Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country. Time for him to pipe down.

Hasan points out that Elon Musk has literally incited a significant amount of violence within the UK and Europe overall through his tweets and influence, yet Elon hasn’t been banned from the UK. Why is that?

Feature not a bug 👁️

Also worth pointing out how the Infinite Money Tree always shakes when the gov wants to buy the latest magic beans from tech oligarchs. Never for investment in education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc - and you're naive for saying it should!

V important to consider the vested interests behind the UK gov's full-throttle embrace of AI in every sector of public life (law, education, creative industries, etc) despite the tech's well-documented, likely catastrophic drawbacks. Who's profiting here? Because it's not us!

This country is not run for the benefit of people who live in it.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: You look at American performance in Iran, which was been thanks to the bravery of Americans and I would like to believe our tech, very few losses on our side, very precise, very controlled." (The US blew up an elementary school .. )

One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it's the last "humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems" narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don't need to dismantle the socioeconomic system we built that is destroying our biosphere and driving us to our doom. Embedded in this logic is the same baseless assumption that has been plaguing us this entire time: that there are effective-yet-profitable solutions to be found. That we can simply let the free market deliver us desirable products that will both (A) cause us to stop cannibalizing our ecosystem and (B) create billionaires and trillionaires. Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems thus far, but because we've got these complex new AI technologies now, we can allow ourselves to move this entirely faith-based assumption into the purview of our new gods. But that's just it: it's an assumption based on blind faith. There is no reason to believe we'll ever come up with technologies that are conducive to human and environmental thriving which also generate shareholder profits. Generally profits are generated by producing and consuming more products, which is exactly what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. What this means is that capitalism has no ability to solve the problems we're coming up against as a species. There is no way to compete and consume our way out of the hole we dug through competition and consuming. We need new systems. Human behavior cannot continue to be driven by competition and the pursuit of profit. We need to move into collaboration with each other and with our biosphere if we are to survive into the future as a species, and we will be unable to do this if we are excluding all possible solutions that don't generate revenue for the capitalist class. AI is for many people just a psychological box that allows us to avoid facing this uncomfortable truth, because as Mark Fisher said, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It's easier to imagine billionaire tech companies creating AI gods who will serve us up magical solutions to our urgent existential dilemmas which also facilitate continued economic growth than it is to imagine moving into collaboration-based systems where human behavior isn't driven by the pursuit of profit. But that's just a sign of how insane our species has become. It's a symptom of our collective madness. We need to wake up. We need to get real. It's adaptation or extinction time for us as a species, and that fork in the road is approaching very quickly.

We know from research that this does not work. Teaching depends on a) teachers' expectations (pupils try to live up to them), and b) their responses (to questions/problems). AI has neither. Yet this gets rolled out because Labour is in hock to AI investors. It will not work.

This has little to do with children, in fact. AI stocks are vastly over-inflated. Economists fear massive devaluation. Those Starmer's gov actually works for, the markets, are desperate for him to push AI, as they stand to lose billions. Hence the public purse to the rescue.

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

RT @kylietcheung: this is not about making children safer it's about deanonymizing the internet and expanding the surveillance state

seriously how much more evidence do people need that this isn’t for the kids. It’s so freaking blatant kids are being used to implement surveillance and censorship.

not gonna lie, as a young adult, the sense of Imminent Doom is omnipresent and inescapable

Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white. When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.

I really don’t think photorealistic AI-generated political ads depicting opposing candidates saying things they’d never say should be allowed.

will the horrors never cease

Mass illiteracy speedrun.

massive experiment in brain zombiefication. britain is going to enter phases of mental skill decline so terminal it might lose whatever the modern equivalent is of the art of pottery again

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