Chris Marsden

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

Labor trumpets that they’re rescuing the soccer players for the headlines, while ramming through laws which racially profile and punish everyone else in the same boat.
Cunning stunts.

I very much appreciate that Reuters always states "what was ruled a suicide" rather than accepting that Bill Barr & Trump 45 version

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Day 1477 of Russia's all out war, and here's THE daily 🧵

It's an important anniversary for Donald "I'll solve this war in one day" Trump.

It's 1 year ago today since he demanded both sides agree an unconditional ceasefire or "serious consequences"
Russia still refuses!

Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...

For @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social - disastrous outcome of the Anti Corruption Committee Robodebt investigation

3 months ago, this was not an unusual photo to take

Deleted Tweet From Energy Secretary Sends Oil Markets on Another Wild Ride A now-erased post from Chris Wright whipsawed crude for the second-straight session.

"The deleted post was enough to wipe out million-dollar trades.

"U.S. crude futures plunged by as much as 19%.

"During a 10-minute span when Wright’s post appeared, a fund linked to oil futures saw $84 million of its market capitalization evaporate."

www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

“If social media companies won’t act voluntarily to safeguard Australians from the onslaught of AI scams and malicious fake posts, it may require further legislative intervention." “lack of political will and leadership to address this stream of disinformation head-on”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Donald J. Trump • • @realDonaldTrump If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! Additionally, we are using the same Technology and Missile capabilities deployed against Drug Traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

His desperation is showing. I bet the Iranians can’t believe it.

The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory

mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

iran could get critical online support for this if, instead of deploying mines, they simply deployed One Big Boat, which then got stuck

Little public challenge, including from

> GB News staff who aren't white nationalists/racists
> Regulator
> Govt ministers, Opposition, backbench MPs
- anxious about free speech/hate speech
- too awkward if on a TV channel, not 4Chan?
> Other media outlets: now seen as normal, not newsworthy?

This was just a nobody Tory peer testing whether rational debates still exist. He thought not. He was wrong for a couple of weeks more...

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.

Moron now ending Operation Epstein Fury

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’

"Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard." #AIbubble & #AIsovereignty
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

US B-52 heavy bombers arrive in England.

“The B-52 is capable of dropping or launching the widest array of weapons in the US inventory. This includes gravity bombs, cluster bombs, precision guided missiles and joint direct attack munitions”.

Defensive?

www.af.mil/About-Us/Fac...

That was the correct action at the correct time

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown | Iran | S04 E06 | All Documentary YouTube video by Banijay Documentaries

Tony Bourdain in Iran 2014 youtu.be/MX1VQFv3Z8g?...

❗️The kamikaze drone that struck the British airbase RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was equipped with Russian military hardware.

The drone contained a Russian-made Kometa-B navigation system, which was first identified in drones intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses in December.

An executive at a large global hedge fund with a presence in Dubai said: "We have been exploring how to evacuate people but it's not easy." He added: "It's pretty scary - this is going to have implications for some of my guys... The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new."

so many people in finance who seem to have only just learned that the middle east is a tad spicy

Water supply gets cut, then things get complicated. Here's today's quick scan on Iran The ABC's global affairs editor, Laura Tingle, is in Dubai and will provide daily updates on the Middle East war.

'Emirates told The Jerusalem Post that the UAE was "struggling to understand Israeli conduct and the nature of briefings coming out of Jerusalem", and accused Israeli officials of leaking false reports about UAE actions'
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Why International Book Day was 5th March in UK but Shakespeare's Birthday everywhere else! @unesco.bsky.social

And as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said that UK bases will be used for a dramatic surge in attacks on Iran

Starmer is therefore facilitating the destruction of Iran's civilian infrastructure