Rob Davies

For me, it's a bit like the Arsenal coffee cup thing. In itself, it's not a big sin. But it reveals an organisation that doesn't have a grip on the details and on how it should be communicating.

That suggests incompetence on a wider level, which explains what we see on the pitch.

We transcend football. What even is "football"? We don't need it.

I mean, honestly. How *thick* are these people?

You say: Going down
I say: Evolving beyond football

#thfc #coys

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Bellingcat has geolocated the video, it shows a building close to the Manib school, in the same compound, being hit by a US Tomahawk missile, one of several strikes on the compound
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AI chatbots point vulnerable social media users to illegal online casinos, analysis shows Tech firms condemned for lack of controls with Meta AI and Gemini even offering advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction checks

What happens when you ask AI chatbots how to access illegal casinos?

All provide lists of the "best" unlicensed operators linked to fraud, addiction and suicide and tips on how to access them.

MetaAI describes source of wealth checks as a "buzzkill"

More in our excl with @investigate-europe.eu 👇

AI chatbots point vulnerable social media users to illegal online casinos, analysis shows Tech firms condemned for lack of controls with Meta AI and Gemini even offering advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction checks AI chatbots are recommending illegal online casinos to vulnerable social media users, putting them at increased risk of fraud, addiction and even suicide. Analysis of five AI products, owned by some of the world’s largest tech companies, found that all could easily be prompted to list the “best” unlicensed casinos and offer tips on how to use them. Continue reading...

AI chatbots point vulnerable social media users to illegal online casinos, analysis shows

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

For five days every year I refer to my wife as my "young bride". She finds it funnier every year, I think.

Telegraph timeline:

Friday: Surprise news breaks that Axel Springer, the German publisher, has bought the Telegraph

Saturday: Telegraph Saturday Review is published with this cover

(Real story - this went to press at least 36 hours before editorial heard the news, so it's a bizarre coincidence.)

Aw Muuuuuuuum!

No word of a lie.

Don't feel like I'm in a great position to comment on the male behaviour aspect but musically it is dog meat. Oh, isn't it amazing it was written in a week or whatever. Yeah, I can tell. Surprised it took that long.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Worth pointing out that Polymarket doesn't reflect the chances of something happening, it reflects what people who have placed bets think the chances are of something happening.

Betting on nuclear war: what are prediction markets and could they come to the UK? The lowdown on Polymarket and Kalshi, the pitfalls and the odds on US-style exchanges taking off in Britain

In which i endeavour to explain that, despite the hype around prediction markets, they aren't a big thing in the UK and maybe never will be. More people bet on Championship football games than strikes on Iran. Almost certainly by a distance.

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Roses are red
My love will not falter

I've put my ticket on the exchange half a dozen times this season. Hasn't sold once.

#thfc #coys

Maybe my head's gone but...Sean Dyche? Is there anything to be said for saying another mass? #thfc #coys

God that sounds good.

Joe Lewis's useless Logan Roy nepo babies need to sell Tottenham Hotspur before they destroy it for good. #thfc #coys

JFC we're down. #thfc #coys

It's Waynes' World, we're just living in it.

The fact that there is a Markwayne and a John Wayne implies the existence of a Matthewwayne and a Lukewayne.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland Company promises ‘rapprochement discount’ with shoppers from country after decade-long action in EU court

Wonderful news, Iceland makes peace with Iceland www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.