George Maddocks

Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion | TechCrunch A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

AI is going great

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"And by golly if there's one thing I simply will not stand for, it's violations of all the norms of human morality and international law."

inside the White House

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Black and White are
All I see
In my infancy

Your poems are shit,
and so are your stunts.
You shout at hotels,
you wife-beating cunts.

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

It's genuinely astonishing to me the number of people willing to claim with a straight face that this word association tshotchke that didn't exist a few years ago is absolutely necessary for the conduct of science.

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I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.

Hannan is as thick as mince.

How it started ... How it's going

Here is the response by UK Prime Minister Starmer - categorical pushback against, but also no signal of coordinating the response with the other Europeans but rather 'pursuing this directly with the US administration'

First statement from Macron:

“Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context. Should they materialise, Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld. In this spirit, I will speak with our European partners.”

Sat in a hotel lobby. Found a unexpected AI benefit in as much that I can now hope against hope that this grotesque cover of 'Here Comes the Sun' was a atrocity generated without the involvement of a human.

hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

A tweet by grosdoriane reads: This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

For some reason this tweet comes to mind today.

oh you’re in mensa? name 3 million times you’ve told someone about it

And, repeating myself just to be clear: The true story (Fraudsters stole money and pushed off accountability for a while by saying it was racist to probe it) is losing market share to a wilder, less true story (citizen journalists uncovered the scheme that Dems covered up to steal elections)

Stuff like this winds me up. The absurd noblesse oblige. “Social leadership is important”- noone asked you for it. Noone wants it. You think you should have it because you have land. Well good for you. But it’s not the 18th century. Just shuffle off into the night.

Relative independence 😂 yes because the hereditary peers have a real cross section of party affiliation and have no *quite literal* landed interest whatsoever.

Risible stuff.

Sex is like pork. If you really like it, you'll eat the butt

Oh hell yeah. Daddy's getting some pudding in 2026

Enough please of the "but Farage is a master politician/communicator" trope.
Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.

It really is hard to overstate how amazing the Gameboy felt in 1989 as an 11 year old. Tetris, Super Mario World, the portability and battery life, all mind blowing for the time.

The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.

An elegant and splendlidly contemptuous swatting of the horribly contemptible and profoundly dishonest Farage - and a very good dig at Farage's Trumpian "lowest grade presenter" jibe at Ms Barnett for skewering him so effectively.

Well done, Alan Rusbridger!

NGL, until y'day i thought the FIFA Peace Prize was an elaborate internet joke.