People are particularly prone when using off-the-shelf Al to produce insights without understanding the inherent risks. There are companies developing specialist Al tools who take care over accuracy, reliability and trustworthy outputs. But most enterprise LLMs, like Copilot, are generic - they can't guide you, and they don't let you configure many settings. (In fact, Copilot's terms state it's provided for entertainment purposes only.)

Heard this post is doing the rounds, being shared on a few Slack/Teams channels in gov depts. So for those that don’t know: boringmagi.cc/2026/04/02/r...

There’s a lot of positives, lower bills, a solid foreign policy, and a not inconsiderable desire for better functioning services for ordinary people. He’s an apparatchik not a performance artist. I don’t think the media like that lack of drama but frankly I don’t care.

I don’t see how any of this is helpful to the actual running of the country at a time like this. If people want to get on an ethical high horse they could go after a gazillion things Boris and co did. They just covered their tracks better.

I agree with everything but the last four words. The febrile media is pathetic. Mandy’s out of the picture and we should all move on. Opposition parties are seizing on this only because they want a shot at power and their own ethics have been proven to be highly dubious.

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most maje...

Ten years. He was the best. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

“small” is a gross underestimate

Lunchtime break from the studio #stives #cornwall #artlife

To be clear, we totally can pretend it's not our war on the simple basis that it isn't.

Modeling The AGI Economy There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful econo...

Modelling The AGI Economy. A must-read by Albert Wenger. continuations.com/modeling-the...

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c... Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money.

So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK?

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to block state’s proposed 5% wealth tax

If you have $45 million to spend to avoid paying rich person taxes, you are proving the point that you should be paying rich person taxes.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What is secularism? | Humanists UK schools animation YouTube video by Humanists UK

#Secularism, in other words, belongs to everyone. It’s a framework that allows people of all worldviews to participate in public life on equal terms. It’s about making sure that no worldview holds a privileged position, and that everyone has a voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arC...

In a world of AI, lets get more elemental. museumofedible.earth

Asshole

Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs

These people care about nothing but their own interests. They're not fit for any form of public office or responsibility. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I think about this quote from All The Presidents Men constantly- “The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand”.

Can we just, once again, note that the British government should absolutely not be inviting this firm into our democracy?

Question Time - 2026: 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering. On the panel are Stephen Doughty, James Cleverly, Shashank Joshi, George Monbiot and Annabel Denham.

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

This! Don’t use it. Use Claude. >> Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

one correction: hegseth also purports to be forbidding _selling_ to anthropic as well.

Hegseth and OpenAi is the tie-up the future of civilisation absolutely doesn’t need.

Everyone of these powerful people already knew their names were in the Epstein files.

The panic isn’t about the files.
It’s about the public finally getting to see them.

Yup. One day I hope averice and greed behaviour like his (and many others with dumb sticks) will be seen as socially dysfunctional.

Sometimes it feels like all the good historical #dataviz has already been dug up & dissected — which is why it’s so refreshing to have Attila excavating and sharing so many new (old) graphics.

Exactly

Where did Peter Mandelson get the money to afford a big house in Camden, another one in Wiltshire and enough change to pay one of the most expensive legal firms in the UK to act on his recent fit of hubris about not fleeing to the BVI. That's what I'd like to know.

The BIGGER issue with the Epstein files is the international collusion going on between the likes of Epstein, Mandelson, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, JP Morgan, financiers, the British establishment, Russian oligarchs, Israeli, European politicians, Gulf States ... anybody else?

Where did Peter Mandelson get the money to afford a big house in Camden, another one in Wiltshire and enough change to pay one of the most expensive legal firms in the UK to act on his recent fit of hubris about not fleeing to the BVI. That's what I'd like to know.