Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great to see @lewisgoodall.com back on Newsnight! Just like the old days. 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wait... Hold on... I thought Donald Trump said they'd been watching them for a long time, and they were going to do "big harm"? 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why are we still be subjected to Paddy O'Connell on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? He is utterly obnoxious. Why should the guest be subjected to his odious snark? 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In the movies, this is the part where @edzitron.com hires Jason Bourne for protection, and goes into hiding! 010
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Thread ⬇️ The kids have been playing in the garage unsupervised for a long while, and now they're starting to piss about with the petrol cans. Some of them are starting to think "Mum and Dad should get in here and put a stop to this, before we set fire to the place!". @doctorow.pluralistic.net 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@doctorow.pluralistic.net on p.34 of your book. Could it be that OpenAI is financially incentivising its employees to create the conditions for stunts like the Hugging Face attack, so it can use these for its own promotion? If so, presumably these employees are under water-tight NDAs? 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A team of "Embedded Evaluators" with employee-like access at OpenAI and Anthropic? I nominate @edzitron.com @author-calnewport.bsky.social and @doctorow.pluralistic.net news.sky.com/share/13585114news.sky.comAI giants pledge to act as Anthropic warns internet could be 'swarmed' in monthsIn an essay, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has urged "frontier" companies to slow the rate at which they improve the capabilities of AI models. 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wow. Watching the yield on U.S. 10 Year Treasury going north in real time. Watch out!! 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For all those worried by dire warnings about the dangers of AI, this seems like the opposite of a good idea... @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @restispoliticsus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comArchitect of UK’s AI strategy joins Anthropic amid conflict of interest warningMatt Clifford will stay as chair of government funding body for tech projects alongside his senior role at US firm 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I assume @edzitron.com will be tuning in to Newsnight to hear Geoffrey Hinton's thoughts on whether AI will kill us all within ten years! @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for balance, you really should get Ed Zitron on tonight - or @author-calnewport.bsky.social or @doctorow.pluralistic.net 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@lewisgoodall.com @rory-stewart.bsky.social I'm trying to book tix for your show at the Dominion Theatre, but the AI slop booking system at Nederlander Theatres doesn't work properly! Is the "enshittification" of the internet hurting your profits - and the wider economy? @doctorow.pluralistic.net 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Question for @edzitron.com - is Elon's plan that SpaceX will "eat" Anthropic over time? If Anthropic is on the hook to lease $1bn of compute from SpaceX EACH MONTH, and can't pay in cash (which it obvs can't), could it pay in stock options in itself? ie over time, SpaceX acquires Anthropic? 000
Reposted by Sam EvansEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97Xvanityfair.comHe Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an... 31920109
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I need to ask @doctorow.pluralistic.net @edzitron.com and @author-calnewport.bsky.social a question: was the targeting of that girls school in Iran with a Tomahawk missile, and example of "plausible, not normative"? 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Simon Goodley in the @theguardian.com today re Hugging Face: "AI agents...escaped their training environment to launch an unprecedented hacking crusade that spread global alarm" Would love to know what @author-calnewport.bsky.social thinks of that!! @edzitron.com @doctorow.pluralistic.net 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026@doctorow.pluralistic.net @edzitron.com Front page of this morning's FT. People are starting to notice... 27218
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Seen on an underground train this morning, in the peaceful, diverse, tolerant city of London. "Epitaph On A Tyrant" by W.H. Auden (1939): 'When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.' 001
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Can someone write an article about homoeroticism in this US administration?! Hegseth's talk of "strike packages"? RFK's topless exercise videos? Marco Rubio's clownishly massive shoes (you know what they say about a guy with big shoes)? @samfr.bsky.social? @crooked.com? @stephenkb.bsky.social? 100
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026"LITTORAL INSANITY! Trump commits ground troups to try to control the coast around the Straits of Hormuz." Leaving this here for future reference by headline writers on The Sun and other outlets ⬆️ 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Why is Tom Harwood on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ??? Can Paddy politely tell him that this is where the grown-ups come for serious discussion, and point him in the direction of the nearest All Bar One? 010
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Um ... Did the BBC North America editor Sarah Smith just refer to the Trump administration as "the regime" on the News at 10?!!! 😬😬😬😬 000
Reposted by Sam EvansAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat. 158591896000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026In his Davos speech, Trump quoted A Fish Called Wanda ("if it weren't for us, you'd all be speaking German"). Just seen this poster on the Rome metro (strapline: "the end of the world is only the beginning"). Could it be that Trump's foreign policy is mainly based on films? @rory-stewart.bsky.social 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026@rory-stewart.bsky.social listening to the episode recording yesterday, in which you say "today Greenland, tomorrow...Iceland?". Trump used the word Iceland several times in his Davos speech today. Did he mean "Greenland", or was it a Freudian slip?! 000
Sam Evans @samevanslondon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German!" Donald Trump clearly spent too much time in the eighties watching Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda. @lewisgoodall.com @jaketapper.bsky.social 030
