Alex Karp is Palantir’s CEO, not Peter Thiel 🙄

“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You
cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity
will be obvious, even to yourself.” George Orwell, ‘Politics and the English language’

The people of Chechnya and Ukraine would like a word...

Call logs, I would guess. Or just by whichever civil servant was Morgan McSweeney's private secretary being asked by a select committee 'how many times were you asked to chase the FCDO on this?' Something like that.

Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association | Computer Weekly A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awarene...

“A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face”

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666193...

UCSF psychiatrist Dr. Joe Pierre discusses mistrust, conspiracy beliefs, and dangers of AI chatbots YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

UCSF psychiatrist Dr. Joe Pierre (@psychunseen.bsky.social) discusses mistrust, conspiracy beliefs, and dangers of AI chatbots.

2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPor...

Hormuz disruption raises risk of global food shock, traders warn World ‘on borrowed time’ to avert crisis as higher gas prices squeeze fertiliser production

Hormuz disruption raises risk of global food shock, traders warn ft.trib.al/CLwvbw2

Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

💯 also need to stop foreign influence in Government. Specifically Russia & Israel.

www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Lament I, "Bird's Lament" (Instrumental) YouTube video by Moondog - Topic

Moondog / Bird’s Lament 🖤

youtu.be/Lsjsoy8sPvs?...

Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown YouTube video by Laurence Mason

Golden Brown, original version by Dave Brubeck:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1...

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

Speaking in the Commons in the debate on Mandelson, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has just called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together over hiring lobbyists to investigate and smear journalists

Here's the original story we published in Feb democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Rory makes the case for unfair dismissal of Ollie Robbins, questions Starmer’s aptitude across his career and asks- how did he get in (as PM) and who was behind him.

Really feel for him. He was very professional today. As Emily Thornberry concluded, he was bullied - Mcsweeney again.

Sir Olly Robbins says that when he became FCDO permanent secretary he wasn't "walking into a vacuum":

- due diligence already done on Mandelson
- PM had taken advice on his fitness for office
- name had been given to King
- PM announced the job
- he had access to building and sensitive briefings

Actually that is not true. Polanski published his opinion this morning before the Parliamentary select committee heard evidence from Ollie Robbins. Here’s Emily Thornberry on her conclusions. Facts matter.

bsky.app/profile/then...

Just hours after chairing Olly Robbins’ testimony, Emily Thornberry says she believes the former Foreign Office boss was "bullied".

“The pressure was coming from Morgan McSweeney. He was a protege of Mandelson, he was trying to deliver him the job”.

Hassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He’s One of the Thousands Missing in Gaza In a place denied access to basic forensic technology – and where people disappear into Israeli detention – the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager.

“In a place denied access to basic forensic technology – and where people disappear into Israeli detention – the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager.”

www.wired.me/story/hassan...

This is free to read version. as.ft.com/r/fe9a9b7f-5...

People are disgusted by what they see. An expansionist Apartheid State committing genocide with our (Europe, America’s) consent and assistance.
Zero consequences.
People being harassed, bullied or arrested under ‘Terrorism’ charges, some even sanctioned for speaking out.

An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Spinach" explores iron content, vitamin A, and the "spinach teeth" sensation. It compares spinach to sirloin steak, noting that while spinach has more iron (2.6mg vs 2.5mg per 100g), only 1.7% is absorbed compared to 20% from steak. Low absorption is attributed to polyphenols. It highlights spinach as a source of beta-carotene and explains that "spinach teeth" are caused by oxalic acid reacting with calcium to form insoluble calcium oxalate crystals.

On #NationalSpinachDay, this graphic looks at the real story behind spinach’s iron content: www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/s...

#ChemSky 🧪

That’s terrible (the theft + monetisation) and also v interesting - didn’t know Einstein died from a ruptured AAA!

"What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

‘Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf. That reality ought to weigh heavily on a world that has largely understood this war through the narrow lens of oil-price instability’
www.ft.com/content/3634...

The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

What.

The Finns have a wolf sighting app - it’s brilliant!

I admire your acidity.

Starmer ought to let Burnham stand as an MP at the next opportunity. There is no guarantee he'd win a byelection, but Miliband isn't the solution to anything.

The government needs to reboot. I like Starmer as a person, but he has proven unable to do this role.

/ends