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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Every-so-often one of our challenges pops a bit and this one has got 150 entries, which for B3ta in 2026 is like going viral or something. Do join in, or marvel at the fun pics, normal service where you ignore our challenges will resume shortly b3ta.com/challenge/ki...

Mark Zuckerberg unveils the EU compliant version of his pervert glasses.

🚨🚨🚨 ELLIE & NATASIA S2 ON THE IPLAYER ON WEDNESDAY 21st OCTOBER🚨🚨🚨

#VanityFair

Also: AI cannot give you an advantage. Unlike training and using humans. Because whatever machine you’re using is also being used by your competitors. That’s the whole point. That it’s a closed black box that just zooms towards automated solutions. There’s no competitive edge you can adopt. Surely?

The only time the word “confidence” should be used around the AI bubble is when it’s followed by the word “trick.”

The most useful social activism a pop star could do at the moment would be someone like Dua Lipa putting out a track called "I'm not fucking anyone with pervert glasses"

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'Threads' but you're cheering for the bombs

Robbed from the rich and gave to the Phwoarrr! More like #RIPDickOSullivan

Undercover 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:

This should utterly destroy Reform, and if we live in a properly functioning democracy it will. But when James Orr describes the Electoral Commission as "completely useless" and "dumb and ineffective", he is unfortunately correct, and that is a big reason why this has gone unchecked for so long.

This is the route Rockstar should have taken

Ticket link would be helpful: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Hello! I have updated and (slightly) expanded my website. I’m always in the market for fun/interesting TV reviewing and comedy work, so do get in touch 👍🏻

Even if you're just a viewer and not a streamer, tell them through metrics that you reject AI: Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF

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We are really pleased to announce that our new album ‘New Shiny Object’ will be released 30th October on Impossible Objects of Desire.            Watch the performance video for new single ‘Lowest Common Denominator’: youtu.be/BHuGgVWfvmk

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy

We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Great job 👏

Can @countbinface.bsky.social do something about all the ai being used to promote him? Just put a message out about how environmentally shit it is, how it's built on theft, damaging creativity and putting people out of work. Plus it gets his outfit wrong.

A better version from the video's creator: youtu.be/qcqegVAFN0E?...

My timeline appears to be split on whether this Binface is funny or naff. In the avoidance of doubt, it's a joke that's became naff through overuse, but has come round to wonderful relevance again in these specific set of circumstances. So yes, if you're not team Binface now, you're losing.

‘I’M CLOSING THE BUREAU. For an hour.’

Edvard Munch’s The Chives

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

Holiday soon

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

"Digitally handmade" is a useful, vital distinction. Collage work of existing images, authored in an image-editing platform (and done within the bounds of fair use) is the actual remix culture. Typing "make me an image in the style of this creator" into a generator trained on unlicensed art is theft

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

While we’re on football…

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote