I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death
This always seems to me a big danger for EU unity - once the US starts easing it's sanctions on Russia, the pro-Putin politicians will start arguing it would be an economic necessity for the EU to follow suit
Seems like an obvious win for Ofcom to mandate that public service broadcasters are listed first by default on new TVs, in the same way that they (used to?) mandate PSBs were top of the Sky EPG.
When you splice a Call of Duty kill animation over real strike footage, you're not dumbing things down. You're exploiting how the brain processes familiar visual language. The distance collapses. That's the point.
“The event required every participant to sign a non-disclosure agreement, present identification and leave their backpack at the front of the room in order to attend.”
To achieve the progress we need, the well-being of people and the planet must be at the centre of what we measure and value.
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
Unfortunately across range of security spheres the UK at present looks least likely globally to start extricating itself, to build autonomy or diversify its relationships
Look at the language in the National Security Strategy or the 'Tech Prosperity Deal', the agenda was/is deepening dependency!
Here we go again
Matt Vickers MP made a Conservative party video about the removal of Churchill from the fiver... and Vickers says:
"As Churchill himself once said 'a nation that forgets its past has no future.'
It's a FAKE QUOTE Churchill never said that.
Vickers is a shadow minister
Presidential administrations are often defined by the technology they adopt. FDR was one of the first to use the radio, JFK understood television, Obama got social media and the Trump administration is completely defined by shitposting.
The key question is why? Why is the EU a target for Trump and the US? The answer is neo-royalism. The EU is a rules based system that puts constraints on personalist leaders. This is not simply a beef or spat. It is a competition between orders.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Palantir’s UK CEO, Louis Mosely, wrote something similar in The Spectator recently citing Blue Labour’s Maurice Glasman’s term ‘Lanyard Class’.
this was Thiel making it very explicit in 2010
NEW
Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards
Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column
emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
I’m shocked, stunned etc.
Meanwhile, everywhere else around the world assumes Australia has cracked it and are rushing to copy their law.
Here Karp clearly articulates why no non US government should be buying anything from Palantir.
"The result is an information vacuum unusual for a modern conflict in countries with easy access to advanced technology: a war fought in the digital age but shrouded in a level of opacity reminiscent of an earlier era."
There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman
These bros are not okay.
“Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.” A subheading underneath says: “Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.”
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
The US military is great at lethality. Truly world-class. Point to something and the US military can kill everyone there.
But lethality is a means, not an end. Ends are inherently political.
Said millions of times but bears repeating, since the people who don’t get it are in charge of the country.
3. We need to learn from the way the web died. The web is organised under a form of completely libertarian decentralisation.
This means that the moment that a centralising force emerged, there was no collective mechanism to organise ways of containing it — and so you get runaway concentration.
1/US unprepared for key Iranian strategy -- target key hubs of the global economy. Put pressure on allies and markets to turn interdependence into a weapon. Rather than an alternative to war, economic nodes are being used as a key tactic to degrade political support.
www.euronews.com/business/202...
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keep in mind that, for years, orban has been waging war on 'foreign influence', shutting down NGOs & universities & taking over state & private media.
this is hypocrisy on steroids & highly telling abt orban's version of 'sovereignty' (which is simply code for personal power)
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
I dip in to GB News and Talk because it's important to see what they are saying and getting away with.
My impression is that both are pushing the boundaries of "acceptable discourse" well beyond the limits.
Stuff like this has become normal, and it's frightening.
Excellent.
I think western influencers need to be clear about why they seem to be posting messages that so closely align to a coordinated campaign by the autocratic UAE leadership.
youtu.be/-giBHZ31RMU?...
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"The Riskbank is currently working on improving the possibility of making offline payments by card to strengthen resilience."
