David Wells

"It seems Meta, and Instagram specifically, have given up on adequate content moderation & preventing the spread of Nazi content on their platforms, which has clearly led to real-world targeting of educators & harassment of individuals."

I can think of a few people who will be shocked...

Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

He didn't go into more detail than that. But yeah, the idea was basically like... OpenAI is going to steal from you anyway. Do you want to get something out of it or not? Kind of grim! 3/3

Yesterday, Canada listed four new terrorist entities under the Criminal Code: ISIL-Mozambique, 764, Maniac Murder Cult, and Terrorgram Collective.

This is an important, if symbolic, move to counter and prevent terrorist activity: 🧵

As of today the Government of Canada has listed 764 and Maniac Murder Cult as terrorist entities. 🤘🔥

www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scr...

With this and New Zealand listing two white supremacist networks Monday (O9A and Terrorgram), it's a big week for terrorist designation/proscription.

And it's more evidence of a divergence between the US and its traditional/former allies regarding who is a "terrorist."

McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.

People hate AI slop!

Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently

But back to the first post, just as the UK academic and analyst world was slow to recognise elite radicalisation processes gripping Matt Goodwin or Danny Kruger there is similar reluctance to get to grips with how think tanks like Policy Exchange are heading to the same space as Fuentes or Sellner

2016 Leave majority 'has literally died out', polling expert reveals The pro-Brexit majority from 2016 has disappeared, thanks in large part to millions of Leave voters dying, according to a polling expert.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/201...

Our team at The Gardening.Club have been pouring in the hours to achieve something that we finally feel ready to put our name to, and while AI film might be dividing opinions, we want to open the process up and reveal just how much human expertise and craft went into this campaign. There’s this idea floating around that AI will do all the work for us. Let’s set the record straight: the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional Production. Yes, this ad is 100% AI. But it was built with the same care that we bring to any live-action film. The brief was tightly prescribed, with a clear mandate for every single scene, so complete control of each shot was essential and pulled off by our team using proprietary workflows, and pulled off spectacularly well, this was not a prompt-and-pray process. Just like a traditional shoot, the film needed a director, real storytelling instincts, and intentional casting, we selected and shaped each AI performer, their look, energy, and emotional presence, to meet the brief just as we would in live action film. It required virtual location scouting, solid references, screen tests, and a countless amount of takes to maintain true cinematic continuity. Our in-house Gardening.club AI and Post team, spent seven intense weeks refining every single frame. They rebuilt shots, debated composition, shaped shadows, and tuned emotional microbeats with precision all overseen by Sweetshop director duo MAMA.

Many scenes had ten or more specialists, with each shot running through a tightly engineered pipeline, Google Earth base plates, style-transfer passes, pixel-level refinements, custom LoRAs, control nets, and bespoke ComfyUI workflows. We composited, fixed physics, balanced lighting, and cleaned artifacts in Flame. New tools, same goal: a film that feels real. Of course, we came across roadblocks. There were many times we were challenged, but the team was able to problem-solve on the spot. This project demanded a team willing to push further than the tech was ready to go. But that’s exactly why it works. So no - AI didn’t make this film. We did.

The company behind the mcdonalds ad:

Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.

Time to get over your X, Europe! Our new policy brief from @giorgosverdi.bsky.social warns that the European Union must urgently develop an independent “EuroStack” of critical technologies to solve the reliance from American tech. @ecfrgeotech.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/48ZLCBA

On 7 December 2025 pursuant to section 29B of the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 (“TSA”), the organisations listed below were designated as terrorist entities in New Zealand:

Order of Nine Angles (O9A); also known as ONA

and

The Terrorgram Collective (TC) gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...

On #HumanRightsDay we reiterate that human rights cannot be applied selectively.

#OurEverydayRights are also the rights of Palestine Refugees. What is at stake are the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law.
Human Rights must be upheld without exception.

Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world

Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!

"Jeong's Law"

The SSpectator

Digital sovereignty requires ripping Microsoft out of essential systems and ending reliance on its infrastructure, not allowing it to rebrand dependence as sovereignty.

When will people like Piers Morgan realise that by debating a Holocaust denier like Nick Fuentes he's fundamentally conceding that the reality of the Holocaust is something to be debated. It aids and amplifies denial. All because Morgan wants views for his irrelevant YouTube channel.

Come work with me! 👩🏻‍💻

Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on th

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube for AI purposes
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

Banning teens from using social media to talk to real people but replacing that with chatbots 🤨

Futurism Action Plan Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking "Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor." By Maggie Harrison Dupré Published Dec 6, 2025 9:45 AM EST

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.

Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.

Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.

That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/

Drones over French nuclear submarine base last night.