Chris Marsden
@chrismarsden.bsky.social
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Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
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Is it worth reminding everyone that we wrote about the solutions to digital dominance in #RegulatingCode (2013) & #InternetCoregulation (2011), based on multi year multidisciplinary multinational (multiple) studies for the European Commission from 2004-7?! It's the 21st birthday of @ox.ac.uk report
chrismarsden.bsky.social
"Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance," Sean Barbabella said in the memo, which was made out to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt" hahaha
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Trump remains in 'exceptional health', doctor's note says after check-up
A memo released by US President Donald Trump's doctor says the 79-year-old's "cardiac age" is 14 years younger than his "chronological age".
www.abc.net.au
chrismarsden.bsky.social
As anyone at a football match can attest
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The @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social is institutionally racist - perhaps it always was despite Greg Dyke calling it out
danielsohege.bsky.social
"Surge"? Oh sort yourself out BBC.
A frankly tiny number of people, in the grand scheme of things, with every right to do so coming to UK is hardly a "surge", but such language automatically frames them as a negative and is guaranteed to be used to stoke more division.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs
chrismarsden.bsky.social
Minter always denied being racist, I watched an old Superstars final from 1980, he seemed good mates with Daley, but then who wouldn't be? Unless you were his decathlon victim
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Herol Graham was an astonishing talent
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Even poor Frank, who had to ham it up a lot
chrismarsden.bsky.social
Odd choices. Bruno for warmth, Minter for record (shame about the racist poor sportsmanship), Jim Watt? Honeyghan got lucky & was then destroyed, not world class. My favourite was Bomber Graham, bombed out by a lucky devastating punch
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"He can be ranked among the best British boxers, in company of Lennox Lewis, Ken Buchanan, Joe Calzaghe and Nigel Benn (?), Lloyd Honeyghan, John Conteh, Chris Eubank and Naseem Hamed. Only Henry Cooper and Barry McGuigan generated similar, unquestioning warmth"
www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
Ricky Hatton can be ranked among the best of British boxers | Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell: Ricky Hatton is right when he says he can look himself in the mirror and be proud of what he has achieved
www.theguardian.com
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newrepublic.com
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
chrismarsden.bsky.social
"The new law on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising brings new restrictions and transparency requirements for paid political ads. Since the law was agreed, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU altogether"
www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...
Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.
www.politico.eu
chrismarsden.bsky.social
"It’s a nuanced notion unlikely to be adequately interrogated in a world where the main forum for public debate is an algorithmically amplified digital dogfighting pit presided over by a ketamine-cranked egomaniac"
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The union jack thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
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tupped.bsky.social
US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
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“because we now have generations of younger producers who are coming into the business – and they are digital natives – they’re marinated in social media... the story was put on by a freelance journalist, who put [it] on her X feed. And no one questioned it"
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’
Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract
www.theguardian.com
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coast1909.bsky.social
Dispatch from Portland last night:
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btpepper.bsky.social
Then the press needs to up the ante. Spend entire news hours on this repugnant shit. Stop sane washing what's happening in Washington DC, stop normalizing troops in American cities.

Set off all the alarms. That is their most pressing task at this time.

And sue. Sue every last one of them.
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niedermeyer.online
Tesla drivers are so willing to cheer for the robot that they are literally entrusting their lives to a "self driving" system that the manufacturer won't take legal liability for and dying, or being charged with vehicular manslaughter when the inevitable bad thing happens
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joshuafoust.com
“Do they give Nobel Peace Prizes to war criminals, Minna?”
“All the time. Aung San Suu Kyi, Henry Kissinger, and also the prize you think, it is not the Peace Prize.”
“Oh, don’t start with that.”
“It is a second tier peace price. It is made of very hard plastic.”

A world class character foil
Veep: Mina H turns Selina in as a War Criminal
YouTube video by Millicent D
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banxtoons.bsky.social
From today's @financialtimes.com #artificialintelligence
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Blue sky over Apollo Bay