Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892863055
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: "Just build more solar and batteries" I see this comment many times in my social media feed. The problem: The slogan undersells the problem. It also undersells the solution. The good news: we already have most of the tools we need. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-proble...janrosenow.substack.comThe problem with "just build solar and batteries"Why the easiest story about the energy transition is misleading. 1716049
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 26/09/2026They had hope in One Nation, until they saw the party up close abc.net.au'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors. 03411
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271738585
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky 40414220
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialRoel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026De video waarvan Meta niet wil dat je ‘m ziet 371054439
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 18878474
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. Superficially, its promise can sound appealing: peace, sovereignty, and permanent armed neutrality. But most of that is a distraction: 12340132
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered... 571078377
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...hopenothate.org.ukLennon's Secret AgentA former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ... 13421332
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🔎 From the archive: Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested As Reform receive £72m from Crypto Kingsbylinetimes.comWhat Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western DemocracyThe former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested 6217145
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/09/2026There are thousands of thatched buildings across East Anglia – but the skilled craftspeople who maintain them are becoming harder to find. Stephen McNair watches the craftsmen renew his Norfolk roof, and considers what could be lost if traditional skills aren't passed on. @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukCraftsmen at work: time to renew my thatchThe thousands of thatched houses across east Anglia all need regular expert maintenance. So, what is it like to have the thatchers in? 45017
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialCAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/... 1312181
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is 19-year-old Sofia and her 11-year-old brother, Svyatoslav. Russia killed them and their father on September 5, when a drone struck their family home in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region 💔🕯 37401187
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialRichard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons." 8809246
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialMichael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Malinauskas to chop down 400 trees in Adelaide's pristine city park for MotoGP @MrRexPatrick not impressed #auspol michaelwest.com.au/malinauskas-...michaelwest.com.auPeter ‘Chopper’ Malinauskas to plonk MotoGP in Adelaide's cherished Park Lands - Michael WestPremier Peter Malinauskas plans to chop down 400 trees in Adelaide's Park Lands for the MotoGP Grand Prix. Rex Patrick reports. 99237
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social 1081635650
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, a German AfD politician, Islamic-studies scholar and Putinversteher. He’s best known for playing dumb over his Russian Army mug and for shaping the AfD program ahead of Sunday’s Sachsen-Anhalt elections. 1/21 13372146
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46894593991
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialAndrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026That makes it 37 fossil fuel projects approved by Labor, and 10 since their own National Climate Risk Assessment told them and us of the catastrophic consequences, including 63 Nationally Significant Climate Risks that span across every aspect of society. Its ok to be angry. 36940
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A massive Russian attack on #Ukraine with missiles& more than 200 drones:12 killed,dozens injured,including children&rescuers In Kyiv,8 people were killed and eight more were injured,including a 10-yr-old boy. 4 people were killed, 13 injured,including 2 children,in Kyiv region’s Boryspil district 1116570
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 31/08/2026And the biggest howler: Reform’s geniuses in Kent were apparently able to repaint a fence, trim the verge, plant grass seed (and get it to grow instantly), redo the pavement and repave the road all so quickly that the car in the top-right corner didn’t move an inch! Amazing! 29776207
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/08/2026The Lake Ontario/Lake America thing is a profoundly stupid version of it, but in millions of other subtler ways, we are force fed American values and American ideas about the world, because American companies like Google control the internet. 761587344
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Thames Water discharged sewage for over an hour yesterday, including at Islip and Botley, and into the River Evenlode. You can check your local river for 💩 on www.sewagemap.co.uksewagemap.co.ukSewage MapReal-Time Sewage Discharge Monitoring | Sewage Map - Stay Updated on Sewage Pollution 22523
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 29/08/2026Pecksniff returns to find politics behaving badly… * Burnham reaches No.10 and starts reverse-ferreting * Braverman eyes the Reform exit * Norfolk CC and the feeding for £1,000 * Huntingdonshire encounters boiling frogs and revolution And more......eastangliabylines.co.ukPecksniff: ‘No confidence in any party’ as Burnham bottles water and sticks to red linesIn which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life 66023
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/08/2026“With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-th… > it amounts to a direct repudiation of Silicon Valley’s core project.bloodinthemachine.comWith the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it. 03610
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...edconway.substack.comThe 30,000-mile fish fingerThere’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label... 45652297
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation. 🧵1/3 16356164
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London! 521655713
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Fiona Cottrell gave £1.075m to Richard Tice's Britain Means Business company in June 2024, which then went on to hand £500k to Reform. At year-end, the company had net assets of just £10,578, and just one member of staff. It makes Britain Means Business look like a clearing house... 26557260
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🚨🚨"Deliberate negligence". Russian nuclear power #Rosatom with EU operations accused of violating safety standards. Rosatom’s Egyptian plant will use the same technology as a facility the company is building in Hungary. Great @politico.eu report: www.politico.eu/article/rosa...politico.eu‘Deliberate negligence’: Russian nuclear power company with EU operations accused of violating safety standardsRosatom’s Egyptian plant will use the same technology as a facility the company is building in Hungary. 33830
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialPaul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I was on BBC Business Today yesterday on what's happened and what's coming for UK food. 34 million litres less milk this June. Around 60 million pints. Wheat is down 13%. Wholesale potato prices +40%, lettuce +90% We covered a Great Food Transformation: diet, waste, production, communities. 36539
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r... 49372171667
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Today is the 40th birthday of Untitled 1986, better known as the Headington Shark. The giant fibreglass sculpture was installed in the roof of 2 New High Street on the morning of Saturday 9 August 1986 - itself 41 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. morrisoxford.co.uk/shark/ 16124
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38... 281196463
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialChris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 08/08/2026If true, this has nothing to do with energy security or oil supply - the US has lots. It’s about provoking a conflict with Denmark and NATO to draw attention away from the failures in the Persian Gulf and the economic failures at home. 25635
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialMichael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this) 11672011852
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If you wanted to fly from Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) to Perth in Western Australia (PER), you'll need to connect in: Sydney (SYD), a trip of ~30+ hrs, 11,000 miles or Auckland (AKL) a trip of ~25+ hrs, 9,800 miles. But there's a shorter, FORBIDDEN trip. Over Antarctica. 37921
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 05/08/2026There’s little transparency about who has access to deeply personal medical data or how companies handle it.theconversation.comClinicians ask ‘do you mind if I use AI?’ Perhaps you should 0910
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The Russian economy is rapidly transitioning to the cloud. 451883349
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialCraig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...craigunger.substack.comNothing Moves the NeedleNot that long ago, the press could root out corruption, topple presidents, and end wars. Now, even the biggest scoops have little impact. Here's how and why the media lost its mojo. 68734
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’ 731719904
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comA Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in ThereA trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information. 3418571080
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It is very clear to me that the economy / immigration / drilling in the North Sea / the doubling of the Neasden Dual Carriageway / the unavailability of my favourite soya bread at my local supermarket is THE issue facing our country, From the new Private Eye, out now. 722443
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialThe Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 25/07/2026If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk. 1023878
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...cnbc.comFinland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency. 9161932234
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.social(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Current state of the Wildberries logistics centers. Among the top 20 we have the following numbers: Red: 4 totally destroyed hubs - Elektrostal - Krasnodar - Nevinnomyssk - Shushary (new) Yellow: 3 damaged hubs - Koledino - Kotovsk - Voronezh (new) Green: 13 yet intact 1943162
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/202613. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well. 251005309
Reposted by @tantrumizer.bsky.socialAndy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It is hard to be a bee when flowers start withering up under intense heat. Bumblebees are designed for cold climates not extreme heat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK's furry bumblebees 'keeling over' in heatwavesThe furry bodies of UK bumblebees are specially adapted for cold weather - making heatwaves a struggle. 13813
