William Perrin

It has been very disconcerting to be part of the “business class” and also a supporter of the rule of law as applied to markets because equal protection makes everyone more wealth while Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other crooks destroy that rule of law and collapse the American economy.

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

Ok, slightly conspiracy-ish but their whole bleating about AI's "existential risks" is a misdirect to get AI regulations to focus on idk ending humanity or whatever and not copyright and human responsibility for chatbots telling people to kill themselves etc.

Would love to talk with editors from 1998 and ask them: If Congress dropped a 50-page report detailing, with witnesses on the record, that President Clinton raped women, would you put it on the front page?

No rise in productivity due to AI, according to that great Luddite institute, Apollo Global Management. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

Whether it's Elon Musk cutting off the Starlink access that protects Ukrainians from Russian missiles or Ukraine cutting off Russian bot servers that give Elon his X likes and retweets, both sides have escalated a deadly feud.

President Trump’s obsession with Sen. Jon Husted’s butt raises questions about James Talarico’s alleged heterosexuality. by JD Vance

The AI giant must convince investors it can maintain rapid growth amid fierce competition while managing billions in computing costs. Bloomberg breaks down the numbers.

Insane that we're just over a week away from midterms and this isn't the lead story on every single U.S. news outlet. The zone is so flooded.

China is ahead of the West when it comes to AI - there, the bubble has already burst, the stock market has already crashed as investors have realised there's no consumer demand or path to profitability. www.ibtimes.com.au/china-ai-sto...

Reading thru an ex-Google exec's deposition unsealed last night, these excerpts stopped me cold. Brings questions of IAB's independence, especially given its silence on Google's antitrust violations. And little hope it'll speak up about Meta's sweeping new commercial terms. 1/2

The #onlinesafetyact is 3 today - but it is not working as it should. Our new polling shows the public want that to change: stronger protections, better enforcement, more tech accountability. Read more here and how our draft Bill proposes to fix it. ⬇️ www.onlinesafetynetwork.uk/analysis/79-...

The shift away from the US continues. Ten countries have now signed on for Macron’s Forward Deterrence initiative, including the UK, Germany and Poland, WSJ reports. Under the plan, France would station nuclear-capable fighter jets across Europe as trust in the US erodes.

What were they thinking? My ConHome piece on the pro-Ukrainian British politicians who backed Trump in 2024 and how their tribalism got the better of them. conservativehome.com/2026/10/26/d...

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

AI doomers now forecasting that within 6-12 months a frontier AI model will be able to manage Manchester United into a successful team. These bs predictions are getting out of control

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Just come across this quote from Oliver Stone “When you look at a movie, what you are looking at essentially I think is a director’s thought process, and when the film becomes tedious that’s because the director’s thought process is becoming tedious.”

The King now generating electricity for the entire Royal Estate from the rotating grave of Thomas Cranmer.

OpenAI will begin to do the basic, fundamental thing that it should have been doing the whole time. techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/o...

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Everybody loves their Temu Range Rover until it's sending your targeting location to the PLA

I’m convinced that AI is a bubble. But I’m also convinced that a shitload of comparatively recently adopted tech that we think of as normal is also a bubble. None of it has been costed as a business, just as speculative investment. Stuff we think we rely on. I’m not sure it’s all going to last.

The defensiveness of AI boosters over calling this morally reprehensible is remarkable, they really do not like it when anyone has any kind of principles or when they care about something lol

🧵Tracking latest forced choice PM heads to heads 🌹Burnham easily beats every alternative, by the smallest margin against Badenoch & the largest against Polanski 🌳Badenoch beats other 4 leaders ➡️Farage only wins against Polanski 🌍Polanski loses each H2H (Lowe wins 2 but on much lower recognition)

An exceptional collection of old, graphic German carrier bags. So many here www.facebook.com/CoolCollecti...

Small ironies. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first to congratulate David Cameron (a bit prematurely) on election night 2010. He liked his Steve Hilton-influenced liberal conservatism. In 2026 Arnie has pointedly not endorsed Steve Hilton, now a maniac, for Governor of California.

An insight into the limited vocabulary of Whitehall press offices.. and the inability to think properly about regulation.. .that a govt that talks about “ending 40 years of neoliberalism” also reverts back to old tropes about “slashing red tape”

🚨 French bonds have been hit hard, but we’re still a LONG way from proper panic levels. www.ft.com/content/9aa4...

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

There'll be no big society in California I'll tell the children

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

This era is going to represent the biggest pile of wasted silicon in the history of the microprocessor, because all these things are doing right now is depreciating. It's possible that's all they'll ever do.

How can European governments keep us all safe when all of our critical infrastructure now relies on tech provided by US corporations which are controlled by mercurial oligarchs who bow to Trumpski ?

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

So Anthropic lost $80billion in six months. How insane is that?. Well it makes it the fifth biggest company loss in history. In only six months. It’s also bigger than the Irish bank bailout €64billion.

Free newsletter: In July, Apollo Economist Torsten Slok said that "AI better work out, or we have a problem." Facing ever-growing high-interest debt, negative-EBITDA AI labs and $200bn+ in warehoused GPUs, that's exactly what the AI industry has. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette...

WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts thehackernews.com/2026/10/what...

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

Jonathan Powell’s The New Machiavelli may be the shrewdest of the New Labour era memoirs, but *hands down* the best Trotsky reference belongs to Jack Straw. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/fit-for-pu...