Will Adams

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

The Economist indulging in playground insults? Classy.

You would hope so. The question is how, and what does it mean for our relationship to the big tech platforms owned by American sociopaths?

This is the position from a game played between Sumiya Shinguun IM and Kazybek Nogerbek GM at the 2026 Atyrau Open. At this point, Shinguun found an extraordinary "invisible" move which gives White a winning advantage. The Times' David Howells picked it as his "move of the year". Which is it?

I saw a screenshot of this and had to go and check if it was real. How can you be the BBC’s cyber correspondent and not have heard of PHP before yesterday? *And* now be talking confidently about it on the news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

They DM'd us this 2 minutes before publishing their official statement

Turning Point UK has close ties to several senior UK Conservative Party members, as well as to Nigel Farage and other Reform figures.

Vile people doing vile things. Imagine attacking a CSA survivor for getting therapy.

Abolish the Home Office.

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

The descent of the once great Newsnight into farce.

So i understand that your hope was that signing this charter would encourage publishers to also sign up to it and promote a better environment for ai I disagree with your position that AI is inevitable but I'm going to try and give you the benefit of the doubt (1/?)

An idiot holds his bauble for a god

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Yup. Some brave, bold, long-term re-thinking required. I just wrote up my reckons as a blog post, which I should have done earlier - thanks for the unintended nudge! loosemore.com/2026/10/14/t...

Well, today is a great day for witnessing the rigid backbones of mainstream publishers and author societies.

Not sure how it has taken me this long to realise the pleasing circularity that Canary Wharf is now the heart of the Isle of Dogs and is named after the Canary Islands, whose name derives from the Latin for Isles of Dogs.

Our "independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation" would seemingly be happier in North Korea

@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.

The measure is therefore not aimed in stopping Ukraine in striking legitimate targets - including refineries - in Russia, but to deprive it from defending itself against an aggressive invader which never stops committing the most heinous atrocities.

"we're seeing signs of life for AI worms" = assume the position while we hack your bank account and your fridge, suckerssss How is this ok? - as.ft.com/r/465096c1-f...

It has been a horrible night for Kyiv, with ballistic missile attacks throughout the night. Again, Russia struck energy facilities, on top of killing & injuring civilians. According to the Ukrainian authorities, there was no intelligence sharing by "partners" (=the US). The threat persists.

Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.

AI and the Core Feature of the Silicon Valley Economy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-an...

I feel I don’t say it enough: this is truly a fantastic, welcome, long overdue change in tone, and more than just a change in tone. Yes yes it’s still [waves hands expressively] but my God it has been a long 15 years so let’s be thankful we’re finally heading in the right direction on this.

"Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end."

And yet Trump simps ever more pathetically for Putin

Tl;dr: the Trump administration lifting sanctions against Russia in the week that Russia escalates its campaign of war crimes against Ukrainian civilians is disgusting but it shouldn't be remotely surprising. It's what Trump and his circle have always wanted to do.

I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

🔴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🧵)

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

The tax cuts are solid enough to stick on a poster, the spending cuts are "hypotheticals" and there you have an explanation for half of the mess we're in

IDK about you guys, but I use Wikipedia multiple times a day, every day, and I value them highly. Even if you're tight, it's worth it to give at least the minimum. =================== I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. donate.wikimedia.org

*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…

i took the piss out of @robarmstrong.bsky.social when he said this but in fairness, he was indeed making a good point. It just started weirdly. Proof that the pod is very much unscripted/unrehearsed/slightly chaotic www.ft.com/content/845a...

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Letter printed in The Times today

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

1/ Humiliating scenes of Russian surrendering en masse to Ukrainian forces in the Lyman salient are continuing to produce recriminations among Russian warbloggers. One lays the blame on a "rigged" military hierarchy dominated by incompetent "sycophants and lackeys". ⬇️

I mean what were those speechwriters doing? They had all summer I'm also looking forward to the Conservatives' critique that the public services disasters that they spent 15 years creating haven't been fixed yet

🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.