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Susan Morgan

@smmorgan.bsky.social
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Work on technology and society. Not a fan of accelerationism.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1h
Wikimedia Foundation: "AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause. That burden is falling onto everyone else, including smaller organizations." wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 17h
"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006"
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reading this amplifies my concerns that the real inter-connectivity threat is less the physical trade but the potential risks to the systems at the heart of modern economies, e.g. payments, supply chains, etc - a universal problem
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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sam Altman's claim that "that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits" of AI is... not ok? It sounds an awful lot like socialising the risks to privatise the financial gains. By me for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences, says author Chris Stokel-Walker
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Terraforming America for compute, as seen from the sky: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What the Data Center Boom Looks Like From the Sky (Gift Article)
In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is by design. Not privacy by design. But a lack of privacy by design.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are living through a “postpandemic gamified speculative-trading apocalypse of which traditional gambling is only one horseman. There’s also crypto, now an enormous industry still searching for a nonspeculative use” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...
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How Everything Became Gambling
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 02/10/2026
AI execs want you to believe that their predictions are inevitable. But really, it’s just marketing. I spoke with @carissaveliz.bsky.social about her new book ‘Prophecy.’ We explore the history of predictions as a tool to secure power. Catch the conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/bewa...
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Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz
Carissa explains why a prediction is a command disguised as a description, and how powerful people use algorithms to fulfill their own forecasts.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 02/10/2026
‘Tech companies are pursuing a range of strategies to move debt off their balance sheets to preserve their creditworthiness. The approach has obscured the amount of risk that tech giants are taking on.’ www.ft.com/content/97d8...
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Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors
The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet health as AI spending soars
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“AI companies are fixated on adding features right now…But as always, the more features, the broader the attack surface. So all of these companies need to be fully focused on security, and from what I can see, it still often seems like an afterthought.”
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A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
“AI poses a threat. It will steal my writing, loot my reportage, rob my intellectual property and embezzle books which took years to write and research. But it will never know what it was like to be there. It will always be faking it.” historyneverended.substack.com/p/in-defence...
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In defence of human journalism
My industry at a time of AI.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026
The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
fully AI-invented witnesses in a murder trial. good stuff: www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake...
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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after usin...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026
They want you to willingly surrender your own intelligence and autonomy in the world, by presenting the surrender of such as the highest social good and a hallmark of the elite and powerful.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a single perspective here from someone who didn’t write the report. This isn’t journalism, it’s an author’s abstract. Every para is just “this is what the paper says.” It’s exactly what you would get if you asked an undergrad to read it and write a summary. Or get one from a chatbot.
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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As debates rage about governance for the AI era, the self-regulatory institutions from the last tech governance moment are collapsing www.wired.com/story/indepe...
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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...
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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is happening tonight - still time to get (free) tickets: hear from the people working to challenge Zuckerberg's appallingly harmful business model
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is very interesting. And confirm my general impression that those of us who live in highly secularized societies and therefore tend to underestimate the power of Religion in international affairs do so at our peril.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, this is monstrous. As if teachers aren’t under enough stress. People do not do their best work when they are surveyed, belittled and menaced. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
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‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most British people’s idea of the real crime rate is enormously out of whack with reality… but extreme politicians and rightwing newspapers have zero interest in enlightening them. This is a brilliant edition that you really should share with any Reform-curious or Daily-Mail-afflicted relatives.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Substack is currently wooing the UK publishing industry, presumably hoping to hoover up some reputation-washing and attract a whole new set of writers who don't know what a newsletter is but hope to have 'a substack'.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/09/2026
"Shabana Mahmood is the cabinet minister responsible for the UK’s policing and its national security – as well, of course, as managing the country’s borders…I include this reminder because Mahmood increasingly seems to be operating under the assumption that her job only concerns the latter."
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If Shabana Mahmood is tough, why is she so slow to crack down on Danny Tommo and the far right?
Weeks of what looks like blatant lawbreaking have finally resulted in an arrest. But the home secretary seems happy to look elsewhere
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 24/09/2026
"The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicated financial structure that poses ‌potentially systemic risks" www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Financing of historic AI buildout raises systemic risks in US, researcher says
The artificial intelligence buildout is on track to require a larger share of ​US output than the rollout of electricity, railroads, interstate highways or the internet, with an increasingly complicat...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“A cyber security expert tells the BBC the breach should set off "alarm bells" around the world.”
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Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portal
Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 23/09/2026
Governments all over the world have been building up arsenals of technologies to surveil and monitor migrants and asylum seekers. We conducted a global survey to map the various technologies reportedly used on people on the move. privacyinternational.org/report/5866/...
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An Arsenal of Surveillance: A Guide to the Technologies Harming Migrants
Governments around the world are building increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructures to monitor migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at borders and within countries.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...
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Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics
Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.
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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 23/09/2026
Repeat after me: AI detectors like Pangram *do not have a consistent error rate*, it varies due to things like author, their use of language, their writing style, the type of text being produced &c &c &c www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some also say that the programmes are built around the use of standardised language - English or French - and so cannot accurately interpret texts that use dialect from places like the Caribbean.
But the writers behind Balance ton Claude said that Pangram had been shown to make a wrong call about an AI-generated text only one time in every 24,400.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Susan Morgan @smmorgan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The problem is not the word artificial. The problem is the word intelligence.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...
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SFI26: Window 2 now closed
Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Polls show people expect AI to at least advanced science. Navier-Stokes, right? AI may throttle science instead! It doesn’t always advance understanding, its glut overwhelms filters for quality, and its methods don’t fit medical research. Gift link to my NYT essay. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, in UK Parliament, the parliamentary authorities have just emailed MPs to tell them that a whole class of documents, created by the MPs, will be permanently inaccessible to them after the end of October.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“.. People may not fully grasp just how wound up the market and the economy is in all of this,” said Jim Morrow at Callodine Capital Management. “There are just so many things to unravel if it starts.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cool cool cool. Problem solved. “AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior” More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Trump announces ‘AI Force’ as alarm grows over technology’s advance
US president has resisted calls for regulation but said he would appoint a ‘tsar’ to monitor for ‘bad’ behaviour
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! Cyberselfish—the book that nailed Silicon Valley's dangerous narcissism 26 years ago—is back in print!
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is exactly the kind of careful, ethical person who should be in charge of dangerous world-altering technology. OpenAI’s premise that only they can do this safely is clearly in good hands. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‘tech companies tend to focus on … the accuracy, rather than the clinical efficacy, of a tool. “But … we want to know that it actually makes an impact on patient outcomes… And there is really shockingly poor evidence that AI actually makes an impact on patient outcomes.”’
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Medical AI has a proof problem
The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dave Karpf compares Amodei's embedded-evaluators plan to "Arthur Andersen's relationship to Enron" — a case study in what happens when independent monitoring gets captured by the industry it's watching.
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Who Should Pace the Frontier? Not Dario Amodei
We should take Dario Amodei’s writing just seriously enough to stop entrusting him with so much power, writes Dave Karpf.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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