Tim Squirrell

You could do a *great* Good For Her slasher with Maniac slowed down and made melancholy

No, the whole lot, weren’t you listening

a veterinary practice once told me over the phone that GDPR meant they couldn’t give me an update on the status of a stray cat I’d brought in half dead

‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’

Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
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“free speech” is just an empty signifier at this point and has been for at least 20 years (i am not a historian please don’t be mad if its way longer i am only a man)

twitter is rotting the brains of a good portion of britain’s polticians and commentariat and i dont think they even realise it, the sooner the campaign to get govt off twitter gathers steam the better

Revealed: Google’s news-stealing chatbot is pinching 79% of traffic from real journalists Google isn’t just nicking the work of human reporters – it’s stealing the clicks that helped pay for that work in the first place.

Chatbots, and particularly Google's AI Overviews, are having a devastating impact on publishers' traffic (and therefore revenues). www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/29/g...

Revealed: Google’s news-stealing chatbot is pinching 79% of traffic from real journalists Google isn’t just nicking the work of human reporters – it’s stealing the clicks that helped pay for that work in the first place.

AIO is having a massive impact on journalism. But Google is itself a competitor for ad revenue (against media websites) so using AIO to drive clicks away from news publishers is a form of self preferencing and an abuse of its dominance in search. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/29/g...

Fears as datacentres ‘fail to disclose water usage’ Campaigners want companies supplying AI infrastructure to publicise water consumption

“It’s alarming that the Environment Agency has been handing out licences for datacentres to extract hundreds of millions of litres of water from the environment – while failing to keep track of the total.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

really enjoying the arc where Asif Aziz is slowly revealed as the season finale big bad of London Centric

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine Sanction comes despite Trump’s threat of retaliatory tariffs over digital regulations

finally some good fuckin news www.ft.com/content/8f8b...

farewell Peter Kyle, I will miss coming up with new and imaginative ways to say you’re getting your wallet inspected by big tech

Judge Mehta had a real opportunity to make significant change to the market here, and he’s basically blown it. I doubt we’ll see a similar chance to break up the monopolies for a long time.

We’ve come a long way since the reasonably strong response to the Southport race riots, huh

let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

not so easy to escape when it’s your surname that’s stupid I’ll tell you that for free

this isn’t even the correct version of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory for the uk!! “they’re importing voters” is the US version!!!! my man can’t even keep his white supremacist conspiracy bollocks straight

On the 30th August. Criminal.

But we were told that data centres would actually help mitigate climate change!

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This was entirely expected. The vast increase in energy demand that coming from data centres cannot be satisfied by renewables, or even existing grid infrastructure. So they are building new fossil fuel on-site generation. It's madness.

Peak Sensibilism

chatGPT will report you to the police but somehow OpenAI isn't capable of intervening when someone is an active suicide risk??

interesting that they're doing all this and still don't feel like they're equipped to intervene when somebody is an active suicide risk

working on a thesis that the earnestness of AI chatbots is fundamentally antithetical to the bri'ish mind

Yes, if anything our politics has become more earnest. It’s not better just because people are saying how they really feel, when what they really feel is hatred for others based on immutable characteristics.

fundamentally un-british to be earnest, an american value we shouldn’t seek to import

It’s Just Wrong, and They Should Say So This week: if you think handing asylum seekers to the Taliban is good politics, you’re a bad person. Also: on the non-existence of purple; and a map of the mid-Tudor world.

"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."

if they want to go to dubai let them, I’d consider it charity for the UAE to take off our hands the kinds of people who like dubai

the corollary of 'performative reading bad' is 'all signalling bad', at which point we have to say that the only correct way to e.g. read a book is to cover it with a grey non-descript dust jacket like a pack of cigarettes

Moreover, ChatGPT functions as a giant "yes, and" machine. You say "Nobody understands me", it says "yes, and I'm here for you even if nobody else is". It constantly prompts with further questions, with validation, with empathy, to keep you talking to it. That's poisonous for some people.