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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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"Creators" coming up with AI writing prompts are now complaining other sloppers are stealing *their* prompts. Irony, but, dipshits, a prompt aint nothing. I shed fifty prompts before breakfast. Prompt this, ya jerks.
January 5, 2026 at 6:46 AM
"Creators" coming up with AI writing prompts are now complaining other sloppers are stealing *their* prompts. Irony, but, dipshits, a prompt aint nothing. I shed fifty prompts before breakfast. Prompt this, ya jerks.
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Amazing record for the FIFA
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Amazing record for the FIFA
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taking 2026 out, blowing on the connectors, putting it back in and hitting reset
January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
taking 2026 out, blowing on the connectors, putting it back in and hitting reset
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
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If @reuters.com can’t tell the difference between a corporate statement and prompt output then they might as well close up shop
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
If @reuters.com can’t tell the difference between a corporate statement and prompt output then they might as well close up shop
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Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
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📣 WE ARE HIRING: 2x Producers 📣
Film and Video Umbrella are seeking to hire two part-time (three days per week) Midlands-based Producers who will, between them, deliver FVU’s programme of artist’s moving image works, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of our multifaceted production activity.
Film and Video Umbrella are seeking to hire two part-time (three days per week) Midlands-based Producers who will, between them, deliver FVU’s programme of artist’s moving image works, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of our multifaceted production activity.
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 WE ARE HIRING: 2x Producers 📣
Film and Video Umbrella are seeking to hire two part-time (three days per week) Midlands-based Producers who will, between them, deliver FVU’s programme of artist’s moving image works, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of our multifaceted production activity.
Film and Video Umbrella are seeking to hire two part-time (three days per week) Midlands-based Producers who will, between them, deliver FVU’s programme of artist’s moving image works, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of our multifaceted production activity.
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'only 17 per cent of staff have been guaranteed the living wage' and yet the 'the interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, told the strike organisers that they ‘don’t live in a real world’?'
Pathetic. The British Library is a wonder of the modern world - why can't its management act like it?
Pathetic. The British Library is a wonder of the modern world - why can't its management act like it?
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
'only 17 per cent of staff have been guaranteed the living wage' and yet the 'the interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, told the strike organisers that they ‘don’t live in a real world’?'
Pathetic. The British Library is a wonder of the modern world - why can't its management act like it?
Pathetic. The British Library is a wonder of the modern world - why can't its management act like it?
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This, too, is gender-affirming care.
Never stops annoying me that we get endless handwringing about how unsafe and untested lething trans people have hormones or puberty blockers while there's a fucking billion dollar industry hocking testosterone supplements and steroid injections to insecure teenage boys without anybody giving a shit
December 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This, too, is gender-affirming care.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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I hate the Guardian framing of conversation as a performance of respectability politics, surface bourgeois fakeness & its dining across the divide crap. "Oh let's all be polite to fascists & maybe they'll be cuddly!" Absolute English poison.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I hate the Guardian framing of conversation as a performance of respectability politics, surface bourgeois fakeness & its dining across the divide crap. "Oh let's all be polite to fascists & maybe they'll be cuddly!" Absolute English poison.
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This is BTW the logical outcome of seven years of allowing far right racists to set the terms of what racism is, how it works and who is racist. The second we decided to give them the microphone, it was already over.
The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is BTW the logical outcome of seven years of allowing far right racists to set the terms of what racism is, how it works and who is racist. The second we decided to give them the microphone, it was already over.
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This this this.
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This this this.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Academies are deep-fakes of schools tbh.
October 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Academies are deep-fakes of schools tbh.
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To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
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LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!
23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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Launch: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh w/ Natalie Olah
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 6.30-9pm Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to v...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!
23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.
September 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.
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Maybe there are still a few Labour MP’s who remember that the left used to be against racism
September 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Maybe there are still a few Labour MP’s who remember that the left used to be against racism
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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What an expertly called shot
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What an expertly called shot