Clare Rayner

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

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For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?

For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

Wondering if this is meant to include small children on family visas (for instance). Insanely stupid and offensive idea.

We’ve given immense power to half a dozen dudes to force their midlife crises onto the whole of humanity

As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.

Too many celebrities think that keeping honeybees addresses the #BiodiversityEmergency. Such a shame, they could do so much more with their money.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor.

What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig

Basically, Farage is promoting fascism. I don’t see how anyone can deny it.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

The citizens told the thugs that they were proud of their national flag and did not like how it’s used to create fear and division. They managed to clip 6 down, but were squared up to and verbally abused. If fascism has got as far as quiet villages we need to muster moral courage and not ignore it.

A rainbow stretching across the sky above a rough grassy meadow with a line of trees at the far edge.

Incredible rainbow over our meadow last night!

If you want to be serious about combatting Reform it requires ensuring people seeking asylum can do so without irregular routes. It means providing them with the right to work once here, to cover costs, and it means combatting the racist narrative that they are to blame for people's problems. 9/

Operation Turtle Dove’s view on the release of captive-bred Turtle Doves as a conservation measure - Operation Turtle Dove Operation Turtle Dove is a science-led conservation partnership working to reverse the decline of Turtle Doves in the UK by restoring habitat and addressing key threats. Learn why captive-bred release...

This has received no publicity but is damning. A clear explanation of why this type of reintroduction is not just a distraction and a waste of resources but is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to conservation. Environmental journalists please note and please publicise.

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Trump says he didn't want London Mayor Sadiq Khan at state banquet The mayor of London did not seek or expect an invite to the state banquet, the BBC understands.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

This is what we should be protesting against.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I will do! Thank you for posting your original artefact as otherwise it would probably have sat in a drawer for another 10 years.

Yes absolutely. I think local finds liaison would be Colchester, I have just looked up their email and will report it to them. Happy to share further info with you as well.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

“My message is to them: if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You’re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.”

This is the owner of X actively campaigning to take down the elected government of a country he is neither a resident nor a citizen of - and using threats of violence in the streets to further his aims www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Urge the PM: Defend our Communities from Hate We’re gathering messages for the Prime Minister to show him Britain stands for unity, fairness and safe communities. Add yours today.

Add your message and we will deliver it to Number 10 to show the strength of feeling in our communities. ✍️

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Shaped flint handaxe (not confirmed) with sea urchin fossil.

This is so amazing! We have something similar found on the farm where I live in N E Essex, it definitely feels like it was deliberately crafted around the fossil. It hasn’t been officially ID’ed as a hand axe but looks similar!

Discovering the full extent of Britannia’s usage by the Home Office is a fiendishly difficult task. Over the course of the past year, my freedom of information requests on the matter — how many of its hotels are in use for asylum? How much has this cost the taxpayer? — have gone unanswered by a bureaucracy that seems especially disinclined to release information on matters of political sensitivity. Three such requests were rejected, most recently on grounds of “commercial confidentiality”, despite the fact that the Information Commissioner, which regulates FOI requests, overruled that argument some two years ago. The Home Office did not comment on either the rejected requests or its relationship with Britannia. Neither Langsam nor Britannia Hotels responded to requests for comment for this story.

Interesting to see where the HO chooses its FOI battles. Contrast this with the ease of the far-right person who made a request and was given a list of charities working on asylum accommodation issues - resulting in online harassment and "credible death threats": www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

All of this. And also, military barracks are more expensive than asylum hotels. Which is why the Home Office moved on from using them. Back to performative and money-wasting policy making.

It’s being reported that Government are about to announce the furthering the use of Barracks to warehouse Refugees.

Ignoring the findings of the National Audit Office report that these are significantly more expensive than hotels. But that’s just the financial cost

www.nao.org.uk/reports/inve...

Fascinating snippet below from @louise-eccles.bsky.social - I'm glad this is getting more attention, particularly in light of my new research report (published on Friday) about the risks posed by ChatGPT in education: bit.ly/4g7EKUR

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

We are days away from the Israeli expulsion of a million people from Gaza city

The second largest since this Oct 23

This time would be much more violent and deadly

It can be stopped

It must be stopped