In philosophy, there's a tendency to write as though your readership lacks common sense and is composed entirely of your sworn enemies.

What the hell is @ZackPolanski doing wearing a shirt to free the Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti who murdered 5 civilians. This is TOO FAR. h/t @habibi_uk

Energy prices will surge by £332 a year from July as the Iran war drives up the cost of oil and gas Cornwall Insight - which has a track record for accurately predicting prices - said that the energy price cap will rise from £1,641 between April and June to £1,973 from July It's up on its last prediction, when it forecast that bills would rise to £1,827. The longer the conflict goes on...

🚨 Stanford researchers just exposed a weird side effect of AI that almost nobody is talking about. The paper is called “Artificial Hivemind.” And the core finding is unsettling. As language models get better, they also start sounding more and more the same. Not just within a single model. Across different models. Researchers built a dataset called INFINITY-CHAT with 26,000 real open-ended questions things like creative writing, brainstorming, opinions, and advice. Questions where there isn’t a single correct answer. In theory, these prompts should produce huge diversity. But the opposite happened. Two patterns showed up: 1) Intra-model repetition The same model keeps producing very similar answers across runs. 2) Inter-model homogeneity Completely different models generate strikingly similar responses. In other words: Instead of thousands of unique perspectives… We’re getting the same few ideas recycled over and over. The authors call this the “Artificial Hivemind.” It happens because most frontier models are trained on similar data, optimized with similar reward models, and aligned using similar human feedback. So even when you ask something open-ended like: • “Write a poem about time” • “Suggest creative startup ideas” • “Give life advice” Many models converge toward the same phrasing, metaphors, and reasoning patterns. The scary implication isn’t about AI quality. It’s about culture. If billions of people rely on the same systems for ideas, writing, brainstorming, and thinking… AI might slowly compress the diversity of human thought. Not because it’s trying to. But because the models themselves are drifting toward the same answers. That’s the real risk the paper highlights. Not that AI becomes smarter than humans. But that everyone starts thinking like the same machine.

This week's oil and gas price shocks show how vital clean energy is for long-term security and economic resilience. To mitigate exposure to future shocks and break Britain's underinvestment cycle, we need a green industrial strategy led by an active, entrepreneurial state. Read piece in @guardian ➡️ theguardian.com/commentisfre…

BREAKING: The number of students killed in an Israeli attack on an elementary girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, has now risen to 40. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/wllmt7

A few years ago, @jonstewart said: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether. When a society feels under threat, comedians are who gets sent away first.” He was right.

Zohran Mamdani vows to enact leftist agenda even if 2/3’s of NYers vote against him trib.al/8hpYYNc

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who the U.S. wrongfully deported to El Salvador, was taken into ICE custody on Monday, his lawyer said, after the Trump administration indicated it planned to deport him again, this time to Uganda. nyti.ms/3Ju6CWZ