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In the early days of our movement, it was mandatory that all members smoke cigarettes and refrain from speaking, but we realized those traditions were stupid. He/him/his/bark

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was
All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is the guy who’s ruled out an early election *just so he doesn’t have to talk about it for a few days at conference* actually going to do difficult things to fix social care in 3 years time? Idk I wouldn’t bet on it tbh www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham to fight next election with plan for NHS-style care service
PM says he is willing to expend political capital to bring in universal service for England funded by ‘everybody’
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Get ready for radical change;
No that’s too radical
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ben Wishaw can act like he's a talking fucking bear from Peru doesn't mean he is one.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And the businesses that need websites needing to invest a lot more to harden their sites against hacking & bots. Seems like a lot of the hypothetical productivity gains from enterprise AI will be offset by consumer AI reversing the actual productivity gains from the dotcom era.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What can you say except, LMAO
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sure, but not speaking to the fucking Sun is table stakes
Think it shows both the confused position of the govt and the relative powers of new/ old media that the PM won't speak to The Sun but still uses the CSAM & disinformation app owned by the guy who advocates for the overthrow of the government.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait so there are two sets of highly educated, affluent voters but one is very liberal and the other is very authoritarian? How many people are we talking about here exactly www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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From idealists to struggling sceptics: how Labour’s majority depends on five progressive voter types – in charts
Analysis reveals groups with sharply contrasting priorities – and who has drifted the most from Labour towards Greens and Reform
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An agent? which constantly asks for more access to functions that it may do in unexpected ways? But they’ll sort that bit out later? Maybe? How exciting
With Muse, Zuckerberg has beaten Altman to the punch.
Muse saturates a user with suggestions, from filtering email to trying to save money by searching for unused subscriptions. Along the way, it
constantly prompts the user to link it to a wider range of services and accounts, giving it increasing sway over that person's online life.
If Meta has solved one part of the puzzle, it has yet to show it can instil the high level of trust most people will need to feel before delegating parts of their lives to an agent.The app comes with plenty of warnings that it may act in unexpected ways, and the company says it is using other agents to monitor Muse and alert a user if the app is about to do something, like hand over personal data or make a payment.
Also, Muse has been launched with only part of its planned privacy protections in place. That is surprising, given Meta's need to reassure people who might be put off by its history of privacy violations. The company has promised to restrict the capacity of Meta to see personal data processed by Muse.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10X your productivity gains today by simply owning so many houses you can’t remember which one you live in
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bourne’s about a guy who *doesn’t want to be an assassin*, lads. This just sounds like Hitman DLC
Goalhanger, the media company behind The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics and Sherlock & Co., is launching Bear Hunt D, a major new ten-part original audio drama following a fictional mission to assassinate one of the world's most powerful and heavily protected leaders.
Synopsis: 350 British civilians are dead, and Russia is responsible. Number 10 hits back as a hapless Prime Minister plays his hand in the age of regime decapitation.
Billed as a "British Bourne", Bear Hunt is a geopolitical action thriller spanning Westminster, Washington and the battlefield, before heading deep behind enemy lines on an extraordinarily dangerous mission.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Watching the TV adaptation of this, and lads it’s incredible. Huge upgrade on the podcast to have Jim Murphy pretending to be foreign secretary *on camera*. Ayesha Hazarika is there for some reason, running a team of twentysomethings who keep walking into COBR meetings to tell her about tweets.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rowling: FAQ includes quesstionss about transsphobia, black mold, holocausst denial, chattel ssslavery, my 4 foot fence, Diane Duane living in my ventsss, and Julia Donaldsson'sss vuvuzela prank callss Koontz: what about harry potter? Rowling: people don't generally assk about that
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Once again I find myself begging for an article about Russia attacking a NATO country to explain *why* NATO countries would not retaliate www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato
Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listening to a rest is politics where Yuval Noah Harari explains that the UK has 2 choices: spend £500bn a year on AI or be a vassal of America. Then he explains that terrorists will soon be able to tell computer to make a bioweapon that’s like COVID plus AIDS. What a remarkable discourse we’re in
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Having been obliged to work on a new ChatGPT “Skill” this week, I also hate the technology
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LOL come on guys, if we can’t believe in the integrity & objectivity of the man whose whole bit was having been “Theresa May’s pollster”, can we trust anything
After the Reform scandal - does anyone still trust pollsters?
NEWS AGENTS
The News Agents >
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Opinion polls are supposed to tell us what the public thinks. But what happens when the people commissioning, funding and promoting those polls have a political interest in the results?
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords” is such a funny idea. Pull down the blinds! I’m closing the baronetcy…for an hour www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Usually not one for “standards used to be higher” hand-wringing, but attempting to style out taking a high-profile job lobbying governments *while working for a government* seems like a new one www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Architect of UK’s AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns
Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Once again I am calling for an urgent study into the cognitive & psychological effects on Today presenters of reading all the newspapers before 6am every day
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Cool so all the hacks are doing their best but the public doesn’t notice? Fascinating, thanks so much www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why are journalists failing to make the case to the public that rightwingers such as Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon are dishonest, self-serving and not terribly bright?
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I really don't think the vast majority of people pay the slightest direct attention to journalists at all. There are still some heavily invested continuity Corbynites out there who will imply that two or three critical columns I wrote about their absolute boy had something to do with him losing his second general election on the bounce in 2019. To which my reply would be: "Yes, dear, I'm sure they talked of little else but my columns on the doorsteps of the 'red wall'. Yet, if we were to humour your notion that the whimsical musings of some silly cow in London make one nanoparticle of difference, how come I wrote 937 critical articles about Boris Johnson and he still won a landslide?" On the rightwingers front, however, I would point out that it is journalists and not anyone else who have been exposing, for example, Farage, Tice and Yaxley-Lennon's financial arrangements, and I'm very grateful to them for their work.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
LOL sure hacks have their silly rule that they couldn’t trust themselves to be impartial if they joined a party, but “support” LMAO. Imagine how much would have to change if the lads weren’t allowed to care who wins.
Catherine Philp • @scribblercat • 14h
I don't think everyone understand what being a journalist means. I don't think a journalist can be a member of a political party. Or a supporter.
I say this as a foreign correspondent who doesn't cover domestic politics. I think if you are a journalist you have to stand aside from parties. If you can't you're not a journalist. You may however be a columnist.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UK to 'mainline [object not recognised] in the veins' under new plans from Sir Keir Starmer
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MAD KENNY: hello, i’m Mad Kenny. i have a litany of previous convictions and now i’m drunk and suicidal and i’m going to go out in a 160mph fireball THE JUSTICE SYSTEM: that’s okay, you can drive again in a few years
Footage shows a road menace grandad who threatened to cause carnage on the Coast Road before doing 125mph despite police repeatedly ramming him. Kenneth Davison
rang police at 8am on Wednesday April 8 this year telling a 999 call handler he was "Mad Kenny".
Behaving erratically and aggressively, the 61-year-old asked to speak to the officer in command. He said he was going to cause carnage on the Coast Road and said it needed to be closed because he was going to drive at 160mph and "go bang". He said he would "end it all" and asked for the road to be closed so no one else got hurt.Davison, of Ellington Close, Newcastle, who has 17 previous convictions, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop after an accident and failing to provide a specimen. He was sentenced to 14 months suspended for 18 months with 150 hours unpaid work, an alcohol abstinence monitoring requirement for 120 days and was banned from driving for 30 months.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Which one’s the fuckin antichrist George” “Um no Peter this depicts a famous battle between the-“ “Oh for fu- …okay can I at least eat the tapestry? I mean what am I paying for here really” www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not superhuman though is it, it literally computer www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds
Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wild how the Guardian is so excited about the prospect of a moderate Tory that they neglected to ask even one question about what a “moderate Tory” manifesto might look like for London www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Cleverly avoids culture war issues in pitch to be next London mayor
Conservative hopeful says Sadiq Khan has ‘lost passion for the job’ and Andy Burnham is ‘very anti-London’
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A ban on personal hospitality is the right policy, a useful intermediate one would be requiring them to write down "why I think google was giving me a treat"
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aric @aghastronaut.com · 28/08/2026
The Good News: There's a cure for career burnout. The Bad News:
Wall Street Journal article titled The New Cure for Career Burnout: Clown School.

It pictures a large group of people with clown noses staring at the camera.
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
it's me i'm "unknown"
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cobalt Borders
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tfw the guy who happily oversaw the independent’s slide into total irrelevance, has some advice on yr business model
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah the whole thing is absurd. Individual European nations couldn’t stand up to Russia on their own (altho one notably is rn), but the point is they wouldn’t have to - even without the US security guarantee - unless there’s some much more worrying aspect of realpolitik which nobody is talking about
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Come for Baffleck, stay for A Bezos Guy explaining that the route to all manner of future tech progress can be unlocked by a “metaphorical relationship” to notably bloated and increasingly unusable shopping website Amazon dot com.
It's still early days, but Bezos knows more than most Al founders about how to turn bits on a screen into moving atoms in the real world. He is "a singular strategist of the physical economy," says Vik Bajaj, Bezos' cofounder and co-CEO at Prometheus. "What we are trying to do now is metaphorically related" to Amazon's success in e-commerce, Bajaj says. "Can we take the entire physical design cycle and understand it end to end, represented using machine learning technologies?"
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I would simply wait before betting that Burnham is going to be the only uk PM in living memory to stand up to Washington, but maybe that’s why I’m not the guardian’s mystifyingly best-loved politics understander www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Unlike needy Keir, trash-talking Andy speaks a language Trump understands | John Crace
Burnham has nothing to hide as he prepares to meet president he once called poisonous. It may actually win him more respect
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Officer, please, this isn’t what it looks like”
A greyhound lying next to a Napoleon dog cushion
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This, and also the rise of “why don’t you mind your own fucking business” as a socially acceptable answer to “why aren’t you two married yet?”
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ME WHEN I GET BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES: no it's fine i just didn't expect it to be french
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Damn that’s crazy but you can’t be racist against the computer. Yeah. No I hear you but. Yeah it’s because it’s not a person it’s the computer.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Idk lads, seems like the main factor is that Macron didn’t bother building anything capable of outlasting him, so the uh sensible moderate centre is fucked now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the French left: division makes Marine Le Pen’s path to the Élysée more straightforward | Editorial
Editorial: Two years ago, progressive parties allied to see off the far right in a parliamentary election. Ahead of a seismic presidential election, that unity is missing
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mean imagine faithfully refusing to criticise ai in case you displease it, and an algorithm still sending you to a work camp because you disliked some other effect of the critical supply chain that you didn’t even realise was involved, such as access to clean water or electricity.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stop making fun of AI or it will spitefully deny your insurance claims. They’re calling it the perfect argument.
hailey @hailey.at • 1h
bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
really think we need to take up the foolishly abandoned Tim Walz strategy of calling these people weirdos
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Lanyard class” would never have become a thing if any of the first 50 journalists to hear it had said “LOL what the fuck are you talking about, that’s obviously not a thing”. But none of them did
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Podcast ad prospectus: “imagine your brand seamlessly recommended alongside content people love, in a voice trusted by millions” Podcast hosts: LOL, LMAO
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Please watch this to the end.
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