Reposted by Simone HochgrebAlex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 3hOh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI... 46445227
Reposted by Simone HochgrebAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22hFrom the new Private Eye 472481894
Reposted by Simone HochgrebMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026GREAT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE NEWS!!! (Not a typo!) The Indonesian government has cancelled its insane Food and Energy Estates project, which would have deforested a land mass the size of Maryland. Amazing work by @mightyearth.org. A massive victory for the planet. mightyearth.org/article/indo...mightyearth.orgIndonesia Announces End to “World’s Largest Deforestation Project” - Mighty Earth 325785
Reposted by Simone HochgrebMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 23hWe just announced a big grant we got from @aria-research.bsky.social! We're aiming to use cryptographic protocols to allow mutually untrusting parties and their agents to prove to each other that they are telling the truth martin.kleppmann.com/2026/10/07/c...martin.kleppmann.comAnnouncing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) — Martin Kleppmann’s blog 1455
Reposted by Simone HochgrebJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10993942947
Reposted by Simone HochgrebKurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026100% worth reading. 26819
Reposted by Simone HochgrebMatthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m going to be thinking about this constantly moving forward 16318
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Time to cancel my 40 years’ subscription. Gutter. 010
Reposted by Simone HochgrebNancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive. 215359
Reposted by Simone HochgrebThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That the BBC still puts ‘inflated‘ in speech marks tells us things about the state of BBC journalism. Bothsidesism has rotted its soul. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukMan City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking. 1528358
Reposted by Simone HochgrebRoger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol 6237124
Reposted by Simone HochgrebLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium. How this happened remains obscure.’ Pablo Scheffer on the Britons. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the EnglishOlives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building... 0137
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is really lovely. I wonder if you can tell us what tools you use to turn your imagination into concrete animations? 110
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Maybe send Mr Burnham/Healey a free copy? 000
Reposted by Simone HochgrebHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Given the economist editor the other day that blocked me because I got him to admit his whole refugee policy was just racism with extra steps I can see why The Home Office is interested in their coverage nowadays.mediadirectory.economist.comHenry Curr - EconomistHenry Curr currently runs The Economist’s finance & economics, business and science coverage as the acting head of the business affairs department. Henry Curr has led The Economist’s economics coverag... 3184
Reposted by Simone HochgrebJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comUS withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groupsThe Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog. 53849588
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh please, make Mackenzie Crook the getaway driver! 1200
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Astoundingly good. Some wowzers that I had not heard. Careful how you pronounce 'cheese', fellow immigrants. 001
Reposted by Simone HochgrebFrédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is very, very good. 37239
Reposted by Simone HochgrebLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026‘What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the “people of England” are, as it were, a settled question, that the days of large-scale movements belong to the past, or ought to.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukFerdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched StrangersIn the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It... 24014
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don't worry. There is school reading, there is bed time reading, and at some point the older one will say that they want to read it for themselves rather than have you read it for them. And soon enough you are trading reading lists...just make sure they have a book on the go in the car (no phone). 010
Reposted by Simone HochgrebIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331189473978
Reposted by Simone HochgrebDean 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. 581261706
Reposted by Simone HochgrebDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent… 24422109
Reposted by Simone HochgrebDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The United Kingdom does not have a functioning Office of Communications. Broadcast media in Britain are at this point wholly unregulated. 1209
Reposted by Simone HochgrebMediaite @mediaite.com · 26/09/2026Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentarydlvr.itSocial Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk DocumentaryYouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, along with X, have reportedly rejected ads for Alex Gibney's four-hour long look at Musk. The post Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary first appeared on Mediaite. 105428
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wait - but we are told that immigrants taking all our services…is that not true 🤔 000
Reposted by Simone HochgrebLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802001
Reposted by Simone HochgrebBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you've not noticed it already you're living in the Martin Neimoller poem. Speak out, whatever you are not. 0116
Reposted by Simone HochgrebSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913445929
Reposted by Simone HochgrebEn Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...lrb.co.ukLorna Finlayson | Public PositionsIn much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as... 621672
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sadly, I know a number of weirdos that do (with water)... 130
Reposted by Simone HochgrebJohn Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 23/09/2026Yowza! Talk about a revolving door... "Three of Britain’s top corruption prosecutors started working for Alejandro Betancourt, the Venezuelan billionaire who recently signed a major oil deal with Donald Trump." as.ft.com/r/63d4da3b-2...as.ft.comTop UK graft prosecutors joined Trump’s Venezuela oil baron during Swiss probeAlejandro Betancourt was previously wanted by authorities in Switzerland as part of a money-laundering investigation 1166
Reposted by Simone HochgrebDaniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it! 1335388
Reposted by Simone HochgrebSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west. 711156418
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Enjoy Reikjavik. I was once stranded there for 24 hours, and it was one of the most interesting memories. Chewing gum is a good substitute for toothpaste, if you can find a machine dispenser. It is however impossible to get any information from airlines these days. My last bad experience was Asiana. 020
Reposted by Simone Hochgrebjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511773284
Reposted by Simone HochgrebMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 22/09/2026The BBC are such dupes. Always surprised by the wallet inspector. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSir Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos to mothball three major chemical sites in HullThe wholesale price of natural gas has almost doubled in the UK and Europe since July. 143
Reposted by Simone HochgrebInstitute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 22/09/2026Does the UK do enough to guard against corruption in public life? Here's what @csc-barrington.bsky.social, author of 'Corrupted Kingdom', said at an IfG event last week. Hear the full conversation: 📺🎧https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/does-uk-do-enough-against-corruption-public-life 142