Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
Jim & his team doing god's work here
Two parking barriers looks like dark and light side lightsabers
Your powers are weak, old man. #starwars
Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
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"A local car thief has seen profits sky rocket this year by simply taking other people's cars and selling them on without any paperwork or safety checks"
Is Die Hard 2: Die Harder a christmas film?
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
The first Water Pipit since 2021 was October's bird highlight at London's Walthamstow Wetlands. Round-up of the 97 species seen now on walthamstowbirders.blogspot.com Thanks to @samodonnell25.bsky.social @chris-farthing.bsky.social @wheresrhys.bsky.social & MLP for pics. #londonbirding
2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...
I dug into the civil service & Microsoft claims that copilot saves workers 2 weeks a year, and similarly it is based on self-reported estimates. www.wheresrhys.co.uk/2025/06/07/t...
My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...
Christ! I moved from Wales to London to get AWAY from the ravens and kites, not to find them both 5 minutes from my front door in zone 3!! #londonbirds
A nice surprise today with the first jack snipe Iβve ever seen at my local waterworks nature reserve, and putting on a very endearing show of bobbing #londonbirds
Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?
A label on an item of clothing beginning with the manufacturerβs slogan βthe mountain peopleβ
@gruffrhys.bsky.social wnes i ddod ar draws rhai oβch lyrics yn Ellis Brigham. Mymryn yn wahanol i sut oβn iβn ei cofio nhw.
The radical right is winning because Labour, the Tories, most of the press and the BBC will not speak for the majority that sees Farage and the extremists beyond him as a menace
Piece from me on the failure to rally resistance
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Letter to a london assembly member complaining about policing of the Unite the Kingdom protest
Letter to my assembly member about the policing today #london #standuptoracism
Me too.
Today I brought 1 friend, but next time I will bring 20
There are more of us, and they wonβt win
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today Iβm humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the ππ²π»ππ²πΏ π³πΌπΏ ππ΅π² ππΉπΆπ΄π»πΊπ²π»π πΌπ³ ππ ππΉπΆπ΄π»πΊπ²π»π ππ²π»ππ²πΏπ.
While, rightly, there's a lot of concern about when AI _is_ used without consent, transparency etc, rushing towards the benefits while ignoring the harms... I wonder what these cynical claims of AI-ness might do to people's ability to recognise, believe and embrace benefits when they are real
But I think it's interesting that this AI branding creates associations in people's minds between "cutting edge AI" and "rubbish service delivery", which, whatever you think of AI, is grounded in presence of the "AI" marketing buzzword, rather than presence of the actual technology.
implying that, despite the hype, cutting edge technology is not in fact being used to power them. "No shit, Sherlock," I hear you say, "Didn't you know it's all hype??!"...
There appears to be a very consistent trend in "AI" help chatbots (I'm looking at you HSBC, Halifax, Ovo...) . 1) They are rubbish, not really conversational, based on preset answers... basically using tech from 10 years ago. 2) If you ask the same questions to ChatGPT you get far better answers...
An option for a security question that reads 'what year is your anniversary?', presumably written by someone unfamiliar with the concept of an anniversary
If I pick this as my security question will I remember that the answer I submitted was "every year, dumbass"
Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.
A caramel bar with epic cliffs, screw slopes and lakes in the cairngorms as a backdrop
Iβm taking part in a new scheme to reintroduce native species to the highlands
Stumbled across this almost nostrodaman premonition of Amazon by @aiannucci.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSi...
Very interesting, if a little alarming and depressing, thoughts from James K on how AI may impact on politics
