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If GB News actually wanted to understand why businesses and public bodies are wasting vast sums putting in unnecessary new toilets perhaps they should ask those responsible for the stonkingly daft Supreme Court decision?
I mean, apart from this being utter gubbins, how on earth does this person have a career as a newsreader, even on GBeebies?
January 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
If GB News actually wanted to understand why businesses and public bodies are wasting vast sums putting in unnecessary new toilets perhaps they should ask those responsible for the stonkingly daft Supreme Court decision?
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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“please let me know the date and time of your most pedophilic evening soirée, good sir. i will be there with bells on”
New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.
Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 AM
“please let me know the date and time of your most pedophilic evening soirée, good sir. i will be there with bells on”
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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Nice work if you can get it.
PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours.
Public procurement is a racket.
mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...
PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours.
Public procurement is a racket.
mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...
The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
mahadk.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Nice work if you can get it.
PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours.
Public procurement is a racket.
mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...
PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours.
Public procurement is a racket.
mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...
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BREAKING: Free Babadook to be offered to every adult with a hangover
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 3:19 PM
BREAKING: Free Babadook to be offered to every adult with a hangover
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As footage emerged appearing to show a US congresswoman attacked with an unknown substance, US Editor Anushka Asthana explores the impact of the ICE crackdown in the embattled city.
Read the full newsletter here:
Read the full newsletter here:
Minneapolis: Emergency focus diverted from extreme weather to ICE fallout
As footage emerged appearing to show a US congresswoman attacked with an unknown substance, US Editor Anushka Asthana explores the impact of the ICE crackdown in the embattled city.
channel4news.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
As footage emerged appearing to show a US congresswoman attacked with an unknown substance, US Editor Anushka Asthana explores the impact of the ICE crackdown in the embattled city.
Read the full newsletter here:
Read the full newsletter here:
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Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
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w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses
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"Trump’s Homeland Empire is incapable of generating consensual order or lasting hegemony. This is what happens when actual, functioning empire enters its terminal, attritional phase: construction, growth & visions of progress are replaced by pyrotechnic convulsions." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"Trump’s Homeland Empire is incapable of generating consensual order or lasting hegemony. This is what happens when actual, functioning empire enters its terminal, attritional phase: construction, growth & visions of progress are replaced by pyrotechnic convulsions." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
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To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM
To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
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The Claudia Wickerman (1973)
January 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM
The Claudia Wickerman (1973)
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Very odd how Matt Goodwin was the first person in his family to go to university when his father has a PhD and a MBA. No doubt his downward mobility is because of woke.
Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Very odd how Matt Goodwin was the first person in his family to go to university when his father has a PhD and a MBA. No doubt his downward mobility is because of woke.
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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Didn’t the Home Secretary just sack a Chief Constable because they used AI in a report that turned out to be wrong?
The Home Office says the use of AI will free up six million policing hours each year, the equivalent of 3,000 full-time officers
Police chatbots will respond to non-urgent queries
The Home Office says the use of AI will free up six million policing hours each year, the equivalent of 3,000 full-time officers
www.thetimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Didn’t the Home Secretary just sack a Chief Constable because they used AI in a report that turned out to be wrong?
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It’s 19 years since the last showing of Grandstand on the BBC
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
It’s 19 years since the last showing of Grandstand on the BBC
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Sorry middle aged paying 51% marginal tax rates because of student loans, we need to spend £65 billion because of a decision made in 1995 that came into effect in 2011
January 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Sorry middle aged paying 51% marginal tax rates because of student loans, we need to spend £65 billion because of a decision made in 1995 that came into effect in 2011
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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I really understand very little about the current version of reality.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I really understand very little about the current version of reality.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.