3 strikes and you're out. If you're looking for an "argument" I have rules. psybertron.org/rules-of-rhet… If after 3 exchanges I consider you to be arguing in bad faith - strawmen, whataboutery, ignoring actual content, etc - I routinely block. Life's too short😎

You have noticed that too. Google Search is getting worse. The results look professional but say nothing. The answers are longer but less useful. Every page reads like it was written by the same voice. You thought Google was broken. It is not broken. It is being replaced. Researchers published a paper at the ACM Web Conference 2026 proving what is happening. They call it Retrieval Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI-generated content is flooding the internet so fast that search engines are now showing you mostly AI-written pages. And the search engine cannot tell the difference. They ran a controlled experiment. They started with a pool of real, human-written web pages. Then they gradually added AI-generated content until it made up 67% of the pool. By that point, over 80% of the top search results were AI-generated. Not 67%. Over 80%. The ranking algorithm did not just let AI content in. It preferred it. The AI-written pages were better optimized, more fluent, and more keyword-rich than the human pages. They outranked the originals. Here is the part that makes this invisible. Answer accuracy stayed the same. The search results still looked correct. The information was still technically right. If you measured quality by accuracy alone, nothing appeared wrong. But source diversity collapsed. Nearly every result came from the same type of content. AI-written. AI-optimized. AI-structured. The human-written pages, the ones with original reporting, personal experience, and genuine expertise, were buried. The researchers describe a two-stage collapse. Stage one is Dominance. High-quality AI content silently takes over the top results. Everything looks fine. Accuracy is stable. Nobody notices. Stage two is Corruption. Once AI dominates the pipeline, adversarial and low-quality content starts slipping through. By then, the system is too dependent on synthetic sources to course-correct. A separate analysis found that 74.2% of newly published web pages now contain AI-generated content. Organic click-through rates on pages with AI summaries have dropped 61%. The human internet is being outranked by the machine internet. Model Collapse described what happens when AI trains on AI. The models get dumber. Retrieval Collapse describes what happens when search engines index AI. The results get emptier. Both are happening right now. At the same time. And neither one looks broken from the outside. The search engine still returns ten blue links. The links still load. The pages still answer your question. But the thing that used to make those answers trustworthy, a human who actually knew something, is being quietly replaced by a machine that sounds like it does.

Royal Marines boarded the tanker Smyrtos last night in the English Channel, which was carrying over 100,000 tons of Russian crude oil. ​This is the first time UK has seized russian "shadow fleet" tanker in its waters. ​Amazing news! Russian shadow fleet must be stopped. 🇬🇧🇺🇦

All eyes on Gulf today to see if, after 38 false claims, Trump at last gets the heads of a ‘peace deal’. It is still unclear early Sunday when or whether the United States and Iran might sign, after Trump and Tehran offered conflicting timelines. On Saturday Trump said that a deal was “scheduled to get signed” today and that it would immediately open the Strait of Hormuz. We shall see. Of course the real roadblocks to peace remain to be confronted even if it is signed.

It's amazing, in a way, that I just think nothing of this. Just: yeah. Of course.

🚨 Jürgen Klopp has launched a scathing attack on the cooling breaks being used during this World Cup. 👊 "Football is being held hostage by executives sitting in air-conditioned offices. These breaks are being presented as a shield for player welfare, a noble weapon against the heat. In reality, they are nothing more than a golden cage built for sponsors. When I saw players standing around during cooling breaks while television timeouts dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but ask myself: who is the World Cup really serving? The supporters? The players? Or the advertisers? A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we are building dams in the middle of it so commercials can be shown. It's dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football used to be the main event, but it now risks becoming background music for an advertising show." He didn't hold back. 👏👏

Scotland should win the World Cup just for this alone.

And anyway, why is it better to be in New York than Salford? The majority of matches are thousands of miles from New York too thanks to the mad 3 nation hosting.

The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing ‘Loch Lomond’ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.

People with more power than nation states undermine and corrupt our free democracies. Surely we should care?

RT @sapinker: My own alleged optimism bears on an important issue that came up in the conference to mark the 50th anniversary of Aumann's t…

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

I learned a lot from this - rethinking the university before it's too late. 👇🏽

Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life

Exile him to the Chagos Islands as its permanent resident.

In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel. This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide. I want to thank those involved, including our Armed Forces and law enforcement officers who keep this country safe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

"Scarborough, yesterday. *Taken by Fred Brown."

RT @sapinker: Together with his brilliance, Aumann is a mensch, and was generous and patient in helping me explain his counterintuitive the…

Precisely. The reason why no one person - not even a "genius investor" should ever have more power than electors of free democracies. (Commitment to taxation and regulation across and between nation states.)

What a treat in Glasgow to see saltires waved and worn for the joy of sport and companionship instead of it used by endless varieties factions of political signalling. So nice to have it back belonging to everybody for a few short weeks.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️