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Media, music, technology, films etc. Often found endlessly dog walking, work in digital. Also https://twitter.com/richardram

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‘Shockingly bad’: Nissan Leaf drivers voice anger over app shutdown Carmaker’s decision to drop NissanConnect EV app on relatively recent cars fuels warnings from experts

Not just electric cars - owners of any smart car which has the ability to do over-the-air updates might be in for a nasty surprise.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

14.03.2026 08:21 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"The Book of Revelation predicted this. It just didn’t expect the Four Horsemen to arrive on golf carts."

13.03.2026 14:27 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

I think this is correct. If the battery is replaced:

1. The car is then classified as modified. Insurance premiums go up.

2. It's not allowed on any remaining ferries we have in service. Regarded as being too dangerous.

12.03.2026 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

12.03.2026 18:16 👍 1023 🔁 506 💬 40 📌 53
Wales Solar Panel Mandate 2027: New Building Rules Require Renewable Energy From March 4, 2027, Wales will require renewable electricity systems—primarily rooftop solar panels—on most new buildings, leading the UK in clean energy building regulations.

Wales is set to become the first UK nation to effectively mandate solar panels on new buildings, with updated building regulations taking effect on March 4, 2027.

www.ecohubmap.com/the-news/wal...

12.03.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

12.03.2026 17:28 👍 5730 🔁 2085 💬 192 📌 140

You're looking at an eight-week wait for a suitably configured Mac Mini for your AI doodlings. Suspect that wait time might increase.

12.03.2026 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He's making them wear the same shoes as him. And none of them fit.

11.03.2026 17:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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The Capture review – this juicy return for the deepfake conspiracy thriller is full of truly outrageous twists Holliday Grainger’s superlative drama, and its focus on shady digital practices, has never looked more timely. Its latest series is a seriously impressive feat

And here I was thinking the writers had painted themselves into a corner at the end of series two.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

09.03.2026 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And he's replaced one Khamenei with a much angrier and younger Khamenei.

09.03.2026 21:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

"Effectively, its investment amounts to the relocation into the UK of computer chips manufactured in Taiwan by a US company."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

09.03.2026 17:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Pete Hegseth: "Trump has drawn a new strategic map from Greenland to the Gulf of America - we call this map the Greater North America.

Every sovereign nation north of the equator is not part of the global south, it is part of the security perimeter in this great neighborhood that we all live in."

06.03.2026 19:59 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I filled my car up to today at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now called BP).

06.03.2026 02:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Computer says no.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War.

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

26.02.2026 23:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

chat should we absorb our citizenry's most intimate data into a foreign country's widescale-human-rights-abusing extrajudicially-executing concentration-camp-running racial-pogrom street-abduction security apparatus

25.02.2026 19:52 👍 75 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 0
GreenSync - Digitally enabling renewable energy for a better world The future of flexible, distributed, digital energy has arrived. See what we're doing to support the energy industry be empowered and thrive.

He didn't quite finish the landing. We'll need a NZ open energy market and platform. EG
AUS: greensync.com
UK: www.piclo.com
UK: electron.net

We don’t need to build a system our children have to pay for. We need to build one that pays them back. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

25.02.2026 03:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sewage crisis drama Dirty Business identifies something rotten in our society: review Channel 4’s three-parter, featuring a magnificent turn from David Thewlis, will make you angry and leave our politicians squirming

Sewage crisis drama Dirty Business identifies something rotten in our society: review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

24.02.2026 08:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

18.02.2026 18:40 👍 3579 🔁 1304 💬 195 📌 486
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UN resolution on Gaza imposes 'illegal trusteeship' over Palestinians: Top legal expert www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-reso...
Ralph Wilde, Professor of International Law at University College London, speaking from Ramallah in the occupied Palestinian territories. youtu.be/ThY_jPIYsJE?...

21.02.2026 09:52 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Andrew under investigation: what's next for the former prince? - The Latest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been released under investigation after being questioned in relation to allegations he shared confidential material with Jeffrey Epstein. What are the police looking for...

Gets into the details...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

20.02.2026 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From Iraq war crimes to Gaza’s ‘board of peace’ Why Tony Blair belongs in The Hague

This prick. Tony Blair.

open.substack.com/pub/tracking...

20.02.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Too broke to pay tax? Methanex pays $70m dividend to Canadian owner The Govt has paid hundreds of millions in subsidies to the Taranaki-based methanol producer; now there are calls to speed its exit from NZ. Jonathan Milne reports.

So just to be clear Luxon wants Kiwi families to pay a new tax on their power bills to build an LNG terminal that we don’t need & that will cook the climate, so that Methanex, a company contributing 0 dollars in tax themselves, can keep sending their profits offshore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/m...

19.02.2026 02:22 👍 87 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 2
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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

18.02.2026 11:36 👍 4535 🔁 3123 💬 117 📌 184

Good to see the London shows started at a respectable hour - 530pm. Finally some commonsense.

18.02.2026 04:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Moonwalkers Moonwalkers™ are the first-ever mobility device that allows you to walk at the speed of a run. Designed with an adaptive A.I. drivetrain, you can cover more distance - at your own pace.

Reminded of the roller skates I had.

shiftrobotics.io/products/moo...

14.02.2026 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunshine state: farm solar uptake somewhat cloudy – Farmers Weekly

Solar on farms...

www.flexenergy.co.nz

www.farmersweekly.co.nz/technology/s...

13.02.2026 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner."

Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

15.11.2024 17:13 👍 1348 🔁 522 💬 36 📌 34
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

"With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers..."

10.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I absolutely guarantee you that the below and Luxon announcing a gas terminal isn't a coincidence. Corrupt piece of shit #nzpol

09.02.2026 09:29 👍 98 🔁 56 💬 5 📌 0