While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep political crisis will continue
— Clive Lewis, @labourlewis.bsky.social, The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
By far the best analysis I’ve read post-byelection from anyone in Labour.
Cc. @steverichards.bsky.social
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For all its problems and diminishment, the BBC (particularly the World Service) remains one of the best institutions in Britain.
The DCMS consultation on the charter remains open for a few days. Have your say here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
#BBC
@bbcstever.bsky.social
"There is an alternative way forward: being True – not Blue – Labour. True Labour doesn’t fear those who are different. Instead, it demands everyone contribute their abilities to society – and works to unlock such skills."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was, of course, joking.
Do you think this was not "by hand"? (Hard to tell. I'm pretty sure some of it was; might all have been.)
And surely it used an (Apple) pencil?? Or do you mean a dead-tree "analogue" pencils??
Maybe this is a digital deep fake hallucinated infographic.
What a world.
Where are the men who want to help build a more equal world? You are very welcome to join us this Sunday 8 March in Walthamstow at the Soho Theatre to show the trolls don’t speak for you! Link for tickets here. sohotheatre.com/events/walth...
TW: sexual assault!
Picture of iPad with infographic labelled 'Strategic Storytelling: Working with Data' consisting of various hand-written text and three hand-drawn (or possibly faux-hand drawn) graphs.
@martinapugliese.bsky.social Have you been moonlighting for Apple?
www.apple.com/newsroom/ima...
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Not sure why I’m looking it up for you, but the same basic story is here from the man himself:
dominiccummings.substack.com/p/people-ide...
Not saying you should believe Dom, but it’s primary.
I don’t think he said.
Bound to be Cumming, probably on his blog.
But I don’t know.
Screenshot containing this text: Whatever you think about Dominic Cummings, he takes nuclear weapons very, very seriously. And he absolutely believes it is a subject that not only publics don't spend enough time thinking about, but politicians don't spend nearly enough time thinking about. And he has written about his shock and outrage at just the ignorance of British politicians about the strategic questions, the technological questions. They don't understand the technology, they don't understand the strategy, and they don't understand the history. The story is that when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, his chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, was horrified by Johnson's ignorance. And so he arranged a three-hour briefing in Downing Street with leading military figures, strategists, historians and others, trying to fill him in. You are now responsible for this arsenal, and you need to pay attention. And to signal to Johnson that you need to pay attention, he took his phone off him, because he knew that Boris Johnson couldn't spend 10 minutes without checking WhatsApp. And he thought the only way to get him to pay attention was to take his phone off him. So he took his phone and he locked it outside the room, and he made him sit through three hours of this. And according to Cummings, at the end of this meeting, Johnson was white, the blood had drained from his face, not with horror or shock, but with fury at Cummings for taking his phone off him. And he came out of the room and he said, ‘Never fucking do that and never fucking waste my time like that again’. Apologies for my language, but if you want to be scared about the world we live in, there's a story to make you scared. — David Runciman, Past Present Future Podcast, Where are we going? Nuclear War, Part 2. With S. M. Amadae. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/where-are-we-going-nuclear-war-part-2/id1682047968?i=1000750268760
David Runciman (@ppfideas.bsky.social) is doing a 3-part series with S. M. Amadae on nuclear war in his podcast, Past, Present, Future.
In part 2, he tells the following story about Boris Johnson.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
In case you had any doubts about how unserious Johnson was/is...
All LLM outputs are hallucinations; some are correct.
www.science.org/content/arti...
With apologies to George Box (‘All models are wrong, but some are useful’).*
#LLM #AI #models
* Box, G. E., & Draper, N. R. (2007), p. 414. Response surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses, John Wiley & Sons.
One would think the purpose of having fuck you money is to say, “Fuck you.” But watching Bezos preside over the Washington Post, it seems the purpose of fuck you money is to have more fuck you money.
Honestly lads make your mind up - and stop trying to use tax to control women’s ovaries ….
Unless we fundamentally overhaul how British politics works, there will be more victims - and more Epsteins. No political party is immune as this is about the institutions of decision making - Here are five ways we can create cultural change in our democracy.
"The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, award-winning investigative journalist
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)
The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list.
They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5
grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
The call for proposals for #PyDataLondon2026 closes on Monday coming (16th February 2026).
pydata.org/london2026/c...
Maybe you'd like to submit something?
It's Python ⋃ Data, not Python ⋂ Data.
Diverse, safe, informative, fun.
#Python #Data #PyData #London #TDDA #ML #AI
@pydatalondon.bsky.social
‘I had a mirthless laugh at the New Statesman’s cover this week, which characterised the Mandelson affair as “the scandal of the century”. Guys, it’s not even the biggest scandal of the scandal.’
— Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Backseat Software
blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...
— Mike Swanson, @anyware.bsky.social.
Superb essay on the ills of modern software & surveillance capitalism.
Via @daringfireball.bsky.social.
A modernized take on
If Cars Worked Like Windows
blogarithms.com/2005/01/07/i...
Interesting. Thx.
Now you have me worried. I always thought it was a two-chord shuffle. Have I had it wrong...forever?
NEIL YOUNG GIVES COMPLETE MUSICAL CATALOGUE TO GREENLAND FOR FREE
Young also told fans that his music will “never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by [Jeff] Bezos.
www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/neil-y...
Excellent version of Cowgirl in the Sand embedded in article.
#Greenland #music
“Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?”
— Simon Hoare, chair of the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... (09:40Z).
Quite.
NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending.
Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now
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Astonishingly, mindblowingly, achingly beautiful performance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSR...
#guitar #music #bash
Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast-
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Vaguely related: This Crossing Continents episode on Christian Nationalism is excellent:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
It talks about the Big Sort/Great Sorting, terms I had not heard before:
thebigsort.com
Ed Stourton’s forthcoming book looks interesting/timely:
Made in America by Edward Stourton review – why the ‘Trump doctrine’ is no aberration:
— www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
#USPolitics #Trump
Manton Reece, who founded/runs micro.blog, is super-ethical and really interesting.
He wrote a book on the Fediverse that you might enjoy. It's been coming out soon in print for about 5 years, but you can read it online:
book.micro.blog
Slightly dated, now, but radical/good.
There are lots, depending on exactly what aspects of Substack you want (blog, email, stop people from reading it, monetisation, people calling it 'my substack' not 'my blog'…).
micro.blog & micro.one are worth looking at. @molly.wiki has good comparisons:
www.mollywhite.net/feed/tag/sub...
