Matt Severn

Oh wait, there’s an even lower point, when the program chooses to broadcast a sinister remark directed towards the prosecutor

I thought it went to extraordinary lengths to try and blame someone other than the person convicted of the racist murder; a low point was the completely random inclusion of a murder committed in Chorley, and the repeated imagining of a professional hitman, a job which does not exist

Between the Time Magazine cover and Sam Altman's embarrassing Tonight Show appearance this week, I really feel like the hype cycle is at its end. 2025 was THE YEAR OF AI and we're gonna wake up in the hangover that is 2026 and everyone will start to ask "Yeah, but when will it actually, like, work?"

Proportion of young people using drugs halved this century - fall mainly occurred during the 2000s. Reminder from ONS of some progress that doesn’t get much attention www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

I will always regret not visiting America during the Biden years. If I’d known it was my last chance, I’d have found a way.

Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.

No. Death is a part of life. We must learn to grieve and then to heal; not fool ourselves with digital hallucinations from our magic boxes.

If I lived above where I work, thus sparing me from the daily commute nightmare that is the experience of so many of my fellow citizens, I wouldn’t use social media to specifically call attention to that

The opportunity cost of all the wasted effort that was required to leave the EU, only to find it absolutely didn’t address any of the nation’s ills, when that could’ve been spent fixing real issues, & the cost it will take to one day rejoin. People should be in gaol; instead some are running for PM.

Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"

YouTube video by ΙΔΟΜΕΝΕΑΣ ΚΑΝΑΚΑΚΗΣ Η ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΚΡΑΙΠΕ

Presumably you’ve seen this, Paddy, the General, and the Greek partisans, reunited for a friendly chat on Greek tv in 1972?

youtu.be/8zlUhJwddFU

I hope you aren’t checked out for good. I hope there’s a way you can check back in

Or they could learn to write and draw by practice, and take joy in the process of creativity which requires work and thought

Sorry what’s your point?

The forbidden mulled wine

Allowed to maim torture and kill with impunity by the IRA, who thought he was doing it for them, and by the British security service, who knew what he was doing.

It’s such a funny drive-by dual layered character assassination. The FT should have you do their drama criticism but only for projects they know you will hate.

What did she do to you at National Youth Theatre?

Fundamentally, a lot of rich men simply don't believe that journalists should be allowed to write things about them and their business interests that they find inconvenient.

Spurs capitulating to opposition bigotry like this is shameful.

The LAPD killed 13 people in 2025, firing their weapons 40 times, injuring another 30 people.
The Metropolitan Police haven’t
killed any people in 2025 despite them policing 2.5 times as many residents as the LAPD.

Pushing policy to new and never-before-seen boundaries of craziness. London is a great city! Not as good as Manchester, sure, but you can't have it all. That some Americans have convinced themselves that it is a dangerous hellscape is bizarre.

It's actually pretty cool to be able to remotely control a robot and could be useful for dangerous work (bomb squad, radioactive materials, etc), but it's wasted on pretending AI is real.

Weak

Seen in this light, the government's new immigration policy and rhetoric feels somewhat...lacking in humility

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It is surprising to me that Dublin does consider its airspace to be something worth defending itself and even more surprising that it is tolerant of the RAF doing so for it

Should be sounding loud alarm bells in Westminster and Brussels