Offa’s Tyke

Another example of Duolingo relying on AI and not translators to produce more grammatically incoherent nonsense. Honestly, sick of it. 😒

"The CLAAAAAW!" Ukraine is using drones with mechanical claws to recover downed drones to make repairs or salvage parts.

Come into the office 5 days a week or lose your job. Honestly these guys are just the biggest pieces of shit going! They don’t deserve the hard working staff they have. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I hope it all goes badly wrong and Anthropic’s IPO burns in hell. Despicable and unethical company which takes glee in threatening our very existence for marketing kicks. Dario Amodei is an insufferable prick along with the rest of the tech bro wankers.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

"Stockpiling was illegal during the war..." One of the weakest (and, for some reasone, most repeated) arguments against taking basic steps to prepare for a short disruption, like losing power for a couple of days. Keeping a wind up torch and some bottled water is not "stockpiling" ffs.

These so called masters of the universe are just weak, sad fuckers who got turned down by a smart woman once and have let it define their lives ever since

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

The question was why there was no public information campaign here, as there is in most European countries, about what simple steps people need to take and provisions to keep, in case of some disruption; why is the British public so peculiarly infantilised on this issue? Today we have our answer.

"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

Three moths ago, after the Open AI/Hugging Face incident, I half-joked that AI firms had solved the conundrum of all profit projections coming nowhere near the colossal sums invested, by pivoting from AI-as-Hero to AI-as-Menace, from which only more AI can give protection. Joke has aged pretty well.

"Why do the racists insist on joining our party?" weeps Reform UK, as Reform UK hosts a noted racist

This won't go anywhere, obviously, but it's still a useful indication of how they'd act if they ever get into Government. Locking up journalists would just be the start

Big announcement - a Cardiff specific news service. @propercardiffnews.bsky.social Full details in the video and you can subscribe in the comments. Bloody hell this is exciting (and terrifying).

Are these crowds in the room with us, now?

Met a 13 year old last night who told me about their Welsh Baccalaureate studies. They are being taught how to create “brand logos” with Generative AI. 👀 Not drawing, or ideating… just using f*cking ChatGPT! I guess their teachers know sweet FA about copyright too. I despair…

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro vandal. As with higher education, this type of move might be tolerable if there was *any government policy at all* on what the ultimate plan is. But there isn't.

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

The idea that it's just a few bad apples in Reform is such bollocks. You get every impression that the whole fucking orchard needs to be condemned.

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson. https://cnn.it/4zzMpUj

I’m watching a live funeral and for one hymn they are using AI imagery with lyrics. There is one woman hugging another but she’s also welcoming an embrace which has ended up with her having 3 arms! 🫣

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

Not sure I could be more grossed out by this report but the comments by Chris Whelan about “bath night” are particularly grim. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

I’m not a Lib Dem voter but even I know that Brecon is a LIB DEM area. Where’s the Lib Dem panellist? Ffs… 🤦🏼

Kemi Badenoch spent most of PMQs pouring doubt on Andy Burnham's claims about Russian interference in our democracy, yet her spokesman can't tell me whether she has yet read the Russia report, which was published some six years ago during her own time in Government

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

I'm sure former UN ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi will be delighted to have been introduced, very crisply, as "Abdullah al Mussolini" by Justin Webb. Seriously, how does this man still have a six-figure job at the BBC? When he is not busy being biased, he is busy being useless.

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Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country

He and the US are now directly responsible for the murder of Ukrainian patriots.

Trump has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and while his kids "negotiate" a Ukrainian peace deal, he's paying Putin to breach sanctions. Hegseth is live-streaming an execution by firing squad, and gave the UFC a binding contract to train the US military in hand to hand combat.

This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

I feel like lawyers are going to be sharpening their IP knives pretty sharpish if this continues. Can see a lot of lawsuits on the horizon. Adobe first. Makes LimeWire look like amateur hour! 👀 #ChatGPT6 #AI #IPtheft #Adobe

Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...

Uh oh. youtu.be/h5zkzon0gM4

I am very uncomfortable about calling bits of software “agents”. They have no more real agency than a wind-up toy.

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

been thinking about this a lot lately -- AI seems like a tech that inherently creates economic "doom loops" that extract value from original creative work while destroying the financial incentives to produce more of it ruining culture while making itself worse futurism.com/artificial-i...