PhoenixPyres (Nathan Paddick)

I have a short Sci-Fi story on Amazon, check out "This Fretted Terrain" here! Available as an eBook and paperback :) --- J'ai une courte histoire de Sci-Fi sur Amazon, "This Fretted Terrain", voir ça ici! Disponible à un livre électronique et un livre de poche :) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWT5VZW1

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

European lawmakers have held four times as many meetings with tobacco and nicotine lobbyists in the past two years compared with the entire previous parliamentary term, according to data analyzed by us.

Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

Claude Ai is out there committing election related crimes and no one gives a shit. www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

50,000 people killed by extreme heat in Europe alone! By February, this number is expected to increase TEN TIMES globally due to heatwaves. When do we stop the oil and gas companies fuelling this fire?

On the Alqueva reservoir in southern Portugal — Western Europe’s largest artificial lake — engineers at EDP created a triple-hybrid energy island by floating 12,000 #photovoltaic panels right beside an existing hydroelectric dam #solarpower #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

"you must be prepared for a devastating national emergency that only lasts 3 days" isn't a serious message, it's weird disaster theatre from a Blair clone who got left in the test tube for too long.

This is what gets me sometimes. The cost to the devs in losing a job is only half the impact. There’s a big communal dream with thousands of hours thrown into it and then it’s just nothing. And none of us can talk about it for legal reasons.

EA done got Avi Lewis mad.

there's an outcome here where ai has a huge crash ends up mostly in enterprise software and for some reason all the ps6s have 2tb of 3d ram now

Insulating Britain’s homes and investing in #heatpumps would do more to cut the cost of living, create jobs and boost the UK’s economy than drilling for new oil, research suggests. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #DonaldTrump #KatharinaReiche #AfD #CDU #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

‘Inflation will make people poor’: Airlines brace for years of pain ft.trib.al/RXxa3kd

One of the many "does not know with whom he is fucking with" issues for Musk is if he starts getting the real deal "enemy hostile" treatment from a sufficiently motivated foreign intelligence service - like, say, Ukraine's. I doubt whatever private security he has is up to the task.

I don't know how many lines have to be crossed before the remaining democratic West realises this fucking maniac cannot be permitted the power he's accumulated. We have Musk. Or we have established international security norms. We can't have both.

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If you are at Epic using generative AI to create art or animations you are a plagiarist and a thief and should never show your work (or face) in the gamedev community again.

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The closest America ever came to a real triumphal arch was 1899. It was temporary. Plans to make it permanent went nowhere. warontherocks.com/fornication-...

If you see Trump's "diesel deal" to Putin as anything other than direct aid to Russia to continue their illegal war and war crimes against Ukraine then you do not understand what is happening.

Unity's new AI thing is a soulless joke: aftermath.site/unity-spark-ai...

"Pressured by US, Brussels (+ Lithuania & Canada) pulls out of Disinfo 2026 conference in Vilnius" www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russi...

Keenly interested in politics from an early age, but until Carney spoke in recent times, I hadn't been touched by anyone's delivery I've finally had a chance to watch Burnham's conference speech, and until that, I had never been moved to real emotion, and then the brink of *tears* Hope lives

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

Bretour (Alors "retour", le mot français que veut dire "back / return" en Anglais, but with a chonkin' great B welded to the front. Bruh-tour

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

En refusant de soutenir l’Ukraine, en s'opposant à la saisie des avoirs russes et en minimisant les ingérences du Kremlin, le RN confirme son allégeance géopolitique occulte. Jouer contre la France et l'Europe face à l'agresseur russe n'est plus une simple faute, c'est une trahison.

WSJ: Trump rejected Iran’s proposed 7-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects U.S. bombing of Iran to resume after the November midterms. Tehran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart nuclear talks in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade and easing sanctions.

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UK must ‘electrify now’, says energy secretary - #MiattaFahnbulleh said that meeting Paris climate targets was “the first priority and that does require us doing action at home”. www.ft.com/content/850d... via @FT #ActOnClimate #ClimateActonNow #renewables #Solarpower #Windpower

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

Now imagine that during a crisis an AI draws from a huge amount of data to conclude that Russia or China are preparing a nuclear first strike and an under-pressure analyst sends that immediately up the chain.

'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.

“Palantir’s involvement in Britain’s public sector has emerged as a major issue for prime minister.The US firm has been criticised for providing software for Donald Trump’s ICE immigration raids and the Israeli military’s “war-related missions” in Gaza.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

I didn't trust AI to tell me whether AI will kill us all in the next decade. So I turned to the one branch of science more reliable than LLMs: Bracketology

Wardogs CEO says workers who speak out against crunch won't 'be happy here' aftermath.site/wardogs-bramme...

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

eventually one of these 'ah whoopsie, our lil' guys got loose again' things is going to be something that actually breaks shit in the real world.

2,977 lights, one for each life lost during 9/11, were assembled to depict the Twin Towers over New York Harbor in a commemorative display ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. 

Jodrell Bank’s e-Merlin network still faces closure in 2028 Government says it will not save telescope network, despite Burnham pledge www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

It's addicted to shit wages, and making more people homeless won't help. Tories, still thick as mince, still wanting to drag the country into the gutter after having done it for 14 years and failed miserably at just about everything. Vote tory: get austerity, stagnant wages and a housing crisis.

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.