and, seriously, the fuck) and this is still the headline. Reflex narratives 2291
Reposted by Magsmanston𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026God it would be class if the "explosives" were "red diesel" and "a shitload of charcoal" that would be so funny 47910
Reposted by MagsmanstonCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ahhh if this turns out to be about red diesel, one of my remaining rural obsessions, I will be so happy 918714
Reposted by MagsmanstonCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892122874
Reposted by MagsmanstonNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A cool part of fringe politics is how cranks like Mélenchon and the Le Pens can just keep running over and over again and never face any stigma whatsoever from being losers the way ‘mainstream’ candidates would 6534
Reposted by MagsmanstonDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6496226
Reposted by MagsmanstonKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776432129
Reposted by MagsmanstonRos Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Can we call *this* suicidal empathy? 1133
Reposted by MagsmanstonTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is also my solution to "AI hallucinates caselaw," a few partners find themselves on the out with the SRA and I suspect it becomes solvable. 322111
Reposted by MagsmanstonTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 261457343
Reposted by MagsmanstonBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381352829
Reposted by MagsmanstonThe Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And that’s all I have to say on that. 0715
Reposted by MagsmanstonKate 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. 32752312
Reposted by MagsmanstonAlex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also this obviously youtu.be/Ue1U9Se6jQI?...youtu.beMike Skinner Backstage Peter Mandelson Went Mad | Turn The Page Live | The StreetsYouTube video by stan tonkin 162
Reposted by MagsmanstonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026You can't stop him grifting but you can take the wind out of them with bail conditions, and a bunch of his supporters will peel away if there's a chance they might get nicked, especially if they have previous, are on parole etc. 5848
Reposted by MagsmanstonRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Two MRPs show Labour losing 100 plus seats and their majority and still everyone is going “DOES THIS MEAN EARLY ELECTION???”static.klipy.comLife of Brian: He Is the Messiah!ALT: Life of Brian: He Is the Messiah! 1819123
Reposted by MagsmanstonSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026fundamentally, it appears very difficult for people to recognize 'hey it's good that the person i don't like is saying this' because they seem to understand it as 'this person is good' 2868881
Reposted by MagsmanstonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A jawdropping piece. The pandemic and social media have done huge damage to a lot of people:bostonglobe.comA Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston GlobeLast Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead. 2415511
Reposted by MagsmanstonPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia 791341380
Reposted by MagsmanstonJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And what did he do on that livestream, huh, BBC? What did he do? 15470103
Reposted by MagsmanstonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026"There was another carpenter once, who went around with a small group of friends, and said things 'The Establishment' didn't like..." 6615
Reposted by MagsmanstonAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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. 11443105
Reposted by MagsmanstonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A deeply weird thing about entering middle age now is the continual struggle of 'is this just age-related nostalgia' versus 'empirically, a really bad thing happened to the United Kingdom when I turned eighteen'. 4863266
Reposted by MagsmanstonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In addition - the sketches are not racist, and it is a sign of a broader malaise that we now treat “jokes about racists and racism” as indistinguishable from “racist jokes”. 1325717
Reposted by MagsmanstonTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Man shows ignorance of entire of human history - very particularly ignorance of entire female human history - film at 11. 1817614
Reposted by MagsmanstonMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is true of many places - higher education is not only a cultural good, it is a massive driver of economies in otherwise left behind places that politicians and journalists rarely visit. What will happen if/when the financial crisis in HE leads to closures? 14416
Reposted by MagsmanstonTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 1031370463
Reposted by MagsmanstonTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ok but you moved abroad for tax purposes six years ago so why are we listening to you again? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 43569104
Reposted by MagsmanstonProf. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I will never stop banging this drum! 🥁 There 🥁 is 🥁 no 🥁 AI 🥁 in 🥁 the 🥁 predictive 🥁 policing 🥁 in 🥁 Minority 🥁 Report! Its three psychics in a paddling pool!!media.tenor.coma little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush .ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush . 1018129
Reposted by MagsmanstonTom @stealthisbook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The thing is that so far the machine has been good about faking surprises for people in the same way as it confidently bullshits them - by drawing from unfamiliar knowledge domains. Each discipline has everyday shit that an AI can present as a breakthrough that will blow an executive's mind 1297