Charlie Bavington

New in PN: “Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire "Leading this project of ruthless mapping will be 'three of our nation’s best minds:' Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. In other words — at the risk of being unkind — a weirdo, a beardo, and a fatty."

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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/...

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

How the other half (sic) lives, etc. Gotta say that building looks ugly (or perhaps "moche", if there is anyone left in Monaco who speaks French😀).

Sure you are busy @countbinface.bsky.social but perhaps this is worth a probe at some point. It was ranking no. 1 earlier.

Can we now be spared panegyrics about the Greatest tax dodger Of All Time?🙂

Good #ESPARG

It's a World Cup in a year ending -6 and Argentina are acting like total c**ts. There's a surprise. (tbf, they act like it every year as far as I can tell)

I think, @chrissutton1973.bsky.social, when you say "weak officiating", you mean "bent officiating" #ESPARG

Interesting variety of options in some languages #xl8. I suppose if the situation were reversed, English too might have different options for "bin", at least, & perhaps the title.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha etc. @usmnt.ussoccer.com #USABEL (although I half expect to wake up tomorrow to find FIFA have demanded a replay)

Trump doesn't like Mexico much but according to @theguardian.com , that has been overturned too....

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Yesterday’s back to back rulings by Chief Justice Roberts on the scope of executive power are inherently contradictory, and even the right-wing justices know it. The desired result comes first, then the justifications for it are back-filled. My write-up in link in replies.

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Always said Sharon Osbourne is a scumbag. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (not to her plastic face, obvs, 'cos she knows some proper wrong'uns)

AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next

Crimes Against Humanity. Israel just dropped bombs on an ambulance in Tyre, South Lebanon — assassinating an entire medical team. Not a battlefield. Not a weapons depot. An ambulance. They are hunting and killing the people who save lives. Village of Deir Qanoun–Ras al-Ain @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

Boffins hook fly brain map to virtual body, which starts looking for sugar https://go.theregist...

“Nobody knows more …”

I cannot believe this story is running without anyone asking the so-called #equitypunks "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

"game management", eh? #ArtetaOut

This is why the advertising industry is dying on its arse. Shit concepts made shittier by AI slop. You want decent creative work? You have to pay decent creatives for it.

Small Prophets really is quite decent. Not entirely a fan of the music, mainly because that kind of style is starting to grate a bit with me, it seems to be everywhere (I concede it fits OK with the content here). But otherwise, very fine.

Got paid to take spuds from @sainsburys.bsky.social today. They're 15p for anyone with a Nectar card, plus 50 points in that My Nectar thing worth 25p when I cash them in, means I think they gave me a bag of spuds and 10p. Bet @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com would be chuffed with that one 🙂

How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?

Aren't Labour just stupendously brilliant, and not at all determined to disappoint at every turn? Those #GTTO at all costs loons have a lot to answer for....

Presumably at least partly the point of the new regs is that you either comply or you shove off.

This map includes an interesting potential radial road blatting its way through #Barnet

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/l...

The same people who defended the collective punishment of Palestinian civilians, which meant thousands of innocent people died, are now outraged by the collective punishment of Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans, which will mean a few hundred innocent people miss a football match.

That whole thing last year about absolutely having to vote Labour to #GTTO ? a) it was never true, and b) is working as well as could be expected, i.e. bloody dreadfully. Mainly because it didn't get Tories out at all. Just gave us some different ones.

Badenoch does realise that most of the people who agree with that first bit think that she doesn't belong here either, doesn't she?

Peter Mandelson Sacking Day seems to come around sooner every decade. My SKETCH of Today in "No! Not Peter! Not again?"

I do hope all the #GTTO obsessives of last year are suitably impressed.

Castle Bromwich Über Alles

Clear & obvious not a thing any more? Bloody absurd decision. #FULMUN

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Hard to see fewer political ads as anything but A Good Thing, wherever it happens (sadly not in the UK obvs, unless there is a knock-on effect from advertisers somehow deciding not to bother at all, anywhere, not just the EU)

I had heard of The 1975, but never actually listened before. Fair to say I won't be listening again. And the singer is an insufferable tosser. You'd think they'd make an effort being live on the telly. Or are they always this.... nothing-y? #Glastonbury

@darklordofbarnet.bsky.social Sharon's last few weeks of squeezing a bit more cash from Ozzy's name take an interesting turn!

Ooohhhh (I mean, not a surprise but still)