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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026

World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 28/09/2026

👉NEW -- I was a senior British army lawyer. This is the truth about ‘lawfare’ by Nicholas Mercer Concerns about elderly Northern Ireland veterans are being used to protect the SAS from the Afghanistan inquiry www.declassifieduk.org/i-was-a-seni...

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I was a senior British army lawyer. This is the truth about ‘lawfare’

Concerns about elderly Northern Ireland veterans are being used to protect the SAS from the Afghanistan inquiry

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Simian Justice @simianjustice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Done a new piece on lads you watch every week annoying you in ways the lads you want to sign are also doing whilst you're not watching them. Footy innit.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/07/2026

[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you

Rishi Sunak stood on a lecturn speaking which has a STOP THE BOATS sign on it

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To put this in perspective: the infamous Soviet crackdowns on Hungary and Czechoslovakia killed fewer than four thousand people, and various left wing people who stood by the Soviets for doing it were regarded as despicable pieces of shit. This is worse than that, on a barely comprehensible scale.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Humans are doing harm. AI is the mechanism. The humans need to be regulated so that they stop doing that.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Terry "Loki Nash" Fuck @terryfuck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh that is liquid new labour right there

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like someone needs to stage an intervention, not commission a column. This is not healthy behavior.

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When it’s left-wing protesters, Home Secretaries have changed the law so they are now criminals. When far-right criminals break the law, they’re asked not to break the law again 🙄

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you think that nobody knew what all these people were, back when they were doing daily interviews handing them tissues to sob into? Or do you think everyone knew they were exactly like this, they all approve and wanted this type of person back in charge ASAP

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Stu Montagu @halfspacehacks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I make that six goal contributions from Cody Gakpo in around four full games of football. Almost as if he isn't as terrible as some people repeatedly told us he was last season. #lfc

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

theverge.com

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

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Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It seems a very apposite time to ask Richard Tice to explain why he needs to head a company with no employees and no products, that appears to do nothing other than receive large amounts of money which it then swiftly transfers to the accounts of Reform Ltd.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No company (and even more so, no public sector organisation) should ever get into a position like this with any vendor, come on, this is basic

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a concept in international relations, specifically power transition theory, called a "revisionist state." Basically, the idea is that a revisionist state will tear down the whole international state system because they think it's unfair to them personally. Sound familiar?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Obviously Dan is left-leaning in the same sense that Keir Starmer is. What this really tells us is that there remains a consensus across the political centre that tax policy is damned difficult and should not be subject to any kind of foolish democratic input.

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Stu Montagu @halfspacehacks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watching #MOTD this morning and the post match analysis from Danny Murphy is about Fulham being defensively suspect. That's one hell of a main takeaway from a football match with these numbers.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LOL yes, Burnham is “lucky” in the same way that Starmer was “lucky”: they are both the beneficiaries of the British press realising they have catastrophically fucked it, and they need a tame, biddable dork to run things while they try to clean up the horrendous mess they created.

@alexwickham
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NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read
Andy Burnham is a lucky general as Nigel Farage is engulfed in scandal
— Just as the new PM was starting to face awkward questions from his own side about whether he really has a plan for power, Reform took the heat off him by descending into total chaos.
— Publicly Farage is defiant. Privately the mood among senior Reform figures is bleak after that bombshell sting. Several Reform politicians and officials who spoke to Bloomberg questioned whether Farage could recover, conceding that in a best case scenario it would take months for him to shake off the scandal and in a worse outcome it could bring him down.
— Some suggest prominent Reform figures will be considering whether they can replace him as leader Several said the Insa nf Dan lukes who

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Simian Justice @simianjustice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Quick bump of my take on Araujo a couple of weeks ago. Think there's a lot of signs in that performance tonight to be optimistic about.

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Stu Montagu @halfspacehacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That's four times in two games and ten minutes that Gakpo has turned possession with 1% of a chance/threat into a goal or huge chance. Brilliant start to the season for #lfc.

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Stu Montagu @halfspacehacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It'll be interesting to see what shape the defence takes in possession with this selection. Araujo as a normal RB or does he tuck in to make a three and let Kerkez bomb on up the left.

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Simian Justice @simianjustice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some thoughts earlier this week on this summer's transfers, the numbers involved and wondering how sustainable it all is: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Artificial Intelligence

Taking a road-trip through the uncanny valley of a strange summer of transfers

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Simian Justice @simianjustice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Done a bit on transfers, and the vibes being a bit off. Like, subscribe, pin it to local lamposts, you know the score.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As I said when I read that first book about the McSweeney project: the author was baffled at why Sir Keir was kind, warm and generous to his peers but didn’t give a damn about anyone he saw as beneath him, and stomped like a bastard on many of them. That’s everything you needed to know about the man

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I would have struggled to have believed a couple of years ago that Starmer would bugger off at the first opportunity after being ousted and Rishi Sunak would happily spend his days as a backbench MP.
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On a personal level, I can understand it, on a moral level give how much we heard about his devotion to public service... well, it gives off the cba-ness that has defined his premiership.
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Sunak, by contrast, does seem determined to not make cowardice his legacy.
A case of a PM with atrocious political instincts. but political instincts nevertheless

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For good or ill, the lads have decided we’re going back to Labour vs Tories, so everything for the rest of the year is going to fit that frame, no matter how hard it needs to be wedged in.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This, after the press did some very sharp Noticing of Bad Things about both Reform and Restore, and largely let it slide when the Tories hired a for-real Neo-Nazi - a guy who was jailed for harassing an MP with quite horrific abuse - as an advisor on racism and extremism.

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The Conservatives have overtaken Reform UK in an opinion poll for the first time in more than 500 days.
Kemi Badenoch's party gained 23 per cent of support in a poll of 3,250 people carried out by More in Common between Aug 28 and 31, beating Reform (22 per cent) into third place.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These meetings would “co-ordinate our activities to make us more effective collectively.” The journalists would then turn the institute’s proposals into leader columns while the researchers buttonholed shadow ministers. The Mail soon joined in, writing supportive columns on every ASI report.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Every Saturday, in a wine bar called the Cork and Bottle, Margaret Thatcher’s researchers and leader writers and columnists from the Times and Telegraph met staff from the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Over lunch, they “planned strategy for the week ahead.”

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When close allies of Boris Johnson write about the suitability of someone for an office, I think we can accept there is something else at play rather than some through line of morality that they believe must be adhered to at all times

Simon Woolley is not fit to lead a Cambridge college

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ronson is describing how debilitating online radicalisation is, both personally calamitous and harmful to society in general. And here’s this guy, demanding to know why Ronson doesn’t also have a brain slug on his head.

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What is missing from Ronson's account is him having the courage to say what he thinks on the substantive issues: women's sport, prisons, single-sex spaces, medical treatment of children. HE diagnoses an "unravelling" while keeping his own views safely below the parapet.
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Patrick Freyne gives Ronson a platform this morning in the Irish Times, which, tellingly, has turned off comments.
And the gaslighting doesn't stop at the headline:
"I sat on the interview for six years," he says. "In...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lads, I don’t think you’re supposed to be doing the One Carelessly Dropped Match routine quite this openly.

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US 'closely watching' Andy Burnham's plan to sanction Israeli settlements

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I pitched a show two years ago about this to Radio 4, to tie in with the release. They said they had already made a programme about computers fairly recently.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

The VCR was a great idea 55 years ago. 55 years later, it's an idea whose time has come - again. eof/

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Simian Justice @simianjustice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Those wacky extremist Greens and their crazy economic policy that is more in line with the general public's opinion on things than any other party.

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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Really enjoyed doing this. Had missed it here. Have a listen.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 27/08/2026

i do not think "populism" is a very useful word when people use it to mean both "right wing white nationalists" and "left wingers who want higher taxes on rich people and medicare for all"

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