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What does Peter Mandelson have to do with Palantir?

Learn more in the video below, about click here to read our Palantir investigation: : www.prospectmagazine...

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia.

In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care? Two Kansas City brothers are big Catholic donors. But now that they're also making a vast ICE detention facility possible, will the institutions they support look away?

www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Opinion | Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein

this might be the highest gross things per line ratio piece I've read - if Americans are really following this story, the anti-elite backlash will be fierce.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

There’s a typo; it shd read “Mandelson’s disgrace raises far bigger questions than Starmer’s judgement. The shame is on all of Westminster’s political classes, who have shown themselves repeatedly willing to turn a blind eye to ethical lapses within their midst, when it has suited them politically.

Pygmalion Displacement:

9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?

10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?

PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social

The Reform party is *lying*?!!

Me talking about Musk’s fabulations and misdemeanors

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have called on the govt to release info about Lord Mandelson’s links with US tech giant Palantir and its growing number of uk govt contracts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

Why isn't this a major news story?

January 31, 2026 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

January 31, 2026

“Technology has stolen us from each other and in many ways from ourselves, and then tried to sell us substitutes. Stealing ourselves back, alas, is not as easy as walking out the door. We need somewhere to go and, more importantly, someone to go to who likewise desires to connect.”

Opinion | ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say.

"You are scaring schools, people, and the world." Babies 💔. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

The full user guide here:

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

‘Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).’

The costs of ignoring climate change are vast, but instead of tackling this urgently we have secrecy, a lethal obsession with growth and consumption, while relentlessly attacking migrants.

Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film

The Ballad of Wallis Island is wonderful. If you need a bittersweet break from the weight of world events-- this is the film to watch. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.

Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.

I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

insane scenes coming out of Minneapolis