Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Basingstoke, famous for roundabouts and er...fascists? 010
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's 2026 and mainstream politicians and commentators are arguing about ethnicity and race and what it means to be truly English. How far we have fallen. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv... I agree with Nick.bbc.co.ukAustralia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portalExperts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Honestly, they should just all walk out. This is a farce. 000
Reposted by Rab BoyceDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431633459
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh FFS. Please stop. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns MicrosoftMustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious". 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Wildcat referendum in action folks. Constitutional crisis! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. 110
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026To be fair, I do that with stuff I have actually written myself :) 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This feels irresponsible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWestminster coming to an end, say Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leadersThe leaders of Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Fein say the UK government should prepare for constitutional change. 000
Reposted by Rab BoyceJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I 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. 🧵 341835795
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Amazed he can get away with this sort of thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump says every adult American would get $5,000 if Republicans win midtermsSpeaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dear Journalists of the world. Please, please, please stop blindly reporting that AI has gone rogue. It hasn't. Thanks. 110
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There is a 10% chance this will kill us all. 'Pah' I'll risk it. :) 000
Reposted by Rab BoyceRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123741266
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Mac out without his collar and his look is clearly saying 'so, what you going to do about it' 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm old enough to remember when Silicon Valley meant hippy programmers in sandals. When it did become the abode of fascists? 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scotfact has been updated to reflect the latest GERS report. Also check out the mcp server if you haven't already. www.scotfact.comscotfact.comScotfact: An Impartial Source of Facts about the Scottish EconomyCutting through the myths, misunderstandings, misinformation and mistruths surrounding the Scottish Independence debate. We explore economics; government statistics; memes; and claims made by politici... 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026What a world we live in. A national newspaper describing people fleeing persecution being given some basic necessities as luxuries and jaw-dropping. 010
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 07/08/2026These crimes against humanity are becoming increasingly normalised. We must resist to the last. 010
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026'Vote Tory get Nazis organising your bins'. You have to admit, it is a bold, innovative electoral strategy. 010
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I haven't seen the Odyssey yet, but I am sure it's not as good as the original which is of course, Ulysses 31. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 27/07/20262014 to 2019 summed up nicely ;) @kevverage.bsky.social 011
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Headline should really be 'Open AI hacked hugging face using a model with internet access and safeguards turned off' 000
Reposted by Rab BoyceEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.” 1126869
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Appalling attitude by Nick Ferrari here. Clearly no understanding of the choices people in poverty have to make on a day to day basis. The mocking tone and attempt to undermine the study with plucking the cost of individual items out of a google search clearly misses the point. 130
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Keeping Mahmood as home secretary stomps all over the positive vibes for me...disappointing choice. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Slightly topical....available now on the apple app store :) apps.apple.com/gb/app/polit... 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026BBC TV Journalists seem to have forgotten we don't have a presidential system. The Labour party's mandate to govern isn't "Keir Starmer's mandate". 3347
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 19/07/2026BBC news 24 covering the World Cup final with 6 talking heads while the game is live on BBC 1 seems a bit daft. Anyone who is interested will be watching the other channel. 110
Reposted by Rab BoyceAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year 268240013247
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Is there a German word for thinking you are late for a meeting then the relief that the meeting was cancelled at the last minute then getting annoyed it was cancelled at the last minute? 100
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hot take: Andy Burnham isn't from 'the North', he lives in Manchester, that's half way down the M6. 000
Reposted by Rab BoyceMatthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026 Burnham to be the third prime minister in five years to sketch a ten-year ambition for power 56011
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026If everyone in the PLP knows Burnham is going to win, let’s not have a contest just for the sake of it. That's fine in opposition, but nothing to be gained from that when in government. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I don't think this is as big an issue as we like to think it is. Outside of a few journalists, no one really cares what was in it after the first king’s speech. I am very sure the electorate don’t. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Watching the duke of Edinburgh concert from 1986 … bloody hell. The talent on stage. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you want to be pedantic there is only one with different ways of interpreting them, but it’s Friday and the football is on later. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I suppose, given the Makerfield result, there will now be a flurry of Journalists and newspaper editors calling for Nigel Farage’s resignation as Reform leader. 230
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Holyrood search tool UI updated to include item of business search. You can now search for contributions, votes or items of business, filter by term, speaker date etc. Links to full transcripts available. www.scotfact.com/holyrood-off... This is also available via the scotfact MCP connector.scotfact.comScotfact: Holyrood Official Report SearchA useful app to allow users to search all Scottish Parliament speeches and written submissions from the Holyrood Official Report. Search using keywords, names of the contributors, dates and political ... 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I have put the GERS supplemental dataset into the Scotfact MCP data sources, which allows you to use Claude or ChatGPT to interrogate the data. Like this.. 000
Rab Boyce @rabboyce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I have added an MCP server to the scotfact toolset, you can plug it into Claude or ChatGPT for some stats or Holyrood search fun. Details at www.scotfact.com/mcp. 100