History is something you do: ‘I’m not interested in predicting the future, I’m interested in changing it.’
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2026-10-28
2026-10-27
Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election: via a classic multi-turn jailbreak.
‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims: ‘The report, titled Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment, raises concerns about the use of AI in immigration, saying it is not neutral or accurate and can replicate bias and discrimination within society, particularly when a key driver for its use is anti-immigration policies and rhetoric.’
2026-10-26
Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions: I don’t think you can argue he hasn’t done a lot of people a lot of good - but argument here is that encouraging people to seek good deals more than investing in the stock market cost lots of people lots of wealth.
The American woman who ripped the heart out of Cadbury: ‘…the fate of Cadbury and the forces that drove its destruction are symptomatic of wider social issues that really are the blame for many of our social ills – namely, our willingness to abandon our traditions, our history, and our responsibility to other people for a quick buck.’
The Queen of shops who accidentally helped wreck the great British high street: ‘The same YouGov survey that revealed 78 per cent of us supposedly value our high streets also revealed that we don’t necessarily value them enough to actually use them: only 28 per cent of respondents said they used their local high street at least once a week, and only 53 per cent of people said they used theirs even once a month.’
2026-10-25
Four months in Poland: Keenan moves to Poland.
The Transatlantic Myth: ‘America was never the partner Europe imagined - nor should we want it to be.’
2026-10-23
we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas: ‘This is what we get when any hint of “thinking outside the box” gets slapped down as socialism/communism/anti-business/un-American, generally.’
2026-10-22
Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests: ‘Orangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time’
2026-10-21
2026-10-19
turfgrass brain: ‘Throw off your chains, my American brethren, and consign the turfgrass lawn to Revolutionary oblivion’
2026-10-16
2026-10-15
2026-10-13
Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’: A ‘stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment’.
2026-10-11
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report: ‘…what I think’s interesting about the nationalists is that they want to take up the cross at marches, and display it, but there’s less of an interest in denying themselves and following Jesus.’