David Mascord

Headline idea:
‘No Sweat’ says Andrew As He Drops Royal Titles.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
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They’ve missed out on the opportunity to cast Gavin & Stacey actor Larry Lamb as Larry Lamb.

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

Wired and Business Insider have removed features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated.

Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Dozens more Afghan relocation data breaches uncovered by BBC The MoD admits 49 data breaches at the unit handling applications from Afghans seeking safety in the UK.

Dozens more Afghan relocation data breaches uncovered by BBC

How one crazy idea became an epic town-wide book festival A wild idea in a pandemic sparked a nomadic fringe book festival – this time in a town without a bookshop

No rules. No big sponsors.
Just a wild idea, a lot of grit, and a love of books.

This is how a festival was born – and it starts Saturday...

Jackie Carreira has the story

The Supreme Court has quashed the conviction of Tom Hayes for conspiracy to defraud. He was accused of conspiring to manipulate the LIBOR, key benchmark interest rates used in financial markets. In 2015, he was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment, later reduced to 11 years on appeal.

Daily Star: World to come to an end with 'Big Crunch' and 'humans will burn in cosmic hell'.

At last, some good news.

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use It is first time that the BBC has taken such action regarding alleged scraping of its content for AI.

BBC threatens legal action against AI company
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could a dead person be elected to #Parliament?
Yes - or at least this was the case in May 1728, when Sidney Wortley Montagu was declared the winning candidate in the disputed 1727 general election return for Peterborough, even though he had died six months earlier.
#HistParl

American archivists: y'all need to up your social media game! 🗃️

UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill Law expected to include safety and copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulation Proposals to regulate artificial intelligence have been delayed by at least a year as UK ministers plan a bumper bill to regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material. Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, intends to introduce a “comprehensive” AI bill in the next parliamentary session to address concerns about issues including safety and copyright. Continue reading...

UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill

MI5 misled watchdog about neo-Nazi spy case after lying in court The regulator rewrote a draft report which had contradicted MI5’s false evidence, the BBC can reveal.

“The revelation means that MI5 has effectively given false evidence in this case to every organisation or court which is supposed to have access to the Security Service's secrets and is responsible for holding it to account” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is still not an AI case Look, it is an AI case, and I might come back to that part, but for now I think we need to focus on the bigger ‘not-AI’ picture. Not least because saying AI is not reliable and one shou…

Ayinde, quick summary of the non AI bits … lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/t...

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

Exclusive: Telegraph was deceived by source in case of "faked" story about £345k per year banking couple who had to cut down on Waitrose shops to fund school fees pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 30/8/2024 – #FOIFriday - Words + Numbers Sending an Freedom of Information request is great. Not having to send one because the information you want is already available is also great. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has put together some tips for requesters for searching for the information they want before they send a request - to hopefully save them a 20

Sending an #FOI is great.

Not having to send one because the info is already available. Also great.

The ICO has some tips for finding what you want. If not, you could send a request like these:

Meta lawsuit poses first big test of AI copyright battle Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen

Meta lawsuit poses first big test of AI copyright battle

https://www.ft.com/content/b1f4965f-6ea6-4afd-968b-76bb2f7acfc4

The next few days are going to be tough as we wait to find out the results of the local elections.

I’m super proud of the dedicated team at @hopenothate.org.uk who expose candidates, mobilise our supporters and speak directly to voters.

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Ministers have drawn up concessions on copyright changes in an attempt to appease artists and creators before a crucial vote in parliament next week, the Guardian has learned. The government will promise to carry out an economic impact assessment of its proposed copyright changes and to publish reports on issues including transparency, licensing and access to data for AI developers. The concessions are designed to mollify concerns in parliament and in creative industries about the government’s proposed shake-up of copyright rules.

UK ministers to amend data bill amid artists' concerns over AI and copyright theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p...

Report stage is next week. These amendments don't sound consequential, and are unlikely to shut anybody up, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#DUABill #genAI #IPlaw

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

‘Immediate red flags’: questions raised over ‘expert’ much quoted in UK press News outlets pull articles featuring ‘psychologist and sex adviser’ Barbara Santini amid doubts over her credentials

NEW: She’s one of the most widely quoted psychologists, but her pronouncements have begun disappearing from the internet.

Could her persona be an elaborate hoax?

As AI progresses, journalists face a “wake up call” over checking their sources.

This story follows top @pressgazette.co.uk work:

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Verb Your Enthusiasm     I recall the first time it circumstanced,   this problem that routines with my words – I was in the kitchen, plating my food,   when my nouns conversioned to verbs.      Friending others with similar troubles, we workshopped hard at it for days,  as we dialogued in search of solutions,    and flipcharted the hours away.     I can’t stop myself languaging weirdly.  Are they called nerbs or vouns? I’m not sure.   The doctors cannot antidote me,  while to poem provisions no cure.     Now I diarise each time they’re eventing – whenever I coffee or Youtube or gift.  I’d podium, too – if I ever won anything, and it weren’t for those medalling kids. Brian Bilston

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.

The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world? Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel

I wrote a piece for the Guardian's "big ideas" series on how techbros' failure to understand sci-fi novels is causing immense harm.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This is very good, as everyone has been saying. I was struck especially by the below. They have no actual, articulated vision that details what America should be, just that it should be "great" and "winning."

“But literature,” he continued. “is about possibility.”

And this is definitely a possibility. Guaranteed to wake up your Sunday morning.

(Via @annebillson.bsky.social)