Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20hNEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided 12461184
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialLiz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 2hMany years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty. 417026
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialAndy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get this - real GDP per head has grown by 1.1% over the first half of 2026. Excluding the swings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, that's the largest increase since late 2017. 43111
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been signed by every nation on Earth except one. Can you guess? 2158
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Keep it as a get-out-of-jail card, or play it as go-directly-to-jail card? Smart move 110
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...humanists.ukReform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymnsReform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave... 3011849556
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Russia has no plans to invade: Moldova.. Ok. But not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine. Ok, Just Crimea Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok, all of Ukraine But not NATO… 16959257
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, in Russian propaganda: 47945343
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001919987
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:bit.lyThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 11168109
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing I don't understand about the Fairford incident. They’re seen and reported by a random farmer at 1am, which leads to arrests by armed police ten minutes later. But... they were already being tracked by security services! Had they lost them? Did that farmer spare some official blushes? 100
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialjon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 181226536
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141721434
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026More surgical skewering of racist propaganda by the best fact-checker on this site. Prepare to be even more disgusted by certain people than you ever thought possible: 010
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...paydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 581256702
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reminds me of when a local gangster pub changed its strapline to "Stockport's Safest Nightspot" after a gruesome stabbing. Only this is more ridiculous paul.reviews/harmblock-wo...paul.reviewsWorld's Safest Smartphone: Please Rotate Responsibly.An independent review of the HMD Fuse, marketed as the World's Safest Smartphone. 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763616944
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialEthan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Donnie Darko” offers a time travel lesson you won’t find elsewhere The movie "Donnie Darko" first came out 25 years ago. How does the time travel in the story stack up against what physics actually understands? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #timetravel #moviesbigthink.com"Donnie Darko" offers a time travel lesson you won't find elsewhereMost time travel stories involve changing the past to create a better future. Donnie Darko subverts that expectation, and a whole lot more. 4288
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3569981624
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 15323203
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If someone tries to tell you that #AI can never do more than what it has been taught, nor ever substitute for humans, then they do not understand AI. It can do all of this and more. That's the problem! 140
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Perfectly articulates what I noticed when visiting Silicon Valley: you'd never guess it's created more wealth than anywhere else on Earth. Looks like one giant, flat industrial estate with cracked roads and a sprinkling of depressed trees 020
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What sort of regime would want to destroy the International Criminal Court, I wonder 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/09/2026The Irish data privacy authority fined Google €403 million today over how it has been gathering location data from users.politico.euGoogle hit with €403M privacy fine over handling of user location dataThe tech giant infringed the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. 89237
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428071164
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/09/202615/ The *scale* of the US investment in datacenters is staggering. Other countries are having similar conversations about the effect of AI on economic development, electricity and land etc but hard to compete with US financial sector & technological dominance of AI firms @katemac.bsky.social 54525
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Q. What do these three have in common? 1. Wolves 2. Currency markets 3. Professional female athletes A. Men only think they can beat them until they try it: 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialSteven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026All of a sudden people are shocked at "rogue" AI. Supposedly understanding what makes LLMs tick will help us prevent that. But the more we understand AI models, the more caution is advised. www.wired.com/story/if-the...wired.comIf the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused AlreadyAnthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing. 173
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo... 561583563
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sometimes AI slop clues are subtle. And other times... 😬 010
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 21553226
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026lnkd.in/p/exBs_tKhlnkd.in#startups #sleepwhenimdead | Mark McAndrewThanks to Venture Café Manchester for inviting me to show the first working bench prototypes of Finders Beepers, built by my own fair hands and finally completed at 6am last night... 🫡 #startups #sle... 010
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialmarkmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026lnkd.in/p/etwZuabglnkd.inOk, time to reveal my secret new project at Venture Café Manchester. Come on down, it's free to attend and open to all: 🗓️ Thursday 17th September, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 📍 Sister - Renold Building… | ...Ok, time to reveal my secret new project at Venture Café Manchester. Come on down, it's free to attend and open to all: 🗓️ Thursday 17th September, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 📍 Sister - Renold Building, Manche... 001
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.  329253035780
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Putting jam, cream and a scone into a blender to make a smoothie. Only way to be sure 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialHis Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#NobelPeacePrize When eating a cream tea split the scone - spread cream on one side and jam on the other. Put them together vertically so that neither cream nor jam is on top. EAT by turning head sideways. Thank you. 282
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is war with Russia a bad idea? Russia doesn't think so 000
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Team Sheeran surely had no good reason to drop Macklemo... ohhhh bsky.app/profile/bens... 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 15/09/2026You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help. www.wired.com/story/zuckof...wired.comZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See YouYou can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help. 416069
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026lnkd.in/p/etwZuabglnkd.inOk, time to reveal my secret new project at Venture Café Manchester. Come on down, it's free to attend and open to all: 🗓️ Thursday 17th September, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 📍 Sister - Renold Building… | ...Ok, time to reveal my secret new project at Venture Café Manchester. Come on down, it's free to attend and open to all: 🗓️ Thursday 17th September, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 📍 Sister - Renold Building, Manche... 001
markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026USA is going to need its own version of the Nuremburg trials 000
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialLucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Striking quotes and figures from an @IOP report this month 🧪🔭 "A quarter of state schools in England have no specialist physics teacher, while over half of physics lessons (...) are taught by teachers who never studied physics or a related subject beyond 18." 👇🏻 254
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush". www.economist.com/britain/2026...economist.comThe misanthrope partyReform UK’s miserabilist streak is Nigel Farage’s asset, and his problem 1222478
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialRyan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t... 18500183
Reposted by markmcan.bsky.socialmarkmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I submit that this ancient political and social divide is still with us today. Anglo-Saxons out...! 231