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“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

The prime minister’s new, remote-controlled Jackdaw gasfield will generate less new employment than nine standup comedians going on tour – and is considerably more likely to be hacked This week’s column by Stewart Lee

“Zuckerberg has reportedly spent €51m buying a castle in Ireland. His net worth is around $240bn. Using an average Irish salary of €58,000, the equivalent proportion would be roughly €12” Blindboy AKA @bbboatclub on podcasting, politics, and the tech bro takeover of Ireland Q&A by Brenna Spain

“Zuckerberg has reportedly spent €51m buying a castle in Ireland. His net worth is around $240bn. Using an average Irish salary of €58,000, the equivalent proportion would be roughly €12” Blindboy AKA @bbboatclub on podcasting, politics, and the tech bro takeover of Ireland Q&A by Brenna Spain

“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

The Recommender: Jackie Kay The award-winning poet, playwright and novelist, whose latest collection Selected Poems 1991–2026 is out now @picadorbooks.bsky.social, shares her cultural highlights

“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

Roger McNamee began investing in technology companies in 1982. He was an early investor in Facebook and Google, is the author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, and is an executive producer of the film The Social Reckoning www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

“Young people have already concluded that AI is a mistake. Now it is time for the rest of us to see the truth”: former Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee AKA @moonalice.com on how the industry’s financial problems may undermine the entire economy www.thenerve.news/p/roger-mcna...

The Nerve weekend dish: Alissa Timoshkina’s Kopytka with mushroom and spinach sauce 🇵🇱🥟🍄‍🟫🌱 The award-winning food writer and #CookForUkraine co-founder shares a Polish potato dumpling dish that’s perfect comfort food for autumn

Review of the Week: Michael Kiwanuka - Fudge ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The British soul singer’s beautiful and affecting new album is stripped-down, analogue, wistful – and something to be treasured while he recovers from ill health, writes Nerve music critic @katehutchinson.bsky.social

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from a riotous gen Z sitcom to an elegant cinematic study of Thomas Mann

“If Putin gets his way, the great dictators will carve up Ukraine, with America – once Europe’s ally – a willing handmaiden to European borders being redrawn to suit Moscow” Analyst and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on Maga’s masterplan to stoke unrest in Europe

“If Putin gets his way, the great dictators will carve up Ukraine, with America – once Europe’s ally – a willing handmaiden to European borders being redrawn to suit Moscow” Analyst and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on Maga’s masterplan to stoke unrest in Europe

“The BBC lacks moral courage”: foreign correspondent and former HardTalk presenter @stephensackur.bsky.social speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Gaza, despots, and the problem with ‘both-sides’ journalism

“The BBC lacks moral courage”: foreign correspondent and former HardTalk presenter @stephensackur.bsky.social speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Gaza, despots, and the problem with ‘both-sides’ journalism

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David v Goliath on Teesside: @ladyhaja.bsky.social talks to filmmaker @jeaniefinlay.com about her brilliant, infuriating documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea about the industrial pollution decimating the north-east coast’s ecosystem #AllRiversSpill

David v Goliath on Teesside: @ladyhaja.bsky.social talks to filmmaker @jeaniefinlay.com about her brilliant, infuriating documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea about the industrial pollution decimating the north-east coast’s ecosystem #AllRiversSpill

Brexit, Russia, Twitter bots – it’s been a good week for finally acknowledging a decade’s worth of malign influences on Britain. But let’s not overlook perhaps the biggest and most hostile troll of all This week’s Nerve column by Stewart Lee

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