These dueling OpenAI and Space X IPO "CEO said a thing!" newscycles are going to be very very annoying

"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

The piece below by @jdportes.bsky.social hits the nail on the head.

Today's fevered civil war chat is far from the first time certain people in Britain have talked this way - thoughts on that for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social from last summer here:

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

Trump weighs consequences for NATO allies on 'naughty' list The effort is the latest sign President Donald Trump plans to make good on his threats against members not deemed “model allies."

EXCLUSIVE: The White House has made something akin to a “naughty and nice” list of NATO countries, as Trump looks for ways to punish allies who didn’t back the Iran war.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Br...

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

Tiss is arguing about chemtrails with Grok on the Bird app, ICYMI.

Too many in the media (but not JO'B) seem to think Nigel Farage would make a cracking PM, based on zero relevant life experience (running political parties as a one-man cult doesn't count, or being unctuous with powerful people).

Unusual to see an election with a neck and neck race for votes 29%-29% between a party with a broadly popular reputation (33% opposed) and a party with widespread dislike (63% opposed). That may generate different outcomes in FPTP and PR contests

The BBC's Laura Kuennsberg obviously didnt know in January when she gave Mandelson a swift chance to climb back up again.

The ECHR is about much more than who can be deported, Mr Webb. It's "strange" you seem to consistently forget that
#r4today

Jesus, this is embarrassing. #r4today

Reform and the Conservatives want to restrict human rights and all the democratic, national decision-making stuff is a big lie. Webb happy to go along with it. #r4today

There are lots of old politicians who seem to prosper without ever being held to account. The expectation presumably is that it would never get out - beyond those already in the know, many of whom are likely to be the professionally morally outraged now.

Dialing the moral outrage up to eleven (it remains on silent for his hero in the White House).

'Lord Case' makes him sound rather more reliable than Sicknote Si. #r4today

It's debatable Venezuela experienced regime change, too. #r4today

"I am not a sucker", says sucker. #r4today

An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.

'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'

You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.

We knew this. The BBC seemed not to.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

A sad but important article exploring how older people are being radicalised into supporting Far Right views by the internet www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

a man with long hair and a mustache is wearing a brown vest and white shirt ALT: a man with long hair and a mustache is wearing a brown vest and white shirt

The outpatient department Im in has just put up a message for Mr Jason King to come to the desk.

What if... what really makes Britain "ungovernable" is... the nature of its political media and of its political class?

A lot of people spent days going "OMG OMG OMG popcorn at the ready SiR kEiTh obvs lying; Olly Robbins has the receipts". Now they're like "too clever to get caught, they did it with VIBEZ."

From "Starmer is really bad at politics" straight to "Starmer is Machiavelli reincarnated" - like every week.

Part of the blind spot on Mandelson will have come about because he was heavily feted within Westminster/parts of the media.

This is why many deemed his appointment a ‘masterstroke’, long after most of the key details about him were known.

Some convenient recasting of that going on at the moment!

We all know why he did it, because of Trump. Not for personal gain, not for money but because he thought this would help the country, i.e. help us all.

Totally different from May solving a party problem with Johnson or Johnson getting God know’s what for Lebedev’s peerage (both failed vetting)

They're the geek-Russia of over-powerful international corporations.

Routinely pulling your punches - and sometimes not punching at all - against a very right-wing party most of your core voters actively hate, is very dispiriting and all a bit suspicious.

Amnesty International warns that 'predator' leaders seek to impose new 'world order' Certain leaders have rejected the global multilateral system in favor of a 'vision without moral compass,' where 'war, not diplomacy, rules,' a report from the group said.

The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new "predatory" world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International has said.